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| in whitman's "march in the ranks hard prest" and "the road unknown", what has been convereted into a hospital? |
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| Christopher McCandless died while living in or near what national park? |
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| key mistake krakauer says christopher mccandless made? |
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| Type of lifestyle thoreau repeatedly advocates in "where i lived and what i lived for"? |
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| Who is the subject of "o captain, my captain"? |
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| what is the last book mccandless read? |
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| neil's part in the play in dead poets society/ |
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| puck in midsummer night dream |
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| What is mccandless' greatest tragedy of his life? |
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| shooting a moose and watching the meat rot |
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| Krakauer draws comparisons between mccandless and which man-a photographer and former pipeline worker who forgot to arrange for a pilot to pick him up and eventually shot himself in the head rather than starve? |
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| Ronald Franz's request from Christopher? |
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| leading the cross country team |
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| Chris was in the wilderness for how many days before his death? |
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| "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." speaker and story? |
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| thoerau, where i lived and what i lived for |
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| thou shalt lie down with patriarchs of the infant world with kings , the powerful of the earth--the wise, the good, fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past all in one mighty sepulcher" speaker/story? |
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| "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all." spekaer/story? |
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| "I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul, the pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me...." speaker/story? |
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| "two years he walks the earth. no phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Though shalt not reutrn, 'cause the west is the best.' And now after the rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climatic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revoltuion...." |
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| transcendentalists believe that man, the universe and the natural world are all connected an intertwined by? |
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| krakauer climbs the ____. |
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| Krakauer originally wrote about mccandless' story for? |
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| three key traits of romanticism? |
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| nature, the past, intuition |
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| sentimentalism, gothic, transcendentalism |
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| What were three things found in town of jerusalem's lot? |
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| this story's descriptions are echoed in real life in "the fall o fthe house of usher"? |
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| Unusual features of the room in "yellow wallpaper"? |
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| bars on the windows, rings on the walls, bite marks on the bedposts |
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| signature that the devil leaves on tom walker after their first meeting? |
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| a black fingerprint on his forehead |
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| What happens to Tom walker's weath after he disappears? |
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| it turns to ash and trash |
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| zombies come from what country? |
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| "open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter" is an example of _____. |
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| action in yellow wallpaper that is seen as both insance and symbolic? |
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| ____cautions giovanni against entering rappacinni's garden. |
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| Book that is the center of jerusalem's lot? |
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| grandmother wants to vacation to______in "a good man is hard to find". |
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| phrases the voice repeats over and over in "long distance call"? |
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| hello, where are you, i want to talk to you |
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| three unusual features of the castle at the beginning of the outsider? |
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| bordered by thick forets, closed off from the sky, surrounded by a moat |
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| name for the overall mythological system created by h.p lovecraft involving the "great old ones", horrific figures htat sleep below the earth and affect men's minds? |
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| what is the biographical event inspiring the raven? |
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| the long illness of his wife |
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| What is the phiolosophy the misfit proposes as the way to live? |
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| Gothic originally referred to as _____. |
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| gothic writers typically set a mood or atmosphere though descriptions of _____. |
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| southern gothic literautre emphasizes the ______, the physical deformities that reflect inner spiritual deformities. |
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| ______is often considered the founder/father of the gothic tradition in America. |
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| ______contains several autobiographical elements from the author's life. |
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| in the 1968 movie, _______, probably sparked the zombie craze in the 20th century. |
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| the night of the living dead |
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| in jerusalem's lot, the main house, the ancestral home of the Boone family is known by the name of ______. |
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| Two dead corpses hidden in the walls is from what story? |
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| What story provides commentary on the story of adam and eve? |
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| What story suggests art as a metaphor for mental health? |
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| the fall of the house of usher |
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| ONe of teh two works that refers to the anti depressant drug known as nepenthe? |
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| roderick and madeline are in what story? |
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| miss elva is from what story? |
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| Washington irving wrote_____. |
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| flannery o'connor wrote _______. |
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| a good man is hard to find |
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| What story includes a poem called "the haunted palace"? |
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| the fall of the house of usher |
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| the misfit is in what story? |
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| a good man is hard to find |
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| the pale blue "vulture eye" is in what story? |
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| gothic writing often attacks? |
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| purple flowers and a broken fountain are key symbols in this story:______. |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gillman wrote ______. |
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| ______evokes the oral tradition by repetition of phrases such as "so they say". |
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| What are four principles emphasized in cult of the womanhood? |
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| domesticity, moral puirty, religious piety, and submissiveness |
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| "it is the duty of the writer to lift up, to extend, to encourage." |
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| Where and when was steinbeck born? |
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| salinas, california in 1902 |
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| What were the names of john steinbeck's parents? |
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| john steinbeck sr. and olive hamilton steinbeck |
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| Where did john steinbeck attend college? where did he write? |
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| Steinbeck wrote in the ______and the name of his article was ______. |
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| new york american; too subjective |
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| steinbeck's first marriage was in ______. |
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| Two of steinbeck's other books known as _____and ____both deal with the issue of the great depression/dust bowl. |
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| of mice and men and the grapes of wrath |
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| near the end of his career steinbeck won _____in 1962. |
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| nobel prize for literature |
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| steinbeck died in ____after a series of strokes. |
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| Steinbeck had____years of mental gestation. ____years of uniteruupted writing and ___ dozen pencils. |
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| in east of eden, the hamilton family symbolizes ____and the trask family symbolizes_____. |
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| steinbeck's own family; the first family (cain and abel) |
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| ______means to rise out of the much and arrive at something better, moving to new environments. |
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| East of Eden questions how men ______. |
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| deal with and overcome the evil he will inevitably meet |
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| Who drank blood in the crucible? |
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| Why does Danforth refuse to postpone the hangings? |
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| he is afraid it will look as though he wrongly executed innocent people |
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| What kind of government does Salem have? |
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| Giles corey suggests _____is Mr. Putnam's motivation for accusing others of witchcraft. |
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| Proctor ultimately refuses to give up his _____. |
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| What is the type of literary devie the author of "huswifery" uses when he compares cloth-making to the refinement of one's soul? |
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| First poet of America and author of the Tenth Muse that sprung up late in America? |
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| Goodman Brown's walking companion in "young goodman brown"? |
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| Young Goodman Brown is an example of which literary term, in that objects and characters stand for abstract concepts:_____ |
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| Elia Kazan made what film as a justification for his decision to testify against communism in America? |
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| Who led the congressional communism trials of the 1950s? |
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| Improvement to the church that Revered Parris preaches about for 20 weeks, according to Procotor? |
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| Who is the first character accused of witchract by the accusing girls? |
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| Tactics used by the girls against Mary Warren? |
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| pretending that Mary is chilling them with her spirit, pretending Mary has taken another form, pretending Mary is forcing them to repeat her words |
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| Concerns expressed by Rev. Hale about the Proctors? |
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| they have unbaptized children, and do not know all of the commandments, infrequent attendance at church |
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| Commandment proctor forgets? |
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| thou shalt not commit adultery |
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| Parris argues about hanging Proctor because he is ______. |
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| concerend for his own safety |
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| Symbolic item in "young goodman brown" that is closely associated with faith? |
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| author of "half hanged mary" |
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| In the opening lines of the poem, "half hanged mary" blames her association with witchcraft on what three things? |
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| her gender, her lack of a huband, and her lack of money |
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| In Act III of the Crucible, which character first accuses John Proctor of being "the devil's man"? |
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| who receives a salary of either 60 or 66 pounds, depending on who you ask? |
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| "There be no blush about my name." |
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| "it were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits." |
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| "The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you." |
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| "it is not for you to say what is good for you to hear." (the crucible) |
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| "I never know what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men." (the crucible) |
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| "we cannot look to superstition in this, the Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite in stone" (the crucible) |
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| "I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves." |
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| "If you believe I may do only good work in the world, and yet be secretly bound to Satan, then I tell you sir, I do not believe it." |
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| "The girl is murder. She must be ripped out of the world." (the crucible) |
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| "There is great contention, sir, about the cows. Contention make him week, sir; it were always a man that weep for contention." (the crucible) Who is the "him" int he quote? |
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| Who is the first person Tituba accuses of being a witch? |
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| What is the first thing Jim wants to do when he reaches a free state? |
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| Where do Huck and JIm both hide and eventually find each toher? |
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| What si the probably model for Pencey prep in cather in the rye? |
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| Valley Forge Military Academy |
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| character in Huck Finn that seems to represent the point of view of realism? |
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| gift from Holden that Phoebe promises to save? |
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| the broken pieces of "little shirley beans" |
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| his father's identity is unknownn to the people, worshippers bring him gifts a child, he causes a transformation for the better in people around him |
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| major sources of allusion according to how to read literature like a professor? |
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| the bible, shakespeare, children'sliterature |
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| Why is Holden at Pencey Prep instead of in New York where he wants to be when the novel begins? |
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| he lost school sports equipment and had to cancel a team trip |
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| Where does Holden spend the night after leaving Mr. Antolini who may or may not have come on to him? |
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| What is one of HOlden's fantasies (a sign of his alienation from the world around him)? |
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| According to the "Praise and Criticisms" article, what do most critcics see as the climax of catcher in the rye? |
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| watching phoebe ride the carousel |
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| What statement does Holden reject as not corresponding to his own experiences? |
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| What does HOlden say is the best part of the Natural HIstory Museum? |
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| Everything stays the same; nothing changes |
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| In the article on Catcher in the Rye, Salinger's novel was compared to two other great works of literature: ____and______. |
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| hamlet and the adventures of huck finn |
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| Holden's immaturity, desire to be an adult, nd wish to escape are all evident when he goes on a date ice skating and for drinks with_____. |
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| "her anger has a snake coiled in the pit of her stomach" is an example of a _____. |
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| Who is found floating in a house in Huck finn? |
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| Who is found floating in a house in Huck finn? |
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| Who leaves the bulk of his estate to his brothers, harvey and william in huck finn? |
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| Who is the most blatantly racist character in huck finn? |
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| Who performs magic with "a hair ball as big as your fist" in huck finn? |
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| domesticity, religious piety, moral purity, submissiveness |
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| who is considered the father of gothic american literature? |
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| What is the fate of abigail williams? |
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| runs away and becomes a prostitute |
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| Which author’s descendants gave his writings to Yale though he only published 2 stanzas in his life? |
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| What kind of car does chris mccandless drive? |
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| Name the essay thoreau wrote after spending a night in jail |
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| What causes samuel hamilton to finally feel old? |
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| who was the first philosopher to suggest transcendentalism? |
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| Who tried to blackmail kate? |
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