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Duos of Diversity
100
New Jersey, Cartavio, and Wyoming are some of the places this book is set.
What is American Chica?
100
According to Toufic El Rassi and other writers, this event made Americans angry with "Middle Easterners," "Arabs," and Muslems and caused massive changes to US immigration policy?
What is September 11, 2001?
100
Name of book read in class written by Gene Lueng Yang.
What is American Born Chinese?
100
Book that has Dr. Birdseye.
What is American Chica?
100
Trash describes the lives of three under-represented groups of people; name two of these groups.
What are lesbians, poor/working class, and women.
200
A literary period that emphasized the ideal, universal truths, mythology, the individual, and imagination.
What is the romantic period?
200
Legislation that was passed provisionally, expanded, and passed indefinitely that prohibited one country (and later all Asians) from immigrating to the US.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
Good Lord Bird and Sacred Wilderness are examples of this genre and this type of book.
What is fiction and the novel?
200
Book that has Aunt Alma, a mother with a tattoo above her ankle, Cousin Barbara, and Lee.
What is Trash?
200
Two differences between the play and movie The Piano Lesson.
(Answers vary)
300
A Chinese uprising that happened approximately 25 years ago.
What is the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
300
According to Toufic El Rassi and other writers, this event made Americans angry with "Middle Easterners," "Arabs," and Muslims, prior to September 11, 2001? It happened in 1979 and was at least partially responsible for Ronald Reagan defeating Jimmy Carter.
What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?
300
Lita Kurth, award-winning creative nonfiction writer, wrote the following essay about her mother that uses a children's song as a title.
What are "This is the Way We Wash the Clothes" "American Chica," and/or "Arab in America"?
300
A local spoken word artist who acts, writes poetry, fiction, and memoir, we read a book of his poetry this semester.
Who is David Mura?
300
Name two examples of memoir from this semester.
What are "This is the Way We Wash Our Clothes," "Arab in America" and/or "American Chica"?
400
The literary period that romanticism.
What is realism?
400
An event described in a book this semester that increased tension and may have led to the Civil War.
What was John Brown's raid?
400
A poetry term that describes a sound quality where the opening consonant SOUNDS are repeated. For example, Her Harlequin Hovers.
What is alliteration?
400
This author asked us to be open to other realities as we read her book. She also has the same name as her mother.
Who is Susan Power?
400
The Monkey King masquerades as this character.
Who is Chin-Kee?
500
Name of the state in Dorothy Allison's collection (Trash) for the short story "The Meanest Woman Ever Left . . .?"
What is Tennessee?
500
One of the assurances given to the families of workers at "Lowell Mill Experiment."
What were safe living conditions, respectable career choice, income, and access to education?
500
A sound device used in poetry that is not alliteration or rhyming.
What is repetition or assonance?
500
The two writers who wrote about the Lady of Shallott
Who is Alfred Lloyd Tennyson and Lucy Larcom?
500
This text has setting of Jackson, Mississippi, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
What is The Piano Lesson?