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What poet wrote the line, "And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier?"
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Walt Whitman
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What is Whitman probably referring to in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" when he writes about "The impalpable sustenance of me from all things?"
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being spiritually fed by his surroundings
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What does Whitman probably mean in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by "It avails not, time nor place -- distance avails not?"
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that we all have the same perceptions of things
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Who are the "dumb, beautiful ministers" Whitman addresses in the last stanza of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry?"
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the buildings of Manhattan
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Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" may be described as:
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a bildungsroman and an elegy
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What does Whitman probably mean when he calls the bird a "demon" in "Out of the Cradle...?"
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that he is possessed by its soul
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What "word final, superior to all" does the sea tell Whitman in "Out of the Cradle...?"
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death
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What permanent effect does the mockingbird's song have on Whitman?
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it makes him a poet
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Where does Walt Whitman tell you to look for him near the end of "Song of Myself?"
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under your boot-soles
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According to lecture, cities tend to represent what for Whitman?
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growth
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What color is the "flag of my disposition" in Whitman's "Song of Myself?"
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green
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Toward the end of "Song of Myself," Whitman says he will make what kind of sound?
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a barbaric yawp
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One section of "Song of Myself" describes a richly dressed woman watching twenty-nine __
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bathers
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When a child asks what grass is in "Song of Myself," what's Whitman's initial thought?
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he doesn't know what it is
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In section 51 of "Song of Myself," which line follows "Do I contradict myself?"
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"Very well then, I contradict myself"
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What best describes the poetry Whitman wrote?
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free verse
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After publishing "Leaves of Grass," Whitman...
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added more poems to it and published it again repeatedly
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What is Whitman, the poet-narrator, doing at the beginning of Song of Myself?
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loafing and observing
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According to lecture, what seems to be the central message of "buffalo bill's defunct?"
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even great celebrities are just human and mortal
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According to lecture, part of the visual arrangement of e. e. cummings' "buffalo bill's defunct" probably suggests what?
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water flowing
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Dickinson's "A Certain Slant of Light" compares the feeling the light gives her to the "heft" of:
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cathedral tunes
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What is the "darkness" in which Frost sees his neighbor as walking in "Mending Wall?"
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ignorance
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In Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" what does she probably mean by the lines, "Done with the Compass--/ Done with the Chart?"
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that, like a ship, she is done with her journey and is in "port"
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According to the first two lines of Frost's "Mending Wall," what is it that "doesn't love a wall?"
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nature
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One of the things we discussed that Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" could probably be about is:
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her faith
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What poem begins with the invitation, "Let us go then, you and I?"
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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What kind of sound signals the highest moments of tension in "Streetcar?"
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a polka tune
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In "Streetcar," why did Allan Grey most likely marry Blanche?
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he thought her love would "cure" his homosexuality
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What is significant about the song "Paper Moon" in "Streetcar?"
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Blanche's illusions and faults would be excused if someone believed in her
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What is it that Blanche declares she will burn because Stanley touched them?
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letters
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How does Blanche say she's going to die before the doctor and matron come and taker her away?
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from eating an unwashed grape
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Why does Stella betray Blanche?
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because she couldn't stay with Stanley if she believed Blanche
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According to lecture, what's the most famous line in Streetcar?
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"I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers"
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What does Blanche's paper lantern probably represent in "Streetcar"?
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illusion
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What probably is the symbolism behind the three streetcar lines Blanche rides, Desire, Cemeteries, and Elysian Fields?
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"Love, death, heaven"
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With what has the narrator of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" measured out his life?
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coffee spoons
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What do the women talk of while they come and go in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
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Michelangelo
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J. Alfred Prufrock laments of growing old with the following lines: "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a [what?]"
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peach
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The lines "When the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" is an example of:
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metaphysical conceit
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In the second stanza of "Prufrock," Eliot compares the fog to what as it moves "into the corners of the evening?"
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a cat
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What is Prufrock trying to suggest in comparing himself to Polonius, the character from Shakespeare's "Hamlet?"
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that he is nobody important
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What does Wallace Stevens mean by this line from "Sunday Morning": "Death is the mother of beauty"
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beauty is caused by impermanence
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What does Stevens suggest with the lines, "The tomb in Palestine/ Is not the porch of spirits lingering"?
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Christ was not resurrected
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Wallace Stevens often uses pigeons in his poems -- what do they probably symbolize?
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ordinariness
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What is wrong with our traditional concept of heaven, according to Wallace Steven's "Sunday Morning?"
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nothing ever changes there
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In Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning," what does he suggest people should worship "Not as a god, but as a god might be" (he describes the worshippers in his 'religion' in this way: "a ring of men/ shall chant in orgy on a summer morn/ their boisterous devotion)?
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the sun
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In "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams, much of the poem's meaning seems to rely upon which of the following words?
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the verb "depends"
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William Carlos Williams' "This is Just to Say" is about:
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plums
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What is Langston Hughes' message (summed up in the phrase "That's America") in his poem "Theme for English B"?
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America is a melting pot, though an imperfect one
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What's "sullin'" seem to mean in Rita Dove's "Roast Possum"?
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pretending to be proud, pretending to be dead
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What's George's problem(s) in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
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Living in the past, living in illusions
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What's Martha's problem(s) in "Who's Afraid..."?
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her domineering father, her inability to have children
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What does George's game of "Get the Guests" involve?
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telling Honey he knows about her hysterical pregnancy
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What does the reference to Virginia Woolf probably represent?
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the need for self-determination
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Where, reportedly, did Albee get the title for the play?
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It was written on a subway wall
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According to Whitman in "Song of Myself," "One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is [what?]"
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myself
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At the beginning of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," Whitman is remembering:
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going to the beach when he was a boy
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Who is the "old crone rocking the cradle" in Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"?
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the sea
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What "word final, superior to all" does the sea tell Whitman in "Out of the Cradle..."?
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death
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When did Whitman hear the mockingbird's song in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?"
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when he was a boy
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What event causes the mockingbird to sing the song that Whitman "translates"?
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the disappearance of its mate
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What is Whitman, poet-narrator, doing at the beginning of Song of Myself?
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loafing and observing
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You can sing almost all of Dickinson's poetry to the tune of "Gilligan's Island" because it is written in:
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common meter
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In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for death," what, probably, is the house she passes which "seems a swelling of the ground"?
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a crypt
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In "Because I could not stop for Death," what does the speaker pass by during her carriage-ride with death?
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a schoolyard, a ripened field, and a setting sun
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What does Whitman probably mean when he calls the grass a "uniform hieroglyphic"?
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that the grass means the same thing to everyone
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In Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning," what is it that makes "Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings" at the end of the poem?
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pigeons
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Toward the end of "Song of Myself," Whitman says he will make what kind of sound?
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a barbaric yawp
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In "Who's Afraid...," what happens to the boy in George's book?
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he ends up in an asylum
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According to lecture, when J. Alfred Prufrock ask if he dares "to eat a peach," it is likely a(n):
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sexual image, indication of a lack of self-confidence
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Why, probably, is the quotation from Dante about Guido de Montefeltro burning in a flame in hell an appropriate epigraph for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?"
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both Guido and J. Alfred are making confessions
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What does J. Alfred Prufrock suggest when he says "There will be time to murder and create?"
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that he wants to change who he appears to be
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The "sea-girls" at the end of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" are allusions to what figures?
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the sirens in "The Odyssey"
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In the second stanza of "Prufrock," Eliot compares the fog to what as it moves "into the cornesr of the evening?"
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a cat
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Who asked "What happens to a dream deferred?"
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Langston Hughes
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What's "sullin'" seem to mean in Rita Dove's "Roast Possum"?
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pretending to be proud, pretending to be dead
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Who is the speaker/voice in Stevens' poem "Sunday Morning?"
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a woman who is lounging around at home on a Sunday morning
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Who in "Who's Afraid" is described as being a "church mouse" with red eyes that steals money from the faithful?
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Honey's father
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What object in Who's Afraid might be read as a phallic symbol?
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the fake shotgun
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What poet wrote the line "And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier?"
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Walt Whitman
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In Streetcar, what strange thing does Blanche do within minutes of telling Stella that she likes Mitch?
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come on to a paper boy
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To arrive at Stella's house, Blanche first had to take the streetcar named Desire, then transfer to Cemeteries, then eventually get off where?
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Elysian Fields
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What's Blanche's sign?
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Virgo the virgin
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How does the doctor who comes for Blanche change in his demeanor?
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He goes from clinical to gentlemanly
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What kind of sound signals the highest moments of tension in Streetcar?
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polka tune
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In Streetcar, why did Allan Grey most likely marry Blanche?
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he thought her love would "cure" his homosexuality
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How does Blanche say she's going to die before the doctor and matron come and take her away?
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from eating an unwashed grape
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What does the flower lady represent in the play?
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Blanche's spiritual demise
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Why does Williams have Stanley show up at the beginning of the play with a package of meat?
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to suggest how primitive he is
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What highly symbolic song is Blanche singing in the bathtub while Stanley is telling Stella what he's learned from the traveling salesman?
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Paper Moon
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How did Blanche lose Belle Reve?
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paying for funerals
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What subject did Blanche teach at Laurel High School?
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English
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Which of the lines below did Edward Albee borrow from Tennessee Williams to use in Who's Afraid?
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"Flores para los muertos"
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What's the significance of the time at which Who's Afraid ends?
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it signifies rebirth
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What does "Walpurgesnacht" refer to?
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witches being revealed
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Martha says to George "You can stand it! You married me for it!" For what?
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punishment
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What moment is Honey's "salvation" in the play?
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when she decides she wants to have children
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What's the significance of George and Nick's academic specialties?
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George's represents humanity, Nick's abstraction
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What does George think Nick is going to do with his research?
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make everyone the same
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a catharsis follows which event in Who's Afraid?
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George pointing a toy rifle at Martha
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What is the message in the speech given by Ellison's Invisible Man?
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gradualism
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From whom does the Invisible Man get the ideas in his speech?
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Booker T. Washington
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According to lecture, the deathbed advice that the Invisible Man's grandfather gives amounts to:
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sullin'
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Which term do the white men in Ellison's "Battle Royal" object to?
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social equality
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What shocking thing does one of the soldiers in O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" carry?
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a human thumb
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In "Shiloh," what does Shiloh itself possibly represent, according to lecture?
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traditional southern roles and values
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What is the last, strange image that Mason gives us at the end of "Shiloh?"
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a dust ruffle on a bed
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In "Shiloh," what cruel thing does Mabel do to Norma Jean?
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tell her about a dog that attacked a baby
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According to lecture, Bobbie Ann Mason probably uses the figure of Wonder Woman at the beginning of "Shiloh" in order to suggest:
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independence from men
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In "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," how does Margot react to Francis's cowardice with the lion?
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she cries, she taunts Francis, and she sleeps with Wilson
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Why does the grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" wear a nice blue dress, white gloves, a navy blue straw hat, and a pin of purple cloth violets on the trip to Florida?
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to identify her as a lady if she is found dead on the highway
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What does the grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" see along the roadside and wish she could paint?
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a black kid without pants
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In Good Man, what is the name of the grandmother's cat?
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Pitty Sing
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Why can't the Misfit believe that Jesus rose from the dead?
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He wasn't there to see it himself
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Why does the Misfit leap back and shoot the grandmother?
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She offers the Misfit love, which destroys his argument that there is no pleasure but meanness
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The Misfit says the grandmother "would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot here every minute of her life." Why is this statement correct?
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Because the threat of death forced the grandmother to look beyond herself
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In Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums," what do the flowers themselves probably represent?
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Elisa's abilities
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What is Elisa doing at the very end of "The Chrysanthemums"?
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crying like an old woman
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What happens when Miss Emily's father dies?
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She refuses to let them take the body away
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What's the name of Miss Emily's boyfriend?
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Homer
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Who does Faulkner seem to be suggesting is ultimately responsible for Miss Emily's crime?
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the townspeople
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Who probably moved Miss Emily's body to the moldy bed downstairs?
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her servant
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How, probably, did Miss Emily kill her boyfriend?
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with poison
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In "Francis Macomber," which character experiences a bildungsroman?
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Francis
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In "Francis Macomber", Wilson quotes the following lines from Shakespeare: "By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will." What thematic message in the story do these suggest?
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That death really doesn't matter that much
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How is "Grendel" a metafiction?
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it is both a novel and a commentary on art
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What's the dragon's advice to Grendel?
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enjoy yourself now while you can
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What does the dragon tell Grendel his effect on mankind is?
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he makes them better
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Why does Grendel never actually kill Hrothgar and all his men?
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They give him a reason to live
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What does Grendel decide when he's caught in the tree?
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he is the only thinking creature
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Who is Unferth?
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a want-to-be hero
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What is Unferth's art?
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his heroism
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In what sense is Grendel's race "brother" to Hrothgar's?
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Grendel is supposedly descended from Cain
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How does Grendel feel about man when he first starts hanging around Hrothgar's meadhall?
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curiosity and attraction
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What does the dragon symbolize?
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God, evil and Death
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What becomes Grendel's purpose in life?
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torturing Hrothgar for no good reason
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Who is Wealtheow?
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the queen
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What animal/symbol of the zodiac appears in the first pages of Grendel?
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Aries, the ram
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If Grendel dies in the novel, who kills him?
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he kills himself
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According to lecture, what is the likely reason that "Cut B," the section about Hrothgar's nephew, is included?
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to suggest something even more evil than Grendel
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What does Beowulf probably mean when he tells Grendel "the world will burn green?"
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life will always begin again in nature's cycles
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What, probably, do Grendel's last words - "so may you all" - signify?
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everyone is doomed as Grendel is doomed
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What does Grendel seem to want more than anything else?
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someone to talk to
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What is Wealtheow's art?
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her peacemaking and her beauty
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According to lecture, what is the significance of Gardner's use of the signs of the Zodiac in Grendel?
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to suggest that the universe is patterned instead of chaotic
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How does Gardner seem to view religion in general?
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as just another kind of art
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Which of the following statements illustrates Grendel's solipsism?
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"I create the whole universe blink by blink"
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What did Tim O'Brien identify in his talk as the place where the story "The Things They Carry" began?
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a ditch
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What shocking thing does one of the soldiers in O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" carry?
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a human thumb
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What does Tim O'Brien seem to suggest is the reason men act heroically?
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shame
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