FirstQuarter Jeopardy Review

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First-Quarter Jeopardy Review!

• Feraco-Eberle
• English 9
• 4 November 2008

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Ground rules

• 1 piece of paper per student
• Each student answers each question in pen no
  scratch-outs allowed!
• Each student has roughly 40 seconds to respond to
  each question
• Scoring rules
• Answers earn credit
• Incorrect answers lose credit
• Each student answers each question independently!
• Each student earns points for the team
• Top team gets extra credit on exam!

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Team Scores

• The latest standings for Period 1
• Bills 62
• Niners 77
• Chargers 95
• Eagles 68
• Cardinals 66
• Dolphins 89
• Who will emerge victorious?

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Team Scores

• The latest standings for Period 4
• Bills 70
• Niners 78
• Chargers 118
• Eagles 77
• Cardinals 71
• Dolphins 110
• Who will emerge victorious?

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Categories Point Values

• Group 1 Categories
• Grammar (Chapter 1)
• Grammar (Chapter 2)
• Fish Cheeks /
• The White Umbrella
• The Most Dangerous Game
• A Christmas Memory
• Grab Bag!

• Group 2 Categories
• Grammar (Chapter 18)
• The Scarlet Ibis
• The Lady, or the Tiger?
• The Gift of the Magi
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Grab Bag!

• The questions in Group 1 Are worth
  100/200/300/400/500 points
• The questions in Group 2 are worth
  200/400/600/800/1000 points

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Grammar (Chapter I) 100

• A word or word group that is used to name a
  person, a place, a thing, or an idea is known as
  a ___________.

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Grammar (Chapter I) 100 Answer

• What is a noun(?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter II) 100

• Sentences consist of two basic parts
  _____________ and ____________.

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Grammar (Chapter II) 100 Answer

• What are subjects and predicates (?)(!)

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Fish Cheeks /The White Umbrella 100

• How are the girls feelings regarding their
  families similar in both stories?

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Fish Cheeks / The White Umbrella 100 Answer

• Both girls feel ashamed about their families, and
  their feelings are rooted partly in their
  attitudes about their own cultures.

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The Most Dangerous Game 100

• Which island does Rainsford reach after falling
  overboard?

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The Most Dangerous Game 100 Answer

• What is Ship-Trap Island (?)(!)

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A Christmas Memory 100

• What is the name of the narrator in A Christmas
  Memory?

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A Christmas Memory 100 Answer

• What is Buddy (?)(!)

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Grab Bag! 100

• Please define prepositional phrase.

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Grab Bag! 100 Answer

• A prepositional phrase is a word group containing
  a preposition and a noun or pronoun object. (It
  also cannot stand alone because it does not
  express a complete thought It lacks a verb!)

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Grammar (Chapter I) 200

• The word a pronoun replaces is known as an
  _____________. (For example If the Italicized
  word him in A historian wrote down a strange
  tale some villagers had told him is replacing a
  second use of the word Historian, what term do
  we use to describe Historian?)

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Grammar (Chapter I) 200 Answer

• What is an antecedent (?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter II) 200

• The ____________________ consists of a verb and
  all the words that describe the verb and complete
  its meaning.

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Grammar (Chapter II) 200 Answer

• What is a complete predicate (?)(!)

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Fish Cheeks /The White Umbrella 200

• What Secret does Miss Crosman tell The White
  Umbrellas narrator after joining her outside?

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Fish Cheeks / The White Umbrella 200 Answer

• She tells her that she wanted to have children
  when she was younger, but she never married
  anyone.

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The Most Dangerous Game 200

• What is the most dangerous game?

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The Most Dangerous Game 200 Answer

• What are human beings (?)(!)

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A Christmas Memory 200

• What does Buddys friend say every winter?

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A Christmas Memory 200 Answer

• Its fruitcake weather!

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Grab Bag! 200

• Which gift does Della purchase for Jim?

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Grab Bag! 200 Answer

• What is a chain that attaches to the fob of his
  beloved pocketwatch (?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter I) 300

• While an adjective is used to modify ___________
  and ____________, an adverb is used to modify
  ___________, _______________, and ______________.

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Grammar (Chapter I) 300 Answer

• What are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and
  adverbs (?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter II) 300

• A __________________ consists of two or more
  subjects that are joined by a conjunction and
  that have the same verb.

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Grammar (Chapter II) 300 Answer

• What is a compound subject (?)(!)

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Fish Cheeks /The White Umbrella 300

• Why doesnt the girls mother tell them shes
  working in The White Umbrella?

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Fish Cheeks / The White Umbrella 300 Answer

• She doesnt want her daughters to be ashamed of
  her.

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The Most Dangerous Game 300

• What happens when Rainsford hides from the
  General in a tree?

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The Most Dangerous Game 300 Answer

• The General spots him, taunts him by blowing
  smoke at him, and leaves him there just so he
  can drag the hunt out longer.

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A Christmas Memory 300

• What are Buddy and his friend trying to buy from
  Haha Jones?

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A Christmas Memory 300 Answer

• A quart of whiskey.

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Grab Bag! 300

• What serves as a symbol for Doodle?

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Grab Bag! 300 Answer

• What is the scarlet ibis (?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter I) 400

• An ________________ expresses either mental or
  physical action, while a _________________
  connects the subject to a word/word group that
  identifies or describes the subject.

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Grammar (Chapter I) 400 Answer

• What are action verbs and linking verbs (?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter II) 400

• A _________________ is a word or word group in
  the predicate that identifies or describes the
  subject.

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Grammar (Chapter II) 400 Answer

• What is a subject complement (?)(!)

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Fish Cheeks /The White Umbrella 400

• What method did Amys mother use to try to remind
  her to be proud of her heritage in Fish Cheeks?

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Fish Cheeks / The White Umbrella 400 Answer

• When the object of her crush and his family
  arrived for Christmas dinner, Amys mother
  prepared all of her favorite foods something
  the mortified Amy doesnt even realize until
  years have passed.

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The Most Dangerous Game 400

• Who does Rainsford kill (besides the unfortunate
  dog)?

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The Most Dangerous Game 400 Answer

• Who are both Ivan and Zaroff (?)(!)

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A Christmas Memory 400

• Who is Queenie?

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A Christmas Memory 400 Answer

• Who is the major canine character in the story
  (?)(!) (The dog!)

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Grab Bag! 400

• What is the question the young man asks with his
  eyes in The Lady, or the Tiger?

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Grab Bag! 400 Answer

• What was Which? (?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter I) 500

• Please list the coordinating and correlative
  conjunctions in the following sentence Whether
  we saved money or not after paying both Uncle
  Waldos and Dads medical bills and having the
  doorway widened is something we still joke about
  in our family.

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Grammar (Chapter I) 500 Answer

• Correlative Conjunctions Whetheror, bothand
• Coordinating Conjunction and

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Grammar (Chapter II) 500

• A _______________ is a noun, pronoun, or word
  group that tells who or what receives the action
  of a verb or shows the result of the action.

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Grammar (Chapter II) 500 Answer

• What is a direct object (?)(!)

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Fish Cheeks /The White Umbrella 500

• What does Amy Tan pray for at the beginning of
  Fish Cheeks?

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Fish Cheeks / The White Umbrella 500 Answer

• The ministers son, Robert, and a slim new
  American nose.

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The Most Dangerous Game 500

• How do Rainsfords attitudes regarding hunting
  shift over the course of the story?

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The Most Dangerous Game 500 Answer

• He begins the story as an enthusiastic hunter who
  cares nothing for the plight of his prey, and
  ends it having survived three days as prey at
  a terrible cost. He sympathizes a great deal more
  with the animals hes killed by the end of the
  story.

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A Christmas Memory 500

• What do Buddy and his friend do on their last
  happy Christmas together?

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A Christmas Memory 500 Answer

• They fly kites in the winter wind.

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Grab Bag! 500

• What is the narrators name in The Cask of
  Amontillado?

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Grab Bag! 500 Answer

• Who was Montresor (?)(!)

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First-Quarter Jeopardy Review!(Part II!)

• Feraco-Eberle
• English 9
• 4 November 2008

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 200

• What differentiates a sentence fragment from a
  sentence?

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 200 Answer

• A sentence is a word group that has a subject and
  a verb and expresses a complete thought. A
  sentence fragment either fails to include a
  subject or verb or fails to express a complete
  thought.

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The Scarlet Ibis 200

• Doodles parents built him a coffin even before
  they _______________________

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The Scarlet Ibis 200 Answer

• Even before they gave him a name William
  Armstrong.

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 200

• Which word does Frank Stockton originally use to
  describe the king a word that describes
  virtually everything and everyone in the story?

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 200 Answer

• What is semibarbaric (?)(!)

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The Gift of the Magi 200

• What does Della sacrifice for Jims gift?

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The Gift of the Magi 200 Answer

• She chops off her hair her most prized
  possession and sells it to raise the necessary
  funds for the purchase.

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The Cask of Amontillado 200

• What does Fortunato do that drives Montresor to
  hate him deeply enough to eventually bury him
  alive?

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The Cask of Amontillado 200 Answer

• Montresor never specifies what Fortunato did
  beyond a vague mention of new insults instead
  of the usual injuries he suffers at his rivals
  hands. (This lack of specificity is one of the
  reasons were concerned about Montresors
  reliability or sanity from the start of the
  tale.)

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Grab Bag! 200

• An _________________ is a word that expresses
  emotion and has no grammatical relation to the
  rest of a sentence.

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Grab Bag! 200 Answer

• What is an interjection (?)(!)

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 400

• What is a subordinate clause?

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 400 Answer

• While a clause is a group of words with a subject
  and a verb, an independent clause expresses a
  complete thought and can therefore stand on its
  own as a sentence. A dependent clause, on the
  other hand, does not express a complete thought
  and therefore cannot stand on its own.

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The Scarlet Ibis 400

• Why doesnt the narrator enjoy spending time with
  Doodle?

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The Scarlet Ibis 400 Answer

• He feels that Doodle is a burden, and that he
  comes with a long list of things you cant do
  with him all the narrator wants is someone who
  can do everything he can do.

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 400

• What aspect of the marriage reward offered by
  the kings court can be considered unfair?

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 400 Answer

• The court doesnt care about the accuseds
  marital status which means hell be forced to
  marry the girl behind the door he opens
  regardless of whether hes already married (even
  if he has children!).

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The Gift of the Magi 400

• What does Della whisper before Jim enters the
  flat?

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The Gift of the Magi 400 Answer

• Please God, make him think I am still pretty.

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The Cask of Amontillado 400

• What is the Montresor logo and motto?

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The Cask of Amontillado 400 Answer

• Its a picture of a snake savagely biting the
  foot thats stepping on it, along with a latin
  motto that reads Nemo me impune lacessit
  (Nobody attacks me without punishment).

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Grab Bag! 400

• Please provide a complete list of our
  coordinating conjunctions.

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Grab Bag! 400 Answer

• For, and, nor, but, or, yet, soFANBOYS!

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 600

• A __________________________ is two or more
  sentences run together as one.

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 600 Answer

• What is a run-on sentence (?)(!)

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The Scarlet Ibis 600

• What does the narrator force Doodle to see?

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The Scarlet Ibis 600 Answer

• What is his coffin (?)(!)

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 600

• How does the crowd react when the young man
  enters the arena?

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 600 Answer

• Theyre astonished by how noble and handsome he
  looks, and feel that his presence there is
  terrible! (And yet they continue watching)

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The Gift of the Magi 600

• What are Jim and Dellas reactions to one another
  when he first arrives home?

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The Gift of the Magi 600 Answer

• Jim is so startled by Dellas short hair and by
  the sudden realization that his gift is
  worthless that he barely speaks. Della, on
  the other hand, is so afraid that Jim wont think
  shes pretty that she laughs and talks a mile a
  minute.

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The Cask of Amontillado 600

• Why are the characters clothes important?

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The Cask of Amontillado 600 Answer

• Montresor, clad in black, looks like an avenging
  angel of death. Fortunato, dressed like a fool,
  behaves quite foolishly and dies with his
  jingling bells falling silent in the dark. In
  both cases, the characters clothes foreshadow
  the actions they take.

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Grab Bag! 600

• Which elements of The Most Dangerous Game serve
  to foreshadow the events of the story?

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Grab Bag! 600 Answer

• Whitneys discussion of Ship-Trap Island
  Whitneys discussion about the ethics of hunting
  the physical details we receive during Zaroffs
  description (black / white, etc.), and the hints
  / warnings Zaroff gives Rainsford before the hunt
  begins.

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 800

• Fix the following sentence Lets go skating
  instead, everyone has already seen that movie.

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 800 Answer

• Lets go skating instead. Everyone has already
  seen that movie!

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The Scarlet Ibis 800

• How does the narrator describe his pride over
  Doodles accomplishments, and why?

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The Scarlet Ibis 800 Answer

• He says pride is both wonderful and poisonous,
  for while his pride drives him to spend time with
  Doodle (which is all Doodle really wants), it
  also drives him to push Doodle beyond his limits.

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 800

• Why does the king believe his system of justice
  is fair?

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 800 Answer

• The king believes that God will protect the
  innocent moreover, the accused always has his
  own fate in his hands. (After all, No one forces
  a prisoner to choose the tiger door and
  everyone believes that God must have chosen not
  to protect that prisoner because he wasnt
  innocent.)

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The Gift of the Magi 800

• How is situational irony present in The Gift of
  the Magi?

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The Gift of the Magi 800 Answer

• Theres a contrast between whats expected to
  happen and what actually happens both lovers
  believed they had sacrificed their prized
  possessions in order to buy the perfect gift for
  the other, but each discovered they had sold the
  very thing that made each gift so appropriate!

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The Cask of Amontillado 800

• How long has it been since Montresor trapped
  Fortunato?

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The Cask of Amontillado 800 Answer

• What is half a century (fifty years) (?)(!)

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Grab Bag! 800

• How can you usually distinguish a proper noun
  from a common noun?

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Grab Bag! 800 Answer

• Proper nouns name particular people, places,
  things, or ideas and are capitalized, whereas
  common nouns name any one of a group of people,
  places, things, or ideas and are generally not
  capitalized.

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 1000

• Please fix the following Of all the great apes,
  the gorilla may be the most mysterious and
  misunderstood, many people think gorillas are
  aggressive and ferocious, but researchers have
  found that gorillas are actually quite shy.
  Unless they are threatened or disturbed.

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Grammar (Chapter 18) 1000 Answer

• Of all the great apes, the gorilla may be the
  most mysterious and misunderstood. many people
  think gorillas are aggressive and ferocious, but
  researchers have found that gorillas are actually
  quite shy unless they are threatened or disturbed.

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The Scarlet Ibis 1000

• How does the story end?

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The Scarlet Ibis 1000 Answer

• The narrator abandons Doodle in the middle of a
  storm. When he goes back for him, he discovers
  that Doodle has already bled to death, dying
  alone in the rain. The Narrator screams his
  brothers name, protecting him from the rainbut
  its already too late, and the rain keeps falling.

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 1000

• In The Lady, or the Tiger?, why wouldnt the
  kings daughter direct her accused lover to the
  door with the lady?

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The Lady, or the Tiger? 1000 Answer

• Because she has to watch him marry a woman she
  hates, thus losing him for now and in the
  afterlife, if she saves him today.

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The Gift of the Magi 1000

• Why does the narrator say that Della and Jim are
  both wise and foolish?

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The Gift of the Magi 1000 Answer

• Because they sacrificed the things they loved
  most unnecessarily but also because they
  discovered they loved one another more than they
  loved the things they sold.

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The Cask of Amontillado 1000

• Why does Montresor keep mentioning Luchesi?

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The Cask of Amontillado 1000 Answer

• Hes Fortunatos rival and therefore represents
  the easiest way for Montresor to turn Fortunatos
  ego to his advantage.

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Grab Bag! 1000

• An ______________ is a noun, pronoun, or word
  group that often appears in sentences containing
  direct objects it tells to whom or to what (or
  for whom/for what) the action of a transitive
  verb is done.

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Grab Bag! 1000 Answer

• What is an indirect object (?)(!)