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$100 Answer from Blizzard! Words

A severe storm that features incredibly high winds; large amounts of snow, and dramatic temperature drops:

“A __________ was rattling their windowpanes and piling up snow against their doors” (Murphy 25).

$100 Question from Blizzard! Words

What is blizzard?

$200 Answer from Blizzard! Words

Devoutly religious:“The more _________ reached for

their family Bibles whenever the subject of predicting the weather came up” (13).

$200 Question from Blizzard! Words

What is pious?

$300 Answer from Blizzard! Words

Susceptible to injury; at risk:“The employment of female customs workers was still in the experimental phase at that time and many of the women felt their jobs were _____________” (36).

$300 Question from Blizzard! Words

What is vulnerable?

$400 Answer from Blizzard! Words

A death of something; an end to something; an expiration:

“As newspapers trumpeted the storm’s _________, people used humor to show that they had not been defeated by the blizzard” (108).

$400 Question from Blizzard! Words

What is demise?

$500 Answer from Blizzard! Words

To saturate; to overflow; to overwhelm:

“Over four inches of rain __________ Pensacola, Florida” (3).

$500 Question from Blizzard! Words

What is deluged?

$100 Answer from Cause and Effect

The workers at the Signal Corps did not monitor the weather for most of the Sabbath (8).

$100 Question from Cause and Effect

What caused most of the northeastern region of the U.S. to be unprepared for the Blizzard of 1888?

$200 Answer from Cause and Effect

May Morrow felt that it was not proper to talk to or be in close proximity with strange men (62).

$200 Question from Cause and Effect

What caused May to almost freeze to death on her way home from the office?

$300 Answer from Cause and Effect

Roads in New York City became so bogged down by snow that the only way to travel was to go by wagons or by sleigh (47).

$300 Question from Cause and Effect

What caused the price of a taxi to rise to an average of $50 per trip?

$400 Answer from Cause and Effect

Despite the blizzard, in many rural communities, every student showed for school (53).

$400 Question from Cause and Effect

What was the effect of small-town children realizing that they often had limited chances to get an education before they had to work in the fields?

$500 Answer from Cause and Effect

Despite Alfred Ely Beach’s attempts to gain support for a subterranean travel system in 1870, NYC did not have a subway system during the Blizzard of 1888 (48).

$500 Question from Cause and Effect

What is the effect of greedy city officials extorting money from traditional means of travel?

$100 Answer from Grammar and Writing

The grammatical mistake in the following sentence:Their not listening to Beach’s proposal for a subway system.

$100 Question from Grammar and Writing

What is the fact that “Their” should be “They’re”?

$200 Answer from Grammar and Writing

The grammatical mistake in the following sentence:The children all showed up to school but the teachers stayed at home.

$200 Question from Grammar and Writing

What is the fact that a comma should precede but because this is a compound sentence.

$300 Answer from Grammar and Writing

The grammatical mistake in the following sentence: Your going to make a handsome profit with all of those snow shovels in this blizzard.

$300 Question from Grammar and Writing

What is the fact that “Your” should be “You’re”?

$400 Answer from Grammar and Writing

The grammatical mistake in the following sentence: Let’s go to grandma’s house, she will be surprised.

$400 Question from Grammar and WritingWhat is the fact that the comma should be a period, and the “S” in “she” should be capitalized because this is a run-on sentence.

$500 Answer from Grammar and Writing

The source Blizzard!, documented on a works cited page

$500 Question from Grammar and Writing

What is the following entry:Murphy, Jim. Blizzard! The Storm That

Changed America. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2000.

$100 Answer from Literary Terms

A perspective for which the narrator is not a character and only follows the thoughts and feelings of one character

$100 Question from Literary Terms

What is a third-person limited point of view?

$200 Answer from Literary Terms

A perspective for which the narrator is a character in the story

$200 Question from Literary Terms

What is a first-person point of view?

$300 Answer from Literary Terms

The very unexpected: In Blizzard!, John Meisinger is ridiculed for buying many snow shovels but ends up making a handsome profit whenever the massive blizzard hits.

$300 Answer from Literary Terms

What is irony?

$400 Answer from Literary Terms

The type of perspective for which the narrator is not a character in the story but is able to reveal the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters

$400 Question from Literary Terms

What is a third-person omniscient point of view?

$500 Answer from Literary Terms

The type of perspective for which the narrator is not a character but does not reveal the thoughts and feelings of any characters

$500 Question from Literary Terms

What is a third-person objective point of view?