An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? Put your knowledge to
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Q. Peyton begins the story looking at
The creek
The sky
His hands
His wife
Q. To the protagonist, water equals
Freedom
Quenching thirst
Death
Q. What dances in this story?
Men
Soldiers
Couples
Driftwood
Q. How does time work in this story?
The story is all told as a flashback.
The story is told sequentially as it happened.
We travel back and forth between time periods.
Q. What ticks off the seconds Farquhar has left?
Soldier's timepiece
Hourglass
His watch
Grandfather clock