The Notorious Jumping Frog
The man who always made bets on everything.
The author of the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The President who wrote the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Writing intended to evoke laughter.
What is humor?
The temperature outside.
What was 75 degrees below zero?
The name of Smiley's bull-dog that won him many dog fights.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The author of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Who is Mark Twain?
The man who hung on a bridge.
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
The vantage point from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
The name of the trail the man and dog took.
What is the Yukon trail?
The stranger filled Smiley's frog with this to slow him down.
What is quailshot?
The author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
He stole the mules.
Who is Uncle Billy?
Word choice.
What is diction?
The man chewed on this while on the trail.
What is tobacco?
The dog that Smiley's dog lost to in his final fight.
What is the dog with no hind legs?
The author of "An Account of An Experience with Discrimination".
Who is Sojourner Truth?
She gave up her rations for the "child".
Who is Mother Shipton?
A movement in which writers attempted to capture the local color of a region by its people and environment.
What is regionalism?
The type of dog on the trip with the man.
What is a husky?
The animal Simon Wheeler tried to tell the narrator about with a "banana" stump of a tail.
What is a one-eyed cow?
The author of "To Build a Fire".
Who is Jack London?
The narrator asked about this man who may actually have been fictional.
Focused on truthfully portraying the lives of ordinary people.
What is naturalism?
Who was the old timer?