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What is the name of Mrs. West's Daughter?

Millie!

100

What kind of story is focused on creating fear?

Horror Story

100

Where is William Faulkner from?

Oxford Mississippi

100

Where is Edgar Allen Poe from?

Boston Massachusetts

100

What Year did I graduate from Lausanne?

2015

200

How did Humphrey come to stay with Mrs. West?

Through friends who found him in a McDonald's Parking lot

200

What famous novel from the Victorian age got rewritten into a horror novel about zombies?

Pride and the Prejudice: Zombies

200

What time of literary device/strategy does Faulkner use in the majority of his writings?

Stream of consciousness 

200

What type of writing was Poe most famous for?

Poetry and short stories, mystery and Romanticism

200

What disease am I afflicted by?

(Type 1) Diabetes

300

Where did Mrs. West study abroad?

Scottland

300

What  Steven King Psychological horror novel most recently came out in theaters as a movie?

The Long walk

300

Give me the approximate time in which Faulkner was writing.

1920s and 1930s

300

Give me the approximate time that Poe Wrote?

Early to mid 1800s

300

I have 3 tattoos, with the obvious being the fish tattoos. What is one of my other tattoos?

Caduceus Symbol that says "Type 1 Diabetes" and 

"Pura Vida"

400

In Addition to English, what were two of Mrs. West's 3 minors?

Spanish, Film, and music

400

Who wrote Frankenstein (1818)?

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

400
Name me two works from Faulkner

As I lay dying, A Rose for Emily etc etc. Lots of options

400

Name me two works of Poe.

The Raven, Bells, etc etc. Lots of options

400

I recently got a new car. What type of car is it?

Subaru Crosstrek

500

What Collegiate extracurricular did Mrs. West take part in?


She was in a Cover band!

500

What is the first Literary Horror written in Western Literature?

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

500
What tragedy occurred to Faulkner in 1931?

His Newborn daughter, Alabama, died in her infancy. 

500

What was Poe's last words? (There were 5)

Lord Help my poor soul

500

Name all 6 things I have taught and or Coached at Lausanne (Not including this class) 

- Lacrosse

- MS PE 

- 6th grade English 

- Spanish 2 

- American History

- Modern World History