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• What do the girls do to Mary and what is her response in the Crucible?

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• How had Bilbo and The Travelers been lucky, in chapter 10 of the book The Hobbit?

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• Why is nick so pleased with gatsby's honesty about oxford in chapter 7?

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• What statements do the witches and macbeth make about "foul and fair" in macbeth?

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• What is the theme in the story flight by john steinbeck?

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• What is the only recognized purpose of marriage in 1984?

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• What is Jem learning about his father, and what do we learn about Jem in To Kill A Mockingbird?

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• Who was the Greek coffee shop owner in the Great Gatsby?

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• What is the unforgivable crime in the book 1984?

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• What is an example of a Double entendre?

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• What is tragic about the fact that the reports have so much technology in order to report Azucena plight?

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• When In act 3 of the crucible proctor accuses abigail of what danforth calls a marvelous cool plot to what?

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• What meaning does each remark mean in Macbeth act 1?

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• What did Finny try to convince Gene about the war in the book A Separate Peace?

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• What ethnicity is Marie in the book strangers?

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• Who is Myrtle's sister In the Great Gatsby?

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• How did Senor Torres die in the short story "Flight"?

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• What does Tiresias tell Odysseus in the Odyssey?

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• What is unique about Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequennce?

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• What is a clever quote?

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• What does Winston believe is the most deadly danger of all in the book 1984?

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• What is the poem "before the sun"?

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• Science fiction words?

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• Who wrote 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'?

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• What is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan Sonnet?

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• Why did Gene decide to enlist in the Army in the book A Separate Peace?

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• Why does Ralph Macchio look so young?

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• What are some characterizations (protagonist/antagonist) in to Kill a Mocking Bird?

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• What emotion prevails when the party members are foreigners in the book 1984?

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• How would you state the theme in the poem Harlem?

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• What is the message of "What I Expected" by Stephen Spender?

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• Which famous writers were inspired by Langston Hughes?

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• Who is the fist to enlist in a Separate Peace the novel?

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• What does Odysseus do to blind Polyphemus?

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• What is a story inside a story called?

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• What does the reader learn about Gatsby's business from Wolfshiem's letter?

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• Who is the duke and king in huckleberry finn?

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• What type of poem is Maya Angelou's "A Plagued Journey?"?

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• When and where will the couple meet again in the book 1984?

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• What is a common type of poem?

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