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- 6. What color will “tomorrow’s chile” be in Hughe’s “Red Silk Stockings”?
- 8. Who is the “young negro poet” that Langston Hughes criticizes in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.”
- 11. Who is Holden’s favorite character in Romeo and Juliet?
- 13. How many dollars do the white people pay for Isis/the tablecloth in “Drenched in Light.”
- 14. How does the little lame balloon man whistle? (Three words)
- 19. Who loves anyone?
- 22. How do you join two independent clauses without a period or a coordinating conjunction?
- 24. The sentence “I ran him over” contains a _______________ verb.
- 26. What is the useful mnemonic device for remembering the coordinating conjunctions?
- 28. The angel in García Márquez’s story is displaced by a woman with the body of a giant __________.
- 32. What are the students supposed to yell in Mr. Vinson’s Oral Expression class?
- 33. In A Small Place, “You see an incredibly unattractive, fat, _____________-fleshed woman enjoying a walk on the beautiful sand.”
- 34. What kind of sweater did James Castle borrow from Holden?
- 35. What is Flan and Ouisa’s silver Victorian inkwell shaped like?
- 36. Who shoots Wilson?
- 37. What is a perfect rhyme for “bat”?
- 38. the two most common articles, smooshed together.
- 40. Tess is running away to climb mountains in ___________________.
- 41. Linda finds it hard to leave the South because she is so attached to her ____________.
- 47. What is the name of the man who left home for twenty years?
- 50. What drives the narrator of “The Black Cat” to hang Pluto?
- 51. A relative clause beginning with ______________ is always restrictive.
- 52. Farm Implements and Rutabagas is written in this poetic form.
- 53. Prepositional phrases usually end with a _______________.
- 54. What is Bartleby’s infections word?
- 56. The thing in Jon/Randy’s neck that feeds him ads.
- 58. At Gatsby’s party, Nick and Jordan meet a pair of twins who do a stage act dressed up as ___________.
- 59. What is Fern’s last name?
- 60. What is the name of Dan Cody’s boat?
- 62. What school did Nick and Tom go too?
- 64. You should use whom rather than who when the pronoun is the ______________ of the verb in its clause.
- 67. Which of the following words alliterates with adhesive: Advil or heat.
- 68. According to the last page of the novel, what kind of future did Gatsby believe in?
- 70. A verb that takes an indirect object is called ditransitive or _______________.
- 71. Unstressed/stressed
- 74. Which tense should you use when writing an essay about a literary text?
- 75. D.B.’s book of short stories is called The _____________ Goldfish.
- 76. Stressed/unstressed
- 77. The most common rhyme-word in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy.”
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- 1. What illness does Old Spencer have?
- 2. _____________ stand in for nouns.
- 3. A line of poetry with four feet is called _______meter.
- 4. How many years does Linda live in her garret?
- 5. What did Allie die of?
- 7. Who painted the painting that Flan needs $2million dollars from Geoffrey to buy?
- 9. What is the name of the man who passed out from the heat at Tom and Daisy’s wedding?
- 10. What doth the raven quoth?
- 12. What is the name of the young pirate lad in Bombal’s “The Unknown”?
- 15. What country is Nick’s cleaning lady from?
- 16. What is the last name of the reverend who wears the veil?
- 17. According to Donald Barthelme, what is the art form of the twentieth century?
- 18. Copular verbs usually take a _________________.
- 20. The fifth of Clarice Lispector’s “Five Stories on a Single Theme” is called “Liebnitz and the Transcendence of Love in ________________.”
- 21. Ernie Morrow is about as sensitive as a goddamn _________________. (Two words)
- 23. Where do Bona and Paul and Art and Helen have their date (two words)?
- 25. what is the useful mnemonic device for remembering whether you need a comma in a sentence containing a subordinate clause?
- 27. Who is the father of Linda Brent’s children?
- 29. Present _____________ end in -ing.
- 30. My, your, our, and her are all what part of speech?
- 31. Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to live _____________.
- 35. The most common verb in the English language is “to _______.”
- 37. Who wrote the poem that inspires Holden’s Catcher in the Rye fantasy?
- 39. In Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death,” the carriage holds “but just Ourselves / And ____________.”
- 42. In what city does Countee Cullen’s “Incident” take place?
- 43. Every grammatically correct sentence contains a ________________ verb.
- 44. A group of words containing a finite verb is called a ______________.
- 45. The only emperor is the emperor of _______________. (Two words)
- 46. What color is Sunny’s dress?
- 48. What do Phoebe’s pajamas have on the collars?
- 49. What color suit does Gatsby wear for the big showdown in Chapter Seven?
- 55. What is the most important part of speech?
- 57. Ouisa is worried about turning all of her experiences into ________________.
- 61. At the end of the party at Myrtle and Tom’s apartment in New York, Nick wipes a bit of ____________ off of Mr. McKee’s face.
- 63. What color tie does Gatsby wear for tea with Nick and Daisy?
- 65. A relative clause beginning with ___________ is always non-restrictive.
- 66. What will you hear in the sound of the wind if you do not have a mind of winter?
- 69. The drug that Jon/Randy and Caroline take to keep them happy.
- 72. Wolfsheim’s cuff links are made out of “the finest specimens of human ______________.”
- 73. Where are Rick and Elizabeth from?