Vocabulary
Characters
Story
Story
Story
100
Something that is uncertain or unstable
What is precarious?
100
These are three adjectives that would BEST describe Tom Walker
What are stingy, cruel but courageous
100
What is the setting of the story?
What is a forest near Boston, Massachusetts, 1727?
100
The archetype that the story is based on?
What is a person who sells his soul to the Devil?
100
This is why Tom makes a deal with the Devil.
What is treasure?
200
When something is not moving or motionless.
What is stagnant
200
This BEST describes Tom's wife.
What is a shrew, nagging and yelling
200
In the story what are the woods used to symbolize?
What is evil?
200
The way one can tell is a narrator is omniscient.
What is not in the story, knowing the thoughts and feelings of others, and commenting about events that are not directly told in the story?
200
This is a common name that was used for the Devil in the 1700's.
What is Old Scratch?
300
When something is wide spread or common
What is prevalent?
300
The imagery used to describe the wealth and self-righetous
What are trees rotten to the core?
300
How Irving uses humor to describe how Tom feels about losing his wife.
What is Tom consoles himself for the loss of his property with the loss of his wife.
300
This is something that the Puritans believed to be very real during this time.
What are witches and demons?
300
This is how the Devil managed to take Tom.
What is being caught without one's Bible.
400
When something is said to be incabable of being captured or entered by force.
What is impregnable?
400
What description signals that the stranger might be the devil?
What are large red eyes?
400
This is what happens to Tom's money at the end of the story.
What are ashes and cinders?
400
This is something that Washington Irving believes was even too sinful for Tom Walker to engage in.
What is slave trading?
400
This is how Tom's spirit is sometimes seen.
What is in a night gown and cap on a horse in the Indian Fort.
500
What are you when you are sad or gloomy?
What is melancholy?
500
Why does Tom's wife decide to go into the forest?
What is making a deal with the Devil?
500
This is the feeling Washington Irving wants to arouse in his description of the setting.
What is fear?
500
This is what Tom's business was.
What is a broker or money-lender?
500
This is what Tom finds when he looks for his wife.
What is a liver and a heart?
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