Characters
Left to die as a natural part of the tribal society.
Who is Koskoosh?
Considering the future and being reminded of the responsibilities one might have first.
What is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
This disappeared beneath the steadily growing Western population.
What is the American Frontier?
The decade following World War I.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
A businessman's office and the men who work for him.
What is "Bartleby"?
General Zarhoff's assistant who dies by Rainsford's hand.
Who is Ivan?
Finding escape in books and learning about new places and ideas.
What is "A Book"?
One of the two major forces changing American society in the later 1800s.
What is rapid industrialization?
(also accept Charles Darwin)
This occurred Oct. 29, 1929.
What is "Black Tuesday" or the crash of the stock market?
Self, Imagination, Nature, and Death were common themes for this poet.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Name the story: Silvy, Mrs. Tilly, Ornithologist
What is "A White Heron"?
The futility of searching for meaning or fulfillment in the universe.
What is "I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon"?
The group of people who the nation turned to for leadership rather than lawyers, judges, or soldiers.
Who are businessman?
The event that brought the US out of the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
Matt. 10:16; I Peter 2:11; Ps. 23:2 are all allusions found in this piece of literature.
What is "More Like Jesus Would I Be"?
Committed suicide because of despair.
Who is Richard Cory?
Beauty is only skin deep or the effect of true love in a relationship.
What is "Sonnet XXVI"?
Group of authors who applied Darwinism to their nature.
Who are the Naturalists?
This movement stopped the sale of liquor.
What is Prohibition?
"He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
And Priam's neighbors."
What is "Miniver Cheevy"?
Name the story: Acting Editor, Eliza, Micah.
What is "The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion"?
A warning about the oppression of the working class.
What is "The Man with the Hoe"?
The major political event ending this period.
What is World War I?
The dance that epitomized the wild abandon following World War I.
What is the Charleston?
"And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black."