Twenty Questions
Subject: American
Literature II - Unit 14 #2
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1. What is Katherine Anne
Porter’s most famous work?
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Ship of Fools
2. What are two ways Emily is
stuck in the past?
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Won’t give her dad’s body up for 3 days
Says to talk to Colonel Satoris even though
she should know he is dead
Refuses to put mailbox numbers on her
doors
3. What are two reasons Granny
doesn’t like the doctor?
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He’s too young
She was sicker before and no one came double pneumonia and milk leg
She doesn’t think she is dying
4. What is the definition of stream
of consciousness?
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A style of writing that conveys the inner and
sometimes chaotic workings of a character’s
mind
5. What did Faulkner say was a
microcosm for universal themes of
time, passions of the heart, and
destruction of wilderness?
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The South
6. Why did the townspeople want
Emily to pay her taxes?
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So she’d be humanized - not be better than
anyone else because of money any more
7. What were two ways the town
tried to help save Emily’s
reputation?
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Didn’t make her pay taxes when they knew
she didn’t have the money
Didn’t tell her she smelled, just spread lime
around to combat the smell
8. Explain how the title fits the
story “The Jilting of Granny
Weatherall” (3 parts).
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Jilting - left at altar by George and at the end
by God
Granny - she’s old and is a grandma
Weatherall - she’s been through a lot of hard
times (working, husband dying young, being
left at the altar, etc.)
9. Who wrote “A Rose for Emily”?
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William Faulkner
10. What was the marriage
between Alicia and Jordan like?
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Not that good - he never touched her, she
thought the house was cold, he didn’t show
much emotion or attention
11. What does Petit say about his
poetry in “Petit the Poet”?
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It isn’t very good - compares it to mites and
seeds
He should have gone outside like Homer and
Whitman - they wrote about the outdoors and
were much more popular than him
12. What is the definition of
epitaph?
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Writings to remember a deceased loved on
that used to go on tombstones
13. What did Emily buy to make
the townspeople think she would
get married?
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Toiletries with the initials HB on them
14. What were two things found in
the “marriage room”?
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Homer’s tarnished toiletry set
Homer’s dead body on the bed
A gray hair on the pillow next to Homer
The suit, tie, shirt, socks, and shoes laying
right next to the bed like they were just taken
off - except for the dust
Dusty, faded curtains
15. How does the name Butch
Weldy fit his epitaph?
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He was a welder
16. Who wrote “The Jilting of
Granny Weatherall”?
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Katherine Anne Porter
17. What is one thing Granny
wanted to do before she died?
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Hide the letters from George and John
Take wine to a friend
Pick fruit
18. How does Richard Bone feel
about his job?
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He doesn’t like it because people are writing
false things on the tombstones - but he
needs the money so he has to write what
they say
19. What are two reasons why the
townspeople didn’t think Homer
and Emily would date?
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They were of two different economic classes
She was from the South and he was from the
North
She never dated before - why start now
20. What does jilted mean?
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Rejected