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15 Cards in this Set
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What type of poem is War is Kind, by Stephen Crane?
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Irony.
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What is the main point of War is Kind?
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War is not kind.
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What could be the moral of the story, A & P, by John Updike?
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Do not make rash decisions because you will soon regret them.
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What is a reason why Sammy's walk-off in A & P may have been a positive thing?
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Sometimes speaking your mind when you have a problem with somebody or some people may be a good thing.
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In The Story of the Hour, by Kate Chopin, what is the underlying theme about women of the time period?
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Women were looked down on by men, especially the ones who were close to them.
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When she thought her husband died in the Story of the Hour, was Mrs. Mallard happy or unhappy?
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She was happy.
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Suprisingly, when Mrs. Mallard's husband came back at the end in the Story of the Hour, did she die of shock, happiness, or despair?
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Despair.
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What is the overall theme of The Wolf and the Mastiff?
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Better starve free, than be a fat slave; it is better to die then to be enslaved.
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In the Widow of Ephesus, who saved Ephesus when she was starving in the tomb moarning her dead husband and what is the significance of the person who saved her?
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The soldier who was guarding the crusifiction site saved her by giving her food; the irony is that they quickly fell in love.
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In the Widow of Ephesus, what did Ephesus do to save her lovers life?
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She sacrificed the dead body of her quickly forgotten dead husband by nailing him to the cross.
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During A Rose for Emily, where was the smell in Miss Emily's house comming from and who was responsible for it?
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The smell was from the corpse of her former lover, Homer Baron. The significance is that she killed him years ago when he tried to abandon her.
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Where did the story of A Rose for Emily take place?
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In a backwards, post war, southern town.
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In A Rose for Emily, what kind of relationship did Emily and her father once have?
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He controlled and manipulated her.
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What kind of story is the Wolf and the Mastief?
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Fable
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What kind of story is the Widow of Ephesus?
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Tale
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