West
Midwest
South
Northeast
Northeast pt 2
100

What is the name of the state where the city Los Angeles is located?

California

100

What is the name of the biggest city in this region?

Chicago

100

What is the name of the biggest state in this region?

Texas

100

What is the name of the most famous city in this region?

New York City

100

What is the name of the state where all the Northeast authors are from?

Massachusetts

200

What is the name of the ocean that touches this region?

the Pacific ocean

200

How do you pronounce the name of this state: "Illinois"?

Illinois (silent s)

200

What is the name of the state where Miami is located?

Florida

200

What is the name of the city where Poe & Plath are from?

Boston

200

What is the name of the city that Nathaniel Hawthorne is from? Why is this interesting?

Salem, salem witch trials

300

What is the name of the poem we read in class by Robert Frost?

The Road Not Taken

300

What is the name of the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald called?

The Great Gatsby

300

What is the name of the book written by Harper Lee?

To Kill a Mockingbird

300

What kind of author was Sylvia Plath?

poet

short story/novelist

300

What is the name of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous work? What is it about?

The Scarlett letter

A woman who commits adultery, has a child with a man who is not her husband, and is humiliated and shunned from society, and has to wear the letter A on her clothes

400

What is Ray Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451 about?

A futuristic dystopian world, where firefighters burn books because knowledge is seen as evil

400

Which two European countries was Ernest Hemingway inspired by?

France & Spain

400

What is the book "The Outsiders" about (by S.E. Hinton)?

A group of teenage boys that are involved in gang activity and are generally rowdy

400

What was the genre that Edgar Allan Poe wrote?

Horror, suspense, gothic

400
Besides a writer, what else was Henry David Thoreau?

Philosopher, yogi, transcendentalist, nature lover...

500

What is the poem "The Road Not Taken" about literally and figuratively?

Literally about choosing between two paths in the forest.


Figuritively about making big life decisions.

500

What are the names of the two main characters of Mark Twain's most famous novels?

Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

500

Where is the author Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind) from? City & state

Atlanta, Georgia

500

What is his short story "A Tell-Tale Heart" about? What happens at the end that is surprising?

A man (the narrarator) who wants to kill the old man because he has a crazy eye, claims he is not crazy but he seems like he is... one day he plans to kill him and does, but then when the police come to ask him questions he hears the heartbeat of the old man as if he is still alive..

portrays human guilt

500

In Walden, Thoreau claims that what type of life is the best one? What examples does he give?

the simple life, without luxuries, the more we have the more we want, the wisest men were ancient Greeks etc, having less is more