Authors / Short Stories
This happens to Kay to change his behavior in The Snow Queen
What is pieces of the cursed mirror are lodged in his eye and heart
This is the definition for which of our vocabulary words:
to become steadily less : shrink
What is dwindled
This is the narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird
Who is Scout Finch
This is the birthday of Rome
What is April 21st
This is the setting of A Christmas Carol (time/location)
What is Victorian England
Harper Lee won this award for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird
What is The Pulitzer Price
This is the definition for which of our spelling words:
stern, unyielding
What is flinty
This person saves Scout and Jem from an attack by Bob Ewell
Who is Arther "Boo" Radley
Who is Hannibal
This is who Bob Marley was
Who is Scrooge's business partner who died seven years ago
This was the plot twist at the end of The Necklace
This is the definition for which of our vocabulary words:
marked by wisdom or judiciousness
What is prudent
This is the description of Tom Robinson's physical impairment?
What is his left arm was 12" shorter than his right arm as it was caught in a cotton gin when he was a child.
What is his head on a spear
These are the names of the two pitiful, neglected children the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals beneath his robe
What are Want and Ignorance
Leo Tolstoy is considered this by many to be this
What is one of the "world's great novelists"
This is the definition for which of our vocabulary words:
marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions
What is covetous
Miss Maudie called the procession of people going to watch the trial this
What is a "Roman Carnival"
This is why Ptolemy had Pompey killed
What is Ptolemy was advised to kill Pompey so as to rid Caesar of him
These are the six items Marley's chains are comprised of
What are cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses
O. Henry was convicted of this and adopted a pen name to distance his writing from this conviction
What is embezzlement
This is the definition for which of our vocabulary words:
difficult or irritating to deal with
What is cantankerous
This is what Atticus tells Jem when Jem asks how the jury could select guilty
What is they've done it before, they did it tonight, and they'll do it again and when they do it seems only children weep
Defeat of this was the reason Antony attacked Brutus so soon after Cassius's death.
What is Antony's fleet at sea
These are the three actions Scrooge takes when he wakes-up Christmas morning after the Ghosts' visits
What are he sends a young boy to buy a massive turkey to give to the Cratchit family, he pledges large money to care for the poor and needed, and he attends Christmas dinner with his nephew/nephew's wife.