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Stories
Themes
Quotes
100
Who is the author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?
Flannery O'Connor
100
Who is the main character in the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Connie
100
In what story does the main character pinch her nose because she wants to make it smaller?
Senior Picture Day
100
What is a theme from "Desiree's Baby"?
Racism & Identity
100
"They carried their reputations. They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to." What story is this quote from?
The Things They Carried
200
Who is the author of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Joyce Carol Oates
200
What is the name of the main character in the story "El Tanto del Barrio"?
Romero Estrado
200
In what story was the character Jane prescribed the treatment of isolation and later drove her insane?
The Yellow Wallpaper
200
What is a theme from "The Cat in the Ran"?
Gender, dissatisfaction, isolation
200
"I wanted it so much," she said. "I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty."
The Cat in the Rain
300
Who is the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
300
What is the name of the girl that Amadeo locked in the cellar in "If You Touched My Heart"?
Hortensia
300
In what story does a girl feel compared to her older sister?
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
300
What is a theme from "Hills like White Elephants"?
Communication, drugs and alcohol, identity
300
"But all the boys fell back and dissolved into a single face that was not even a face but an idea, a feeling, mixed up with the urgent insistent pounding of the music and the humid night of July." What story is this quote from?
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
400
Who is the author of "If You Touched My Heart"?
Isabel Allende
400
Who is the sledgedriver in "Misery"?
Iona
400
In what story does a community take care of a happy drunk man?
El Tanto del Barrio
400
What is a theme from "Cathedrals"?
Looking vs. seeing, art as insight
400
"I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery."
Desiree's Baby
500
Who is the author of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?
James Thurber
500
What is the name of Arnold Friend's friend in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Ellie
500
In what story do little boys come across a woman in a cellar?
If You Touched My Heart
500
What is a theme from "Mine/Little Things"?
Love, Pride, Selfishness
500
"The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa."
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty