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Cause and Effect
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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).
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100 Question from Blizzard! Words
What is blizzard?
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200 Answer from Blizzard! Words
Devoutly religious The more _________ reached
for their family Bibles whenever the subject of
predicting the weather came up (13).
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200 Question from Blizzard! Words
What is pious?
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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).
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300 Question from Blizzard! Words
What is vulnerable?
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400 Answer from Blizzard! Words
A death of something an end to something an
expiration As newspapers trumpeted the storms
_________, people used humor to show that they
had not been defeated by the blizzard (108).
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400 Question from Blizzard! Words
What is demise?
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500 Answer from Blizzard! Words
To saturate to overflow to overwhelm Over
four inches of rain __________ Pensacola,
Florida (3).
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500 Question from Blizzard! Words
What is deluged?
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100 Answer from Cause and Effect
The workers at the Signal Corps did not monitor
the weather for most of the Sabbath (8).
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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?
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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).
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200 Question from Cause and Effect
What caused May to almost freeze to death on her
way home from the office?
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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).
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300 Question from Cause and Effect
What caused the price of a taxi to rise to an
average of 50 per trip?
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400 Answer from Cause and Effect
Despite the blizzard, in many rural communities,
every student showed for school (53).
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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?
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500 Answer from Cause and Effect
Despite Alfred Ely Beachs attempts to gain
support for a subterranean travel system in 1870,
NYC did not have a subway system during the
Blizzard of 1888 (48).
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500 Question from Cause and Effect
What is the effect of greedy city officials
extorting money from traditional means of travel?
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100 Answer from Grammar and Writing
The grammatical mistake in the following
sentence Their not listening to Beachs proposal
for a subway system.
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100 Question from Grammar and Writing
What is the fact that Their should be Theyre?
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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.
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200 Question from Grammar and Writing
What is the fact that a comma should precede but
because this is a compound sentence.
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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.
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300 Question from Grammar and Writing
What is the fact that Your should be Youre?
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400 Answer from Grammar and Writing
The grammatical mistake in the following
sentence Lets go to grandmas house, she will
be surprised.
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400 Question from Grammar and Writing
What 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.
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500 Answer from Grammar and Writing
The source Blizzard!, documented on a works cited
page
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500 Question from Grammar and Writing
What is the following entry Murphy, Jim.
Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America. New
York Scholastic Inc., 2000.
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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
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100 Question from Literary Terms
What is a third-person limited point of view?
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200 Answer from Literary Terms
A perspective for which the narrator is a
character in the story
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200 Question from Literary Terms
What is a first-person point of view?
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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.
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300 Answer from Literary Terms
What is irony?
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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
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400 Question from Literary Terms
What is a third-person omniscient point of view?
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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
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500 Question from Literary Terms
What is a third-person objective point of view?