Short Story Unit Exam

Montresor and Fortunato are besties

In "The Black Cat," what is the black cat's name?

This character is "Dreadfully nervous," paranoid, and mentally ill

In "The Monkey's Paw," why does it take so long for the corpse of their son to knock on the door?

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the Old Man is killed because . . .

Popsy and his grandson are . . .

Mr. White wishes for $20.00

A "Click Clack" is . . .

This character is completely blinded by dried blood

This contains a participle: Hissing and slithering, the diamond-scaled snakes attacked their prey.

In "The Monkey's Paw," Mr. White wishes for . . .

This character kills with a hammer

In "The Monkey's Paw," what is Mrs. White doing at the beginning of the story?

This character likes to tell stories of their travel, especially to India

In "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor and Fortunato are fans of . . .

This character wears nice suits and loves his grandson

In "The Interlopers," George and Ulrich are figting over . . .

This character has an exterme amount of strength for their age

This character has a clouded, pale, blue eye

In "The Black Cat," the narrator's house . . .

Amontillado is a rare type of Italian sword

Popsy and his grandson are travelling to Romania

This contains adjectives shifted out of order: The large bull, red-eyed and angry, charged the matador.

In the "Tell-Tale Heart," where does the narrator hide the Old Man's corpse?

"Rattle Bags" are handkerchiefs taken into war

On the Storytelling Arc, the longest part of a story is called the "falling action"

Pluto is a loving, black cat

This character likes to hear scary stories, but not too scary

Alcoholism is this characters fatal flaw

In "Popsy" what is Sheridan's fatal flaw?

The Narrator in "The Black Cat" hates alcohol

A conclusion contains: restated thesis, so what, and kicker/lingering though

This contains an absolute: The Pavilion was a simple city, long and rectangular.

Using a rhetorical question is a weak way to launch an introductory paragraph.

This contains an absolute: The raccoon, a scavenger, enjoys eating turtle eggs.

The four elements of an introductory paragraph are: hook, bridge, summary, and thesis

In "The Man Who Loved Flowers" love is a ...

This contains a metaphor: Love is a battlefield.

This character dresses like a fool and is played like a fool

This character is mangled and killed in machinery

This character has a family coat of arms featuring a snake and a heel

While trapped in the woods, this character offers their wine to their enemy

This character has a gambling addiction

The Narrator in the "Tell-Tale Heart" loves the Old Man

This character wishes for their son to still be alive

This character is content with their life and does not feel they need more to be happy

This character is murdered and walled up in the cellar

It is assumed that Georg and Ulrich are killed by . . .

An example of foreshadowing in "The Man Who Loved Flowers" is . . .

In "Click Clack the Rattle Bag" this person has an education and loves to write