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Books Flashcards

1
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Modern black author, teacher

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James Baldwin
Go tell it on the mountain
Notes of a native son

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Who were the main characters of Don Quixote?

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Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Rocinante
Dapple
Dulcinea del Toboso

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What was the Algonquin Round Table?

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1919-1929 Algonquin Hotel
Formerly the Vicious Circle
NYC writers, critics and actors
Ruth Hale - woman’s rights writer
Robert Benchley- grandpa to Peter

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Who wrote Don Quixote?

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Miguel de Cervantes

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What are the modern sailing books and who wrote them?

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Sailing a serious ocean
Sailing to the edge of time
John Kretschmer

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What was the book about the black guy in LA who ran a farm in his house?

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The Sellout - Paul Beatty

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When was Don Quixote written?

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1605-1615

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Who wrote “Remains of the Day”?

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Who wrote “Unbearable lightness of being”?

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Mila Kundera (1929- )

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Who wrote the Goldfinch?

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Donna Tartt

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Book about modern layers of society, jealosy

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Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

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12
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What else did Mila Kundera write?

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Book of laughter and forgetting

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13
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William Faulkner

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1897-1962
The Sound and the Fury

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Ayn Rand

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Atlas Shrugged
Fountainhead

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Albert Camus - most famous book

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The Stranger

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16
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Who wrote “The Color Purple”

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Alice Walker, 1944-

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Mark Twain

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1835-1910
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer

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18
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Pride and Prejudice

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Jane Austen
1813

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Moby Dick

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Herman Melville
1851

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Jane Austen - books

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Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Couples should improve/ educate each other

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21
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Characters from Pride and Prejudice

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Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Bennet
Mr Darcy
Mr Wickham

22
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Jane Austen - life

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1787-1817

23
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Little Women

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Louisa May Alcott, 1868

24
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Compare Little Women to Pride and Prejudice

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Both have strong protagonists
P&P is more about women not being bound by class
Little Women is about women not being bound by gender roles

25
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Count of Monte Cristo author

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Alexandre Dumas
1844

26
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Main Characters from Moby Dick

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Ishmael - Author
Captain Ahab
Queequeg
Starbuck
Stubb
Ship - Pequod

27
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Theme of Moby DIck

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Man cannot completely conquer nature
Revenge can consume you
Limits of knowledge-Melville knows lots, but the whale still wins

28
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Characters from Sound and Fury

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Quentin
Jason
Caddie
Benjy
Dilsey

29
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Theme of Sound and Fury

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Time is circular - like Arrival
Some characters hate time
Dilsey and Benjy are free of it
Dilsey is spiritual
Benjy doesn’t understand time.

30
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Main characters from Sense and Sensibility

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Elinor Dashwood
Marianne Dashwood
Edward Ferrars
John Willoughby

31
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Haiku Structure

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three lines
Syllables = 575

32
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Which Sense and Sensibility character do you identify with?

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Edward Ferrars- soft spoken, conversation > money

33
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Where does the title for Sense amd Sensibility come from?

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Sense = Elinor - good sense, practical
Sensibility = Marianne (more passionate, optimistic
34
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Sense and Sensibility

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Head and heart
Neither on its own is perfect
Balance is the key

35
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Jane Austen inspiration

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She almost inherited Stoneleigh Abbey from a relation who had no spouse and children
She oscillated between wealth and poverty.
Grew up with status but not wealth

36
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Girls from Little Women

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Jo March
Beth March
Meg March
Amy March
Marmee

37
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One hundred years of solitude

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967

38
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The Left Hand of Darkness

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Ursula K Le Guin
1969

39
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Who wrote Midnight’s Children?

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Salman Rushdie

40
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Who wrote Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

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Douglas Adams

41
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Main character from HG2G?

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Arthur Dent

42
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Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë 1847
Written as Currer Bell
Gender and Class

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44
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Pride and Prejudice vs
Jane Eyre
Approach / Characters

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PP-funny, intelligent, beautiful characters, romcom archetype

JE- dramatic, plain characters,

45
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Pride and Prejudice vs Jane Eyre themes

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PP- status / wealth
JE- status / wealth AND gender/feminism

46
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Departure

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Abfahrt

47
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A question

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Eine Frage

48
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Main characters from To Kill a Mockingbird

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Scout, Jem, Atticus Finch
Boo Radley, Tom Robinson

49
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Two aspects of Dickens’ strategy

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1) address social ills
2) build empathy for low status characters who suffer the social ills.

50
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Did Dickens spend more effort on defining problems or solutions?

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All defining problems/questions, no effort on solutions.

51
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Significance of the title “To Kill a Mockingbird”

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End of innocence- Scout, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson

52
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Common threads between Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

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VERY similar
A) Kurtz and his MO
B) harlequin and Dennis Hopper

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