Short Pieces Quiz 1

Which of Neil Gaiman’s books was selected as the first One Book, One Twitter book?

Howe personifies light in “Relativity” by saying that it

What does Barbara do to her children after they try to save her in “Childfinder”?

What does Eve accuse Barbara of doing?

In Ambrose Bierce's "Moxon's Master," the narrator watches Moxon play

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” which of the following animals dies at Beatrice’s feet?

The protagonist of "Childfinder” moves to a new house because she:

Which of the following contradictions does Howe NOT depict in “Relativity”?

In “Snow”, the title does NOT allude to

Nathaniel Hawthorne added the “w” to his last name to:

The Director in the end is revealed to be

What condition initially made school difficult for Octavia Butler?

Which of the following themes does Beatrice BEST embody?

Moxon's machine in Ambrose Bierce's "Moxon's Master" appears MOST similar to a(n)

What was the title of Bradbury’s first collection of short stories?

In "Moxon's Master," Moxon uses all of the following examples to support his viewpoint EXCEPT

The narration at the end of “Childfinder” mentions that legends claim the telepaths

In 1963, C.L. Moore stopped writing after she

Which of the following traits BEST foreshadows Rappaccini’s degenerate soul?

John Crawley FIRST wrote

Gaiman addresses “The Mushroom Hunters” to his

In “I Sing the Body Electric!”, the Electric Grandmother arrives in a casing adorned with

The narrator compares Deirdre to the Biblical figure

Neil Gaiman claims ______ was the first tool the people used in “The Mushroom Hunters."

Which of the following works became Ambrose Bierce's most acclaimed?

What is the first problem Charlie finds with the Park?

Ambrose Bierce's "Moxon's Master" opens with the question,

In “No Woman Born”, Deirdre is planning to perform in a play about

In "No Woman Born," how did Deirdre die?

What poetic form is Sarah Howe’s “Relativity”?

In “No Woman Born”, Harris fully accepts that Deirdre is human after she

The end of Ambrose Bierce's "Moxon's Master" suggests that

What term does the opening paragraph in “Childfinder” use for telepathy?

“Snow” makes the argument that

Sarah Howe’s “Relativity” starts in

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Beatrice refers to the purple plant as her

The protagonist of “Childfinder” notices about Valerie when she shows up in the morning:

The opening of “Rappaccini’s Daughter” claims the story is the English version of

In stanzas 7-9 of “The Mushroom Hunters”, Gaiman 3 times repeats the word

In “I Sing the Body Electric!”, Father says that Fantoccini is the Italian word for

At what point does Grandma decide to leave the children, in “I Sing the Body Electric!”?