Harrison Bergeron
Everyday Use
Searching for Summer
To Build a Fire
Vocabulary
100
People with above-average intelligence have to wear these in the story.
What are mental handicap radio transmitters?
100
This is why Maggie is quiet and hides behind doors.
What is Maggie is unsure of herself?
100
This is why Tom and Lily decide to stay in Molesworth.
What is the scooter breaks down?
100
This is the conflict that the setting causes.
What is cold?
100
Confusion and fear
What is consternation?
200
Harrison is above average in many areas.
Why does Harrison have to wear many handicaps?
200
This is what the new house has that the old house did not have.
What is a tin roof?
200
This is why Tom and Lily are looking for a sunny place.
What is the sky usually dark and gray? (TEST ANSWER) or What is because it's their honeymoon?
200
This could save the man's life.
What is fire?
200
Agree
What is synchronize?
300
Harrison's main conflict.
What is the government?
300
This is why Mama and Dee disagree.
What is they have different ideas about what is important in life?
300
This describes the mood at the cottage.
What is brimming with light and life?
300
This is why the man commands the dog to come to him at the end of the story.
What is he wants to kill the dog?
300
Sneaky
What is furtive?
400
He has to wear a radio a mental-handicap radio transmitter, and his wife does not.
How is George different from Hazel? or Who is George?
400
This is why Dee wants the quilts.
What is they represent her family's history? (TEST ANSWER) or What is she wants to decorate with them?
400
This is what Mrs. Hatchings means when she says... "Bide her, why don't ee? Mid as well. The lil un's fair wore out. Us'll do for ee better' n rangy old Noakes: proper scoundrel 'e be."
What is why not stay here with us? It's much better than what Noakes will give you.
400
This character best foreshadows the end of the story.
Who is the old-timer?
400
Talkative
What is voluble?
500
This is how George and Hazel feel about handicaps.
What is they believe it is important to obey the government?
500
This is why Mama gives the quilts to Maggie.
What is she already promised to give them to her?
500
This is what you can guess at the end of the story.
What is Tom and Lily ride North to protect the Hatchings?
500
The end of the story suggests this about the dog.
What is lives?
500
In a commanding way
What is peremptorily?
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