Adv. of Huck Finn
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Rappaccini's Daughter
A Christmas Carol
Vocabulary
100

This character serves as a "foil" to Huck Finn

Tom Sawyer

100

Name of this story's author.

Mark Twain

100

What is unusual about Rappaccini's garden?

All the plants are deadly poisonous!

100

Scrooge's former business partner, now deceased.

Jacob Marley

100

A term for lacking experience or judgement.

naive
200

The new judge's attempt to rehabilitate Pap proves a failure after Pap gets drunk and falls off of this.

A roof
200

This character is most famous in town for betting on almost anything.

Jim Smiley

200

Where does Giovanni see Beatrice for the first time?

Through the window he sees her in the garden.

200

This character visits Scrooge in Stave One and invites him to Christmas Dinner.

His nephew, Fred

200

A term for something that appears real but is not

Illusion

300

"...it's too gashly" is a quote delivered by this character, after the corpse on the houseboat is covered up.

Jim

300

This is what's unusual Smiley's frog, Dan'l Webster.

He's been trained to jump higher than any other frog.

300

The warning Baglioni gives to Giovanni about Rappaccini.

He is dangerous (he values scientific experimentation over human life)

300

This is the primary purpose of Marley's visit with Scrooge.

To warn him

300

A term for an expression of disagreement or protest

objection

400

The reason Jim runs away.

Miss Watson was going to sell him down the river and separate his family

400

This is how the stranger cheats, winning his bet against Jim Smiley.

He fills the frog with lead.
400

The discovery Giovanni makes about himself after spending time with Beatrice.

That he has become poisonous himself.

400

This is the number of spirits Marley says will come to Scrooge in the night.

3

400

A term for a decision or judgment, especially in a court of law

verdict
500

More superstition than science, this act causes sunken bodies in a river to come to surface.

Firing a cannon over the water

500

Who narrates this story?

A stranger inquiring about a friend.

500

What happens to Beatrice after Giovanni gives her the antidote.

She dies

500

This is what the young woman, Belle, claims has corrupted Scrooge.

Gain/Gold/Greed

500

A term for extremely unpleasant, especially involving violence or injury

gruesome