Literature Section 4 Flashcards
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Why did Nathaniel Hawthorne change his last name?
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To distance himself from an ancestor who took part in the Salem witch trials
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What was Hawthorne’s first novel?
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Fanshawe
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Through what political party did Hawthorne receive a job at the Boston Custom House?
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The Democratic Party
4
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Sophia Peabody was ____
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The wife of Hawthorne
5
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In what magazine was “Rappaccinis’s Daughter” first published?
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United States Magazine
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In 1845, the Hawthorne family moved back to ____
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Salem
7
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Herman Melville dedicated which famous novel to Hawthorne?
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Moby Dick
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In what country was Hawthorne named the American consul?
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England
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In what city was Hawthorne named the American consul? (Hint: It shares a name with a famous futbol team)
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Liverpool
10
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On which President did Hawthorne famously write an essay about?
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President Abraham Lincoln
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Which college did Hawthorne attend is his younger years?
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Bowdoin College
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With what future President would Hawthorne become friends with in his younger years?
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President Franklin Pierce
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How did Hawthorne publish his first public sketches?
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Anonymously
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Who was friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne at Bowdoin College?
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Franklin Pierce (future president) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (soon to be a well-loved American poet)
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Hathorne was the editor for what magazine that went bankrupt before he got his first check in 1836?
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American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
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This book was published in 1837 under Hawthorne’s own name?
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Twice Told Tales
17
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Hawthorne is best known for his?
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stories for children
18
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What is Brook Farm?
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a communitarian effort to rethink a balance between physical and mental labor
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Hawthorne resigned his position at the Boston Custom House to be a member and investor of what?
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Brook Farm
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Who rented the Old Manse home in Concord, Massachusetts to Hawthorne and his wife?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Following the election of _______, the Whig candidate for Preseident in 1848, Hawthorne lost his political appointment at the ______________
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Zachary Taylor, Salem Custom House
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Why did Nathaniel Hawthorne write The Scarlett Letter?
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to compensate for the bitter loss of salary and his job after he lost his political position at the Salem Custom House
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What is the new edition to Twice Told Tales both written by Hawthorne?
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The House of Seven Gables
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Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography of what former friend and the 14th President of America?
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Franklin Pierce
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Hawthorne published what as war loomed in the 1860s'?
The Marble Faun
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What event started the Civil War?
Confederate attack on Fort Sumpter, South Carolina on April 1, 1861
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True or False? Hawthorne was an abolitionist
False, he was neutral
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In what magazine was "Chiefly about War-Matters" published?
The Atlantic Monthly
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What was "Chiefly about War-Matters" about?
the conflict [American Civil War] and President Abraham Lincoln
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Who did Hawthorne take a trip with to Plymouth, New Hampshire despite being sick?
Franklin Pierce
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How does Hawthorne introduce himself at the beginning of "Rappaccini's Daughter"?
as M. del I'Aubepine (French for Hawthorne)
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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is originally titled what before it is translated to English by M. del I'Aubepine?
"Beatrice: ou la Belle Empoisonneuse"
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The sly opening at the beginning of "Rapacinni's Daughter" with the biography appeals to what?
Ethos because it allows him to establish reliability
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The beginning of "Rappacinni's Daughter" and what other story by Hawthorne are similar because they both use the same technique?
The Scarlett Letter
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The Italian doctor named Giacomo Rappacinni uses what as a technology? What is his lab?
botany as a technology/tool to transform nature into poison and medical potions. his garden is his lab
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Beatrice in 'Rappacinni's Daughter" refers to one of the plants as her?
sister
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What characteristic of Rappacinni that Giovanni takes to be a sign of illness foreshadows Rappacinni's degenerate soul?
his shaky voice
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What does the descriptive details of Beatrice's beauty point to?
the fact she will turn out to be more than human and her vitality is kept under her father's control
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Hawthorne references what literary works in "Rappacinni's Daughter"? What is their purpose?
Dante's Divine Comedy and the Bible; they signal that his story is going to test the reader's gullibility
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Four characteristics used to describe the plants that grow in Rappacinni's garden
Gem-like, serpentine, beautiful, and deadly
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The purple flower in Rappacinni's garden symbolizes?
how humanity's interventions in nature can have unintended consequences
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Who is Signor Pietro Baglioni?
a professor of medicine at the university
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Who is the first woman to achieve the rank and salary of a full professor in the United States?
Harriet Cooke at the University of Cornell
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What is another caution in "Rappacinni's Daughter" besides "man's untoward interference in nature"?
how true goodness is not corruptible
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How is Beatrice an example of true goodness is not corruptible?
her physical form is poisonous but her essential purity is without blemish
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Whose point of view is "Rappacinni's Daughter" told from?
Giovanni's
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How did each of three men in "Rappacinni's Daughter" use Beatrice?
Baglioni as a means to show up his rival, Giovanni emotionally, and Rappacinni experimentally
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In what state was Bierce born?
Ohio
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When the Civil War began, Bierce enlisted in the ______
Union Army
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What condition did Bierce have that affected him throughout his life?
Asthma
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To which city did Bierce go after the Civil War ended?
San Francisco
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On what holiday did Bierce marry his wife?
Christmas
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When Bierce moved countries, which one did he go to?
United Kingdom
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What aspect of England worsened Bierce's asthma?
The weather
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Name one of Bierce's famous friends
Mark Twain(real name is Samual Clemens)/Bret Hart/Joaquin Miller
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What is Bierce's most acclaimed work?
The Devil's Dictionary
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Which famous Mexican general did Bierce join?
Pancho Villa
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What are the circumstances of Bierce's death?
They are unknown
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For what reason did Bierce divorce his wife?
Concerns of unfaithfullness/illicit love letters
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In what year was "Moxon's Master" first released?
1899
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What battles did Ambrose Bierce take part in during the Civil War?
battles of Shilo and Chickamauga and Sherman's March to the Sea
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What regiments of the Union Army did Ambrose serve in during the Civil War?
Ninth Indiana Infantry Regiment and Buell's Army of the Ohio
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Who did Ambrose marry?
Mary Ellen "Molly" Day
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When Bierce moved to England in 1872, he wrote for what?
Fun and Figaro magazines
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What was Amrose's nickname when he wrote for Fun and Figaro magazines?
"Bitter Bierce" because of his biting satire "
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What are Bierce's first three books published in England?
Nuggets and Dust Panned Out (1872), The Fiend's Delight (1873), Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874)
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Why did Bierce move back to San Francisco from England? What did he now write for when he was back in San Francisco?
the weather of New England worsened his asthma, he then wrote for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner
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What were the fourth and fifth volumes of poetry in Collected Works?
Black Beetles in Amber (1892) and Shapes of Clay (1903)
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What is Bierce's best-known short story?
the Civil War tale "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
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From what point of view is "Moxon's Master" written in?
first person
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How is the character Moxon presented in Bierce's story?
a brilliant inventor
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The character Moxon can be compared what two other characters from other science fiction novels?
Signor Rappaccini from Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" and Shelly's Dr. Frankenstein
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Who is the narrator?
he remains unnamed
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What is the conversation in "Moxon's Daughter" about?
whether machines can think and are sentient
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What is the narrator's and Moxon's side in the debate if machines can think?
Moxon believes they can while the narrator disagrees
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Describe the example with the plant in which Moxon uses as evidence to support that machines do have a mind
Moxon planted a climbing vine and a stake a bit away; the vine began to grow in the direction of the stake before and after the stake was moved farther away in which the vine would move its angle and direction of growth to reach the stake. Eventually the vine "gives up" on reaching the stake as Mxon continues to move it so it attaches itself to a tree
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Who is Haley in "Moxon's Master"?
a skilled metalworker that helps Moxon; allowed to go in Moxon's machine shop
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Moxon and Haley's relationship is an echo of what other Hathorne's characters?
The scientist Alymer nad his servant in "The Birthmark"
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How does Moxon return after going into his machine shop to check out the thumping noise?
cuts on his face as if someone used nails to claw at home
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What does Bierce imply that Moxon might be keeping in his machine shop after Moxon returns with cuts on his face?
an agitated woman as his prisoner
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What does the narrator say to counter Moxon using Herbert Spencer's definition of life as evidence?
it does not give an explanation of the cause of life
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According to Moxon, how are consciousness and rhythm related?
Consciousness is the creature of Rhythm
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What does Moxon admit to building?
a thinking machine that can get bored if not properly occupied
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Why does the narrator leave Moxon's house?
he thinks Moxon is a liar
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What does the narrator do as he walks home?
reflects on what Moxon said and begins to understand his philosophy
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After the narrator finally understands Moxon's philosophy, he views Moxon as?
"my master and guide"
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What does the narrator see when he returns to Moxon's house and finds the machine shop door open?
Moxon playing chess with a strange man in the room with only one candle as light
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Who is the stranger that is playing chess with Moxon?
a machine that is an automaton chessplayer
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How does the machine react to Moxon beating it in chess?
it seizes Moxon by the neck causing them both to struggle and the light to go out in the process, Moxon ends up dead
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What prevents the narrator from helping Moxon as he is attacked?
a blinding light that illuminates the scene
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What is the machine's expression after he killed Moxon?
one of satisfaction as if he just resolved a difficult problem
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What is the implication of the scene of Moxon's death?
that the machine had become conscious of and angered by Moxon's manipulation of its circumstances--- it wanted out from Moxon's domination
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Based on the ending, how can we describe the narrator and why?
unreliable because he doubts his own story leaving the reader to wonder (what if Haley set the fire or he is the machine?)
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Why is Moxon punished?
for his lack of foresight as he does not recognize the power he's constructed
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What did the fragrance from the shrub beside the fountain smelled like?
Beatrice's breath
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What argument did Beatrice give Giovanni for catching his hand and drawing it back before he could touch the shrub?
"Touch it not!" exclaimed she, in a voice of agony. "Not for thy life! It is fatal!"
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How does the story "Rappaccini's Daughter begin?
How does the story "Rappaccini's Daughter begin?
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In what language is M. de I'Aubepine written in (translation for Hawthorn)?
French
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What is the French translation of "Rappaccini's Daughter"?
"Beatrice: ou la Belle Empoisonneuse"
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Where is the story located?
Padua
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What is the "technology" in "Rappaccini's Daughter"?
Botany
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What can be seen from Giovanni's window?
Rappaccinis garden
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How does Beatrice call the shrub?
Sister
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True or false. Rappaccini's means are revealed.
False
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Who was the first women to achieve the rank and salary of a full professor in the United States?
Harriet Cooke at Cornell University
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In what year did the first women in the United States achieve the rank and salary of a full professor?
In 1871
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Who does Giovanni bribe to reveal him a hidden path into Rappaccini's garden?
The housekeeper
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What was the vase containing the "cure" made of?
Silver
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Who gave the silver vase to Giovanni?
Baglioni
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When was Ray Bradbury born?
August 22, 1920
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Where was Ray Bradbury born?
Waukegan, Illinois
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Who were Ray Bradbury parents?
Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Bradbury
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Who was Ray Bradbury descendant of?
Mary Bradbury
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True or False. Mary Bradbury was exonerated a while after her witch trial.
True
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During what years did the Bradbury family moved back and forth between Illinois and Tucson, Arizona?
1920s and 1930s
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In what year did the Bradbury family finally settled in Los Angeles?
In 1934
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How old was Bradbury when he joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society?
He was 16
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Who became a mentor to Bradbury?
Bob Olsen
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What did Bradbury sell after graduating high school?
Newspaper
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Who did Bradbury married in 1947?
Marguerite McClure
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When was Susan (Bradbury's daughter) born?
1949
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When was Ramona (Bradbury's daughter) born?
1951
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When was Bettina (Bradbury's daughter) born?
1955
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When was Alexandra (Bradbury's daughter) born?
1958
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In what year was the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 came out?
In 1953
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What did Bradbury's animated film Icarus Montgolfier Wright received?
An Academy Award nomination
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Who was the director of the black and white film version of Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick (1956)?
John Huston
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When was Ray Bradbury given a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame?
In 2002
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What was the first episode of Twilight Zone?
"I Sing the Body Electric"(1959)
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Where was Octavia E. Butler born?
Pasadena, California
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Who are Octavia Butler's parents?
Laurice and Octavia M. Butler
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As a child what disability did Octavia E. Butler suffer from?
Dyslexia
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What college did Octavia E. Butler attend?
Pasadena City College graduating in 1968
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After she graduating college what other universities did Octavia continue to take classes at to improve her craft?
California State University and UCLA
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What science fiction writer did Octavia E. Butler take classes with at the Screen Writers' Guild Open Door Program?
Harlan Ellison
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Harlan Ellison encouraged Octavia E. Butler to apply for what?
the Clarion Science Fiction Writer's Workshop
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True or False? Octavia E. Butler found immediate success when it came to publishing
False
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What was Octavia E. Butler's first novel?
Patternmaster (1976)
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Patternmaster became the first book of what trilogy?
Patternist
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What book by Octavia E. Butler was made into a TV miniseries in 2022 and is a major publication often taught in high school and college?
Kindred (1979)
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What three novels were first published as the Xenogenesis trilogy that later had its name changed to Lilith's Brood (2000)?
Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989)
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Octavia E. Butler remains the only science fiction writer to receive what grant?
a MacArthur Genius Grant
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Name the awards Octavia E. Butler has won
Nebula and Hugo Awards, a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, and the City College of New York's Langston Hughes Medal
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How did Octavia E. Butler die?
from a fall caused by a stroke
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In "Childfinder" what is the psi?
telepathy
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The houses in the setting of "Childfinder" are in a straggly road that's called?
a court
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What does Octavia E. Butler suggest at the beginning of "Childfinder"?
"Psi could have put the human race on the road to Utopia"
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Who is the protagonist of 'Childfinder"?
Barbara
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Who is the antagonist of "Childfinder"?
Eve/the organization
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How is Valerie described?
as a pretelepath, neighbor to Barbara, and a smart individual who is also African American
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What is Barbara's gift?
she is an adult telepath who can discover and then mentor children
with such psionic or telepathic powers.
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What could happen to the children if they are not mentored?
Without being mentored, these children will either perish or lose their extraordinary ability to communicate mentally.
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What is the "technology? in Childfinder?
telepathy as a means of communication is in and of itself a technology.
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What is language the key to?
As a technology, language is the key to all other types of technologies.
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How does the story Childfinder begin?
With a history text
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What does the history text in Childfinder called?
Psi: The history of a Vanished People
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Why did Barbara left the organization?
The childfinder, Barbara, had been working for an institution simply called the organization, but she has left it because of practices of discrimination inside the group that made it impossible for her to mentor children of color.
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True or false. The organization is racist.
True
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What did Barbara do to pre-psionic white telepaths?
She has been deliberately crippling the psionic abilities of the pre-psionic white telepaths who could, in time, become what she is, a psionic childfinder.
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Why does Eve come to see Barbara?
The organization comes after Barbara, sending to her home a white woman whom Barbara evidently knows well, a woman named Eve.
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What does Eve suspect Barbara of doing?
Eve challenges Barbara by saying, “so the others are right. You’re forming an opposing organization.”
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How old is Jordan from Childfinder?
17 years old
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How old is Jessie Mae from Childfinder?
15 years old
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Who saves Barbara from the organization thugs?
Just as Barbara is about to capitulate and go along quietly with her captors, one of her mentored children, Jordan, disables the organization squad, knocking
all four of them unconscious.
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What do Jordan and Jessie fear is going to happen to Barbara?
Fearful that Barbara is going to be killed by the organization, the children argue back, telling her they need her to survive.
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When did Ambrose Berce move her family to England?
1872
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where were Ambrose's first three books published
In England
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What were the titles of Ambrose's first three books?
Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California, The Friend's Delight, Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
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Who did Ambrose write for in San Francisco
San Francisco Examiner
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what is the Rappaccini's Daughters message
humankind must be careful when dealing with nature
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How does Baglioni exlpain at the end of the story?
mixture of horror and triumph
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How did Giovanni use Beatrice?
emotionally
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How does Beatrice's father use her?
experimentally
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How does Baglioni use Beatrice?
a means to show up his rival
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How does Giovanni meet Beatrice?
by bribing Baglioni's housekeeper to show him a hidden passage
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True or False Baglioni believes Beatrice can be saved?
True
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What does Baglioni believe Beatrice can be?
A professor
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Why does Baglioni believe Beatrice can be a professor?
because Rappaccini educated her so well
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Who wrote Giovanni's letter of recommendation?
his father
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What description takes the story from scientific into symbolic realms
Hawthorne's description of the garden
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who narrates the story I sing the Body Electric
Tom
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What does the story recount?
the advent of the first android robot grandmother
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What is grandmas name?
Nefertiti
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Who makes Grandma?
Fantocinni Ltd
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Who wrote the poem that the story I sing the Body Electric takes its name from?
Walt Whitman
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Who dies and is replaced by the grandma?
The children's mother
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Who is reluctant to take the grandmother out for a spin?
Agatha
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What award did Bradbury receive in 2004?
National Medal of Arts
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Who gave Bradbury the National Medal of Arts?
President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush
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What does the Grandma's name mean in Egyptian?
The beautiful one is here
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Who is given the key to Grandma?
Agatha
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What does Tom discover Grandma can do/
She changes based on who she is with
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what does grandma say about most machines?
"most machines are amoral, neither bad nor good"
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What does Grandma declare?
"being mechanical, I cannot sin, cannot be bribed, cannot be greedy or jealous or mean or small
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What does Agatha insist about the mechanical person?
She insists the electrical person is lying
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Who is Childfinder's narrator?
Barbara
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What is Barbara's ethnicity?
African-American
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What will happen to the children without mentoring/
they will die or lose their abilities
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language is the ____ to all other types of technology
key
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What does the story open with?
a quote taken from Psi: the history of a vanished people
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what does barbara lead?
the organization
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What happens if the kids barbara finds aren't white?
they are discriminated against
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Which group of psionics does barbara cripple?
the whites who could become a childfinder
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Why does she cripple the kids?
so they can't take her placeand become future psi finders
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Who challenges barbara and calls her out for creating an opposition organization?
Eve
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What does barbara claim in regards to her kids
they deserve more of a chance to mature into fully functioning telepaths
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What does barbara do when Eve returns with three thugs?
She shuts her mind to other telepaths
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What does barbara tell her kids to do?
keep themselves alive and hidden
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What does Barbara attempt to do?
get rid of her powers
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What happened to all of the psionics?
They are eliminated by an external force
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What funeral service did Georgie's first husband buy a contract with?
The Park
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What does the Wasp do?
it films Georgie's everyday life
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How many hours of footage did the Wasp send to The Park?
around 8 thousand
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What did Charlie inherit from Georgie?
a key
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What does the key charlie have go to?
The personal chamber Georgie has at the park and kinda functions like the key to grandma in I sing the Body Electric
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Why does Charlie get mad?
Because the footage appears to be in random order
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What does Charlie believe about death?
It cannot be cheated not even by sophisticated technology
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What is one of Bradbury's themes
Humans die
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What kind of technology does the Wasp use?
NANO
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True or False Charlie is the one who says "You might start getting snow"
FALSE it was the director
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How does Charlie find the Director after he sees a scene of Georgie and snow
the director is drunk
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What is charlie's conclusion relating to the director
he is a crazy drunk man
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Where was C. L. Moore born?
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Who thought Moore was a man and wrote a letter written Mr.
Henry Kuttner
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When was "No woman Born" published?
1944
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what was the first human prosthetic?
a big toe
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Where was the first prostetic made?
Ancient Eygpt
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What is the premise of No Woman Born
What if we could replace a full human body
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What is the main characters name?
Deirdre
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Who is the scientist?
Dr. Maltzer
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What is Harris afraid of?
He is afraid Deirdre will be a machinery heaped in a flowery chair
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How is Deirdre described?
delicate, metallic, flexible, exquisitely proportioned...
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True or False C. L. Moore is a man?
False
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How is Deirdre's movements described
enhanced beyond normal human capabilities
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What does Dr. Maltzer tell Deirdre
her brain will eventually stop functioning
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Who does Maltzer compare himself to?
Dr. Frankenstein
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How do Maltzer and Harris view Dierdre?
She appears fragile to them
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How does Maltzer lie to Dierdre?
He tells her that she still has a mind of her own
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What does Harris divine Maltzer is going to do?
commit suicide like Dr. Frankenstein
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How does Dierdre resolve the conflict of Maltzer attempting suicide?
She shows super human powers and stuns both Dr. Maltzer and Harris alike
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Hawthorn continued to publish what type of stories?
short stories
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what month was "Rappaccini's Daughter" published?
December
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what magazine was "Rappaccini's Daughter" published at?
United States Magazine
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what was Hawthorns first born child's name?
Una
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when was Hawthorns first born born
1844
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what made Hawthorns family have to move back to Salem?
financial trouble
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what was the name of Hawthorn's friend that let him get a job at Salem Custom House?
Franklin Pierce
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when was Hawthorns second child born?
1846
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what was the name of hawthorns second born?
Julian Hawthorn
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What does Giovanni recognize about the fragrance from the shrub ?
Its the same as Beatrice's breath.
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Why does Beatrice start talking to a shrub?
she forgot about it
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Why did Beatrice stop Giovanni from touching the shrub?
it had fatal qualities
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What did Giovanni do the whole night instead of go to sleep?
He laid there thinking about Beatrice.
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What was Giovanni surprised about the professor?
He read childrens stories
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How did the suspicions that Giovanni have act?
like a bunch of demons
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what pov is the story "Moxon's Master" told from?
first-person narrative
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where does "Moxon's Master" take place?
across a a single conversation about what AI is defined as in the modern era
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how is Moxon presented to the readers?
a brilliant inventor
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what concern dose the narrator have about Moxon?
he has been wared by too much isolation and hard work
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what dose Moxon say that takes the narrarator aback?
that the machine can think for it's self AI
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who is Moxon's assistants name?
Haley
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when was "Moxon's Master" published?
april 16, 1899
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what issue of San Francisco Examiner first published the story?
1910 edition of Can Such Things Be?
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"Moxon's Monster" came from the expert of__________?
The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs (library of América, 2011)
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how old was Butler when her father died?
7
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what job did Butler's mother have while taking care of her?
she worked as a maid to provide for her and her grandmother helped take care of Octavia as well
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when did Octavia start to write stories?
at the youngest age of 10 years old
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what type of magazine did Butler's teacher say she should submit to?
science fiction magazine
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what did Octavia do after submitting to a Science fiction magazine?
become a professional writer
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what year did Octavia graduate from from Pasadena City College?
1968
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who did Octavia find to be a mentor at Screen Writers’ Guild Open Door program?
Harlan Ellison
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what workshop did Ellison encourage her to apply?
Clarion Science Fiction Writer's Workshop
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what had Octavia accomplished before the end of the Clarion Science Fiction Writer's Workshop?
she had sold her first 2 stories
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Where was John Crowley born?
Presque Isle, Maine
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What was the profession of John Crowley's father?
an Army Air Corps doctor who was stationed in Maine during WWII
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John Crowley FIRST wrote?
screenplays in NYC
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Which book did Crowley publish FIRST?
The Deep in 1975
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What book of Crowley took him almost a decade to finish and won the World Fantasy Award?
Little Big
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Who is Crowley's wife?
Laurie Block
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What was Crowley's job when we worked at Yale University's?
teaching Creative Writing
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In "Snow", Charlie compares the Park's attempts to preserve life to the ancient...
Egyptians
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What do the two bars in the room at the Park say?
ACCESS and RESET
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According to "Snow", what is Brownian movement?
the random paths of particles
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In his first time visiting the Park, Charlie sees a memory of Georgie in
Ibiza
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What is the first problem Charlie finds with the Park?
the order of memories is random
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What does the director say is the cause of the problems with the Park?
the storage for the recordings
287
In "Snow", the title alludes to?
the place where Georgie died, a glass paperweight, memories from the winter, and the grainy quality of the images over time
288
Charlie claims Georgie married him for his
looks
289
The Park's surveillance device takes the form of a
wasp
290
The Director in the end is revealed to be
drunk
291
'Snow" makes the argument that
technology cannot replace human memory
292
Crowley's attitude toward death in "Snow" is MOST similar to that in
Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric"
293
Who enrolled Georgie in the Parks program in "Snow"?
Georgie's first husband
294
Why did Charlie marry Georgie?
for her money
295
In "Snow", what did Charlie receive after Georgie's death?
a key to her personal chamber
296
What did the inside of Georgie's personal chamber look like in "Snow"?
as a small screening room it had a moderate sized TV with two chairs surrounded by brown carpeting walls
297
Where is Georgie located in her personal chamber in Crowley's story?
Unknown, maybe underneath the floors or in the wall
298
Why are Georgie's memories and everyone else's in a random order in their personal chamber?
to prevent lawyers from suing and destroying the memorial concept completely
299
True or False? In "Snow" Georgie loved the winter
False
300
What was strange about Georgie's memory in NY, Fifth Avenue as she leaves a cab?
it is winter there as it snows all around
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who became a medical doctor at a Catholic hospital?
Dr. Crowley
302
what day was John Crowley born?
12/1/1942
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what book did Crowley publish after the Deep and Beasts?
Little Big
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how long did it take Crowley to finish little big?
10 years
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where did Crowley spend the years of war at?
Greenwich Village
306
Snow was originally published in?
Omni
307
In "No Woman Born" Deirde is planning to perform in a play about?
Mary of Scotland
308
In "No Woman Born", what is the most human like feature about Dierde?
her hand
309
To which mythological creature does Diendre compare herself with in "No Woman Born"?
the Phoenix
310
Harris compares Deirde to who in her return from the dead?
Lazarus
311
Deirde contemplates the philosophical concept of
human ego
312
The junctures and rings of Deirde's robotic body resembles that of a
medieval knight
313
The robotic form of Dierde has no?
face
314
What sense does maltzer believe is the most highly civilized sense of the body?
touch
315
True or False? Dierde is immortal
False, Although she has a robotic body that will never grow old, her human brain has a lifespan of forty-years
316
Who is the scientist that saved Diendre from death by making her a robot in "No Woman Born"?
Maltzer
317
Why does Maltzer want Deirde to stop performing in "No Woman Born"?
he wants to protect her from the cruelty of her audience
318
How does the audience first respond to Deirde being back on stage after the accident in "No Woman Born"?
they applaud and applaud but Maltzer worries this excitement will wear off
319
In "No Woman Born", Harris fully accepts that Deirde is human after she
smokes a cigarette
320
During their conversation in Maltzer's apartment, Harris worries that Maltzer might try to
commit suicide by jumping out the window
321
how was Beatrice's voice described?
a rich, youthful voice and rich as a tropical sunset
322
what sis Beatrice's voice make Giovanni think of?
Hues of purple or crimson, and perfumes heavily delectable
323
what was Beatrice tasked to nurse and serve?
a magnificent plant
324
what dose Beatrice ask for from her sister?
Her breath and a flower to place by her heart
325
what color was the reptile was crawling across the path as Beatrice plucked a flower?
orange, and was a camillion or lizard
326
what dose Giovanni ask after watching the lizard die?
Am i awake? Have i my senses?
327
When did Hawthorne leave to go to bowdoin college
1810
328
Hawthorne's first novel was published...
anonomysly
329
Hawthorne became publisher of which magazine in 1836?
American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
330
Where was “Rappaccini’s Daughter” first published
The December edition of United States Magazine.
331
Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter after
he lost his political appointment at the Custom House
332
Henry Melville dedicated which of his novels to Hawthorne in 1851
Moby Dick
333
What was the name of Hawthrones new edition of twice told tales from 1851
Seven Gables
334
Where did Hawthorne die
Plymouth, New Hampshire
335
When did Hawthorne die
5/19/1864
336
How old was hawthorne when he died
60
337
Who did Hawthorne take a trip with to Plymouth, New Hampshire despite being sick?
Franklin Pierce
338
Where was chiefly about war matters published
The Atlantic Monthly
339
What was the original title of Rappaccini's Daughter
"Beatrice: ou la Belle Empoisonneuse"
340
How were the plants in Rappaccini's garden described
Gem-like, serpentine, beautiful, and deadly
341
who wrote "Moxon's Master'?
Ambrose Bierce
342
what is the common definition of Machine?
‘Any instrument or organization by which power is applied and made effective, or a desired effect produced.’
343
what is the name of the narrator in Moxon's master?
if machinescan think without a brain
344
what dose Moxon use to prove that _____ has a mind of it's self?
plant a vine
345
what dose Moxon come back with on his face after going to look at a thud that was heard?
cuts on his face
346
what dose Bierce suggesting that Moxon is hiding when he disappears?
keeping an agitated woman back there as his prisoner.
347
This electrical grandmother is delivered to her grandchildren by
Fantocinni, Ltd.
348
The story takes its title from a Walt Whitman poem called
"I Sing The Body Electric"
349
The story examines the promises and the pitfalls of
an artificial human being and artificial intelligence.
350
Who is the only one in the family to voice reluctance of the electric grandmother
Agatha
351
What is the meaning behind the robot's name, Nefertiti
Egyptian for "the beautiful one is here"
352
Her name - Nefertite is a symbol for
Both mortality and immortality
353
Who declares they will never be friends with grandma
Agatha
354
What was tom's astonishing discovery about grandma
she changes her physiology based on who she is with
355
What does the robot do to break down agatha's resistance
she makes it a game
356
Agatha refuses to accept
"mechanical love"
357
What puts agatha into harms way after running out of the house angry about their mother's death
an oncoming car
358
how does grandma save agatha
she takes the brunt of the car's impact
359
What does grandma do when agatha goes to college
Packs her bags and goes back to Fantocinni
360
When the three children are old...
Grandma will return once again
361
Through Grandma, the reader sees that the machines humanity also shape
the nature of humanity
362
what time did the young girl com over on Saturdays in "Childfinder"?
10:00 am
363
what did the young girl next door's mother do all night in childfinder?
work all nights
364
what is the condition of the girl next doors home?
i would say she is neglected she is allowed to run around unclean by her sister and her mother is always working all while she uses her powers to shoplift
365
what dose the young girl next door use her powers for in child finder?
shoplifting
366
how many rooms did the house have in childfinder?
3 unfurnished rooms
367
what are houses that are in a row and look similar called in childfinder?
court
368
Octavia E. Butler was born in
Pasadena California
369
When was Butler born
1947
370
When did Butler die
2006
371
How old was Butler when her father died
seven
372
What did her mother do for work
she was a maid
373
What was Butler's solution to her undiagnosed dyslexia
I sort out my problems by writing about them
374
Despite butlers early success...
she struggled to get published
375
In 1995, Butler was awarded a
MacAurther's Genius Grant
376
Butler won both the
Nebula and Hugo Awards
377
Butler died in Seattle from a
fall caused by a stroke
378
Childfinder was written in ____, published in ____
1970, 2014
379
What three novels were republished in the Xenogenesis trilogy
Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago
380
Butler is the only science Fiction writer to receive the
MacAurther's Genius Grant
381
Parable of the Sower was published in
1993
382
Wild Seed was published in
1980
383
what dose the small brass plate on the gate say?
please use your key
384
what did the cemitary reveal in "Snow"?
that the grave yard was an illusion an that it actually opened up into a corridor
385
what was on the TV control panel in "Snow"?
a key hole and 2 bars
386
What did the 2 bars say on the control panel in "Snow"?
Access and Reset
387
what bird showed up in "Snow"?
hummingbird
388
How many hours of footage was there in "snow"?
8,000
389
what was the problem with the 8,000 hours of footage stored in "snow"?
it was at random he couldn't pull up a specific scene
390
why was the narrarator scared to press the Acsess button again after a while in the story "Snow"?
for fear of not being able to relive the happy moments he had seen ever again and fear of losing even more
391
how is the narrators explanation that the wasp is a legit thing and not a hoax in "Snow"?
even the narrator who lacked information of technology could tell that it was "state-of-the-art-stuff"
392
What was John Crowley's Fathers occupation
an Army Air Corps doctor
393
in 1952 the crowley family moved to
Martin Kentucky
394
As a child Crowley wanted to be an
archeologist
395
While at indiana university he majored in
english
396
The deep was published in
1975
397
Beasts was published in
1977
398
Little big took how long to finish
10 years, a decade
399
What award did Little Big win
The world fantasy award
400
Who was John Crowleys wife
Laurie Block
401
Crowley taught what at Yale University
creative writing
402
Why did charlie marry georgie
money
403
why did georgie marry charlie
his looks
404
Who bought georgie the WASP
her first husband
405
The Park is a digital
cemetary
406
The video starts to develop visual
snow
407
In what type of clothes does the reading mention that Georgie liked to see Charlie with?
Ski clothes
408
What emotions did the wasp inflict?
It made you nervous.
409
To what experience does Charlie compare getting the key to Georgie chamber?
"Getting the key in the mail was like coming across a pile of old snapshots you hadn't cared to look at when they were new but which after they have aged come to contain the past, as they did not contain the present. I was curious."
410
On what physis movement is the wasp's nano technology based on?
Brownian movement
411
What is the second problem Charlie faces with the park's service?
The footage is fading
412
What line gives the story its titlef from the selected work by John Crowley?
"You might start getting some snow"
413
Why is the footage is fading in snow?
The director explains that the fading is part of the technology; over time, the molecules begin to break down a bit.
414
True or False. Georgie loved winter.
False
415
True or False. The director in "Snow" claims there is no summer in the past, only winter.
True
416
What does the C and L stand for in C.L. Moore's name?
C.(atherine) L.(ucille)
417
When was C.L. Moore born?
January 24, 1911.
418
Where was C. L. Moore born?
Indianapolis, Indiana.
419
What was C.L. Moore first published story?
Shambleau
420
what was the only part of Deidre that is metal in "no women born"?
her body
421
when Deidre rose from the cushions her movements were described as?
very smooth and serpentine
422
how is Deidre's voice described?
soft and husky
423
what sentence could John not finish when seeing Deidre move normally
“—how, without face or body—” but clearly he could not finish that sentence.
424
what is Deidre's nickname for john?
Jonnie
425
is John a good person?
yes "He’s really a humanitarian, John, like most great men."
425
How did Deidre match her old voice to her current body?
only a matter of throat construction and breath control,
426
Diedre's resurrection was compared to what biblical figure?
Lazarus
427
what play dose Diedre prepare to act in?
Mary of Scotland
428
what is Diedre's only limitation?
her brain will soon decay
429
Maltzer praise's Deidre for?
courage
430
The new Diedre is seen as _______ in Harris and Maltzer's eyes?
fragile
431
what is the main question of "No Women Born"?
what is the limit of technology
432
Deidre's brain can live for how long?
40 years
433
Deidre cant feel warmth or emotions?
warmth
434
What killed diedre
a theater fire
435
What made diedres face so special
the light within
436
How does maltzer appear
confident and imperturbable
437
Why is Harris shocked to see Maltzer tremble?
It is unusual for Maltzer to show such emotion.
438
How does Maltzer's appearance change over time?
he becomes thinner
439
Who collaborated on the bot project?
Artists, sculptors, designers, and scientists, all governed by Maltzer.
440
What does the narrator ask Harris?
If he made a mistake over saving Deirdre.
441
What does it take to preserve a brain alive?
Strength, courage, and something more
442
How does Deirdre sound when she first speaks?
Like an automation that sounded metallic, without inflection.
443
What was across the frontal area where her eyes would be?
A crescent-shaped mask.
444
What did her eyes lack?
Expression
445
What was special about the bracelets on her arms?
they fit inside each other
446
What were her arms, feet, and ankles made of?
pale shining gold
447
How did the clothes hang from her shoulders?
In straight pliant folds.
448
When was Neil Gaiman born?
1960
449
Where was Neil Gaiman born?
In Hampshire, England.
450
Name the parents of Neil Gaiman?
David Bernard and Sheila Gaiman
451
How did Neil Gaiman began his writing career?
As a journalist
452
What literary genre was the first book Gaiman published?
A biography
453
Who is the author of "The Hitchhiker' Guide to the Galaxy"?
Douglas Adams
454
What was Neil's first collaboration with the artist Dave McKean?
violent cases
455
Which Neil work became the first comic to receive the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story?
Sandman
456
Under what name did Gaiman joined Twitter in 2008?
In 2008, Gaiman joined Twitter as @neilhimself
457
What Twitter category did Gaiman won?
He won the Twitter category in the inaugural Author Blog Award.
458
When did Gaiman started writting Coraline?
In the early 1990s
459
Where was Sarah Howe born?
Sarah Howe (b. 1983) was born in Hong Kong
460
Where did Howe studied English?
Howe studied English at the University of Cambridge,
461
What award did Howe's "A certain chinese Encyclopaedia" pamphlet won?
Her pamphlet A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia (Tall-lighthouse, 2009) won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors.
462
Where did Stephen Hawking read the poem "Relativity" by Sarah Howe?
At the National Poetry Day.
