“Jumping “Owl Creek
“Dr.
“Black Cat”
Frog”
Bridge” Heidegger”
“Tom
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Question–"Jumping Frog"–10
The structure of the story
Answer–"Jumping Frog"–10
What is a framed story, or a
story within a story?
Question–"Jumping Frog"–20
Jim Smiley’s addiction
Answer–"Jumping Frog"–20
What is gambling?
Question–"Jumping Frog"–30
The reason people generally
bet against Jim Smiley’s
animals
Answer–"Jumping Frog"–30
What is they are sickly
looking and do not appear
that they could win any
competition?
Question–"Jumping Frog"–40
The reason Jim Smiley loses
the frog jumping contest
Answer–"Jumping Frog"–40
What is his opponent feeds
quail shot to Jim’s frog
before the contest?
Question–"Jumping Frog"–50
The reason this story is
classified at Regionalism
Answer–"Jumping Frog"–50
What is the setting and the
use of vernacular
Question–"Bridge"–10
The reason Peyton Farquhar
is being hanged
Answer–"Bridge"–10
What is he was caught trying
to sabotage a Union-held
bridge during the Civil War?
Question–"Bridge"–20
The significance of the
sharp, metallic sound
Farquhar hears just before
he is to be hanged
Answer–"Bridge"–20
What is the sound is the
ticking of his watch and it
shows how time is slowing
down for Farquhar as he is
about to die?
Question–"Bridge"–30
The reason Farquhar decides
to sabotage the bridge
Answer–"Bridge"–30
What is he is set up by a
Union soldier posing as a
Confederate who tells him
the sabotage will be easy?
Question–"Bridge"–40
The imagery that suggest
the escape is all in
Farquhar’s mind
Answer–"Bridge"–40
What is the great detail that
he experiences is unrealistic
and can only have occurred
in his imagination?
Question–"Bridge"–50
The irony of Farquhar’s
belief that “all is fair in love
and war”
Answer–"Bridge"–50
What is Farquhar died not in
battle but because he was
tricked and set up?
Question–"Dr. Heidegger"–10
The problem that all of the
doctor’s guests have in
common
Answer–"Dr. Heidegger"–10
What is they are all suffering
from the consequences of
choices they made when
they were young?
Question–"Dr. Heidegger"–20
The rumor about the mirror
in the doctor’s study
Answer–"Dr. Heidegger"–20
What is the belief that the
spirits of the doctors dead
patients lived there and
would stare at him when he
looked in the mirror?
Question–"Dr. Heidegger"–30
The advice the doctor gives
his patients before the
experiment begins
Answer–"Dr. Heidegger"–30
What is not to repeat the
mistakes they made when
they were young?
Question–"Dr. Heidegger"–40
The significance of the rose
Answer–"Dr. Heidegger"–40
What is it was given to the
doctor by his dead fiance
Sylvia Ward and it
represents the one true love
of the doctor’s life?
Question–"Dr. Heidegger"–50
The image of the guests in
the mirror after they have
drunk the liquid
Answer–"Dr. Heidegger"–50
What is the image of three
old men fighting for the
attentions of a shriveled old
woman?
Question–"Black Cat"–10
The point of view of the story
Answer–"Black Cat"–10
What is
st
1
person?
Question–"Black Cat"–20
The reason the protagonist
becomes violent
Answer–"Black Cat"–20
What is alcohol?
Question–"Black Cat"–30
The difference between the
first and second cats
Answer–"Black Cat"–30
What is the second cat has a
white spot that begins to
take the shape of a gallows?
Question–"Black Cat"–40
The reason the narrator
killed his wife
Answer–"Black Cat"–40
What is she prevented him
from killing the second cat?
Question–"Black Cat"–50
The significance of the cat’s
appearance at the end of
the story
Answer–"Black Cat"–50
What is the red mouth and
the fiery eye seem to
represent satan?
Question–"Tom Walker"–10
The setting of the story
Answer–"Tom Walker"–10
What is in and around
Boston beginning in 1727?
Question–"Tom Walker"–20
The reason the narrator
describes Tom’s wife as a
termagant
Answer–"Tom Walker"–20
What is she is always
nagging and yelling at Tom
and may even be physically
abusive?
Question–"Tom Walker"–30
The meaning of the tree
with Deacon Peabody’s
name on it
Answer–"Tom Walker"–30
What is it shows that even
though he is flourishing on
the outside, on the inside he
is, like the tree, rotten?
Question–"Tom Walker"–40
The significance of the job
Tom takes after making his
deal with the devil
Answer–"Tom Walker"–40
What is userers were
considered against Christian
values and were looked
upon as “his peculiar
people” by the devil?
Question–"Tom Walker"–50
The theme of the story
Answer–"Tom Walker"–50
What is the destructive
nature of greed and the
prevalence of hypocrisy?