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What does the title Everyday Use refer to?
the everyday use of the quilts
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Who is the author of Everyday Use?
Alice Walker
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Who would you describe Alice Walker?
- shot in the eye with a BB gun
- wrote the Color Purple
- civil rights activist
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Describe the mother from Everyday Use.
favored Maggie over Dee
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Describe Maggie.
- burned in a fire
- self-conscious
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Describe Dee.
- prettier
- ashamed of her background
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What did the quilts represent?
her background, heritage
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What is an example of irony in Everyday Use?
Dee, who was ashamed of her background, comes back for the quilts.
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What is the theme for Everyday Use?
Some things have sentimental value.
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Who wrote Lamb to the Slaughter?
Roald Dahl
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What else did Roahl Dahl write?
- the BFG
- James and the Giant Peach
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Describe Mary Maloney.
- crazy, sweet, deceiving, six-months pregnant
- kills husband with a leg of lamb
- tricks detectives into eating evidence
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Describe Patrick Maloney.
detective that plans to leave wife but is killed.
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Describe Jack Noonan.
sargeant that eats evidence
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What is the external conflict in Lamb to the Slaughter?
- individual vs. individual - Mary kills Patrick
- internal conflict - Mary kills husband
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What is the theme of Lamb of the Slaughter?
Looks can be deceiving.
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Who wrote By Any Other Name?
Santha Rama Rau
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Who is Pamela from By Any Other Name?
older, stubborn sister
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Who is Santha from By Any Other Name?
naive, younger sister
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Who is the teacher from By Any Other Name?
the prejudice teacher who judged the Indians
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What is the conflict in By Any Other Name?
individual vs. individual - teacher vs. Pamela
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Who is the author of the Leap?
Louise Edrich
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Describe Louise Edrich.
came from storytelling family
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Describe Anna of the Flying Avalons.
the blind mother who used to be a great acrobat
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What happened to Harold Avalon, Anna's first husband, and her first daughter?
killed in a trapeze act; struck by lightning, causing Anna to have a miscarriage.
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Who was Anna's second husband?
the doctor who taught her to read and write
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What is the theme of the Leap?
a mother's love is very powerful
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Who is the author of And of Clay we are Created?
Isabelle Allende
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Describe Isabel Allende
born in Peru, fled to Venezuela, lives in CA
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Who was Rolf Carle?
reporter who tried to save Azucena
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Describe Azucena.
13-year-old Columbian girl who was stuck in mud until she gave up and died.
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What is the conflict in And of Clay we are Created?
- individual v. individual - Rolf's memories
- individual v. nature - mudslide
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What is the theme of And of Clay we are Created?
somethings we can't help
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Who was the author of Two Kinds?
Amy Tan
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Describe Amy Tan.
can speak American Chinese and English Chinese
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Describe the mother from Two Kinds.
pushed her child to be the best
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Describe Jingmei.
wanted autonomy
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What is the confict from Two Kinds?
individual vs. individual - mother vs. daughter
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Who was the author of the Masque of Red Death?
Edgar Allan Poe
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Describe Egdar Allan Poe.
- bad life
- father of mystery-detecive story
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Describe Prince Prospero.
prince that takes a thousand of his favorite people to try to hide from Red Death
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What is the conflict of the Masque of Red Death?
individual vs. society - Prospero tries to hide from Red Death
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What is the theme of the Masque of Red Death?
you can't hide from fate/death.
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Who is the author of the Cold Equations?
Tom Godwin
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Describe Captain Barton.
must go to Woden to save the people from disease
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Describe Marilyn.
stowaway to see brother but must die
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What is the conflict in the Cold Equations?
individual vs. self - should Captain Barton kill Marilyn?
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What is the theme of the Cold Equations?
all actions have consequences
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Who is the author of the Pedestrian?
Ray Bradbury
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Describe Leonard Meade.
lonely, walks, against technology, arrested for being different
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Describe the conflict in the Pedestrian.
individual vs. technology
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What is an example of irony in the Pedestrian?
man created technology but technoolgy takes over man
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What is a symbol in the Pedestrian?
car = government control
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