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Sunjata is an oral epic that is set in:

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Africa

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The blending of different cultures and traditions is called:

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Tapestry

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Sunjata blends these 3 genres:

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Epic poem, praise poetry (hyperbole), & song

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Sunjata emphasises this religion, which became the religion of the ruling classes in different empires

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Islam

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Sunjata is the central story to which culture in Western Africa?

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Mande

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Sunjata (Lion King) was the founder of the Mali Empire in which centuries?

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13th-15th

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Great leader identified with a particular people or society, superhuman, flawed, overcome great adversities/trials/often goes on a great journey:

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Epic hero

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Oral performer, keeper of history: Ex. Genealogist, musicians, praisesingers, spokespersons, and diplomats

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Jeli or Griot

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With oral tradition, no one single author and story - story is retold (True/False)

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True

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Call/Response, Ideophone (attempt to recreate sounds with words), Repetition, Songs

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Oral quality shown in text

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Cultural/National identity, historical significance, blending of traditions, Inspiration

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Story importance in Sunjata

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At the opening of Sunjata two hunters rid the Mande lands of a fierce dragon that is creating great havoc.

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False

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Sunjata's mother, Sogolon, is known for her great beauty.

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False

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Griots or jeliw are known for their sorcerery or magic

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False

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Sunjata dates back to the late 13th, early 14th century.

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True

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Sunjata is made lame when the jealous Mande women stretch the tendons in his feet.

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True

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Sunjata's step brother, Dankaran Tuman, is his biggest supporter.

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False

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As Islam spread to different countries and continents, it often allowed local religious practices to exist alongside Islam.

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True

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The purpose of the word "Naamu" that is repeated on the right column of the Sunjata text is not understood by scholars today.

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False

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Sunjata was a great king of which empire?

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Mali

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Ultimately, the tyrant Sumaworo is defeated because he falls into a deep ravine and Fakoli strikes him several times with his ax.

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True

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rebirth or revival and imitation of antiquity, artistic creativity, zest for life and knowledge, individual achievement

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Renaissance definition

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Full developed characters, focus on internal, mental and psychological

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Ren. Lit Characteristics

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1) Earth moves around the sun 2) Galileo's improvements to the telescope 3) Discovery of the New World

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Revolutionary Changes

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(T/F) Renaissance period focused on life now, not glory later

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True

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(T/F) There because a delight in earthy achievements such as virtue or skill, and fame & glory

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True

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Rebirth:

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Improve to return to classics

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Idea of returning to the culture of Greece & Rome - inspiration sought in ancient or classic texts

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Humanism

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Self-scrutiny thru love poems to Laura (about her, but also self-focused); Struggles between earthly (secular) and spiritual desires; Laura as both "divine guide & earthly temptress"; Influenced Ovid (Roman poet) and Dante

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Dichotomy in Rime Sparse

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Characteristics of Petrarchan poems:

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1) Hyperbole (exaggeration) 2) Oxymoron (contradiction) "sweet pain" 3) Often in sonnet form (Octer, Seset)

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Father of Humanism

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Petrarch (1304-1374)

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(T/F) Don Quixote is a parody or satire

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True

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Imitation of a writer, artist, genre, work with exaggeration for comic effect for mock/ridicule

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Parody

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Imitation, Irony, Sarcasm, Absurdity, Exaggeration, "Slapstick" humor

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Parody techniques

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Windmill scene from Man of La Mancha can be seen as:

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Slapstick humor

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What century was Don Quixote published?

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17th century (1600's)

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What is said to have led to Quixote's madness?

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Reading books of chivalry for days at a time

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Sancho Panza

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Don Quixote's "squire"

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Knight of the Wood/Mirrors

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is defeated in a battle with Don Quixote

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performs Don Quixote's knighting ceremony

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The Inkeeper

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spent time being held for ransom by pirates and also spent time in prison

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Cervantes

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(T/F) Near the end of Part Two, Don Quixote dies still insisting that he is a knight.

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False

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One of Don Quixote's adventures involves an encounter with a lion. (T/F)

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True

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Which of the following experiences is one the Don Quixtote does NOT have in the novel? A) He fights other "knights" B) He fights windmills believing they are giants C) He kisses his "lady", Dulcinea. D) He believes he rescues a young lad from being beaten by his master, when in reality he makes things worse for the young man.

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C

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What centuries was the Enlightenment period centered around?

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17th and 18th

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"Dependable guide", reliance on human authority, notion of divine rights of kings rejected, revolutions/new nations

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Characteristics of the Enlightenment

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"I think therefore I am", produced comfort and anxiety

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Philosophy

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Entirely rational physical and moral universe

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Deism

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A means of bringing order, rigid class system, strict code of conduct, society favored over individual

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Society's role during the Enlightenment

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(T/F) Voltaire is a penname

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True

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(T/F) Voltaire was imprisoned and exiled for his satiric writing

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True

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Humor and wit, Irony, Exaggeration, Ridcule

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Satire

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Gap between what is expressed and what is intended

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Irony

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Lack of seriousness during serious events in Candide

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Irony

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Human rights, value of freedom and tolerance, progress through reasoned debate, desire to end human suffering

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Voltaire and the Enlightenment

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German philosopher focused on optimism with the belief is in unknowable universal order, best of all possible worlds, Pangloss was a character from this philosopher

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Leibniz

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Voltaire is a writer associated with the Renaissance period. (T/F)

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False

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Candide is expelled from the Baron's castle early in the novel because he is caught kissing the Baron's daughter. (T/F)

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True

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How does Candide respond to the two men in Cunegonde's life?

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He stabs them with his sword.

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Candide wants Martin's companionship because the two men share the same optimistic view of life.

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False

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In the novel, several characters who are presumed dead reappear again later in the novel.

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True

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What ultimately happens to the Baron and his wife?

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They are killed

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Why are there no courts or prisons in El Dorado?

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Citizens do not break laws.

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Eventually, the Baron's son comes to accept Candide as a worthy husband for his sister, Cunegonde.

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False

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What activity brings Candide pleasure at the end of the novel?

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Gardening

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1) Stress placed on sacredness of ordinary individual 2) Suspicion of social institutions 3) Belief in expressed feeling as the sign of authenticity 4) Interest in nature and natural world 5) No set rules style/structure

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Characteristics of Romanticism

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2 Revolutions

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1- Industrial 2- Democratic (American & French Revolution)

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English farmers as entrepreneurs

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Industrial Revolution

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Romanticism was which century?

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19th century

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1) Assault on social institutions 2) Development of middle class 3) People might rise against oppressors 4) Interest in nature by writers 5) Society as the corrupting force

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Aspects of 19th century life

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1) Visual arist/poet 2) Shared political beliefs of Enlightenment thinkers but rejected their "cold rationality" 3) Religious dissenter 4) Spoke out against economic inequality

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William Blake

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1) Plain, forceful language 2) Complicated systems of allegorical images and symbols 3) Apparently simple but highly complex

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Blake's Poetry

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Poetry used to give a voice to the ordinary individual and his authentic emotions and to expose economic inequality and social injustice; voice of storyteller evokes emotions in the reader

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Importance of story romantic poetry

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When was Hedda Gabler published?

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1980

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Hedda Gabler is set in:

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Norway

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George Tesman is quite cruel and unloving to his elderly Aunt Juliane. (T/F)

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False

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Which best describes Berta, the Tesman's maid?

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Eager to please

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Hedda is of a higher social class than her husband George. (T/F)

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true

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When confiding in Judge Brack, Hedda describes her honeymoon as

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boring

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When the play begins, Tesman assumes Eilert is no longer a rival for the academic job he wants because

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Eilert has become an alcoholic

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How does Tesman come to possess Eilert's manuscript?

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Eilert accidently drops it and Tesman finds it.

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When Eilert hints that he intends to commit suicide, Hedda's response is to

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to give him her father's pistol

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What is Hedda last act before she dies?

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to play the piano

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Realism is associated with which century?

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19th century

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1) Unvarnished truth 2) Unsentimentally 3) Personality of author suppressed

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Characteristics of realism

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Modern realism's purpose

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Prompt readers to try to change the world

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Originator or modern drama

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Ibsen - wanted to show the ugly behind the facade of middle class respectability & to expose the lies of the bourgeois

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T/F Hedda Gabler expresses the tragedy of modern middle class

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True

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1) focus on characters actions and not thoughts/motivations 2) limited access to the authors thoughts/interpretations 3) limited setting and brief time frame

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Drama - How Hedda Gabler is a work of realism

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Longing to live a life of ideals as well as the destructive effects of that idealism; Power coming from manipulating others lives; Hedda as writer of her own story

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Importance of story in Hedda Gabler

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When was Things Fall Apart written? When is the story set in?

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Written in 20th century, set in 19th

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Achebe's purpose in writing Things Fall Apart can best be described as

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to counteract earlier portrayals of the African culture by writing an account of its complexity and richness

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What crop is king in Umuofia?

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yams

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The main character, Okonkwo, would best be described how?

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hardworking and fearful of being weak

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In Umuofia, clan members exchange this during social occasions.

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kola nuts

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Okonkwo finds his son, Nwoye, to be weak and wishes he was more masculine. (T/F)

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True

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For what reason is Okonkwo exiled?

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For unintentionally killing a clan member

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Nwoye converts to Christianity and takes the new name:

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Isaac

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Why won't Okonkwo's clansmen touch his dead body?

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Because suicide is considered an adomination and his body is considered evil.

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The novel ends with whose words and thoughts?

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The District Commissioner

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Things Fall Apart was written by

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Chinua Achebe

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1) Born in Nigeria 2) Christian/European Upbringing (Albert) 3) Spent much time in America and Europe

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Chinua Achebe

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1) Responds to distorted image of African culture offered by british colonial literature 2) Writers social responsibility

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Importance of story in Things Fall Apart

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