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12/16/2009

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Who wrote "All Quiet On the Western Front"?
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Remarque
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Who wrote "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"?
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Solzhenitsyn
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Who wrote "The Stranger"?
Definition
Camus
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Who wrote "Metamorphosis"?
Definition
Kafka
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Who wrote "The Elephant Vasnashes"?
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Murakami
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Who wrote "Father and I"?
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Lagerkvist
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Who wrote the "Peasant Marey"?
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Dostoevsky
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who wrote "First Confession"?
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O'Connor
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Once behind the lines again, Paul and Albert are impressed by a poster they see. What is on the poster and what do they do to it?
Definition
It is of a very attractive woman and a man and the boys rip the man off.
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what do the french women really want from Paul, Leer and Krop?
Definition
The food they offered them
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What does paul swear to Kemmerich's mom?
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He swaers that Kemmerich did not suffer when he died and that he isn't lying.
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While at home on leave, Paul secludes himself in his room and tries to find meaning in some of his belongings, but fails. What belongings are they?
Definition
All of the books he once read and loved.
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Which family member has fallen ill again while Paul is on the front, and what is the illness?
Definition
His mom and Cancer.
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"A word of command has made these silent figures our enimies; a word of command might transform into our friends." Who says this and who is he speaking to?
Definition
Paul is speaking to the Russians
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What important figure comes to visit the troops and how does this person differ from paul and what the others imagined him to be?
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Kaiser came to visit them, but he isn't as strong and authoritative looking as Paul thought.
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Paul gets lost while on patrol duty on the front, and he panics. However, he is calmed by something he hears. What does he hear?
Definition
The voice of Albert
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Explain Gerard Duval
Definition
He is the man Paul killed for the first time. He died a slow death, and Paul felt terrible because he has a family back home.
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Describe one scene showing how chance and fate play a role in the novel.
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Chance and fate play a role when Paul is giving the prisoners some of his potato cakes and cigarettes. This show fate because it's revealing that the two opposing sides could someday be together and get along. The soldiers just have to take that chance of it not working out in order for it to work
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At the beginning of ch.10 what do the men do collectively that makes them feel "normal" once again?
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they make a bed and cool dinner (2 pigs) in an abandoned area.
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Who is seriously injured in ch.10?
Definition
Kropp
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Who is lewandowski? And who visits him?
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He is the oldest soldier in the hospital and his wife visits him so they can "catch up".
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Paul returns home once again in ch.10. T or F?
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True
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What country do Paul and his comerades represent in the war? In what war are they fighting?
Definition
Germany in WWI
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Who was Camus' wife? And why was she so crazy?
Definition
Simone Hie: Heroine addic, bragged about people she slept with
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What disease did Camus suffer from?
Definition
TB
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What is so ironic about Camus' death?
Definition
With him dying in a car accident, he once said that the most meaningless death would be to die in a car accident.
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What is Kierkegaard's main philospohy?
Definition
the idea that those who refuse to take responisbillity for themselves are living an "inauthentic existance". Take a leap of faith!
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What is the main concept of realization?
Definition
*We are alone
*We are free
*death renders life meaningless
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What is the main concept of suffering?
Definition
*There are too amny choices and sides
* These choices create anxiety
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The main concepts of redemption?
Definition
*we are responsible for our actions
*We are not powerless victims of fate
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What is the main plot for the peasant marey?
Definition
Takes place in a prison in which the prisoner recalls a time when he was a child and is afraid of a wolf. His fear is taken away when peasant assures him that there are no wolves.
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What is the boy's confession is the "first confession"?
Definition
That he wants to kill his grandmother and he put a knife to his evil sister.
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What is the general setting of "Father and I"?
Definition
It takes place in the woods when a father and son are walking along the train tracks. As it gets darker the son gets freightened by a mysterious train that is not recognizable.
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In "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" how does the old man's wings change?
Definition
The change from frail and dirty, to strong, clean and crisp
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