K-AQB Short Story #1

Description:	American Short Stories
Category:	Quiz Bowl
Created by:	amandamurena on 2008-11-11

Question	Answer
"Sonny's Blues"	James Baldwin
The Devil and Daniel Webster	Stephen Vincent Benet
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge,The Death of Halpin Frazer, The Moonlit Road	Ambrose Bierce
Barn Burning, Red Leaves, Wash Old Man, A rose for Emily	William Faulkner
Young Goodman Brown, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, The Celestial Railroad, The Minister's Black Veil	Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Open Boat,The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	Stephen crane
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Killers, Indain Camp, The End of Something, Big Two-Hearted River, Fathers and Sons, Soldiers Home, In Another Country	Ernest Hemingway
The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes, The Exact Science of Matrimony, The Gift of the Magi, The Third Ingredient, Man About Town, The Ransom of Red Chief, A Retrieved Reformation	O Henry
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle	Washington Irving
The Lottery, Charlie	Shirley Jackson
Europe, The Treee of Knowledge, The Turn of the Screw	Henry James
Deep Haven	Sarah Orne Jewett
The Son of the Wolf, The Apostate, To Build a Fire	Jack London
The Prison, The Magic Barrel, Idiots First	Bernard Malamud
Bartleby the Scrivener	Herman Melville
Friend of My Youth	Alice Munro
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Everything that rises must converge,	Flannery O'Connor
The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Gold Bug, The Masque of the Red Death, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, Ligeia, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter	Edgar Allen Poe
A Perfect Day of Banana Fish	J.D. Salinger
Flight, The Red Pony	John Steinbeck
Roman Fever	Edith Wharton
The Man Who Saw the Flood	Richard Wright
Why I Live at the P.O., The Worn Path, The Petrified Man	Eudora Welty
In Love and Trouble	Alice Walker
The Celebrated Jumping frog of Calaveras county, Mysterious Stranger	Mark Twain
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Night the Bed Fell, The Catbird Seat	James Thurber
the catastrophic flood-losses facing a poor family of sharecroppers reveal the circumstances that force the emancipated but still ignorant and debased blacks to become indebted to and thus re-enslaved by the same whites from whom they received freedom.	The Man Who Saw the Flood
Split Cherry Tree	Jesse Stuart
characters include: Mr. Parson Hooper, the Sexton, Goodman Gray, Elizabeth	The Minister's Black Veil
The Monkey's Paw	W. W. Jacobs
Opens on a warm June day in a town of about three hundred people and describes an annual event in the town, a tradition that is apparently widespread among surrounding villages as well. Children arrive in the town square first and engage in "boisterous pl	The Lottery
Montresor leads a drunken Fortunato through a series of chambers beneath his palazzo with the promise of a taste of an exquisite wine, a wine that Montresor has just purchased. When the two men reach the last underground chamber, Montresor chains Fortunat	Cask of Amontillado
Regret, Desiree's Baby	Kate Chopin
Tales of the South Pacific	James Mitchner
Pigeon Feathers, Rabbit Remembered	John Updike
Welcome to the Monkey House	Kurt Vonnegut
Classic first-person account of a woman's descent into madness.	James Mitchner
Pigeon Feathers, Rabbit Remembered	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pigeon Feathers, Rabbit Remembered	John Updike
Welcome to the Monkey House	Frank Stockton
Tales of the South Pacific	The Man Without a Country
Pigeon Feathers, Rabbit Remembered	Edward Everett Hale
A lawyer takes on a new employee but fails to check the references. The original role model for slackers everywhere.	Kurt Vonnegut
A group of misfits are thrown together by the harsh realities of expulsion from their settlement.	The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Scarlett Stockings	Louisa May Alcott
The Eclipse	James Fenimore Cooper