Trifles
Mrs. Wright worries about this in jail.
What are her perserves?
The author's overall feeling about the West.
What is things are better in the West?
The genre of Roughing It.
What is satire?
Where did many Native Americans try to flee to
What is Canada?
The "Rough Rider"
Mrs. Wright is ______ when Mr. Hale enters the house.
What is rocking in a rocking chair?
"Where there's laughter in every streamlet flowing" is an example of which literary device?
What is personification?
The narrator regrets
What is that the book contains information?
Americans decided to slaughter thousands of bison because…
In the line, "A cenotaph becomes the tourist temple of the profane," a cenotaph means
What is a monument to someone buried elsewhere?
Mr. Wright is...
What is controlling and creul?
The repetition of "Out where the _____" is an example of which literary device?
What is parallel structure?
The career the narrator gets excited about.
What is an editor for a newspaper?
Problems for Native Americans forced onto reservations.
What is tribes were forced to change their means of survival, lack of good farming land and hostile tribes were put together?
What is mourn, theft, hang, profane?
County Attorney Henderson needs this for his case against Mrs. Wright.
What is motive?
In contrast to the Mt. Rushmore poem, Out where the west begins" has a message of ___________.
What is hope?
The cause of joy returning for the narrator.
What is a murder in a saloon?
The reaction to Little Big Horn.
What are a call to increase military spending for the U.S. Army, a lack of sympathy towards Native Americans, and a critique of U.S. policy toward Indian tribes?
Sioux chief, Henry Standing Bear, commissioned a monument of ____________ as a counterpoint to the Mt. Rushmore faces.
Who is Crazy Horse?
The evidence Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find.
What is a quilt with crooked stitching, a bird cage with a broken door, and a bird with a broken neck?
The type of language the author uses to make the West seem friendlier, more beautiful, more rewarding, and more joyful.
What is comparative language?
Why does the narrator's opinion of the editors who published his writing decline?
What is because they published his writing?
The central idea of “From Resistance to Reservations”
What is the U.S. government put the need of American settlers over keeping the treaties they signed with the American Indians.
Mt. Rushmore is insulting to some Sioux because (3 reasons)
What is it was built on land taken from them, it is sacred land and it celebrates the European settlers who killed so many Native Americans and appropriated their land?