About The Author
Literary Terms
In the Story
100

The authors name

What is Kay Boyle?

100

The struggle between opposing forces

What is Conflict?

100

The main characters in Winter Night

Who is Felicia, sitter, and mother?

200
The state in which the author was born

What is Minnesota?

200

Author's attitude towards his or her subject matter

What is tone?

200

The activities causing the father to be gone

What are war time activities?

300

The continent in which the author spent her childhood

What is Europe?

300

Perspective from which a story is told

What is point of view?

300

The difference between her new sitter and the others

What is she actually cared for Felicia, told her stories, and didn't make her change her clothes or brush her hair or teeth?

400

The background of most of the author's stories

What is World War II and the struggles with it?

400

The tone of Winter Night

What is dark, bleak, neglected?

400

The reason behind the caretakers being called a sitting nanny

What is being lazy?

500

Winter nights was published in this year

What is 1946?

500

The point of view of Winter Night

What is third person limited?

500

The moms reaction to the mother- daughter bond between Felicia and the sitting nanny

What is being jealous of not having that bond?

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