Native American
Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies
Declaration of Independence
Wadsworth, Emerson, Irving, & Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
100

This tribe is given credit for one version of "The World on the Turtle's Back."

What is Iroquios?

100

This was the leader of the Jamestown Colony who kept a diary of the events the settlers experienced.

Who is John Smith?

100

This is the number of states in the original colonies.

What is 13?

100

In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," this many friends are invited to take part in the experiment.

What is four?

100

This is the name of the narrator's cat in "The Black Cat."

What is Pluto?

200

"The World on the Turtle's Back" is this kind of story.

What is a creation story?

200

This person played a significant role in teaching the Pilgrims how to find and grow food as well as serve as an interpreter.

Who is Squanto?

200

This person is given credit for writing The Declaration of Independence.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

200

This is the author of "Self Reliance." 

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

200

In "The Pit and the Pendulum," this is how the narrator escapes the pendulum just before it slices him in half.

What is rats chew the leather straps holding the narrator down?

300

This twin is known as the God of peace, and he lives in the sky.

What is the right-handed twin?

300

William Bradford refers to the Native Americans as THIS

What is barbarians?

300

This is the first part of The Declaration of Independence.

What is the Preamble?

300

This is the climax of "The Devil and Tom Walker." There are two possible answers.

What is Tom's wife disappears or Tom becomes successful?

300

This happened to the narrator's wife in "The Black Cat."

What is the narrator killed her for trying to protect the cat?
400

The Native Americans believed that man should do THIS.

What is respect nature?

400

According to John Smith, this item became scarce within ten days after the ship returned to England.

What is food?

400

This is the part of The Declaration of Independence which states that people have certain basic rights and that government should protect those rights.

What is the Declaration of Natural Rights?

400

This is the author of "A Psalm of Life."

Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

400

This character saves the narrator at the end of "The Pit and the Pendulum." There are two possible answers.

Who is General LaSalle and the French army?

500

The right and left-handed twins are known for doing this.

What is they create land animals and bring balance of good and evil to the world.

500

This is where the Mayflower first reaches land in America.

What is Plymouth, MA or Plymouth Rock?

500

This is another name for the third part of The Declaration of Independence which includes complaints against the British government.

What is List of Grievances?

500
This is a main theme of "Self-Reliance."

What is follow your own instincts and ideas?

500

This is the event that creates the setting for "The Pit and the Pendulum."

What is the Spanish Inquisition?