Who's Who
They Did WHAT?
Inside Voices
Maybe . . . no . . . but . . .?
Up for Grabs
100
This character disturbed the members in his small Puritan village by wearing some unorthodox apparel.
Who is Reverend Mr. Hooper?
100
This is how Tom Walker invites the Devil to collect his debt.
What is saying "The Devil take me if I've made a farthing"?
100
This is Emily Grierson's primary internal conflict.
What is she cannot accept reality? (She can't accept that her father is dead; she can't accept that she has to pay taxes; she can't accept that Homer won't marry her . . .)
100

In the following excerpt,

“Were the veil but cast aside, [the townspeople] might speak freely of it, but not till then”

This is what the veil symbolizes.

What is separation (how sin separates us from community)?
100
In "The Minister's Black Veil," Elizabeth is a symbol of this.
What is compassion/acceptance?
200
She manipulated a drifter into marrying her young daughter (who has special needs).
Who is Mrs. Crater?
200
These two women can't help but gossip at a poor girl's funeral--this is what they say about the minister and the girl.
What is that he is walking hand-in-hand with her?
200
This is what the veil makes the parishioners feel as Hooper is preaching while wearing it the first time.
What is conscious of their own sins/guilt at their own misdeeds? (accept all possible answers)
200
How does Faulkner create ambiguity in "A Rose for Emily"?

What is he limits information about the true order of events/the narrator tells the story out of order?

200
The reason people were glad Emily Grierson's father died and left her only the house (no money)
What is they were glad she would now be like them (she's not rich any more)?
300
Colonel Sartoris absolved this woman from paying taxes out of respect for her father, who had been a powerful man in the community.
Who is Emily Grierson?
300
The apparent reason Roderick stumbles through his house, staring at nothing for hours and seeming to be listening to something that no one else can hear.
What is he knows he buried his sister alive?
300
How Tom Walker shows his regret for his deal with the Devil
What is praying louder than everyone else, carrying two Bibles as protection? (accept all possible answers)
300
The reason the Baptist minister's visit to Emily Grierson's house is ambiguous
What is he never said what was discussed, but he refused to ever return?
300
What Tom Shiftlet's name suggests about his character
What is lacking a moral center (shifty, always on the move)?
400
This person amassed great wealth but refused to spend it on the upkeep of home or horse.
Who is Tom Walker?
400
The fate of Lucynell Crater Shiftlet
What is abandoned at a diner on her wedding night?
400
Roderick's song "The Haunted Palace" conveys this
What is Roderick's fragile mental state? (accept all possible answers)
400

In the following excerpt,

“[the veil] threw its obscurity between it and the holy page as he read the Scriptures”

this is what the veil symbolizes

What is separation from God?
400
The macabre element of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
What is burying Madeline alive?
500
This character suffered from a crippling physical illness that led to an untimely death.
Who is Madeline Usher?
500
When the people of Jefferson finally entered the Grierson home, this the shocking discovery they made.
What is: A bedroom upstairs that had been closed off for 40 years, arranged as a bridal chamber, with the decaying body of Homer Barron--AND Emily's gray hair on the pillow beside him, suggesting she had RECENTLY slept beside the corpse?
500
The moral lesson of "The Minister's Black Veil"
What is guilty secrets separate us from one another?
500
Three elements of ambiguity that Faulkner uses in "A Rose for Emily" that become clear at the end of the story.
What are 1. she buys arsenic; 2.Homer Barron disappears; and 3. a strange smell emanates from Emily's house
500

Based on “The Devil and Tom Walker,” this is one of the major social influences of this period that Irving criticizes.

What is striving for wealth?
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