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Setting
Plot
Vocabulary
Details
Description
100
On what floor did this short story take place?
What is the 11th?
100
Tom's reasons for staying home instead of leaving with his wife (most accurate answer wins)
What is ambition? What is desire for money? What is to get ahead in his career?
100
Twisted facial expression.....
What is grimace?
100
What color was the paper?
What is yellow.
100
Clare's description is...(name at least one)
What is slender, very pretty girl with light brown almost blonde hair?
200
The main characters live in this type of dwelling place.
What is an apartment?
200
The part of the story where you discover the setting, protagonist and antagonist, and the basic situation.
What is the exposition?
200
In such a way as to be almost unnoticeable...
What is imperceptibly?
200
The author of Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket.
Who is Jack Finney?
200
Cold, dark, cramped, dangerous...
How is the ledge?
300
Where most of the action in this story takes place.
What is the ledge?
300
The amount of time the protagonist spent on the ledge.
What is 8 minutes?
300
Skillfullness
What is deftness?
300
What Tom yells when he breaks the window.
What is Clare?
300
What Tom Benecke sees on the ledge. (name at least two)
What are cars, lights, people, a movie sign?
400
Where the protagonist's wife goes.
What is the movie theater/the movies?
400
What happened when Tom tried to get in the apartment?
What is the window closed.
400
An endless amount of time...
What is interminable?
400
How Tom tries to get his neighbors' attention when yelling doesn't work...
What is lighting paper on fire?
400
Like a flimsy barrier...
What is Tom's control over his fear?
500
This short story is set in this city.
Where is New York?
500
This is the irony that occurs at the end of the story.
What is fact that the paper flew back out the window?
500
Thin paper used for typing carbon copies...used before computers and copying machines....
What is flimsy?
500
Facts, figures, and observations of shoppers...
What is the information on the yellow paper that flies out of the window?
500
A carpet, the door, desk, couch, lit cigarette.
What does Tom see when he looks in the apartment?