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68 Cards in this Set
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What is Troy and Bono's profession
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Garbage men
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What decade does Fences take place in
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1950's
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What is it that Rose wants Troy to build
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a fence
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Who else knows about Troy's affair with Alberta
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Bono
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Why did Troy not get in to the Majors?
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He was too old
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Where does Fences take place
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Pittsburgh, PA
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What did Troy Become the first garbage man to do
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drive a garbage truck
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After high school what did Cory Join
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Marines
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What type of music does Lyons play
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jazz
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what does Troy call Lyons' music
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Chinese
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What sport does Cory play
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football
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Why is it that Troy accidentally signs Gabriel's papers to be taken away
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because Troy cannot read
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How does Troy die
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heart attack
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What angel does Gabriel think he talks to
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Peter
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What organization does Rose become more involved in after Troy leaves
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her church
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Why does Rose keep Raynell
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because she is innocent
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What day of the week does Fences primarily take place on
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Friday
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Where did Troy and Bono meet?
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Jail
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What made Troy sick enough to go to the hospital in 1941?
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Pneumonia
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Where do Bono and Troy meet Alberta?
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Taylor's
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Where is Cory supposed to work after school?
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The A&P Supermarket
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What does Troy do that leads to Cory's first physical fight with Troy?
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He Grabs Rose's arm
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What do Bono and Troy stop doing together?
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drinking and working
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Troy perceives Death in what actual forms?
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A salesman and an army
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The teenage son of Troy and Rose Maxson.
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Cory
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What is the source of the fortune that Judge Thatcher is keeping in trust for Huck?
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A robber’s stash that Huck and Tom found in a cave
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At the end of the novel, which character informs the others that Jim is actually a free man?
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Tom
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Which of the following symbolizes bad luck to Huck and Jim?
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A shed snakeskin
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Which Wilks sister is initially suspicious of Huck?
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Joanna
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How does Huck know that Pap has returned to St. Petersburg?
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He sees Pap’s boot print in the snow
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What is the name of the wrecked steamboat on which Huck and Jim encounter the robbers?
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The Walter Scott
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Down which river do Huck and Jim travel?
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The Mississippi
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What is Jim’s initial destination when he and Huck start downriver?
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The Ohio River
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Where does Huck hide the Wilks family gold?
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In Peter Wilks' coffin
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What event sets off the final gunfight between the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords?
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Sophia Grangerford’s elopement with a Shepherdson
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How do Huck and Jim initially acquire the raft?
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They find it during a flood.
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What does the “witch pie” that Huck and Tom bake for Jim contain?
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a rope ladder
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How do the duke and the dauphin dress Jim so that he can stay on the raft without being tied up?
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As a sick Arab
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What is the name of the town where Huck, Jim, and Tom live at the novel’s opening?
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St. Petersburg
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Why does Jim run away from Miss Watson’s?
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She is planning to sell him, which would separate him from his family.
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What charm does Jim wear around his neck that he says cures sickness?
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A five-cent piece
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Which of the following is the primary influence on Tom Sawyer?
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Adventure novels
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“Temperance” refers to the movement designed to abolish which of the following?
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drinking alcohol
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What kind of animal does Huck kill as part of the plot to fake his own death?
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a pig
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Who finally tells Huck that Pap is dead?
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Jim
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Which of the following characters gets shot in Jim’s final “escape”?
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Tom
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Where does Huck go after Sherburn disperses the lynch mob?
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To the circus
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What is Mark Twain’s real name?
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Samuel Clemens
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How does Tom travel to the Phelps farm?
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By Steamboat
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Where does Huck intend to go at the novel’s end?
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The West
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In The Earth on Turtle's Back: Why was the great tree uprooted
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because the chief's wife saw it in a dream
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In The Earth on Turtle's Back: who saved the woman from falling
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swans
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In The Earth on Turtle's Back: who tries to find the Earth first?
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the duck
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In The Earth on Turtle's Back: who travels into the depths of the sea to bring up the Earth?
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the muskrat
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In The Earth on Turtle's Back: Who offered for the earth to be placed on them
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the sea turtle
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In When Grizzlies walked Upright: How did the daughter get swept away off the mountain?
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She poked her head out of the smoke hole out of curiosity and her long hair was taken by the wind spirit and she fell to the bottom of the mountain
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In When Grizzlies walked Upright: Why did the Spirit Chief curse the grizzlies
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for creating a new race that Chief had nothing to do with
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In A Journey Through Texas: who was sent to warn the people of the west that the countrymen were coming
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women
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Why did Christopher Columbus take a tree back to Spain
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because it was valuable
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What did Columbus give to the Native Chief he met
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Hawks Bells and Glass Beads
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In a Journey through Texas: Who was the first African man to set foot in texas
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Estevanico
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What body of water to the people come across in "A Journey through Texas"
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The Gulf of Mexico
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how long is a fathom
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6 feet
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The harbor where the pilgrims finally reached land
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Cape Harbor
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disease caused by vitamin C deficiency
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Scurvy
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What disease killed most of the men aboard the Mayflower
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Scurvy
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What was the name of the English speaking indian the Pilgrims encountered
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Samoset
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According to Jonathan Edwards,
What is keeping the people out of Hell |
God's pleasure
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