Mrs Bailey Old Tests
How does Jordan Baker know Daisy
A childhood friend of Daisy's
Will follow a bug to Mexico
An example of hyperboles in this tall tale is Wheeler saying that Smiley...
Eager to win the fight and money
How does the dialect of the following excerpt describe the bull-pup: "his underjaw'd began to stick our like the fo'castle or a steamboat and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces"
It is impossible for a pilot to travel only one way
How does the serious tone in Twains voice create humor when he says " I resolved to be a downstream pilot and leave the upstreaming to people dead to prudence"?
Simmons was not in control of Twain's actions
How is Simmons comment that he could have stopped Twain from attacking the school bully dramatic irony
Begins in the present and goes back into the past
How is the story told
Bible
Huck runs to the church to fetch Sophia's...
An Arab
So that Jim would not have to be tied with ropes, the Duke disguises Jim as...
Huck Finn
The story's narrator is...
Having everyone's attention
To Twain, the best thing about being a subject was...
True
True or False: Huck played practical jokes on Jim
Human teeth (molars)
What are Wolfsheims cufflinks made of
landmarks Twain needed to know
What did Bixby want Twain to write in a little book?
Jump distances
What does Wheeler say that Dan'l Webster can do better than any other frog
Personification
What literary device is being used in the phrase "mocked to death by time"
Felt sorry for him
When the king and duke were tarred and feathered, Huck...
Mrs. Turner
Who is the prejudiced manager of the restaurant in the Everglades
Wished he had not lied
A few weeks after the mesmerizer left town, Twain...
Greek
Michaelis was
Touching a rattlesnake skin
Jim believes that the following is bad luck
May die and leave him without a companion
Roderick Usher is mostly concerned about Madeline because...
Has great influence on the townspeople
The detail that helps you predict that Twain will try to trick Dr. Peaks into believing in mesmerism is that Dr. Peake
Has heightened senses
The main symptom of the 'family evil' that Roderick Usher suffers from is that he...
The bust of a Greek goddess
The raven enters the speakers room and sits on...
Loved one
The speaker (in the Raven) is upset about losing a...
Says the speaker will never see Lenore again
The speaker tells the raven to leave beaches the bird...
wants to sleep through the night watch
The steamboat crew implies that Twain is a baby because he...
False
True or False: Harney Grangerford eloped with Sophia Shepherdson
Held the other dog's hind leg
What does Andrew Jackson, the bull-pup, do to win dog fights
"Filled" "fantastic" "felt"
What words are use alliteration to create rhythm in lines 14-15 (the raven)
His hopes and dreams
For Gatsby, the green light is a symbol for...
Fought in the same battle in WWI
From where does Gatsby recognize Nick
His excited mare wins in spite of her illness
How does Smiley's mare make him "uncommon lucky"
Twain is about to admit that he has no answer
How does Twains proud statement "I was gratified to be able to answer promply" illustrate the humorous tone of this memoir?
Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, Vergible Woods (Tea Cake)
Janie was married to these three men
He dressed expensively
Myrtle was initially attracted to Tom because...
He is nervous and hears unfamiliar sounds
On the first night, the narrator cannot sleep because...
Develops a disbelief in mesmerism
One result of Twain's actions with the mesmerizer is that Twain...
The educated can read the river
Paraphrase the following excerpt..."The face of the water in time became a wonderful book a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger.
One day, I stoped seeing the river's beauty
Paraphrase the following, "A day cams when I began to cease from noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the rivers face..."
I repeatedly asked Bixby to teach me
Paraphrase the hyberbole, "I planned a seige against my pilot and at the end of three hard days he surrendered..
Were childhood friends
The narrator knows Roderick Usher because they...
A made up person
The narrator suspects that Leonidas W. Smiley is...
Believes that whatever Wheeler will never stop talking
The narrators attempt to leave when Wheeler is out of the room suggests that he...
Resents the ravens presence in the room
The repetition of "still is sitting" in the last stanza helps you to infer that the speaker...
Assumes he has a visitor
To explain the noise at the door the speaker...
To destroy Gatsby as a rival for Daisy's attention
Tom Buchanan investigates Gatsby's business dealings...
To dig the prison foundation with small knives
Tom wanted...
True
True or False: Col. Sherburns fired a warning shot at Boggs house before he fired the shot that ultimately killed the drunk man
False
True or False: Gatsby and Nick go into business together
True
True or False: George Wilson owns a garage
True
True or False: Harney Shepherdson eloped with Sophia Grangerford
False
True or False: Huck enjoyed school and good manners before Pap came back into town
False
True or False: Huck faked his death by dragging a bloody goat he killed through the cabin he shared with Pap
True
True or False: Huck had a crush on Mary Jane Wilks
False
True or False: Huck told the Shepherdsons that his name was George Judlso
True
True or False: Jim and Huck met two men who claimed to be long last royal Europeans
False
True or False: Mark Twain's real name was Markus Clemens
True
True or False: One reason Tom Sawyer agreed to help Jim was because he already knew that Jim was a free man
False
True or False: Stephen Dowling Bots died of gunshot wounds
False
True or False: The Widow Douglas planned to sell Jim for $300
False
True or False: Tom Sawyer was shot in his left shoulder
False
True or False: When Miss Watson died, the terms of the will left Jim in the ownership of Widow Douglas
Wants the audiences attention
Twain pretends to be hypnotized because...
Remembering his lie made him ashamed
Twain soon dislike hearing people talk about his fears in the show because...
Banana
Use context clues to choose the best meaning of "bananner" in the dialect of the following exert: "well, thish-yer Smiley has a yaller one eyed cow that didn't have no tail, just a shirt stump like a bannaner"
That she was black
What 'discovery' did Janie make about herself when she was very young
Sticking himself with a pin
What action was Twain sure would convince his mother that his confession is true
A frog needs only an education to do anything
What description of Dan'l Webster see the tall tale technique of understatement
Janie kisses Johnny Turner
What did Janie do that prompted Nanny to force Janie to marry Logan Killicks
They believed that she poisoned him
What did the townspeople believe Janie did to Joe before his death
Mourning should not last longer than sadness
What does Janie mean when she says "Let em say whut den wants tuh, Pheoby. To my thinkin morning oughtn't tuh last longer'n grief"
An innocent idea of the river
What does Twain lose that can "never be restored"?
Janie's sexual identity
What does the pear tree symbolize
smelling incense
What does the speaker imagine after the raven first speaks
Madeline appears after having been entombed and thought to be dead
What event kills Roderick Usher and drives the narrator from the house
He dies as Madeline's body falls on him
What happens to Roderick at the end of the story?
He is preoccupied with the death and ghosts
What inference can you make about the speakers current state of mind for the references to the event as "plutonian"
The evidence of the house's consciousness is in the atmosphere surrounding the house
What is the main idea of the following complex sentence describing the house's consciousness, "it's evidence- the evidence of the sentences- was to be seen, he said, in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and wall"
The steamboat was very close to other boats
What scared Twain the first time he steered the steam boat
Gloom
What single effect does the author help create with the following description "the decayed trees, to the grey wall to the silent farm"
The storm is unusually fierce and creates a setting of unnatural conditions
What statement explains how the description of the storm contributes to the single effect of honor in the story
Internal conflict
What type of conflict is Janie's view of marriage to the reality of marriage
James Gatz
What was Gatsby's real name?
Alphabet
What was Janie's childhood nickname
Chickens fighting in the barnyard
Wheeler's claim that Smiley would bet "on anything that turned up you ever see" is best supported by Smiley's bet on...
How to drive a car
When Tea Cake and Janie met for their first date, what did he teach her
At Nicks house
Where does Gatsby reunion with Daisy take place
Louisville
Where is Daisy from
On the bust above the speakers door
Where is the raven at the end of the poem
He almost hit the shore of a sugar plantation
Which is the best paraphrase of the underlined hyperbole in the following excerpt? "I either came near chipping off the edge of a sugar plantation, or I yawed too far from shore and so dropped back into disgrace again and got abused".
A family history quilt
Which of the following elements of African American folklore is NOT found in the novel
Doubt
Who is the "friends from hell specially sent to lovers"
He was furious at Twain and needed to shout
Why did Bixby shout and swear at the crew of the trading scrow
In case Tea Cake ran away with her money
Why did Janie keep two hundred hidden inside her shirt when she left with Tea Cake
He wanted to sleep
Why did Motor Boat stay in the abandoned house
Both Simmons and Twain know that Twain is faking
Why is the fact that Simmons calls Twain a wonderful subject an example of verbal irony
Blames the bird for his loss of hope
You can make the inverse that the speaker hates the raven because the speaker...
Story made history real for Twain
You can predict that Twain will remember the story about the cannonball because the...
remembered nothing Bixby told him
Bixby got very angry at Twain because he....
