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English Usage
Jamestown
Geography
Political Systems
Elements of Fiction
100
A person, place, thing, or abstract idea...
What is a noun?
100
The crop that prevented this colony from failing...
What is tobacco?
100
The name of the imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres....
What is the equator?
100
The type of political system that allows its members to have a voice in the state's affairs....
What is a democracy?
100
The time and place of the story....
What is the setting?
200
A part of speech that describes nouns...
What is an adjective?
200
The name of the Lost Colony that preceded Jamestown....
What was Roanoke?
200
The name of the lines that run east and west on a map....
What are lines of latitude?
200
The political system in which the government owns the means of production and distributes resources at its own will....
What is communism?
200
What happens in the story....
What is the plot?
300
The name of the punctuation marks that are put around a direct quote...
What are quotation marks?
300
The period when most of the Jamestown population died of hunger and disease....
What was The Starving Time?
300
The name of the lines that run north and south on a map....
What are lines of longitude?
300
The type of state in which the authority of the king or queen is limited by law....
What is a constitutional monarchy?
300
The word for types of fiction, such as horror, romance, historical fiction....
What is a genre?
400
A punctuation mark that divides items in a series and dependent clauses from independent clauses...
What is a comma?
400
The name of the Native American who is credited with saving John Smith's life....
Who was Pocahontas?
400
The imaginary line that runs through Greenwich, England and divided the planet into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
The type of political system that relies heavily on nationalism and a strong leader....
What is a Fascist state?
400
The person who tell the story....
Who is the narrator?
500
The name of the punctuation mark used after the greeting in a business letter...
What is a colon?
500
The most scientifically reliable explanation for the conditions that existed during The Starving Time....
What is a severe drought?
500
The name of the theory that explains how volcanoes are formed and why earthquakes occur....
What is the Tectonic Plate Theory?
500
The absence of a political system....
What is anarchy?
500
The main character in a drama or other literary work....
What is a protagonist?