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Faulkner's Posse
A Series of Unfortunate Events
"Memory knows before knowing remembers" these Quotes
Faulkner "sho" loves his literary devices
100
Faulkner's works weren't largely noticed by the public until after this world event.
What is World War 2?
100
A religious zealot, his cold viciousness has influenced Joe Christmas’ violent tendencies.
Who is Mr. McEachern?
100
This food made Joe Christmas vomit loudly; as if the indiscretion he was watching wasn't punishment enough.
What is toothpaste from the dietician's office?
100
The following quote refers to this character, “Once he had owned garments with intact buttons. A woman had sewed them on…With his pocket knife and with the cold and bloodless deliberation of a surgeon he would cut off the buttons which she had just replaced.”
Who is Joe Christmas?
100
"But the town did not believe that the ladies had forgot those previous mysterious trips with Memphis as their destination and for that purpose regarding which all had the same conviction, though none ever put it into words and spoke it aloud, since the town believe that good women don't forget things easily, good or bad, lest the taste and savor of forgiveness die for the palate of conscience"
What are long sentences?
200
This city is the capital of Mississippi, the state in which Faulkner grew up and where most of his stories take place.
What is Jackson?
200
She lives as a recluse, writing letters for black college students. She represents all the forces that have repeatedly traumatized Joe Christmas.
Who is Joanna Burden?
200
Joe Christmas uses this implement to defend himself from his adoptive father at the schoolhouse dance.
What is a chair?
200
The following quote begins this flashback: “Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”
What is Joe Christmas' childhood?
200
"Sho. You got plenty of time yet. Only you are liable to have some company at any time now that can't walk. You come on home with me."
What is colloquial dialect?
300
Faulkner joined this military service branch but never went to battle.
What is the Royal Air Force?
300
Jailed on more than one occasion for his violent outbursts, this man leaves his illegitimate grandchild at a Memphis orphanage, ashamed of his daughter’s indiscretions.
Who is Doc Hines?
300
Colonel Sartoris kills Miss Burden's grandfather and brother during what disagreement?
What are black voting rights?
300
This character thought the following, “It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.”
Who is Byron Bunch?
300
"She had never been to Doane's Mill until after her father and mother died"
What are flashbacks?
400
This man defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover in the 1932 presidential election.
Who is FDR?
400
This man’s grandfather, a member of the Confederate Army, was shot and killed in the Civil War.
Who is Reverend Hightower?
400
Mr. Hines lands in jail when he does this as a church pulpit.
What is brandishes a gun?
400
This character states the following, “In order to rise, you must raise the shadow with you.”
Who is Joanna Burden?
400
"Her face is calm as stone, but not hard. Its doggedness has a soft quality, an inwardlighted quality of tranquil and calm unreason and detachment."
What are made-up words?
500
Faulkner's preoccupations with racial and gender issues are largely attributed to this female.
Who is Caroline Barr, his nanny?
500
Addressing Joe Christmas as Romeo, this man is the proprietor of the diner in which Joe meets Bobbie Allen.
Who is Max?
500
By today's standards, this element of Joe Christmas' execution would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
What is castration?
500
This light is seen before this character's death: “That fading copper light would seem almost audible, like a dying yellow fall of trumpets dying into an interval of silence and waiting.”
Who is Reverend Hightower?
500
“It seemed to him that fate, circumstance, had set a warning in the sky all day long in that pillar of yellow smoke, and he too stupid to read it.”
What is symbolism?