The Homemaker
What change in Lester's condition allows him to take over the role at home?
What is Paralyzed
According to Woolf, what two things does a woman need in order to write fiction?
What are financial independence and a private space.
What is stolen in Rashomon?
What is a kimono.
Stories we discussed written by Kipling (3).
What are "The White Man's Burden", "The Gardener", "The Burden".
Who dies before the Lady of the Dawn appears?
Who is Martin.
An illegal action taken by Nora to save her husband's life.
What is forgery.
The reason Ben gave in and accepted Madec's request to guide him through the desert.
What is Madec promised Ben enough money to pay for an entire semester at college.
Where does Eva find employment when Lester is no longer able to work a traditional job?
What is Willing's Emporium
Woolf contrasts the rich meal at the men’s college with this much plainer food at the women’s college.
What are beef, prunes, and custard?
How do different characters see the same event?
What is differently.
What group does Kipling call out to serve in foreign lands?
Who are colonizers.
This character disrupts the natural order of the play when she misses an “appointed call,” something she has never done before.
Who is "the pilgram".
Who says "I believe that before all else I am a human being"?
Who is Nora.
The harsh setting of this novel, where survival becomes a deadly game, is this unforgiving American desert.
What is the Mojave Desert?
A neighbor and friend of Lester and Eva, this character allows the novel to explore the idea of non-traditional roles from the perspective of someone who holds a strong traditional stance.
Who is Mattie Farnham
Does the author blame men for the inequality of women in this text?
What is no. She blames the systems and institutions that exclude women.
A key detail that changes depending on who is telling the story.
What is who killed the man.
Why does Helen travel to france during the story? (The Gardener)
What is to find Michaels grave and see where he died during the war.
While playing with the children, the Pilgrim experiences this sensation in her throat for the first time.
What is laughter.
What miracle is Nora hoping for concerning the incident with the letter?
That Torvald will take the blame to protect her.
After being abandoned without supplies, Ben uses this essential survival tactic to avoid dehydration in extreme heat.
What is traveling at night (or conserving water/energy)?
What is Mattie's attitude upon discovering that Lester is acting as Homemaker?
What is disbelief, confusion, distain
The cause of death of the narrator's aunt and benefactor.
What is she fell from a horse.
The symbolism of the forest.
What is moral ambiguity.
What was The White Man’s Burden originally written for?
What is the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Victoria?
What do the stopped clocks symbolize when Pilgrim arrives?
It represents that Death has entered the house, which suspends ordinary time. Death's arrival forces them to confront what they've avoided.
What is the effect of dramatic irony?
The audience knows Nora's secret long before Torvald.
In Deathwatch, when Ben is trapped in the small basin under the scorching sun, what specific, desperate physical action does he take to keep his body temperature down and prevent himself from roasting to death on the sand?
What is he digs a hole in the sand to reach the cooler earth beneath and buries himself up to his neck.
What is the significance of the teddy bear to Evangeline, Lester, and Stephen?
Evangeline: the teddy bear represents germs, filth, and disorder.
Lester: it awakens his inner father, stirring a tenderness and sense of purpose he had not recognized in himself.
Stephen: peace within turmoil, offering comfort in an otherwise unstable environment.
The disclosure given by Woolf at the beginning of the essay.
"I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion [...] One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold."
What animals does Akutagawa use to describe or compare the characters of Rashomon to? Name at least 3.
Stray dog, cat in the shadows, softly as a lizard, vitality than the wings of a chicken, she spoke in what seemed the shrill cawing of a crow, and more bird-like than human
What does Kipling suggest is the “reward” for imperialism in The White Man’s Burden, and why is that significant?
What is respect and moral satisfaction.
When does the story foreshadow or hint that Angelica is still alive?
Death does not know who angelica is
How do Torvald’s pet names for Nora reveal their power dynamic from Act I?
by calling her by animal names, especially ones that are collectors (i.e. squirrel and skylark), we see that he sees her as a pet.
The three pieces of evidence that prove Ben's innocence.
What are the slingshot, slingshot buckshot in Madec's wrist, type of bullet that killed the prospector (.358).