| Question | Answer |
| Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting? | Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "You do not comprehend?" he said.
"Not I," I replied | The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allen Poe |
| And yet she had loved him -- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! | The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin |
| Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. | The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| The sound of an approaching train awoke him, and he started to his feet, remembering only his resolution... | Paul's Case
Willa Cather |
| It did not take her long to establish the truth of the matter. | The Metamorphosis
Franz Kakfa |
| And he lay dead, his mother heard her brothers voice saying to her: | The Rocking Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence |
| Light flashed on her closed eyelids, and a deep roaring shook her. | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Katherine Anne Porter |
| You decline to answer that Mr. Snopes? | Barn Burning
William Faulkner |
| The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. | Hills like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway |
| "I think we ought to start over," Mrs Hutchinson said, as quietly as she could. | The Lottery
Shirley Jackson |
| "She would have been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of life." | A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor |
| Lengel sighs and begins to look very patient and old and gray. | A&P
John Updike |
| From here on in, many things can happen. But the main on will be this: you decide not to go to law school after all. | How to Become a Writer
Loorie Moore |
