Characters
What is the young guest usually called?
What is the stranger?
In what region of the United States does the story take place?
What is New England?
What disaster happens at the climax?
What is a landslide or avalanche?
What does “wailing and lamentation” make the wind sound like?
What is crying?
How old is the eldest daughter?
What is 17?
In which state does the story take place?
What is New Hampshire?
What does the guest hope people will do after he dies?
What is remember him and the impact he made?
What does “inclemency” mean?
What is severe, harsh, or stormy weather?
What is the mother’s name?
What is Esther?
What is the mountain pass called?
What is Crawford Notch?
Why do the family and guest leave the cottage?
What is they believe another place will be safer from the landslide?
What does “unutterable horror of the catastrophe” mean?
What is the disaster is so terrible that words cannot describe it?
What type of gravestone does the Father want?
What is a plain gravestone?
How is the family’s home different from the setting outside?
What is the home is warm and happy, but outside is cold and dangerous?
What makes the group’s escape ironic?
What is they die in the supposedly safe place, while the cottage stays untouched?
How is the guest like the builders of the Tower of Babel?
What is both want to make a name for themselves?
What does the grandmother want held over her face in her coffin?
What is a mirror?
What mood do the cold and dangerous surroundings create?
What is Fear and darkness, or a scary, gloomy mood?
Why does the guest fail to achieve his dream of being remembered?
What is he dies unknown, and no one even knows his name?
According to the Bible slide, what stands despite the many plans people make?
What is the Lord’s purpose?