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What is Swift's claim?

• The English need to be treated better or they will start to eat children.
• The Irish need to handle their money better or they will have to sell children.
• The English should sell their children into Irish slavery to help their economy.
• The Irish should sell their babies to English butchers as a delicacy.

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Before he left, Holden gave Phoebe his

• red hunting hat.
• favorite book.
• Christmas money.
• favorite movie.

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What is the name for the time and place during which a story occurs?

• Setting
• Plot
• Location
• Exposition

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What information does Holden share about his brother D.B.?

• D.B. was in the army.
• D.B. was getting a divorce.
• D.B. was married.
• D.B. was dead.

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Who was the founding father of Transcendentalism?

• Thoreau
• Whitman
• Emerson
• Waldo

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What does Holden notice about the content of Phoebe's notebook?

• It's all about him.
• She is using a different middle name.
• It has song lyrics.

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"Her skin - for this was her sixth month with child - had acquired a wonderful translucent quality, the mouth was soft, and the eyes, with their new placid look, seemed larger, darker than before"

What does this sentence tell us?

• She's pregnant

• She's worried

• She's looking after children

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Romeo and Juliet is a play by William . . .

• Hill

• Hibberson

• Shakespeare

• Shatner

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Which of the following is NOT something Faber says society needs regarding books?

• quality of information

• rights to act on what is read

• leisure time to absorb information

• tutors to help people understand information

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Who is Odysseus' father?

• Laertes

• Zeus

• Poseidon

• Polyphemus

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