Final

Question 1

“I remember the big flume warn’t finished when he first come to the camp; but any way, he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you over see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldn’t he’d change sides.”

Answer 1

Twan, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Question 2

“Now if you are ready, set him alongside with Dan’l’s and i’ll give the word; Then he says, ‘One, two, three-git.”

Answer 2

Twan, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Question 3

“She had always supposed that the man who won her would have done something to win her; she did not know what, but something.”

Answer 3

Howells, “Editha”

Question 4

“But now, it flashed upon her if, if he could do something worthy to have won her–be a hero–it would be even better that if he had done it before asking her, it would be grander.”

Answer 4

Howells, “Editha”

Question 5

“The power of thought was restored–he knew that the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream”

Answer 5

Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

Question 6

“As he is about to clasp her, he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon–then all is darkness and silence!

Answer 6

Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

Question 7

“Has it ever happened?”

Answer 7

James, “The Beast in the Jungle”

Question 8

“The name on the table smote him as the passage of his neighbor had done, and what it said to him full in the face, was that she was what he had missed.”

Answer 8

James, “The Beast in the Jungle”

Question 9

“Silvia’s face was like a pale star, if one has seen it from the ground, when the last thorny bough was past, and she stood trembling and tired but wholly triumphant, high in the tree-top.”

Answer 9

Jewett, “A White Heron”

Question 10

“No, she must keep silence! What is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb? Has she been nine years growing and now when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her, must she thrust it aside for a bird’s sake?

Answer 10

Jewett, “A White Heron”

Question 11

“‘Shall I go, Armand?’ She asked in tones sharp with agonized suspense. ‘Yes, go.’ ‘Do you want me to go?’ ‘Yes, I want you to go.’”

Answer 11

Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby”

Question 12

“‘But, above all, she wrote, ‘night and day, I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.”

Answer 12

Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby”

Question 13

“When Joe came she had been expecting him, and expecting to be married for fourteen years, but she was as much surprised and taken aback as if she had never thought of it.”

Answer 13

Freeman, “A New England Nun”

Question 14

“Louisa had almost the enthusiasm of an artist over the mere order and cleanliness of her solitary home.”

Answer 14

Freeman, “A New England Nun”

Question 15

“‘Cast down your bucket where you are’–cast it down in making friend in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.”

Answer 15

Washington, “Up from Slavery”

Question 16

“The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”

Answer 16

Washington, “Up from Slavery”

Question 17

“I think that the according of the full exercise of political rights is going to be a matter of natural, slow growth, not an overnight, gourd-vine affair.”

Answer 17

Washington, “Up from Slavery”

Question 18

“‘My darling,’ said he, ‘I beg you, for my sake and for our child’s sake, as well as for your own, that you will never for one instant let that idea enter your mind! There is nothing so dangerous, so fascinating, to a temperament like yours. It is a false and foolish fancy. Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?

Answer 18

Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Question 19

As soon as it was moonlight and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her. I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.”

Answer 19

Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Question 20

“In failing thus to state plainly and unequivocally the legitimate demands of their people, even at the cost of opposing and honored leader, the thinking classes of American Negroes would shirk a heavy responsibility,–a responsibility to themselves, a responsibility to the struggling masses, a responsibility to the darker races of men whose future depends so largely on this American experiment but especially a responsibility to this nation,– this common Fatherland.”

Answer 20

Du Bois, “The Souls of Black Folk”

Question 21

“In his failure to realize and impress the last point, Mr. Washington is especially to be criticized. His doctrine has tended to make the whites, North and South, shift the burden of the Negro problem to the Negro’s shoulders and stand aside as critical and rather pessimistic spectators; when in fact the burden belong to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrong.”

Answer 21

Du Bois, “The Souls of Black Folk”

Question 22

“She realized in a dim way how much the city held-wealth, fashion, ease–every adornment for women, and she longed for dress and beauty with a whole and fulsome heart.”

Answer 22

Dreiser, “Sister Carrie”

Question 23

“Surely Chicago was not so bad if she could find one place in one day. She might find another and better later.”

Answer 23

Dreiser, “Sister Carrie”

Question 24

“The little boat, lifted by each towering sea, and splashed viciously by the crests, made progress that in the absence of sea-weed was not apparent to those in her. She seemed just a wee thing wallowing miraculously, top-up, at the mercy of five oceans. Occasionally, a great spread of water, like white flames, swarmed into her.”

Answer 24

Crane, “The Open Boat”

Question 25

“Their back bones had become thoroughly used to balancing in the boat and they now rode this wild colt of a dingery like circus men.”

Answer 25

Crane, “The Open Boat”

Question 26

“But before he could cut the strings, it happened. It was his own fault or rather , his mistake. He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree. He should have built it in the open.”

Answer 26

London, “To Build a Fire”

Question 27

“Perhaps the old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right. If he had only had a trail-mate he would have been in no danger now. The trail-mate could have built the fire.”

Answer 27

London, “To Build a Fire”

Question 28

“Poor thing; she did not know that when he lingeringly fondled her hand, on taking his leave in the hallway, the proposal lay on the tip of his tongue, and that lacking the strength to relieve himself of his burned he every time left her, consoling himself that the moment was inopportune, and that ‘tomorrow he would surely settle it.’”

Answer 28

Cahan, “A Sweat-Shop Romance”

Question 29

“When his day’s work was over. Heyman’s heart failed him to face Beile, and although he was panting to see her, he did not call at her house. On the following morning he awoke with a headache, and this he used as a pretext to himself for going to bed right after supper.”

Answer 29

Cahan, “A Sweat-Shop Romance”

Question 30

“This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,”

Answer 30

Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”

Question 31

“We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise.”

Answer 31

Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”

Question 32

“Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.
But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay
As ice storms do.”

Answer 32

Frost, “Birches”

Question 33

“I’d like to get away from earth awhile

And then come back to it and begin over.”

Answer 33

Frost, “Birches”

Question 34

“Since what she sang was uttered word by word.
It may be that in all her phrases stirred
The grinding water and the gasping wind;
But it was she and not the sea we heard.”

Answer 34

Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West”

Question 35

“It was her voice that made 
The sky acutest at its vanishing.
She measured to the hour its solitude.
She was the single artificer of the world
In which she sang.”

Answer 35

Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West”

Question 36

“In the room the women come and go

Talking of Michelangelo.”

Answer 36

Eliot, “The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock”

Question 37

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall,
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?”

Answer 37

Eliot, “The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock”

Question 38

“‘He puts his arms about me,’ said one. “His fingers were always playing in my hair,’ said another.”

Answer 38

Anderson, “Winesburg, Ohio”

Question 39

“The hotel was continually losing patronage because of it shabbiness and she thought of herself as also shabby.”

Answer 39

Anderson, “Winesburg, Ohio”

Question 40

“Silence fell upon the room where the boy and woman sat together. Again, as on the other evenings, they were embarrassed. After a time the boy tried again to talk, ‘I suppose in won’t be for a year or two but I’ve been thinking about it,’ he said, rising and going toward the door.”

Answer 40

Anderson, “Winesburg, Ohio”

Question 41

“He had destroyed his talent himself. Why should he blame this woman because she kept him well? He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in.”

Answer 41

Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

Question 42

“He had seen the world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how the people were at different times. He had been in it and he had watched it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would.”

Answer 42

Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

Question 43

“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town…”

Answer 43

Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”

Question 44

“Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.”

Answer 44

Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”

Question 45

“Could kill a man with a gun like this. Kill anybody, black or white. And if he were holding his gun in his hand, nobody could run over him; they would have respect him.”

Answer 45

Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”

Question 46

“‘A wuzn shooting at the mule, Mistah Hawkins. The gun jumped when Ah pulled the trigger… N fo ah knowed anything Jenny was there a-bleeding.’ Somebody in the crowd laughed. Jim Hawkins walked close to Dave and looked into his face. ‘Well, looks like you have bought you a mule, Dave.”

Answer 46

Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”

Question 47

“Go home and write
A page tonight.
And let that page come out of you–
The, it will be true.”

Answer 47

Hughes, “Theme for English B”

Question 48

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for Christmas present,
or records–Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.”

Answer 48

Hughes, “Theme for English B”

Question 49

“‘Mrs. Pike is this lady from New Orleans,’ said Leota, puffing, and pressing into Mrs. Fletcher’s scalp with strong red-nailed fingers. ‘A friend, not a customer.”

Answer 49

Welty, “Petrified Man”

Question 50

“‘Well,’ Leota answered at last, ‘you know what I heard in here yestiddy, one of Thelma’s ladies was settin’ over yonder in Thelma’s booth gittin’ a machineless, and I don’t mean to insist or insinuate or anything, Mrs. Fletcher, but Thelma’s lady just happ’med to throw out–I forgotten what she was talkin’ about at the time–that you was p-r-e-g., and lots of times that’ll make your hair do awful funny, fall out and God knows what all. It just ain’t our fault, is the way I look at it.’”

Answer 50

Welty, “Petrified Man”

Question 51

“Whenever she looked at joy this way, she could not help but feel that it would have been better if the child had not taken the Ph. D.”

Answer 51

O’Connor, “Good Country People”

Question 52

“Mrs. Hopewell could not say, ‘My daughter is an atheist and won’t let me keep the Bible in the parlor.’”

Answer 52

O’Connor, “Good Country People”

Question 53

“And then I found myself thinking what a pitiful life this woman must have led. Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one.”

Answer 53

Carver “Cathedral”

Question 54

“How could I even begin to describe it? But say my life depended on it. Say my life was being threatened by an insane guy who said I had to do it or else.”

Answer 54

Carver “Cathedral”