MS History
Which weather type is NOT found in MS?
Earthquakes or Tornados?
What is Earthquakes.
The soil in this region allows for the growth of large cotton crops. This region is also flat and runs along the banks of the MS River.
What is The Delta.
What MS town if Faulkner from?
What is Oxford.
What is Abner's punishment for burning Mr. Harris's barn?
What is he must leave town and never come back.
What is the name of Miss Emily's manservant?
Who is Tobe.
Slaves were used in MS to help with the labor of WHAT crop?
What is cotton.
This regions economy is based on cattle, light manufacturing, and industry.
What is the Loess.
What was Faulkner's highest educational level?
What is a high school dropout and one year of college.
What is Sarty's internal conflict during the first courtroom scene (also the central conflict)?
What is the conflict between loyalty and justice.
What "color" is Miss Emily's house?
What is white.
How many counties does MS have?
What is 82.
This regions main economic activities are fishing and tourism.
What is the Gulf Coast.
Name some of Faulkner's most famous works.
What is The Sound and the Fury, Absolom, Absolom!, As I Lay Dying.
Abner and Sarty's relationship can be described as?
What is turbulent.
Why doesn't Judge Stevens want to confront Miss Emily about "the smell"?
What is it would be rude.
What side of the Civil War was MS a part of?
What is the Confederacy.
This regions area was the center of the lumber and railroad industry.
What is the Piney Woods.
How does Faulkner describe Sarty's twin sisters?
What is fat and lazy.
What does the judge decide Abner owes the de Spain's for ruining the rug?
What is 10 bushels of corn.
What conclusion can you make about Miss Emily by the end of the story?
What is she wanted others to know what she had done.
Where was MS original capital located?
What is Natchez.
This region's economy is trade, commerce, and industry. It is also the home of the Woodall Mountain, MS's highest point.
What is the Red Clay Hills.
How does Faulkner use details about the setting to reveal time passing in this town?
What is the changing of the customs of the town (Ex.: the mailing system)
What is Abner Snope's job?
What is a sharecropper.
What emotions are readers expected to feel toward Emily?
What is pity and horror.