A Death in the Woods: Themes, Motifs and Symbols Quiz: Quick Quiz

1 of 5
What act of creation arguably forms the story's main subject matter?

America's creation
The story's creation
The invention of telephones
The invention of rituals

2 of 5
What motif plays upon the conception of women as nourishing and nurturing figures?

Silence
The land
Feeding
Watering

3 of 5
What geometric motif links the dogs' ritual with the form of the narrator's story?

Peaks
Squares
Circles
Intersecting lines

4 of 5
What motif links the eerie atmosphere in the forest clearing to the story's relative lack of dialog?

Mystery
Fear
Silence
Circles

5 of 5
What symbolic object first represents the possibility of freedom for Mrs. Grimes, and later her state of confinement?

The buggy
Her body
The root cellar
The log

A Death in the Woods

Themes, Motifs and Symbols Quiz

1 of 5
What act of creation arguably forms the story's main subject matter?

2 of 5
What motif plays upon the conception of women as nourishing and nurturing figures?

3 of 5
What geometric motif links the dogs' ritual with the form of the narrator's story?

4 of 5
What motif links the eerie atmosphere in the forest clearing to the story's relative lack of dialog?

5 of 5
What symbolic object first represents the possibility of freedom for Mrs. Grimes, and later her state of confinement?

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1 of 5 What act of creation arguably forms the story's main subject matter?

2 of 5 What motif plays upon the conception of women as nourishing and nurturing figures?

3 of 5 What geometric motif links the dogs' ritual with the form of the narrator's story?

4 of 5 What motif links the eerie atmosphere in the forest clearing to the story's relative lack of dialog?

5 of 5 What symbolic object first represents the possibility of freedom for Mrs. Grimes, and later her state of confinement?

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1 of 5
What act of creation arguably forms the story's main subject matter?

2 of 5
What motif plays upon the conception of women as nourishing and nurturing figures?

3 of 5
What geometric motif links the dogs' ritual with the form of the narrator's story?

4 of 5
What motif links the eerie atmosphere in the forest clearing to the story's relative lack of dialog?

5 of 5
What symbolic object first represents the possibility of freedom for Mrs. Grimes, and later her state of confinement?