Final Flashcards

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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
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Chichina

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-Che’s girlfriend

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Silvia
-Che tried to stop her lepers from spreading
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Don Nestor
-young boy who is their guide in cuzco
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Pap Carlito
-a resident at leper colony
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Mambo-Tango
-raft given to Che by the leper colony
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La Poderosa
-the motorcycle they use to travel “the mighty one”
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Setting of the motorcycle diaries
South America 1951-1952
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Setting for the stranger
Algeria 1941
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Identify the main characters
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
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Conflict of the stranger
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
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How is the conflict resolved
He is hung in front of an audience upon his request
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Name of another absurdist author
Franz Kafka (the trial)
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Define existentialism
20th century term meaning that everyone has a unique purpose in life and it is what you do that counts
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Name another work that Camus did
The plague
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Atrocity
An extremely wicked of cruel act
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Circumlocution
Talking around a subject
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Depraved
Morally corrupt or wicked
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Avow
Assert of confess openly
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Effigy
A sculpture or model of a person
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Execrable
Extremely bad or unpleasant
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Fraudulent
Something obtained through deception
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Obloquy
Strong public criticism or verbal abuse
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Perjury
Lying while under oath in a court of law
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Palliating
Make something seem less serious
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Affliction
Something that causes pain or suffering
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Asylum
Shelter or protection from danger
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Consequence
A result or effect from a certain action
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Continual
Frequently recurring always happening
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Extensive
Covering or affecting a large area
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Metamorphosis
Change from one thing to another
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Penury
Extreme poverty
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Regenerate
Bring into renewed existence
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Sore
Severe urgent
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Wretch
Unfortunate or unhappy person