1. which of the following individuals wrote about his/her neighbors in maine?

a. sarah orne jewett

b. ambrose bierce

c. charles waddell chesnutt

2. what do realistic authors write about?

a. immigration from europe

b. nature and emotion

c. everyday life and harsh realities of war

3. which author wrote both during the american romantic period and the realism movement?

a. mark twain

b. emily dickinson

c. ambrose bierce

4. ambrose bierce likes to use which literary element in his stories.

a. oxymoron

b. alliteration

c. flashback

possessives: choose the correct form of possession for the underlined word.

5. i just opened a savings account at the ohio electric company main street office.

a. ohio electric company

b. ohio electric company’s

c. ohio electric companies

6. the peoples court is located on first avenue.

a. peoples’

b. people’s

c. peoples’s

7. the socks and slippers we found are now our.

a. our’s

b. ours

c. ours’

8. i bought this shirt on sale in the mens department.

a. men’s

b. mens’

c. mens’s

9. the cat hid it kittens under the stairs.

a. its

b. it’s

c. its’

10. everyone homework should be handed in by noon.

a. everyone’s

b. everyones

c. everyones’

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!