Beowulf
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
A Tale of Two Cities
Grammar and Writing
100

The first monster Beowulf battles

Who is Grendel?

100

The fictional setting of this novel

What is Maycomb, Alabama?

100

The author of this novel

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

100

The method in which Madame Defarge keeps a record of those who must be killed for their crimes against the peasants


What is knitting a record/register of names?

100

The verb in this sentence: "Mr. Gore was proud, ambitious, and persevering."

What is "WAS"?

200

This work is an example of the first one of these in the English language

What is an epic poem?

200

The true villain of this novel

Who is Bob Ewell?

200

The name of the female golfer in the novel

Who is Jordan Baker?

200

The names of the father and daughter at the center of this novel


Who are Alexandre and Lucie Manette?

200
The participles in this sentence: "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"

What are DETERMINED and RESOLVED?

300

The cause of death for Beowulf

What is being bitten in the neck by a dragon?

300

Character who says, "one day she asked me to come inside the fence and bust up a chiffarobe for her" AND the "she" he is referencing

Who is Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell?

300

The names of each character who dies in the novel

Who are Myrtle Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and George Wilson?

300

The first and last name of the author of this famous work

Who is Charles Dickens?

300

Title of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge we read in connection to the addiction issues faced by Sydney Carton

What is "The Pains of Sleep"?
400

The two countries that act as the setting of this work

What are Sweden and Denmark?

400

The costume Scout wears at the end AND the reason she wears it

What is a ham for her role in the Halloween pageant (about the history of Maycomb)? 

400

The characters being described in this quote: "They were careless people, ________ and __________—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..."

Who are Tom and Daisy Buchanan?

400

The names of the Lion and the Jackal

Who are C.J. Stryver and Sydney Carton?

400

The female poet who created a spoken word poem inspired by "We Wear the Mask" and her observation of an elderly black woman on a bus

Who is Maya Angelou? 

500

The king Beowulf goes to help at the beginning of the work

Who is Hrothgar?

500

The owner, editor, and printer  of The Maycomb Tribune

Who is Mr. Braxton Bragg Underwood?
500

Give two examples of writing elements used in Modernism

What are a psychological tone (or stream-of-consciousness writing; sense of alienation; experimentation in gender roles; discussions of racial issues; experimentation with point of view and narration; addressed effects of materialism; cosmopolitan/urban setting OR region-based setting?





500

The dates of the French Revolution

What are 1789-1799?

500

The literary device at work in this quote:  “Hrothgar, King of the Danes, glorious in battle”

What is epithet?