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What famine occurred during the Victorian era

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Irish potato famine

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What year did WWII begin and end

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1939 1945

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A Christmas carol was written by whom

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Charles dickens

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Who is the person responsible for creating the theory of evolution

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Charles Darwin

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Who wrote Das Kapital

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Karl Marx

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Interpretation of dreams was written by what Viennese

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Sigmund Freud

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Nicoli Lenin introduced what form of government

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Communism

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One painter who challenged Victorian standards

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Pablo Picasso

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Who sent 15 million Jews to their deaths

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Adolf Hitler

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A writer who describes the horrors of WWII death camps

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Eli Wiesel

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Antonio

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Merchant who almost loses a pound of flesh

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Shylock

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Jewish money lender

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Bassanio

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who is good friend of Antonio and loves Portia

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Portia

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wealthy heiress who marries bassanio

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Nerissa

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maid of Portia and marries gratiano

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Lancelot

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-bassanios servant

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Jessica

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shylocks daughter

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Gratiano

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-friend of bassanio loves nerissa

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Lorenzo

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-friend of Antonio and bassanio loves Jessica

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19
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Setting of merchant of Venice

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Venice renaissance era

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Alberto

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-Che’s best friend who travels with him

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Dr. Bresciani

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-head doctor at leper colony

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VonPuttkamer

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  • a couple where Che diagnoses the man with a tumor
23
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Chichina

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-Che’s girlfriend

24
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Silvia

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-Che tried to stop her lepers from spreading

25
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Don Nestor

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-young boy who is their guide in cuzco

26
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Pap Carlito

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-a resident at leper colony

27
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Mambo-Tango

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-raft given to Che by the leper colony

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La Poderosa

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-the motorcycle they use to travel “the mighty one”

29
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Setting of the motorcycle diaries

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South America 1951-1952

30
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Setting for the stranger

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Algeria 1941

31
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Identify the main characters

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Mersault- narrator who was no emotions
Salamano- M’s neighbor who beats his dog
Salamano- M’s neighbor who beats his dog
Marie- Loves M and becomes his wife

32
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Conflict of the stranger

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M vs. his lack of emotions when his mom died he did not cry he does not care for his wife and he did not care he shot a man 5 times

33
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How is the conflict resolved

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He is hung in front of an audience upon his request

34
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Name of another absurdist author

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Franz Kafka (the trial)

35
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Define existentialism

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20th century term meaning that everyone has a unique purpose in life and it is what you do that counts

36
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Name another work that Camus did

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The plague

37
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Atrocity

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An extremely wicked of cruel act

38
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Circumlocution

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Talking around a subject

39
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Depraved

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Morally corrupt or wicked

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Avow

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Assert of confess openly

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Effigy

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A sculpture or model of a person

42
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Execrable

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Extremely bad or unpleasant

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Fraudulent

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Something obtained through deception

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Obloquy

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Strong public criticism or verbal abuse

45
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Perjury

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Lying while under oath in a court of law

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Palliating

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Make something seem less serious

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Affliction

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Something that causes pain or suffering

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Asylum

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Shelter or protection from danger

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Consequence

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A result or effect from a certain action

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Continual

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Frequently recurring always happening

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Extensive

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Covering or affecting a large area

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Metamorphosis

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Change from one thing to another

53
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Penury

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Extreme poverty

54
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Regenerate

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Bring into renewed existence

55
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Sore

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Severe urgent

56
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Wretch

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Unfortunate or unhappy person

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