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| Who are david guterson's parents? |
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| Murray and Shirley Guterson |
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| Where did Guterson grow up? |
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| What was Guterson's father's occupation? |
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| Who does Nels Guterson represent in the novel? |
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| a moral standpoint that Guterson saw in his father |
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| Where and when did Guterson go to college? What did he decide to pursue a career in? |
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| University of Washington in 1974; writing |
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| Guterson married his high school love, ______. |
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| After marraige, where did Guterson and his wife move? What was his job there? |
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| San Piedro Island; he taught english full time at a local high school |
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| David Guterson wrote a book on ____. |
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| Guterson's writing was published in ____and_____. |
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| Sprots illustrated and esquire |
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| When was snow falling on cedars published? How long did it take from start to publication? |
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| David Guterson read this book twenty times in ten years: _____. |
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| What are two similarities between snow falling on cedars and to kill a mockingbird? |
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| courtroom trail and questions of racism |
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| How many copies of SFOC were published? |
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| 80,000 in hard cover; 2.5 million in paperback |
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| Between 1901 and 1907, how many japanese immigrants came to the US? |
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| What is the word for first generation Japanese? |
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| What was the first state in 1923 to prevent issei from legally buying land? |
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| What was the name of the act that congress passed that banned all japanese immigration? |
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| What was the word for american born japanese children? |
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| When did the US government apologize to the japanese? |
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| What is the word for death? sex? |
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| What are the four main settings of SFOC? |
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| starwberry farm, town, cedar trees, ocean |
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| What is the difference between fate, accident, and choice? |
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| fate is supposed to happen, accident is determined by random chance, and choice is determined by yourself |
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| What is kabuo's father's name? |
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| What is the date of carl heine's death? |
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| What is ishmael's mom's name? |
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| Who is the deputy? who is the sheriff? |
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| abel martinson; art moran |
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| Who is the prosecuting attorney? |
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| immediately after her husband's death, who did etta heine sell her land to? |
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| When ole jurgensen has a stroke in 1954, who buys his land? |
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| who is one of the main jurors in kabuo's trial who does not agree that kabuo is guilty? |
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| What does the question of facts symbolize in the novel? |
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| unreliablity of people's perceptions of the truth |
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| what does kabuo give carl heine when they are kids? |
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| How many total acres does ole jurgensen own after etta heine sells him the land? |
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