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100

What is Mary Katherine's nickname?

Merricat

100

What do the villagers do after the fire starts?

Destroy it/objects in it!

Attack/surround Mary Katherine and Constance

100

Which item of food is poisoned at the Blackwood family dinner?

Sugar

100

Mary Katherine says she wants to go to this location in space!

the moon

100
Name the literary term: Comparing two things using like/as
Simile
200

This character dies during the fire.

Uncle Julian

200
In the book, what is Charles's main concern?

Money/the safe

200

This character is responsible for poisoning the Blackwood family.

Mary Katherine

200

Uncle Julian wants to write a book about/is obsessed with . . . 

the death of the family/the poisoning

200

Name the literary term: Comparing two things NOT using like/as

Metaphor

300

What is the name of Mary Katherine's cat?

Jonas

300

How does the fire start?

Merricat pushed Charles's pipe into trash can

300

Constance seemed suspicious after her family was poisoned because . . . (Be specific)

-Cleaned sugar bowl

-said family deserved to die

-blamed herself

-didn't call police fast enough

-she bought the poison

-she knows about poison

300

Mary Katherine is _______ years old.

18

300

Name the literary term: An author giving hints about something that will happen later in the story.

Foreshadowing

400

What is the name of Mary Katherine and Constance's father?

John Blackwood

400

How does Mary Katherine try to protect the house before the fire?

-Buries objects

-Magic words

-nails items to tree

-tries to get rid of Charles

400

Constance said she cleaned the poison out of the dish before the police arrived because . . . 

There was a spider in it

400

Mary Katherine compares Charles to this type of supernatural creature.

ghost/demon

400

Name the literary term: A general term for language that should has a deeper meaning/should not be taken literally.

Figurative language

500

What is the name of the woman who comes once a week to tea with Constance and Mary Katherine?

Helen Clarke

500

Name one of Constance's hobbies

Cooking

Gardening/plants

500

What kind of poison was used on the Blackwood family?

Arsenic/rat poison

500

The author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

500

Name the literary term: Giving human traits to nonhuman or nonliving things.

Personification