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46 Cards in this Set
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Sherwood Anderson wrote.......
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"Winesburg, Ohio"
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"Winesburg, Ohio" was published in...........
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1919, after he had enough short stories to put a book out.
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Who is the book's central character?
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George Willard
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The book is made up of ____ short stories.
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15
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The stories in "Winesburg, Ohio" depend on _______________ rather than plot.
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Epiphanies
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Sherwood Anderson influenced..............
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Jean Toomer
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___________, ________________, and __________________ prevented a story from being a typical plot story
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Imagism, impressionistic technique, and the epiphany
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What was the only book Jean Toomer published?
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"Cane"
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"Cane" was published in.............
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1923, near the date of publication of "Spring and All" and "Harmonium"
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The man who had a sort of cult in France. They had dances known as "movements"
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Gurdijeff
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Fern is kind of a __________
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Christ figure
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Toomer eventually dropped Gurdjieff's beliefs in favor of _______________
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being a Quaker.
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"Babylon Revisited" was written by
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fitzgerald was an ____________ starting all the way back in college.
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alcoholic
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Name 4 collections of Fitzgerald's short stories!
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"Flappers and Philosophers"
"Tales of the Jazz Age" "All the Sad Young Men" "TAPS at Revely" |
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Name 4 of Fitzgerald's novels!
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"This Side of Paradise"
"Beautiful and the Damned" "The Great Gatsby" "Tender is the Night" |
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"Babylon Revisited" was originally published in ________ in the "____________________"
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1931, "Saturday Evening Post"
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Fitzgerald was born in ______________ and died in ________________.
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Minnesota, Hollywood
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Babylon is between the ______________ and _________________ Rivers in Modern Day Iraq.
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Tigris and Euphrates
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"The Whore of Babylon" was code for the ___________________
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The Catholic Church
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Babylon in "Babylon Revisited" is supposed to be _______________
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Paris.
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Date of Stock Market Crash?
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October 12, 1929
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Lincoln Peters
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is an amalgam of Abe Lincoln and Peter the Great
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Brick Top was an old ________ lady that owned a _____________
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Red headed ginger bitch, nightclub
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In Babylon Revisited, the bartender who gave advice was named ______________
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Paul, after one the the apostles of Jesus.
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Fitzgerald has a wife named __________
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Zelda
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Fitzgerald had a daughter named ___________
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Scotty
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The main character in Babylon Revisited is named ________________
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Charlie Wales
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John Steinbeck is associated with........
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Salinas Valley
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___________________ is John Steinbeck's most famous novel.
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Grapes of Wrath.
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Steinbeck was interested in __________________
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Evolutionary biology
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Rosa Shern =
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Rose of Sharon, a biblical allusion.
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"superannuated" meant
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that a person had exhausted his/her usefulness.
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Leader of the People ends with Joey getting
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lemonade.
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Steinbeck was a ________________.
He liked the average, common ________. |
Humanist; person.
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The __________ family are the main characters in Grapes of Wrath
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Joad family
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The ___________ in Grapes of Wrath is superannuated.
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Grandfather.
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Richard Wright wrote the short story called...............
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The Man who was Almost a Man
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Richard Wright was a ____________
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communist
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Richard Wright grew up in _____________
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Mississippi
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Richard Wright had a famous novel called _______________
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Native Sun
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Native Sun is about...........
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a young black man who kills a young white girl and burns her in a furnace.
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Richard Wright went to ____________ at the end of his life and became an _______________
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France; existentialist.
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The Man who was Almost a Man came from a larger work known as...........
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"8 Men"
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man was originally published in _____________________
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Harper's Bazaare
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The Man who was Almost a Man probably owes much to ____________
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Huckleberry Finn
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