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In “To Build a Fire,” which character “knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold” but was rather “the time to lie snug in a hole in the snow”?

What Harlem Renaissance writer, later a nurse and librarian, wrote two novels:  Passing and Quicksand?

Which short story features a washerwoman, her cheating husband, and a ginormous six-foot rattlesnake?

What poet lived and worked in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in Tor House and its adjoining stone tower (which he built by himself)?

Near what holiday do we find the speaker in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?

Which writer, who died of tuberculosis at age 29, also wrote the Naturalist classic Maggie: A Girl of the Streets in addition to the short story we read for class?

In the E.A. Robinson poem, which character “went home and put a bullet through his head”?

The Hebrew concept of divinity assumes that there is only one God who expects ethical behavior from all people.  What do we call the belief that there is only one God?

Name any one of the early translations of the Bible.

Please respond to ONE of the following prompts.  The response should be at least 250-350 words Each response should be in complete sentences.  Group B: Zora Neale Hurston’s text sounds a bit like a fairy tale. Using examples from the short story, please prove this statement true. Robert Frost wrote the type of poetry that the other Modernists thought was impossible to write anymore. How does Frost’s poetry differ from other Modernist poetry?  Compare at least two other Modernist poets to Frost. What features do the regional poets we read share? Formulate at least two features and show how two different regional poets exhibit these features.