The Three Brass Pennies
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Raccoon Olympics
Sympathy
The Storyteller
100

The main character of The Three Brass Pennies

Who is Ah Fo?

100

These are the two characters present

Who are the speaker and the horse?

100

This is the setting of “Raccoon Olympics”

What is a state park on Rock Island, woods, Lake Michigan?

100

This is the setting of “Sympathy”

What is the bird is in a cage which contrasts “upland slopes”, “springing grass”, “river flows like a stream of glass”?

100

The setting of "The Storyteller"

What is railway car, Train, on the way to Templecomb?

200

One of the three wishes 

What is either reading minds, telling the future 1 month in advance, OR acquiring knowledge without effort?

200

The sensory language paints this picture of the poem

What is nighttime - quiet woods - snowfall?

200

This is Paul’s job in “Raccoon Olympics”

What is a park naturalist, ranger, “walking encyclopedia of Rock Island”?

200

This is what the “caged bird” symbolizes

What is African Americans’ fight for freedom, slavery, a circumstance where someone is being held back?

200

At least two of the characters in the “Story-Teller”

Who are small girl, smaller girl, small boy (Cyril), aunt, bachelor?

300

Another of the three wishes 

What is either reading minds, telling the future 1 month in advance, OR requiring knowledge without effort?

300

This is the author of the poem

Who is Robert Frost?

300

This is how the narrator envisions the Raccoon Olympics

What is the narrator imagines that the raccoons wear goggles and swim caps and train for the Olympic tryouts?

300

He is the author of “Sympathy”

Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?

300

The aunts feelings about the bachelor’s story

What is she disapproves of it?

400

The main character does what with the 3 pennies after using them

What is returns them to the magician?

400

This is a specific sensory detail from the poem describing the setting

What is "woods and frozen lake" OR "darkest evening" OR "the woods are lovely, dark and deep" OR any other sensory setting detail?

400

This is the author’s purpose for writing “Raccoon Olympics”

What is to entertain readers with an amusing experience where an adult protects her innocence?

400

How we know that the speaker identifies with the bird’s plight in “Sympathy”

What is first person point of view is used in many lines like “I know why the caged bird sings, ah me”?

400

Purpose behind the aunt and bachelor telling stories to the children

What is the children are causing a distraction, the stories are told to entertain them on the train ride

500

The main character realizes this by the end

What is he appreciates & is happiest with the person he was before?

500

This pulls the speaker away from the woods

What is responsibilities, promises, or something similar?

500

This is how the reader know that the narrator and the father have different understandings of the swimming raccoons

What is Paul winks at the father while telling the story?

500

How we know that the bird wants to be free in “Sympathy”

What is the caged bird beats his wing against the cage and sings a prayer to heaven to gain its freedom?

500

The children's reactions to the bachelor’s story

What is they enjoyed it because it was about more than just being good?