Characters
América Vicuña
What is starting a relationship with a much older man and ultimately taking her own life?
This author is known for his magical realism and wrote Love in the Time of Cholera
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
"Science, on the other hand, has to assert its
soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.
Nothing - how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm?"
Name the speaker, source, and author
Who is Joy/Hugla in "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor?
She becomes the animal no one wants to be
Who is the heartless woman?
These two Roberts from earlier reads may be useful somehow on the essay questions
Who are Robert Cohn and Robert Lebrun?
Fra Pandolf
Who is a celibate painter who draws the countenance of the last duchess?
She wrote "Good Country People" and "the Comforts of Home" and is perhaps better known for "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Flannery O'Connor
Was it another kind of cowardice, the fear of losing a pleasant memory, of finding her changed and marred, a dread of something that would throw a disenchanting light upon the past?
Name who "her" refers to, the source, and the author
Who is Marian Forrester in A Lost Lady by Willa Cather?
Although he's known now for playing chess, a posthumous letter reveals a criminal past
Who is Jeremiah de Saint-Amour?
This person wrote "the Identity Theory of Love"
Robert Solomon
Frank Ellinger
Who is a bachelor who has an affair with Marian Forrester and ultimately marries Constance Ogden?
Who is Raymond Carver?
"O no! it is an ever-fixed mark/
That looks on tempests and is never shaken"
Name the source and author
What is Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare?
Many would smile at her pictured countenance
Who is the last duchess?
The Robert in this story has another identifier he goes by
Who is the blind man?
Socrates
This bard is responsible for two similarly titled sonnets
Who is Shakespeare?
"And then I found myself thinking what a pitiful life this woman must have led."
Name whom "I" and "this woman" refer to, along with the source and author
Who are the narrator and Beulah in "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver?
Although initially a cruel bully who attacks animals, he eventually becomes a successful lawyer
Who is Ivy Peters?
This Robert was a poet, like his wife
Robert Browning
Farebrother
Who is a sheriff in meant to arrest Sarah Ham/Star Drake only to walk in on Thomas murdering his own mother instead?
Also referred to as sonnet 43, she wrote "How Do I Love Thee?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"[He] recognizes that no one can be self-sufficient or complete alone and that love must be the concrete and detailed love of a particular individual who is in some sense literally one's other half."
Name whom "he" refers to, the source, and the author
Who is Aristophanes in "the Identity Theory of Love" by Robert Solomon?
The narrator finds this woman's state at death lamentable
Who is Beulah?
Anyone who sees this Robert onscreen will quickly notice why he's given this moniker
Who is the limping man?