Test Questions

1. What is Father Zossima’s response to Ivan Karamazov’s condemnation?

2. All of the following are positive female archetypes except…Devouring Mother

3. What does ‘chthonic’ mean? Underworld

4. What in the story makes it possible for the town of Omelas to be as perfect as possible? Torture of a small child

5. Memorization – Fahrenheit 451

6. What is the most common argument between a man and a woman? You don’t know what it’s like to be me

7. What does Hera do to Tireisus after his response to her question? Strikes him blind

8. What is the first principle of Buddhism? All is suffering all is fleeting

9. What kind of pet would Garrett not cry over? Fish

10. Does Anton Chekov condemn the characters in his story? No. He does not judge them.

11. The answer to the red wheel barrel questions is the red wheel barrel

12. What archetype would Old Karamazov belong to? Trickster

13. What archetype does Grushanka belong to? Temptress

14. What macabre occupation did Annabelle belong to? Restoration manager

15. In a short story, a man puts his hand over that of a blind man to help him draw. What do they draw? Cathedral

16. What law does Antigone represent? The laws of the Underworld.

17. Professor Sexson has a colleague that travels, but does not…read

18. What poem lit up the professor’s face like a child on Christmas day? The one on the door: before you leave the classroom please turn off the lights, close windows, put desks back, pick up garbage

19. What is the difference between metaphor vs simile?

20. What is theodicy? An attempt to justify a god that permits suffering in the world.

21. Who in the Cathedral is the only one who has a name? Blind Man

22. How did Antigone die? She hanged herself

23. What is the object that made Dmitri in the Lady with the Pet Dog have an epiphany? Sturgeon

24. Who is the tragic hero in Antigone? Creon or Antigone

25. What is the Grand Inquisitor’s secret? The church has corrected the problems that Jesus had brought to the world. The church created miracle, mystery, and authority according to a character in Brother’s Karamazov. Freedom is the secret word.

26. Cliff notes are inadequate for Brother’s Karamazov

27. What does misogynist mean? Women Hater – Creon “There are other fields to plow”

28. Shakespearean vs Italian sonnet

29. Araby: Who was the one who inspire the boy to go to the marketplace? Mangan’s sister

30. Which character seems to “run away” from the author in the Brother’s Karamazov? All of them

31. In Antigone, who represents the gods of the upper world? Creon

32. Sonnet Therapy - "I wrote these poems to help people live their lives."

33. Foil - character in contrast to another to create tension in the work. Ex. Creon and Antigone