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100

To grant, present, or give.

What is bestow?

100

Ghosts, witches, monsters, vampires, etc. 

Elements of horror.

100

The central, controlling idea of a work of literature.

What is theme?

100

First president of the United States.

Who is George Washington?

100

What is the biggest country in the world?

What is Russia?

200

A misleading or false impression of reality.

What is illusion?

200

Location Elie Wiesel and his family were taken.

What is Auschwitz?

200

A category or type of literature.

What is genre?
200

 Faces of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Washington, and Jefferson.

What is Mount Rushmore?

200

The only food that can never go bad, and also a term of endearment. 

What is honey?

300

A violent and noisy commotion or disturbance. 

What is tumult?

300

Author of "Harrison Bergeron".

Who is Kurt Vonnegut?

300

The perspective from which a speaker or writer is explaining events.

What is point of view?

300

OceanGate went down to the bottom of the Atlantic to see this ship that went down 111 years before.

What is the Titanic?

300

It has ears, but cannot hear.

What is corn?

400

Extreme distress, suffering, or pain.

What is anguish?

400

A cold dead heart cannot stop beating, maddening the narrator. 

What is the "Tale-Tell Heart"?

400

A conclusion that is not directly stated in a text.

What is an inference?

400

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

What is the end of WWI?

400

Nearly all fossils are preserved in this type of rock.

What is sedimentary rock?

500

To rise above or go beyond.

What is transcend? 

500

Prize won by Wiesel in 1986.

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

500

A difference between what is expected and what actually happens.

What is irony?

500

Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but this man was the first to sail around the world in 1522.

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

500

The best cat in the world. A very respectful little man.

Who is Finbar?

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