“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?