Short Stories
A Father's Promise
Roll of Thunder
Sermon on Mount
Wild Card!
100

This is how cold it was in the story, To Build a Fire.

What is 50 degrees below zero?

100

This is the literary genre of A Father's Promise

What is historical fiction?

100

This is the state where the Logan family lives.

What is Mississippi?

100

These are the first two lines of the Lord's Prayer 

What is Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. 

100

"Mrs. Williams is a rock star" is an example of...

What is metaphor?

200

This is the author of "To Build a Fire"

Who is Jack London?

200

This is the city where the story takes place.

What is Warsaw, Poland?

200

This is the author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Who is Mildred Taylor?

200

This is where the Sermon on the Mount is found in the Bible.

What is Matthew 5-7?
200

this is how you get your reader's attention when you write a paper.

What is a dramatic opener?

300

This is the dangerous land through which-   the man- in To Build a Fire - is traveling.

What is the Yukon?

300

This is the author of A Father's Promise 

Who is Donna Hess?

300

This is the kind of car Uncle Hammer drove. 

What is a silver Packard?

300

This is what you should get out of your own eye before getting the plank out of someone else's eye.

What is a speck?

300

This is when you use exaggeration to make your point. 

What is hyperbole?

400

This is the item that Mrs. Mitty wanted Mr. Mitty to buy.

What is a puppy biscuit?

400

This is the full name of Rudi's father 

Who is Jakob Kaplan.

400

This is who pushed Cassie down at the store in Strawberry.

Who is Charlie Sims?

400

This is what the set of "Blessed Are"s are called.

What are the Beatitudes?

400

This is what a publisher gives a proofreader with the specific guidelines the book needs to follow.

What is a style sheet.

500

this is the name of the creek that the man is following in To Build a Fire 

What is Henderson Creek?

500

This is what the Jewish Council handing out so that Jews can still buy food at the market?

What are ration cards?

500

This is how much total land the Logans bought. 

What is 400 acres?

500

a literary device in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order.  A,B,C, C', B', A'

What is chiasmus?

500

This is a word or phrase that means different than what it says.  "It's raining cats and dogs."

What is an idiom?