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100

I thought he loved me, but he broke my nose.

Myrtle from The Great Gatsby

100

This means to be very cheap or stingy

Miserly

100

He wrote The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

100

This culture believed in creation stories and myths.

Native Americans

100

This document has 27 Amendments.

The U.S. Constitution

200

The lovely maiden's name quoted in The Raven.

Lenore

200

Everybody Eats Elephant Ears at the fair

Alliteration

200

He wrote The Pearl

John Steinbeck

200

British or Red Coats

200

This document freed the slaves

The Emancipation Proclamation

300

My name was the last word he said before he died in his swimming pool.

Daisy from The Great Gatsby

300

You snap like Thanos!


Allusion or Simile

300

He wrote The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

300

Edgar Alan Poe and Walt Whitman belong to this cultural background.

Caucasian or white male

300

This is the beginning of the U.S. Constitution

The Preamble

400
Who said this:  "When a cat takes off with your money, he don't leave no road maps"

Bobo from A Raisin in the Sun

400

This is the term for a false argument such as a Red Herring

Fallacy

400

She wrote "I Am Nobody"

Emily Dickinson

400

Emily Dickinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe are a part of this culture.

Feminist or Female Culture.

400

These articles were an attempt to shape America without the King's rules.

The Articles of Confederation

500

What was Meyer Wolfsheim's profession?

He was a gambler

500

This word means a sudden and ignominious failure.

Debacle

500

He wrote The Brick Tower speech or where was he from?

Justin Hudson from New York

500

Dr. Maya Angelou and Frederick Douglass are a part of this cultural group.

African Americans

500

This was the Colonists' last attempt to gain freedom from King George.

The Olive Branch Petition