ENG 2314 S2010, Test 1

The words in this crossword name people, places, or things important in the works we have read. Click on the numbers to see the clues and a space for typing the answer. You may ask for a hint. All the clues are repeated at the bottom of the page.
   1          2       
        3          
 4         5          
   6               
            7     8   
 9           10    11      
        12          
13       14             
                
                
  15   16           17    18    
        19          
20          21          
                
  22                
     23             

Across:

1. In "A Sweat-Shop Romance," the employee called "the finisher ___" is paid much less than the male employees.
2. When Sylvy climbs a very tall one, she can see the ocean.
5. One of these settles on a branch near Sylvy.
6. The lady artist applies this adjective to Mrs. Gearson's rebuke of Editha.
9. This "Uncle" only superficially resembles Uncle Remus.
11. She has been looking for her husband for 25 years.
12. Hearing one of these breaking tells Heyman that there is an engagement party on the other side of the door he is about to knock on.
13. Kate Chopin depicts a language and culture strongly influenced by ____ settlement in the lower Mississippi valley.
15. She thought she loved Heyman, but she finds herself thinking more of David.
17. Mr. Ryder was once called by this name.
20. In “At the ‘Cadian Ball” she is defenseless, if "not an immaculate dove," but in "The Storm" she is a married woman.
21. Many of the works we have been reading are told at least partly in literary ____.
22. Heyman has not proposed marriage because he is ___, not because he is stingy.
23. "The Storm" may still shock readers because it depicts ___ which does not destroy lives and marriages.

Down:

1. This is the fictional town where Mr. Ryder lives.
2. The "Notice" at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn says persons who try to find one of these in the novel will be shot.
3. Instead of being a peace offering after a quarrel, the can of these in "The Storm" becomes the basis of a happy family meal.
4. The book that included "The Goophered Grapevine" was called The _____ Woman
7. Mark Twain's real surname.
8. Unlike Heyman, he stood up for Beile when she quit.
10. Désirée is last seen headed toward one of these, carrying her baby.
14. This is where Huck Finn decides he will go.
16. This young woman takes seriously the sentimental ideas about men and women that seem funny in "The Passing of Grandison."
18. At the end of “Désirée's Baby,” Armand finds a letter from his ___.
19. At the end of her story, Editha "rose from grovelling in shame" at what she had done and "began to live again in the _____."
20. Sylvy greatly prefers living in the country to living in the ___, even though she is somewhat lonely.

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