“Jumping Frog”
“Owl Creek Bridge”
“Dr. Heidegger”
“Black Cat” “Tom
Walker”
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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 1st 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?