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0
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What is one biblical example which shows the importance of language?

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Tower of Babel

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Why should one study English grammar and literature?

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To communicate effectively

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What are the five parts of a letter?

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Heading, salutation, body, closing, signature

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Tf The morlocks battled with the eloi, hid the time machine, and lived underground.

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True

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The time traveler was disappointed that the future civilizations and not advanced very much.

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True

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The time machine was hidden in there palace of green porcelain.

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False

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In the fight between the morlocks and the time traveller, no body actually dies.

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False

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After returning to the present, the time traveller leaves again and did not return.

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True

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The narrator ends the book by saying that humanity will grow worse and become extinct.

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False

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Eliza?

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Pacing goose

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About Eliza?

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Got a goose
Named it
Raised it
Won it back in court after it was stolen

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Jim?

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Gift of the magi

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About Jim?

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Della’s husband
Poor businessman
Sells prized watch to buy combs for Della

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Fortunato?

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The cask of amontillado

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About Fortunato?

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Angered Montresor and was buried alive by him

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Young scout?

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War

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About young scout?

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Rode on spy mission

Killed by man he spared

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Semi barbaric king?

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Lady or tiger?

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About semi barbaric king?

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Sets up an arena where the offender gets eaten by a tiger or married
Princess’s boyfriend underwent it

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Daydreamed heroically?

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Secret life of Walter Mitty

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About Walter Mitty?

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Dreamed he was a pilot, doctor,and more

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Madame forestier?

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The necklace

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About Madame forestier?

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Lent Madame loisel a paste diamond necklace

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General Zaroff?

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Most dangerous game

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About general Zaroff?

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Hunted people for fun

Killed by rainsford, a man he hunted

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What gives hints as to what will come next in the story?

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Foreshadowing

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A character’s actions in a setting bring about unexpected results

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Irony of situation

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A characters struggles in his or her mind about what to do

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Internal conflict

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The story is told revealing all the characters’ thoughts and actions

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Omniscient point of view

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The continuation of a story in another story, especially when items remain unresolved

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Sequel

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A reference to older literature, history, or art,that the author expects the reader to know

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Allusion

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How does the cask of amontillado handle foreshadowing effectively?

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Montresor tells how he cannot handle his anger at Fortunato

He kills Fortunato

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What was the evidence that convinced judge pomeroy?

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Eliza could recognize Samantha, knew about geese, and knew that, unlike other geese, Samantha could pace

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33
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What is unusual about the resolution to the lady or the tiger?

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There is none

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Why did o. Henry call this story the gift of the magi?

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The gifts Della and Jim gave each other were big sacrifices

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Irony of situation in the necklace?

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Madame loisel loses her youth to replace a paste necklace

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How does the ending of war show the author’s disapproval of war?

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The innocent young man is killed because he spared a life

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Careful, cautious

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Circumspect

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Lasting a long time, persistent, a plant living many years

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Perennial

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Brief and to the point

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Terse

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Loose in one’s morals or behavior

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Dissolute

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In the gift of the magi, Della and Jim were poor but still had a great love for each other.

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True

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The etymology of a word refers to its history and often highlights the country of origin.

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True

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In the necklace, the couple worked very hard to raise funds to replace the lost necklace.

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True

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The lady who lost the necklace finally confessed to the borrower that she had lost it

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True

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The necklace’s owner expressed thanks for all the sacrifices that had been made to obtain it.

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False

46
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The couple had paid 36000 Francs for a necklace when the original was only worth 500.

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True

47
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By not naming the characters nor the armies, London shows that any war usually has injustices.

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True

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The young scout is killed when a cannonball explodes over his head.

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False

49
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Exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess

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Superfluous

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To offer arguments or evidence that contradicts an assertion

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Rebut

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A very steep cliff,the brink or edge of disaster

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Precipice

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Not running or flowing, foul from standing still
Inactive
Dull

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Stagnant

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Grimly or scornfully mocking

Bitterly sarcastic

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Sardonic

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To make right

Correct

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Rectify

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Sad

Dreary

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Doleful

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Very brave
Fearless
Unshakable

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Intrepid

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Not letting light through
Not clear or lucid
Dense
Stupid

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Opaque

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A temporary relief or delay

To grant a postponement

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Reprieve

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Five ways to combine sentences

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Punctuation
Coordination
Reduction
Apposition
Subordination
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Punctuation?

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Semi colon

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Coordination?

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Equal clauses

And, but, or, so

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Reduction?

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Reduced to a small clause

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Apposition?

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Reduce to clause describing subject

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Subordination?

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One more important than the other

When, although, if, as, who, what, that

65
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Research usually starts with a person’s curiosity about a subject

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True

66
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After gaining info and understanding, the next step is outlining.

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True

67
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It is helpful to develop a question that you think you can answer through research

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True

68
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Reading general sources is usually not helpful and wastes time

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False

69
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Often you must read around a topic in a general way until you find an area that appeals to you.

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True

70
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The paper that you write on customs and values in ancient Greece will be 3 pages.

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False

71
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Keeping track of your sources is optional, so notecards are not very helpful.

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False

72
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One one side of a notecard should be the source, and on the other should be the idea of the source

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True

73
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On one side of the card should be. A key word or phrase, the source number, the page number, and info from the source

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True

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You can write n. Pag. If no page number

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True

75
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You use a direct quote when you want to give the main idea of a source

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False

76
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You use a paraphrase when you wAnt to show the author’s exact words

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False

77
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When you quote an author’s exact words, you should put quotation mark around them.

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True

78
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Copying someone word for word without quotation marks is plagiarism.

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True

79
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Clearly distinguish in a research paper what are your idea and what are others ideas

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True

80
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When in doubt, give credit to your source or you will be stealing.

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True

81
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Odyssey was written around 800 BC

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True

82
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The author of the odyssey was Cronus

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False

83
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The clever Odysseus was responsible for the fall of Troy, ending the Trojan war

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True

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It takes Odysseus ten years to go from Troy to Ithaca.

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True

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Odysseus tells his adventures to queen Scylla, ruler of thrinacia.

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False

86
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Eating the lotus made the eater want to stay forever with the other lotus eaters.

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True

87
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To escape the sirens, Odysseus is tied to the mast and his men have wax put in their ears.

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True

88
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How much does Della have for Christmas?

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$1.87

89
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What are the three ways to use information on notecards?

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Summarizing, paraphrasing, and direct quoting

90
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Who is scylla?

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The monster with 6 heads who takes one man per head to eat when ships pass

91
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What is Charybdis?

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A whirlpool

92
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Which does Odysseus head to?

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Scylla

93
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Who warned Odysseus about these terrors?

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Circe

94
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What did Circe say about Scylla?

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Don’t use arms

95
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What happens with Zeus’s cattle?

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Odysseus warns his men
They eat them anyways
Odysseus fell asleep 
Lampetia tells Zeus of his loss
Zeus destroys the ship in a storm, and it is lost to Charybdis
Odysseus clings to a branch and survives
Calypso saves him
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What is the suitors plan?

A

Kill Telemachus

97
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What did Athena disguise o as?

A

Old beggar

98
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What happens when Odysseus reveals himself?

A

Telemachus doesn’t believe at first
Later he does
They figure out a plan
Have servants help

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Argos?

A

Odysseus’s dog who he got as a pup, but never used.

Now it is old and recognizes him, and soon dies

100
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Who is eumaeus?

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A swine herd who Helps him

101
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What does Penelope do with the BEGGAR?

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Have him be taken cAre of

102
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What happens before the challenge?

A

Penelope questions him

O says he met o and that he is alive and will come

103
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What was the challenge?

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String Odysseus’s bow and shoot it through 12 axe handle sockets.

104
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What is Penelope’s second test?

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If o recognizes his bed

105
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How does it end?

A

O has is land and kingdom back

106
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What is a tentative thesis?

A

A statement that tells what your paper will be about

107
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What are the 7 deadly thesis errors?

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No fragments
No questions
No I thinks
No irrelevancies
Clear language
Not muddled or incoherent
Not figurative
108
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What do you do with your notecards?

A

Organize by slugs, or subject

109
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What should you do after sorting notecards?

A

Determine main and sub headings for outline

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