Grammar
This is the name for a sentence that does not communicate a complete thought.
What is a fragment?
This is the name of the school that Holden flunks out of at the start of the book.
What is Pencey Prep?
This is the name of the girl on Mango Street who goes to university to study despite the fact that her mom died and her dad wants her home.
Who is Alicia?
This is the first day we will be back in school after the holiday break.
What is Monday, January 5th?
Basketball was first invented in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
This is the name for a sentence error where a comma separates two independent clauses.
This is the name of Holden's oldest brother.
Who is DB?
Finish this HOMS quote: Everything is waiting to explode like ________.
What is Christmas?
Many Italian Americans eat this many fish on Christmas Eve.
What is seven fish?
This is the city where Fig Newtons were first mass produced.
What is Cambridge, MA?
This is the part of speech of the word "throughout" in the sentence: "The news spread throughout the world."
What is a preposition?
This is the illness Holden is afraid of contracting while walking around Central Park at night.
What is pneumonia?
This is the state where Esperanza's friend Lucy is from.
What is Texas?
This was the date of the start of Hanukkah last year.
What is Wednesday, December 25th?
This artist was #1 on Ms. B's Spotify Wrapped.
Who is SZA?
This is the name for the punctuation that is used to break up two independent clauses when you want to communicate that the sentences are related without using a period.
What is a semicolon?
This is the person that Holden meets on the train to New York City.
Who is Ernest Morrow's mother?
This was the year HOMS was published.
What is 1984?
Kwanzaa, a week-long celebration honoring African American heritage and culture, was first celebrated in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
This country (+ all of its territories) has the most time zones.
What is France?
This is the name for a conjunction that begins a dependent clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
These are the five items Holden consumes when he sees the nuns at the diner.
What are: orange juice, toast, bacon, eggs, and coffee?
This is the school Sandra Cisneros attended for her undergraduate education.
What is Loyola University of Chicago?
This is the highest grossing Xmas movie of all time.
What is The Grinch (2018)?
Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by a swarm of this type of animal.
What is rabbits?