The movement when hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved from the rural south to the industrial north
What is The Great Migration?
100
A vocabulary word that means thoroughly defeated.
What is vanquished?
100
The short story William Faulkner wrote about a woman who was a necrophiliac; her perverse behaviors (and murder) can most likely be explained as a result of the way her father treated her
What is A Rose For Emily?
100
The title of a poem about an object that is "glazed with rain water beside the white chickens"
What is "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
100
The character who kills Homer Barron and keeps his corpse in a room for 40 years
What is "A Rose for Emily"
200
A time when Americans gave way to self-indulgence; prewar values and attitudes were gone; flappers roamed the streets and jazz was in the air.
What is The Roaring Twenties?
200
The vocabulary word meaning in disrepair.
What is dilapidated?
200
The time period that F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel takes place during
What is The Roaring Twenties?
200
The poem written by Carl Sandburg about a city in the Midwest, featuring professions like "Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads"
What is Chicago?
200
The name of Janie's second husband (the same name as a math teacher at Walthill - minus the s)
from Their Eyes Were Watching God
What/Who is Joe Starks
300
The event that was caused b the Stock Market Crash
What is The Great Depression?
300
(DAILY DOUBLE) A vocabulary word that means generosity.
What is magnanimity?
300
The author of the poem titled "Mending Wall"
What/Who is Robert Frost?
300
The title of Langston Hughes' poem comparing dried up raisins and rotten meat to dreams that have not been followed
What is "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)"?
300
The actor who plays Nick Carraway, the narrator, in The Great Gatsby, the 2013 movie
What/Who is Tobey Maguire?
400
(DAILY DOUBLE) The president that initiated The New Deal to get the U.S. out of The Great Depression; only president to serve more than two terms; he served FOUR
What/Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
400
A vocabulary word that means without formality; hastily.
What is summarily?
400
The author of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
What/Who is Langston Hughes?
400
The two big themes we discussed linking Tupac to Langston Hughes
(S&S)
What is The Struggle/Survival?
400
The Old West legend and showman that e. e. cummings describes as "defunct" in one of his poems
(Hint: The Fort Cody Trading Post in North Platte, NE is a replica of his Wild West Show)
What/Who is Buffalo Bill?
500
The country that attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, causing the United States to enter WWII
What is Japan?
500
A vocabulary word that means no longer existing or functioning.
What is defunct?
500
The author who was buried in an unmarked grave; years later, Alice Walker found her grave and paid for a tombstone; the epitaph reads "The Genius of the South"
What/Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
500
(DAILY DOUBLE) The state that Eatonville is in
Zora Neale Hurston's fictional, all-black community (also the ACTUAL town she was raised in)
What is Florida?
500
The novel where Daisy is married to Tom, but Tom loves Myrtle, and Jay loves Daisy