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Grammar
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Crucible
This Boy's Life
Potpourri
100
This is a sentence composed of more than one independent clause.
What is a compound sentence?
100
Scout hates to wear these.
What are dresses?
100
Another word for "doll," this object plays a key role in the play.
What is a poppet?
100
This boy's life is not a novel, but a ___________.
What is memoir?
100
"A Modest Proposal" by David Sedaris is about the day this happened.
Gay marriage was legalized in the US.
200
This is a noun phrase that renames the subject.
What is an appositive?
200
Scout and Jem refer to this as a "morphodite".
What is the snowman?
200
We begin the play by witnessing her pretending to be in a "state."
Who is Betty?
200
This is Toby's stepbrother's name.
Who is Skipper?
200
You shouldn't trust this; you should trust the grammar.
What is your ear?
300
This is also known as a subordinate clause.
What is a dependent clause?
300
She bakes three separate cakes for Dill, Scout, and Jem.
Who is Miss Maudie?
300
Arthur Miller was (briefly) married to this famous actress.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
300
He gives Toby the Winchester rifle.
Who is Roy?
300
In one of our essays, a man make a piano out of ____________
What is cardboard?
400
"Poo," "Duh," and "Zoinks" are all examples of this part of speech.
What is an interjection?
400
Scout comes home from school miserable on the first day because she is afraid she'll have to give this up.
Reading.
400
John Proctor looks suspicious not only because of his affair with Abigail, but because he does this on Sundays.
What is plow?
400
This is Pearl's most distinctive physical defect.
What is her bald spot?
400
This article of clothing makes Young Goodman Brown's wife, Faith, seem as innocent as her name.
What is her bonnet with pink ribbons?
500
When you use a comma without a conjunction to separate two clauses, it causes this error.
What is a comma splice?
500
The character of Dill is said to be based on this famous writer.
Who is Truman Capote?
500
The girls pretend to see this as a way of showing they are enchanted or bewitched.
A bird.
500
After Jack writes an obscenity on the wall of the boy's bathroom, the vice principal turns it into these two words.
What is "BOCK YOU"?
500
Ms. Cohen named her children after a ______________ and a __________________.
What are a season and a president?