Short Stories Response Quiz

The title of the Kwame Alexander story is "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents."

Why is it called this?

Who is Mr. Preston?

In your own words explain what a memoir is.

A memoir is an example of:

• Non-fiction

• Fantasy

• Dystopia

• Science fiction

Another example of a memoir is:

• Lois Lowry's The Giver

• Trevor Noah's Born a Crime

• C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia

• Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty

Thelonious Monk is a

"Angel Carter should be a speeding ticket 'cause she is fine." is an example of:

• A pun

• A metaphor

• A simile

• Personification

Explain why this figure of speech is effective:

Then she "split like a perpendicular bisector through an acute triangle" uses jargon from:

• Physics
• Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Biology

Monk and his family are listening to Harry Potter on tape.

What does this imply about when the story took place?