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100
The name of the author who wrote "Personal Reflections."
Who is N. Scott Momaday?
100
The year "Letter From Birmingham City Jail" was written.
What is 1963?
100
Did Mo Tzu support music?
What is no?
100
The artist who painted Guernica and the style it was painted in.
Who is Picasso and what is cubism?
100
In a formal essay, it is inappropriate to combine two words with an apostrophe into this type of word.
What is a contraction?
200
The author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and the reporter who brought Henrietta's story to life and shared with the world.
Who is Rebecca Skloot?
200
The year Frederick Douglass wrote "Learning to Read."
What is 1845?
200
The place where Katha Pollitt would allow her daughter to hang the American flag.
What is her own window?
200
This style of texts conveys as much as written texts, but give ideas in physical form.
What is a visual text?
200
This type of punctuation is used to enclose any words or phrases that have been inserted into a direct quotation.
What is a bracket?
300
The name of Octavio Paz's story that talks about the importance of taking breaks?
What is "Day of the Dead"?
300
The era Eugene Delacroix painted "Liberty Leading the People"
What are the 1830's?
300
Under his pen name, Eric Blair wrote about his experiences as an imperialist soldier.
What is "Shooting an Elephant"?
300
The name of the chart with the model of the galaxy where everything revolves around the Earth.
What is the Ptolemaic universe chart?
300
The following sentence is an example of this type of agreement: A medical student must study if he or she wants to succeed.
What is pronoun-antecedent agreement.
400
The name of Susan Bordo's article.
What is "The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies"?
400
The age Martin Luther King Jr. was when he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is 35?
400
The definition of HeLa cells and what HeLa stands for.
Who is Henrietta Lacks? What is a group of cancerous cells that reproduced on their own and never stopped.
400
In "Liberty Leading the People." what signified liberty?
Who is the woman in the center of the painting?
400
When two or more clauses are joined by a comma located between subordinate clauses.
What is a comma splice?
500
The author of "Things Fall Apart" and the name of his tribe.
Who is Chinua Achebe and what is Igbo?
500
The year Hubble was set in orbit.
What is 1990
500
An aspect of life that Native Americans believe is continuous.
What is time?
500
The amount of money that McDonald's spends on advertising each year.
What is over $2 Billion
500
The difference between paraphrasing and quoting, and the difference between how to punctuate the two.
What is quoting copies each word verbatim and it is in quotation marks. When you paraphrase you re-word what the author has said in your own words without using any of the same language. Paraphrasing does not need punctuation but it does need a citation.