Is HE really all that GREAT?
Harrison wins the lottery
Soft Rains fell on WHOM on East Egg?
In a PARALLEL world, Gatsby got the girl
Misplaced modifiers and nonsense
100

As a favor to Gatsby, Nick invites Daisy over for this one rainy afternoon

What is he invites her over for tea

100

Making people wear "handicaps" ensures this in a science fiction story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

What is that everyone is equal

100

This/these characters live(s) on East Egg

Who is Tom and Daisy Buchanan 

100

Why Gatsby threw all those parties 

What is he hoped that Daisy would go to one someday so that they could be reunited 

100

Rewrite the sentence: They could of had free pizza. 

They could have had free pizza.
200

This character in The Great Gatsby can be described as likable and compassionate 

Who is Nick Carraway 

200

Wearing this "handicap" prevents anyone who is intelligent in having "deep thoughts" in "Harrison Bergeron" 

What is a mental handicap radio 

200

He appears for a brief moment in "There Will Come Soft Rains"

What is the family dog 

200

What Gatsby expects Daisy to say to Tom 

What is that she never loved him

200

Rewrite the sentence: The sloth held it's baby, and than she smiled at us. 

The sloth held its baby, and then she smiled at us. 

300

She runs out to Gatsby's car thinking that this person was in the car (name BOTH the "she" and the "person" in the car) 

Who is Myrtle Wilson, and she thought Tom was in the car
300

The name of the woman who is stoned to death in Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" 

Who is Tessie Hutchinson 

300

Write a sentence correctly using "whom" 

Answers will vary, but will likely use a preposition in front of it:

by whom, to whom, for whom, with whom...

300

Gatsby's response to Nick about repeating the past

What is he says you can repeat the past

300

Rewrite the sentence to correct the misplaced modifier: I saw a house on fire walking to school today.

While walking to school today, I saw a house on fire. 

400

Jordan Baker's profession 

What is she is a professional golfer

400

A theme of "The Lottery" 

Answers may vary, but could include: 

Mob mentality/scapegoating 

Blindly following tradition 

The randomness of injustice 

400

The setting of The Great Gatsby (be specific) 

What is summer time in the 1920s in West Egg/East Egg (Long Island), and New York City (and the Valley of the Ashes)

400

Parallelism (or parallel structure) means that this is going on in a sentence

What is when there are matching (or parallel) patterns of words (verbs, nouns, phrases, etc.) in a sentence

400

How to fix a misplaced modifier 

What is to move the modifier next to the subject (the word) it modifies 

500

What is a theme of The Great Gatsby? 

Answers will vary, but may include: 

The American Dream

Moral Decay 

Obsession with the past

Old money vs. new money

500

The terms of "royalty" Harrison uses for himself and for the ballerina he calls up to dance with him

What is "emperor" and "empress" 

500

A theme of "There Will Come Soft Rains" 

What is the dangers of technological advancements

500

Write a sentence using parallel structure (use 3 verb infinitives in your sentence)

Answers will vary 

500

Delighted, the prom gowns were modeled by the girls for their mothers.

Rewrite the sentence to fix the misplaced modifier

Delighted, the girls modeled the prom gowns for their mothers.