Destructors and Worldviews

When and where does the short story "The Destructors" take place?

• After WWI

• You don't know when it takes place

• in London after WWII

• In Jamaica

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In the beginning of the story Trevor first gets into Old Misery's house by

• jumping on Old Misery

• knocking on the door and introducing himself.

• by breaking in

• climbing in through a window

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In the story, why do Trevor and the boys destroy Old Misery's house?

• He's rebelling

• He wants to rule the world

• He hates Old Misery

• He is destroying that which represents the beauty of the past.

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In the story, why do Trevor and the boys destroy Old Misery's house?

• He's rebelling

• He wants to rule the world

• He hates Old Misery

• He is destroying that which represents the beauty of the past.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The laughter of the lorry driver at the end of the story demonstrates

• bananas

• he just doesn't care

• His hatred for authority.

• The absurdity of the destruction.

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What is epistemology?

• the study of baal

• How we know what we know,

  study of knowledge

• apples

• the study of biology

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Since the Enlightenment, all literature in the Western tradition responds to one central question?  What is that question?

• grass

• Sola Ratio (Reason alone?)

• Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone?)

• Sola Fide (Faith alone?)

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The three-fold Medieval warrant is

• God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit

• run, run, run

• reason, tradition, and Scripture

• gummie,chocolate an crackers

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Which worldview is expressed in the following passage: 

"Dear boy, I am now sure that you will be a hero, since the gods are on your side at your young age."

• dirt

• enlightenment

• medieval

• classical

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In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" what mode of epistemology is demonstrated by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

• relying on emotions

• sloth

• observation and deduction (science)

• christian