Mrs Bailey Old Tests

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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....


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