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Main character befriends a native, whom he names “Friday.”

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Robinson Crusoe

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What is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn classified as?

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Classified as a picaresque novel

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who grew up in hannibal, missouri

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Mark twain

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If “mississipi river” guess which author?

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Mark Twain

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What is Kim by Kipling classified as?

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Classified as a picaresque novel

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“Shun the frumious Bandersnatch”

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Jabberwocky

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What is a Picaresque novel?

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Depicts a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society

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What is the second stop of Gullicer’s travels?

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Second stop: Brobdingnag (home of giants)

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Rum Tum Tugger

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

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Natty Bumpo

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The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer

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What book was Inspiration for the Broadway musical “Cats” by Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

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100 stories told by 10 youths hiding from the Black Death outside Florence.

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The Decameron

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What type of story is The Decameron?

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Frame Story

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Sancho Panza

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Don Quixote

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The four sisters of the March family, the most important of which was Josephine “Jo” March

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Little Women

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Pangloss

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Candide (Candide’s ridiculous tutor)

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What is the first stop of Gullicer’s travels?

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First stop: Lilliput (land of little people)

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“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan”

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Kubla Khan

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Starting point of The Canterbury Tales

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The Tabard Inn

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Tilting against windmills

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Don Quixote

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What are two of the five novels collectively known as the Leatherstocking Tales

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The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer

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Don Quixote

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Don Quixote

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What is a Bildungsroman?

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A coming-of-age tale

20
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Jellicle cats

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

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Set in Nero’s Rome

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Quo Vadis by Sienkiewick

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The Republic of Gilead has replaced the USA

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The Handmaid’s Tale

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What elements does the novel Candide by Voltaire use?

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Elements of a picaresque, but more a bildungsroman

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Cunegone

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Candide (Lady who is the object of Candide’s affections)

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El dorado or “over the mountains in the moon”

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El Dorado by poe

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The kingdom by the sea

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Anabellee

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What book is a collection of Stories told by a company of pilgrims

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The Canterbury Tales

31
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Aldonza / Dulcinea

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Don Quixote

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What essay says that the British should eat the Irish babies.

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A Modest Proposal

33
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What author is classified as Metaphysical?

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Donne

34
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What was Mark twain’s first major work?

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Celebrated jumping forg of Calaveras County

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Setting: Yoknapatawpha County

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(as are many of Faulkner’s works)

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Candide

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Candide

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What type of Novel is Moll Flanders

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Classified as a picaresque novel

38
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Offred (the narrator and main character)

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The Handmaid’s Tale

39
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“The fog comes in / on little cat feet”

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Fog by Sandburg

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”

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Endymion by Keats

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“‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves”

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Jabberwocky

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“O my Luve’s like a red, red rose”

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A Red, Red Rose

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“All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.”

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Pangloss’s enunciation of that philosophy: in candide by voltaire

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“tin tin abulation” or the bells

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The bells

46
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Define: Frame Story

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A literary technique where the introduction provides a framework for including a set of shorter pieces.

47
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Written for and read at the 1993 inauguration of President Clinton

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On the Wings of Morning

48
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

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Sonnet 18 by shakespear

49
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“Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright”

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The Tyger

50
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Destination of The Canterbury Tales

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The Shrine of Thomas a’Becket at the Canterbury Cathedral

51
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Old Deuteronomy

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

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