"The Devil and Tom Walker"

the setting of the story

• a Midwestern frontier pine forest, 1608

• New Orleans, Louisiana, 1680

• a forest near Boston, MA, 1727

• a pont deep in the Maine forest, 1850

description of Tom Walker

• beaten down by bad luck

• kind but misunderstood

• crafty but lazy

• stingy and cruel

description of Tom Walker's wife

• very generous and well-loved by all

• kind to Tom but not to others

• longs for companionship

• fierce, always nagging, loud mouth

The woods in the story symbolize ______.

• evil/hell

• goodness

• isolation

• greed

symbol of hypocrisy and hidden evil

• the devil's deal with Tom

• Mrs. Walker's heart and liver, wrapped in the checked apron

• the flourishing trees that are rotten to the core

• The Walkers' silver teapot and spoons

What happens to Tom Walker's money at the end of the story?

• It is given to the people in town.

• The people in town take it.

• Mrs. Walker takes it.

• It turns into cinders and ashes.

The setting creates a feeling of ____.

• fear

• optimism

• anger

• hope

prevalent

• sad, gloomy

• widely existing

• uncertain

• not flowing or moving

stagnant

• sad, gloomy

• not flowing or moving

• uncertain

• widely existing

precarious

• sad, gloomy

• uncertain

• not flowing or moving

• widely existing