WorksheetsWeek 2 Communication Arts
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name this Charlotte Perkins Gilman story about a woman who was forced to stay in a room featuring the title decoration.
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This creator of the Cthulhu Mythos praised "The Yellow Wallpaper" in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature."
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In a novel by this author set in the town of Derry, Maine, members of the Losers Club battle an evil clown named Pennywise.
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While hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam, this girl wrote in a diary she addressed as "Kitty". Her father found the diary after her death.
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This Romanian born author based his book Night on his time in Auschwitz.
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The memoir If This is a Man was written by this Italian chemist who survived Auschwitz.
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Matthewson loses a fortune in gold dust to John Thornton in this book set during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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This man rescues his nephew Lot, who goes to live in Sodom. Name this biblical patriarch from the book of Genesis.
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Abraham's eldest son was this man, who was ultimately exiled after the birth of Isaac. This man is considered a patriarch in Islam.
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Ishmael's mother was this former handmaid of Abraham's wife, Sarah. She was exiled into the desert along with Ishmael.
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In this man's poem "Mending Wall", a New England farmer declares "good fences make good neighbors."
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Mark Twain wrote an 1876 novel named after this boy, who is told to whitewash a fence by his Aunt Polly, but tricks his friends into doing the work instead.
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This author's play Fences depicts the home of Troy Maxson, a Pittsburgh trash collector who was unable to play Major League Baseball because of segregation.
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This figure is described as "the bane of the race of men." Name this monster who experiences "demonic glee" as he imagines devouring the sleeping warriors at Heorot.
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Grendel is killed by the title hero in this epic, whose sole surviving manuscript was written about AD 1000.
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Beowulf was written in this language, which went out of use in the 12th century due to the increasing influence of Norman French.
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This novel's first chapter depicts a fight over the key to a Martello Tower in Sandycove, where "plump, stately Buck Mulligan" lives with a roommate named Steven. Leopold Bloom wanders Dublin in a manner reminiscent of a Greek hero in what 1922 novel by James Joyce?
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In a novel by this author, the Baltimore Gun Club uses a cannon to launch a group of people From the Earth to the Moon. The valet Passepartout [pass-par-TOO] appears in this author's novel about a voyage made by Phileas Fogg.
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This location is near the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town. Name this title location said to be haunted by a "Headless Horseman" in an 1820 short story.
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a much-anthologized story by this author.
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