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| November 1913 and in Nalgeria |
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| winery; spanish; illiterate |
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| Symone, a drug-addict. They got divorced because he found out she was sleeping with doctors for drugs. |
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| existence precedes essence (living before meaning) |
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| Camus proposed absurdism. What is absurdism? |
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| the search for meaning always fails; there is no meaning to follow. Even your actions will ultimately amount to nothing. |
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| Where do Meursault and Marie first see each other? |
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| his date with marie; and his mother's death |
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| after the arab uses a knife to reflect sun into Meursault's eyes |
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| Why does the Arab follow Meursault and his friends around? |
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| because he is Raymond's mistress's brother |
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| Meursault yelled and assaulted the____near the end of the book. |
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| Perez was called Maman's ____. |
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| What does the old man say is the one great truth? |
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| the deapest of desires originate from the soul of the universe |
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| Why did the crystal merchant not make a pilgramage to Mecca? |
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| because he lost his faith in Islam and the five pillars |
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| Where did Santiago find treasure? |
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| Who said this quote: "Fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself." |
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| Where did the alchemist turn lead into gold? |
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| How did the boy finance his trip back to Spain? |
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| he used the other gold the Alchemist gave him |
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| What are some of the pillars of Islam? |
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| pilgramage to mecca, pray five times a day, fast during ramadan, charity to the poor, believe that there is one god allah and muhammad is his prophet |
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| What distracts Santiago in the marketplace? |
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| reading and studying his books |
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| Joseph, who interpreted dreams |
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| Camus is originally from____. His father died in ____. |
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| ____is a branch of existentialism saying everything will be forgotten. |
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| The Roman Centurion is a _____, which alluded to the alchemist. |
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| Why does Torvald not want Nora to eat maccaroons? |
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| they are bad for her teeth |
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| What miracle does Nora expect? |
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| that Torvald will take the blame for himself |
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| What does Doctor Rank for his illness? |
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| What are three of Nora's nicknames? |
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| squanderbird, squirell, songbird |
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| the way Nora feels about her marriage |
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| Why did Torvald want to fire Krogstad? |
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| krogstad continuously calls torvald by his first name |
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| Dr. Rank suggests that Nora could be _____.. |
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| dr. rank notifies his death with ____. |
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| Before the problem was solved, what three things did Torvald instruct of Nora? |
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| he said that she will not take care of their kids, they will never be happy again, and he has to do krogstad's wishes |
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| Who represents justice in a problem? |
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| What are Sasha's justifications for his crime? |
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| fault of circumstance, his uncles are in debt too, and his friends do it |
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| The Loreli is similar to _____. |
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| the sirens of greek mythology |
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| Russia 1812 was about____. |
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| In I have visited again, the narrator talks about? |
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| the estate to which he was exiled |
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| What were the objects in the poem i have visited again? |
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| a group of trees, aged cottage, broken down mill |
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| In the world is too much with us, the narrator wants us to appreciate the beauty of _____. |
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| Wordsworth was out of tune with ____. |
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| Wordsworth spent a lot of time walking in the ____. |
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| Worsworth is from _____. He wrote _____. He collaborated with _____in starting the romantic movement. |
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| england, sonnets, samuel taylor coleridge |
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| Heinrich Heine was_____and he had incurable___disease. |
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| What were Heine's last words? |
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| Who is known as the father of modern literature? |
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| Pushkin was killed in____. |
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| Hugo was banished from ____. Even though he wrote classics like_____ and _____. |
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| France; les miserables and the humchback of notre dame |
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| What changes did Ibsen make to theater? |
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| clear stage directions, removal of the 4th wall, using everday langauge, realistic lights/sound effects |
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| Ibsen suffered from_____during the last years of his life. |
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| Ibsen was influence by "_____" by _____. |
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| "on the subjection of women" by john stuart mills |
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| Ibsen won a government grant to go to___. |
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| What does retrospective mean? |
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| to reveal events prior to the play slowly as the play goes on |
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| when two characters undergo similar problems, used for comparisons |
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| Feminism represents_____and____,____,____equlity for both genders. |
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| womens rights and political, social, and economic |
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| What does Chekovian mean? |
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| a wry melancholy of everyday life |
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| What were four qualities of the realist movement? |
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| versimilitude, balance/reason, clear expression, late 1900s |
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| Who wrote invitation to the voyage? |
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| Who wrote I have visited again? |
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| Who wrote the world is too much with us? |
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| Who wrote a doll's house? |
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| Term for audience members who paid one penny to enter the theater but did not get a seat? |
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| A sonnet consists of ____. |
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| three quatrains and a couplet |
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| Who tries to break up the fight with Cassio in Act II? |
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| Who is the mythical two faced figure that Iago swears by? |
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| Othello calling Iago honest is an example of_____. |
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| What is the location of most of the play? |
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| What is the foreign army that threatens to attack in Act I? |
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| What are the two instructions Lodovico brings from the Duke when he arrives in Act IV? |
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| Othello must return to Venice and Cassio should take his place as governor |
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| The source material for Othello come from a book written in_____. |
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| Where does the handkerchief come from? |
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| Which character proffesses shock when Othello strikes Desdemona? |
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| Which character's death occurs offstage? |
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| Who is the first character to arrive by boat at the beginning of Act II? |
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| Where did Othello and Desdemona first meet? |
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| When and where was Shakespeare born? |
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| 1564 in Stratford upon Avon |
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| Shakespeare wrote plays in three genres: ____,____,____. |
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| comedies, histories, and tragedies |
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| Shakespeare owned a share in a theater company called _____. This group formed a theater called the _____that burned in a production of_____. |
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| Lord Chamberlain's men;Globe Theater; Henry the eighth |
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| Shakespeare wrote for royal members such as____and ____. He died in ___. |
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| Queen Elizabeth and King James; 1616 |
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| Poetic form originating in Italy? |
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| lines spoken to the audience that other characters can't hear |
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| poetry that runs from one line to the next |
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| A character included to relieve tension? |
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| a foot of poetry following an unstressed-stressed pattern |
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| a poetic turn, usally found in the ninth line |
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| What are three characterisitcs that characterize Iago as a pyschopath? |
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| grandieur sense of self worth, criminal actions, no guilt |
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| What are three characteristics that signify Desdemona as an abuse victim? |
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| confusion, never balmes the abuser, hides her shame |
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| What are three reasons Othello suggests for why Desdemona would be cheating on him? |
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| he's old, he's black, and he doesn't have eloquent speech |
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| "If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy." |
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| "Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has decieved her father, and may thee." |
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| "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!" |
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| "Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership." |
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| "Knavery's plain face is never seen till used." |
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| "I have served him, and the man commands like a full soldier." |
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| "I swear 'tis better to be much abused than but to know't a little." |
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| "I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise." |
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| "Let him come when he will; I will deny thee nothing." |
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| Who is the thee in the previous quote? |
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| "My part, my title, and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly." |
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| Which leader is known as the Sun King? |
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| What is the subject of the song desdemona sings in Act IV? |
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| Where does the duke suggest Desdemona should stay when Othello goes off to war? |
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| Why does the young baron refuse Candide's request to marry Cunegonde? |
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| Candide only has 71 generations of nobility, while Cunegonde has 72 |
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| Who are the six strangers Candide eats dinner with? |
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| six former kings and rulers |
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| What does Tabula Rosa mean? |
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| What are the two possible translations of Utopia? |
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| Why does Candide not really want to marry Cunegonde at the end of the novel? |
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| How many gold carrying sheep does Candide leave el dorado with? |
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| Character that might be evidence to disprove Martin's view of the world? |
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| Allusion in the first and last chapter of Candide? |
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| What are the three religions critcized by voltaire? |
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| Christiantiy, Islam, Judaism |
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| Who coined the term Utopia? |
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| What is Martin's philosophy? |
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| mankind is cruel and destructive |
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| What is the location of the baron's castle? |
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| Why do people have noses according to Pangloss? |
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| What is the reason for why so many people attend to Candide in France? |
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| What are three characteristics of the enlightenment? |
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| equality, progress, and tolerance |
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| Why is El Dorado so cut off from the world? |
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| it is surrounded by huge mountains |
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| What did Voltaire criticize in the Calas affair? |
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| Why does Candide leave El Dorado? |
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| What three places did Candide visit? |
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| Constantinople, Venice, and Paris |
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| Which character complains he does not like to read nay classical literature? |
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| mocking human weaknesses to bring about change |
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| Where did Voltaire spend his final years? |
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| Martin and pangloss function as foils. What are foils? |
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| characters who contrast one another in order to highlight various features |
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| Voltaire got in such trouble mocking the French government that he was sent to the famous prison called_____. |
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| Satire can be broken into two broad categories. What are they? |
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| horation-good natured criticism and juvenailian-bitterly cynical denunciation of a subject |
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| When was the enlightenment? |
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| The idea that humans can discover the truth through reason alone is the philosophy called_____, which was supported by Newton, Descartes, and others. |
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| Voltaire believed in _____:the religious belief that sees God as a watchmaker who starts the universe turning but does not interfere with day to day activities |
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| _____probably best represents voltaire's ideal world, though it is not Candides. |
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| What is another name for Enlightenment? |
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| Who has only one buttock? |
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| Who was forced to become a theatine monk and eventually turn "turk"? |
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| who is also known as Francois Marie Aroket? |
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| Who is the Bulgar Soldier? |
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| Who nurses Candide back to health after the autodafe? |
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| Who was made a galley slave again in the novel's final chapter? |
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| Who chooses running the gauntlet 36 times instead of twelve bullets to the brain? |
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| Who is the illegitimate child of the pope? |
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| Who was hanged but got better? |
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| Who was almost dissected? |
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| Who teaches metaphysico theologo cosmonigology? |
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| Who was hired to join Candide after telling the most pathetic story? |
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| Who wagers with Candide that even a seemlingly happy couple is miserable? |
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| Who becomes a good pastry chef? |
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| Has a chamber pot full of human waste poured on his or her head? |
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| What are three literary techniques that are used in satire as discussed in class? |
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| critsicm, irony, and comedy |
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| collection of poems linked by a common theme |
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| Who does Petrarch write poems about? |
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| What is the name for a Spanish Muslim person? |
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| Who is the subject of Shakespeare's poems? |
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| An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect? |
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| an out of reach female love interest |
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| An indirect or passing reference to another literary work? |
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| What are the three types of irony? |
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| verbal, situational, dramatic |
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| A contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality between what is said and what is really meant? |
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| Occurs when a writer or speaker says one thing but really means the opposite? |
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| Occurs when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate? |
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| When the audience or reader knows something important that the character does not know? |
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| What is the difference in a solilquy and a monologue? |
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| a solilquoy is a speech only heard by the audience, a monologue is when the speaker is talking to other characters in the play |
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| What is the first literary work we read after summer reading? |
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| What was Henrik Ibsen's first major work before writing a doll's house? |
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| A brief, clever, and usually memorable statement? |
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| What does Versimilitude mean? What movement was it associate with? |
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| real life as it really is; the realist movement |
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| Wordsworth's masterpiece, ____, was considered one of the finest long poems in English. |
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| What are the names of Nora's children? |
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| Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge collaborated on____. |
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| What were the names of Wordsworth's two houses? |
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| dove cottage and rydal mount |
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| When was the englightenment? |
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| What are the two types of characterization? |
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| retrospective and parralellism |
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| Heine's last eight years were spent in bed. What did he call his bed? |
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| Where did the age of reason start? |
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| What is the setting of Act I of Othello? |
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| What were the names of Shakespeare's children? |
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| What did the enlightenment lead to? |
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| A group of lines in a poem that form a single unit? |
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| Two consecutive lines of poetry that ryhyme? |
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| Poem with two parts: an eight line section, called the octave, followed by a six line section called the sestet? |
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| What is the motto of the enlightenment and what does it mean? |
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| sapereaude; have the courage to use your own reason |
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| Who wrote A thousand splendid suns? |
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| Khaled Hosseini was born in_____in____. |
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| While in California, Hosseini earned a ______from UC San diego. |
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| When did Khaled Hosseini publish his first novel? What was it? |
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The Kite runner spent over____years on the new york times best seller list. It was published in more than ___languages and in ___countries.
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| After writing the Kite runner, what were khaled hosseini's goals for a thousand splendid suns? |
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| characters who engage, a sense of illumniation, readers to walk away with a sense of empathy for Afghans, especially afghan women |
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| In 2006, HOsseini was named a _____to the United Nations Refugee Agency. |
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| Khaled Hosseini created the _____foundation in 2007 after a trip to Afghanistan. |
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| The main theme in both of Hosseini's novels is love. What types of love? |
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| romantic, parental, family |
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| Afghanistan was occupied for_____. |
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| Afghanistan experienced invasions from _____,____, ____, and many more. |
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| persians, alex the great, kushans |
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| Explain the history of religion in Afghanistan. |
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| it was at first buddhist, but Islam came by the eighth century |
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| What happened in 1219 in afghanistan? |
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| Ghenggis Khan's mongols overran Afghanistan and devastated the land |
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| By 1919, Afghanistan regains_____;establishes a king of Afghanistan, _____. |
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| independence; king zahir sasah |
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| Republic of Afganistan was established in a bloodless coup by _____. |
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| When did the communists take control of Afghanistan? How long did they control for? What was this called? |
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| 1978; nine years; Saur Revolution |
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| After the communists seized control, they instituted a lot of reforms such as ______and _____. |
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| islamic repression; modernization |
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| What were some examples of the reforms that took place during the Saur Revolution? |
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| mosques close and women no longer wear burka, banned first marriages, and raised the age for marriage |
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| _____ fight back against the communists. |
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| What was the time frame of the soviet invasion? |
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| What does mujahedeen mean? it is from the same root as ____. |
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| When do the Soviets withdraw? |
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| After the soviets leave, ____take control. |
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| When did civil war outbreak in Afghanistan? |
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| When was there anarachy in Afghanistan? |
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| When did the Taliban take control? |
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| The word Taliban comes from a Pashtal word meaning_____. |
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| The Talibans were brought over after_____. |
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| the chaos of the warlords |
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| During the Taliban's control, it was a time of extreme______in Afghanistan. |
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| What were some examples of the cultural oppression that were caused by the Taliban? |
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| no movies, no museums, no zoos, no cultural activities |
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| Because of the Taliban's close relationship with Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, the US attacked Afghanistan in _____. |
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| Does the Taliban continue to reassert its presence in Afghanistan today? |
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| When did Daoud Khan seize power from Zanir Khan? |
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| When did Mariam get married? |
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| What day and year did the soviets invade Afghanistan? |
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| In 1986, _____becomes president. |
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| Why does Rasheed force Mariam to chew rocks? |
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| To show her what her cooking is like |
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| What important event occurs the night of Laila's birth? |
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| the communists form the democratic republic of afghanistan |
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| What was Babi's previous job? |
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| What is Babi's current job? |
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| What does Babi think is the most important thing in Laila life? |
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| Who is the bully who shoots laila with a urine filled water pistol? |
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| Where have Laila's brothers gone? |
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| to fight for the Mujahedeen |
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| How did Tariq lose his leg? |
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| What two languages are spoken the most in Afghanistan? |
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| What unusual feature does Tariqs mother posses? |
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| Babi takes Tariq and Laila to see_____. |
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| the famous buddhas on the mountain |
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| What quality of Laila's mother does Babi miss, a quality that "bulldozed you" with its strength? |
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| What's so funny about the movie Laila and Tariq see? |
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| the voice over translation is really bad |
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| the philsophy that knowledge is derived from experience |
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| Who wrote the poem Kabul? |
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| Where was Anton Chekov born? |
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| Chekov was a part of the ____. |
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| Where did Victor Hugo spend his childhood? |
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| Who wrote the flowers of evil? |
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| Who was the most influential poet of the 19th century? |
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| Where was Heinrich Heine born? |
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| Where in Norway was Henrik Ibsen from? |
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| Extravagant exaggeration? |
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| What did Miguel de Cervantes write? |
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| When was the romantic movement? |
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| When was the realist movement? |
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