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| What are the names of the two characters who have a dialogue with one another in the Bhagavad Gita? |
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| How many feet or stresses are there in iambic pentameter? |
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Name the autheor and the poem from which these lines come:
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." |
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| Walt Whitman "Song of Myself" |
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| Who wrote "Sitting Alone by Ching-t'ing Mountain"? |
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Name the author and the poem from which these lines come:
"I will not cease from Mental Flight
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land." |
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| William Blake, "And Did Those Feet" |
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| The harlot who brings Enkidu to Uruk |
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| The boatman who takes Gilgamesh to the immortal realm |
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| The man who survived the flood and became immortal |
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| The goddess who wants to marry Gilgamesh |
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| Two adventures Gilgamesh and Enkidu participate in together. |
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| Cedar forest(Humbaba), Bull of Heaven |
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| What does Enkidu make out of cedar as an offering to Enlil? |
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| What kind of creature steals the plant of rejuvenation from Gilgamesh at the end of the story? |
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| What language is the Ramayana written in? |
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| The wife who requests that the king send Rama into exile |
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| Rama's brother who takes the throne as his regent while he is in exile |
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| The demon king who captures Sita |
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| What does Sita do in response to Rama's challenge to her fidelity while she was a captive? |
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| Puts herself in fire to prove her purity |
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The following verse is written in what?
"O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! Oh God! God!" |
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Speaker of these lines:
"O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! Oh God! God!" |
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| Where does the King decide to send Hamlet when he finds out Hamlet is behaving erratically? |
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| What is the King doing when Hamlet first has an opportunity to kill him? |
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| Who does Hamlet kill when he is meeting with his mother in her "closet"? |
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| What means of transportation does Yu Tsun use to escape Richard Madden in The Garden of Forking Paths? |
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| What kind of literature does Stephen Albert study in The Garden of Forking Paths? |
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| Chinese literature, the novel by Ts'ui Pen(Yu Tsun's great grandfather) |
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| What has the senator learned about his future at the beginning of Death Constant Beyond Love? |
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| What does Nelson Farina want from the senator in Death Constant Beyond Love? |
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| What does the senator find on Laura Farina's body in Death Constant Beyond Love? |
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| What is the setting of "In Camera"? |
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| How does the crowd react when they hear the words Leila is supposed to have said about the King? |
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| Which of Leila's relatives do we read the thoughts of in the story? |
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| Where did the narrator of "Yellow Woman" first meet Silva? |
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| How does Silva support himself? |
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| Pretending to be someone else or an imaginary friend. |
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| Why does Lady Bracknell miss out on eating cucumber sandwiches in Act I? |
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| As a baby, Jack was found in a trainstation cloakroom inside a ________? |
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| What is Miss Prism's job at Jack Worthing's country house? |
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| Governess to Cecily and her tutor. |
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| Name the character whom Algernon woos by pretending to be Jack's brother Ernest? |
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| Why was Okonkwo sent into exile? |
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| Killed a fellow clansman. |
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| True or False: Okonkwo's son Nwoye converts to Christianity after hearing the missionary. |
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| What does the District Commissioner do with the leaders he asks to meet with? |
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| Has them arrested and charges the clan for bail. |
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| What does the egwugwu do after the confrontation with Mr. Smith at the church? |
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| What does Okonkwo do to the five messengers? |
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| He tries to get the clan to fight them and he kills one. |
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