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American Lit Test 4
Am. Lit. Test 4 - Blair
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Undergraduate 3
11/12/2012

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What is George's problem in "Who's Afraid.."?
Definition
Living in the past; living in illusions
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What's Martha's problem in "Who's Afraid.."?
Definition
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?
Definition
The need for self-determination
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Where did Albee get the title for the play?
Definition
It was written on a subway wall
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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 line 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?
Definition
Witches being revealed
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Martha says to George, "You can stand it! You married me for it!" For what?
Definition
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, which is Nick's abstraction
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What does George think Nick is going to do with his research?
Definition
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?
Definition
Gradualism
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From whom does the Invisible Man get the ideas in his speech?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
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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 is 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?
Definition
With poison
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What is the last thing you see in the movie version of "Who's Afraid.."?
Definition
Clasped hands in front of a window
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What does Martha declare that George is in the History department?
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A bog
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What is George's novel about in "Who's Afraid.."?
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A boy who kills his parents
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Why does Nick marry Honey?
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Her father has money AND she's supposedly pregnant
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What happens in the boxing story Martha tells?
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She hits George
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Who was Martha's first husband?
Definition
The gardener at her school
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What might have happened to George's parents?
Definition
He killed them
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What are the 3 objects mentioned in the lecture as being used as phallic symbols in "The Chrysanthemums"?
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Cigarettes, tractor, plow
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Who narrates Faulkner's "A rose for Emily"?
Definition
We're never told
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What is "noblesse oblige"?
Definition
The obligations of the upper class to the lower class
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What does the grey hair on the pillow next to the corpse in "A Rose for Emily" suggest?
Definition
Emily has been sleeping with the corpse
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What are we told at the beginning of the story is the only concern that the women of the town have for Emily?
Definition
To see the inside of her house
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What is the message in the speech given by Ellison's "Invisible Man"?
Definition
Gradualism
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What is in the briefcase that the men at the smoker give the Invisible Man in "Battle Royal"?
Definition
A scholarship
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What does the Invisible Man grab off the electrified carpet?
Definition
Advertising tokens
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Where is the Invisible Man while he is recalling the battle royal?
Definition
In a cellar full of light bulbs
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What is the message in the "bucket" image in the speech given by the Invisible Man?
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Be satisfied with what you have
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Who else is humiliated along with the fighters and the Invisible Man in Ellison's "Battle Royal"?
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A white stripper
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What happens when Miss Emily's father dies?
Definition
She refuses to let them take the body away
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What is the name of Miss Emily's boyfriend?
Definition
Homer
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Who probably moved Miss Emily's body to the moldy bed downstairs?
Definition
Her servant
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According to the lecture, her neighbors sometimes called Emily Dickson:
Definition
The moth of Amherst
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What is one of the "games" they play in "Who's afraid.."?
Definition
Get the guests
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What object in the play "Who's Afraid.." might be read as a phallic symbol?
Definition
Fake shotgun
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What happens to the boy in George's book?
Definition
Ends up in an asylum
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Why don't George and Martha have real children?
Definition
He is impotent
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