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Authors Winter Dreams Leader of the People The Secret Life of Walter Mitty A Worn Path

F. Scott Fitzgerald The time period Fitzgerald was famous for writing about

F. Scott Fitzgerald Answer: What is the 1920s - Jazz Age

James Thurber The reason for the end of Thurber’s writing career

James Thurber Answer: What is the loss of his eyesight

John Steinbeck The name of the novels Steinbeck as popular for writing - dealt with the injustice of the Depression

John Steinbeck Answer: What is the “protest novel”

Eudora Welty Welty’s most well known book (it won her the Pulitzer Prize)

Eudora Welty Answer: What is The Optimist’s Daughter

F. Scott Fitzgerald The first and last name of Fitzgerald’s wife

F. Scott Fitzgerald Answer: Who Zelda Sayre

“Winter Dreams” The way Dexter becomes rich

“Winter Dreams” Answer: What is through laundries - he doesn’t shrink golf socks

“Winter Dreams” The setting where Dexter and Judy meet for the second time

“Winter Dreams” Answer: What is a golf course She hits one of the players Dexter is playing with

“Winter Dreams” Dexter’s winter dreams

“Winter Dreams” Answer: What is for a rich lifestyle (main dream) Golf pro & Judy (smaller dreams)

“Winter Dreams” The action Dexter takes after Judy leaves him

“Winter Dreams” Answer: What is join the military and go to war

“Winter Dreams” The name of the golfer Dexter dreams of playing one day (which he later does)

“Winter Dreams” Answer: Who is Mr. T.A. Hedrick

“Leader of the People” The item Jody gets for his grandfather at the end of the story

“Leader of the People” Answer: What is lemonade

“Leader of the People” The name of the hired man

“Leader of the People” Answer: Who is Billy Buck

“Leader of the People” The nickname Carl gives Jody when Jody is questioning the letter

“Leader of the People” Answer: What is “Big Britches”

“Leader of the People” The origin of the title

“Leader of the People” Answer: What is the grandfather was the leader of a group of people moving west

“Leader of the People” In one of the grandfather’s stories - the object the grandfather tells his people of the wagon trains to use to protect themselves from the Indians

“Leader of the People” Answer: What is steel plates

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” The item Mitty used to fix the machine with in one of his daydreams

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Answer: What is a pen

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” The actions in reality #2

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Answer: What is the parking lot attendant telling Mitty where to park, Mitty remembering the shopping list, and the newsboy yelling about a trial

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Action that caused Mitty’s dream #4

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Answer: What is reading an article about WWI in the hotel while waiting for his wife

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” The parody with the puppy biscuits

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Answer: What is advertising slogans - the catchy jingles don’t really work

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” The number of engines of the Navy hydroplane in dream #1

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Answer: What is 8

“A Worn Path” They type of case the ladies in the office call Phoenix (what they write in the book)

“A Worn Path” Answer: What is “charity”

“A Worn Path” The object the little boy gives Phoenix in her dream

“A Worn Path” Answer: What is a piece of cake

“A Worn Path” The reason of the grandson’s sickness

“A Worn Path” Answer: What is he swallowed lye

“A Worn Path” The total amount of money she received on her trip and where it came from

“A Worn Path” Answer: What is $0.10 $0.05 fell from the hunter’s pocket $0.05 was given to her by the lady in the hospital office

“A Worn Path” The object Phoenix was going to buy for her grandson

“A Worn Path” Answer: What is a paper windmill