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1
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When was Mary Shelley born?

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August 30, 1797

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Mary Shelley’s mother?

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?

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A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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What were Mary Wollstonecraft’s occupations?

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Author and female rights activist

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What did Mary Wollstonecraft argue for?

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Education and value of women

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Who was Mary Shelley’s father?

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William Godwin

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What were William Godwin’s occupations?

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Author and philosopher

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Mary Shelley was born in the aftermath of the _____________ ________ (1803-1815) and the rise of the _____________ __________.

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Napoleonic Wars, Industrial Revolution

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Mary Shelley’s mother died of __________ _______ 8 days after Mary’s birth.

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Puerperal Fever

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10
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William Godwin later married ________ _______ ____________.

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Mary Jane Clairmont

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Did Mary get along with her step mother?

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no

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Percy B. Shelley was married ________ _______, who was pregnant with his child, when he met Mary Shelley. She was translating the ___________ when he met her.

A

Harriet Shelley, Aeneid

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Mary and Percy ran off together when she was 16 (almost 17) to France and took her step-sister, __________ ___________ with them.

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Claire Clairmont

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Estrangement with _________ resulted for almost 2 years until she finally married Percy.

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father

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Percy Shelley was a ___________ poet and author.

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Romantic

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meaning of Romantic

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heightened awareness, nature

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Mary and Percy’s first child was born 22 Feb 1815 (2 months premature), but the baby died 6 March. (She lost __ more children in the next __ years.)

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2, 3

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18
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What made Mary Shelley begin obscuring the line between life and death?

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She dreamed that her baby came back to life.

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Mary Shelley’s works (4)

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Frankenstein (1818)
Mathilda (1819)
Valperga; or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823)
The Last Man (1826)

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Full name of Frankenstein

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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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Meaning of modern in Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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Scientific

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22
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Frankenstein was published in ________ when Shelley was only ____ years old.

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1818, 19

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23
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She started writing it in 1816 as a result of a _____ ______ __________ involving Mary, Lord Byron, Percy, and Byron’s doctor, Dr. Polidori.

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ghost story competition

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Dr. Polidori wrote _____ __________ during this competition and had it published in 1819. _________ and other vampire stories evolved from this novel.

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The Vampire, Dracula

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25
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How many versions of Frankenstein have been published? Best?

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3, 1st

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It was originally published ____________ with a preface by Percy Shelley, so people assumed it had been written by __ ______.

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anonymously, a man

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27
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The novel is set in the late _______, all over Switzerland, Germany, and the Arctic.

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1700s

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28
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The _________ form, which means that a novel is comprised of ________, creates a story within a story within a story.

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epistolary, letters

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29
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_______ ________ in epistolary format were a popular genre during Shelley’s time, and she even kept her own epistolary journals when she and Percy travelled together after leaving England.

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Travel journals

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30
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She referred to her travel journal while writing Frankenstein. Notice Victor’s hometown is ________, which is where Shelley was when she wrote her story.

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Geneva

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31
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Through this format 3 people tell the story: _______ ________, ________ _______ and ______ _________.

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Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton, and the creature

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32
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Significance of Justine’s name

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mock justice

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33
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Significance of Victor’s name

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mock victory (made life, ended badly)

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34
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Significance of the creature not having a name

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dehumanizes, not worthy of a name, not claimed by anyone

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35
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Is the novel meant to condemn scientific exploration?

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no

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36
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__________ and _______ _________ constantly talked about scientific exploration in front of Mary, and she was interested in it.

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Percy and Lord Byron

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37
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muscle spasms in dead form when electricity is used.

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galvanism

38
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Double self or shadow

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doppelgänger

39
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_______ become parentless and isolated, like his ________.

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Victor, creature

40
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How does Frankenstein become a Cain figure?

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He kills loved ones through his creature

41
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Why is the creature a doppelgänger for Mary?

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She was rejected by her father (after she eloped with Percy)

42
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The creature has the physical description of a ______. (p. 35)

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man

43
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The creature is a product of Frankenstein’s hubris, or _______.

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pride (Frankenstein’s pride made the creature that killed him)

44
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The creature battles some of the same issues _______ of this time period battled.

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women

45
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Some of the issues the creature and women of this time faced. (3)

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oppression
isolation
lack of readily accessed education

46
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Just as women were educated at home by a _______ ________, the creature is also educated at home by the De Lacey family while they are educating Safie.

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family member

47
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Frankenstein’s creature embodies the ideas of philosophers ______-________ _________ and ______ _______.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke

48
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Locke believed that humans are born with a ________ _____ or a blank slate and our environment shapes and molds our values.

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tabula rasa

49
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_______-_________ is another aspect of Locke’s philosophy.

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Self-knowledge

50
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Rousseau believed that humans are born instinctually ______, but we learn evil from our interactions with _______.

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good, society

51
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How does the creatures education begin and continue?

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It starts with its senses to discover the world, then observes the family to learn the norms and codes of society.

52
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The creature learns to read and write by watching _______.

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Safie

53
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The creature reads _________ ______, ________ ____ ________ _________, and __________ _________.

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Paradise Lost, Sorrows of Young Werter, and Plutarch’s Lives

54
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Author of Paradise Lost

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John Milton

55
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Author of Sorrows of Young Werter

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

56
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Author of Plutarch’s Lives

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Plutarch

57
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Because Prometheus sympathized with the humans, he stole ____ from the ____ and gave it to the ______.

A

fire, gods, humans

58
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“Pour torrents of light into a dark world” is from _________

A

Prometheus

59
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For stealing fire from the gods to give to the humans, Prometheus was punished by ______.

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Zeus

60
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Prometheus is later freed by ________ in Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.

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Hercules

61
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Author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

A

Coleridge

62
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What is similar to the Purgatory in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Frankenstein?

A

Victor-creates the creature and is punished by the creature.

Creature-denied humanity, not alive but not dead.

63
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the self is trapped in isolation similar to _______ in Frankenstein.

A

Victor

64
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein they are traveling _______ (direction)

A

north

65
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner all of the crew/family dies similar to how all of _________’s family dies.

A

Victor

66
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a guest is telling the story similar to how __________ ________ is telling ________’s story.

A

Robert Walton, Victor

67
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In Paradise Lost, the story of the creation of ______ and ______ is told. It focuses on God’s relationship with his two humans and ________ as well.

A

Adam, Eve, Satan

68
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Like Paradise Lost, Frankenstein deals with the creation of a ________.

A

human

69
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Victor Frankenstein successfully creates a natural man, but his error lies in his refusal to ______ ___ and to take responsibility for it. He never ever gives the creature a _______.

A

love it, name

70
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Victor mocks the power of God by creating another human being. ___________ also displaces God from the creation of humans. Shelley was wary of childbearing since she lost 3 children.

A

Childbearing

71
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When was Romanticism?

A

1798-1832

72
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__________ is highly regarded as Romanticism followed by the Enlightenment (a highly logical, ordered, balanced, and structured era).

A

Imagination

73
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What placed new emphasis on horror, terror, and awe?

A

Romanticism

74
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Romanticism included _______ _________ of the artist or narrator.

A

heroic isolation

75
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Romanticism valued ________ over ________.

A

passion, reason

76
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This period began with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto.

A

Gothicism

77
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Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey _______ the values of Gothicism.

A

mocks

78
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In Gothicism, _____________ strand based on Milton’s Paradise Lost is developed in a character.

A

Satanic

79
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What style includes supernatural, horror, and mysterious elements?

A

Gothicism

80
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What style has an ominous tone?

A

Gothicism

81
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Gothicism has _______ in the atmosphere

A

darkness

82
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In Gothicism, a victimizer exists who is associated with _____. A helpless victim is set against his _________.

A

evil, torturer

83
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In Gothicism, there are ________ landscapes.

A

extreme

84
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a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. It may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context.

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epigraph

85
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” is the epigraph for __________.

A

Frankenstein

86
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” is originally from _________ _____.

A

Paradise Lost

87
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” in Paradise Lost ________ says this.

A

Adam

88
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” in Frankenstein the _________ would have said this.

A

creature

89
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” ______ is aligned with the _________ through this epigraph.

A

Adam, creature

90
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Responsibilities of creator?

A

Take care of creation

91
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Responsibilities of creation?

A

Listen to creator and learn

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