A Doll's House
Three names that Torvald calls Nora.
What are his pet names for her including: "little lark", "little squirrel", and "Little Miss Extravagant"?
Gregor's obligations prior to his physical transformation.
What are his family obligations--paying the rent, the bills, and the debt that his family owes his boss?
The symbolic meaning of the lotus flower.
What is enlightenment--that out of suffering comes happiness or inner peace?
This character becomes annoyed when he discovers that Mersault doesn't believe in God.
Who is the Magistrate?
Miss Peters' favorite pastime
What is yoga?
Two big secrets that are revealed throughout the course of the play.
What is Nora's forgery and what is Christine's former love affair with Krogstad?
This object acts as a tool for Gregor to remain connected to the outside world.
What is the window?
What Siddhartha hears in the river which represents the unity of all things in this world.
What is OM?
The opening line of "The Stranger".
What is "Mother died today?"
The names and breed of Biden's two dogs
What are two German Shepherds named Champ and Major?
3 actions that Nora takes to demonstrate her dynamic character
What are: she commits forgery, dances the tarantella to command attention from her husband, plays the role of the housewife but reveals that she has multiple identities, leaves her home in the end.
Gregor's final thought before his death.
What is his decision that it would be best for the family if he were to disappear entirely, and so he dies much as he lived: accepting his fate without complaint and thinking of his family’s best interests?
Kamala's purpose in Siddhartha's path to enlightenment.
She helps him to find himself through the teachings of love.
Three different settings in The Stranger
What is the prison, the beach, and the courtroom? (also the funeral home, Raymond's apartment,)
Mark Twain's real name.
Who is Samuel Clemens?
Why "A Doll's House" is revolutionary.
What is the fact that a central female character commits forgery without her husband's consent and then decides to walk out on him and her children in search of her own independence and new identity?
How Kafka's writing style is emblematic. (the meaning of the term "Kafkaesque")
What is the absurdity of bureaucracy coupled with the irony of the characters’ circular reasoning in reaction to it?
Siddhartha's irony about his son.
What is identical to how he left his own father--Siddhartha, too, has to let his son go to discover the world for himself and learn from his own experiences?
Two of the main arguments used against Mersault in court.
What are his lack of emotion or closeness in his relationships with his mother and Marie, his lack of belief in God, his detachment from the situation, and how he took a man's life and blamed it on the sun?
The Shakespeare monologue that Miss Peters performed in class.
(Hint in the line: "In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere")
What is Helena's monologue from "All's Well that Ends Well"
Five different props and their deeper meanings
What are macaroons? the tarantella? the Christmas Tree? the Doll's House? the letterbox?
Kafka's Metamorphosis was based on this man's poem and this particular myth.
What is Ovid's poem "The Metamorphoses" about the myth of Arachne
The 8-fold path
What is right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration?
Part one opens with the death of Maman and ends with the murder of the Arab. In part two, Meursault is in prison and at the end is awaiting his execution. The division reinforces the importance of Meursault in the universe of the story. Normality is jarred throughout the first part until it dissolves into chaos because of the murder. The second half reveals how the force of law enters to re-establish meaning and therefore bring back order through Mersault's death. The structure and the language, then, were technically at one with the greater theme of absurdity.
The work of literature from which the expression "Curiosity killed the cat" originates from.
What is "Much Ado About Nothing" by Shakespeare.