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Academic team questions -- D
world lit, philosophy, religion
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11th Grade
11/07/2008

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Dante
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Italian poet remembered for The Divine Comedy, written as a memorial to Beatrice.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
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A large collection of scrolls containing nearly all the books of the Old Testament, found in the late 1940s.
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deism
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belief that God has created the Universe but remains apart from it, and allows it to run by natural law.
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Rene Descartes
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French philosopher of the 17th century, famous for his statement, "I think: therefore I am."
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The Divine Comedy
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Epic poem written by Dante in the early 14th century, containing 3 sections: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and the Paradisio
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A Doll's House
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Play by Henrik Ibsen, about a woman who leaves her husband to establish an independent life.
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Don Juan
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legendary Spanish nobleman famous for chasing women, who has been a featured character in many literary works.
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Don Quixote
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17th century Spanish novel, written by Cervantes
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Fedor Dostoevsky
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Russian author of Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karamazov.
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