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41 Cards in this Set
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Animosity
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ill will or resentment
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Chafe
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to make sore or irritate by constant rubbing
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Covenant
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a formal, solemn, and binding agreement
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Firmament
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the sky
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Frock
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a woman’s dress
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Fumble
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to grope or handle clumsily
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Gaunt
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excessively thin, as from suffering
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Glower
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to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger
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Hack
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to use heavy blows to cut or chop in an irregular or unskilled manner
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Hoist
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to raise or pull up
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Issue
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to come forth, or emerge
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Nib
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pen point
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Prodigy
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extraordinary person, thing or deed
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Prostrate
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to throw oneself face downward on the ground as a gesture of humility or submission
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Thicket
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dense growth of shrubbery or small trees
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Tselaneand the Giant· Why people move away
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They feared the giant, Limo.
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Tselane and the Giant · How Limo gets into the hut
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Limo disguised his voice by burning his throat to sound like Tselane’s mother’s voice
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Tselane and the Giant How Limo’s wife helps Tselane
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She let Tselane out of the bag that the giant put her in and filled it with bees.
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Anansi’sFishing Expedition· Describe Anansi
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Anansi is lazy and conniving
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Anansi’s Fishing Expedition ·
The reaction of the people to Anansi trying to sell rotten fish traps : |
The people are angry and insulted. He must think they are fools.
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TheReturn
Why Kamau was away from thevillage· |
He was held in a detention camp for participating in an anticolonial rebellion
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The Return
What Kamau’s wife did while he was away · |
his wife thinking that Kamau was dead left with Karanja. Karanja was interested in winning Kamau’s wife.
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The Return
What Kamau realizes when he loses his bundle in the river |
Losing the Bundle allows him to see that life like the river goes on and that only by letting go of the past can he live in the present.
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MyCountry
Why was the speaker’s father was away ? |
He was taken by the government and imprisoned.
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My Country
Why the mother turns away from the picture ? |
She wants to hide her grief
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Bones
How does the Butcher cheats the customers? |
He tries to put bones in with their meat and he tries to give the woman meat from the piece she does not want.
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Bones How does the Butcher plans to get a license? |
He plans to bribe Dongo to get a license ·
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Bones Why the shop becomes dirty? |
The butcher no longer cares about even basic cleanliness because he knows that only a bribe will get him the license.
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· The Dog and the Wolf
Why does the wolf needs steady work? : |
The wolf is starving ·
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The Dog and the Wolf What offer the Dog makes to the Wolf ?
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He offers to get him a job at his home.
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The Dog and the Wolf · Why does the Wolf changes his mind ?
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He sees the patch of hair worn away by the dog’s collar.
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The Dog and the Wolf
What is the moral of this story? |
Better to be free and hungry than a well fed and a slave.
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Epicof Gilgamesh,The Death of Enkidu
Where does Enkidu travels in his dream ? |
He is taken to the palace of Irkalla, the queen of the underworld.
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Epic of Gilgamesh,The Death of Enkidu
Why the God’s want todestroy mankind? |
Enlil convinces the other gods that the uproar of mankind in intolerable.
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Genesis 6-9: The Flood
Why God wants to destroy mankind ? |
Humans are wicked
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Genesis 6-9: The Flood · Why Noah is spared ?
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Noah is the only righteous and blameless person
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Genesis6-9: The Flood What is God’s promise to Noah?:
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He will never destroy the earth with flood again.
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TheBook of Ruth How does Boaz treats Ruth?
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He treats her with respect, compassion and kindness. He urges her to glean only his fields because he is worried other may take advantage of her.
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The Book of Ruth
What happens to Ruth at the end of the story? |
· Ruth marries Boaz and takes care of both herand Naomi.
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1001Nights: The Voyage of Sinbad· How does Sindbad escapes the island? ·
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Sindbad ties himself to a talon of a giant bird.
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1001 Nights: The Voyage of Sinbad · How do the merchants get the diamonds?
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Merchants toss sheep carcasses into the valley. The diamonds adhere to the carcasses and are lifted to safety by the birds.
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