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Tennessee Williams wrote about roses and named characters Rose after his sister. Whatother writer used roses a lot because of the writers mothers name?
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Pablo Neruda
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Who directed II Postino
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Michael Radford
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Who says “thewhole world is the metaphor for something else”
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Mario Ruoppolo
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Who said “therode to success leads to the palace of wisdom”
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William Blake
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Which of the following did Tennessee Williams not write
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Death of a salesman
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Which one of the following objects appears several times in IIpostino
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a white foosball
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“nothinghuman disgusts me” whosays that to whom
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Hannah Jelkes to Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon
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Which of the following did Dylan say?
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I'm just a voice speaking. Anytime I'm singing about people, andif the songs are dreamed its like my voice is coming out of their dream
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Who wrote “that five hundred a year stands for the power tocontemplate that a lock on the door means the power to think for ones self”
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Virginia Woolf
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Which of the following is an early example ofthe new journalism
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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What is the title of the book of poetry, buyNeruda, that Mario is reading in II Postino
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Elementary Odes
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Which of the following albums is a Dylan Album
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Bringing it all back home
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Which greek god is a god of derangement and disorder
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Dionysus
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What was Bob Dylan’s birth name
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Robert Zimmerman
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Who said “I created imaginary worlds into which I can retreatfrom the real world because I’venever made any kind of adjustment to the real world”
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Tennesse Williams
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Which of the following names is the birth nameof that writer
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Sylvia Plath
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which one of the following writers had a deepinfluence on Dylan Neruda and Willams
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Woody Guthrie
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Who wrote of Neruda and other writers who supported Stalinsbrutal regime that “Nodoubt they began in good faith but insensibly commitment by commitment they sawthemselves becoming entangled in a mesh of lies falsehoods deceits andperjuries until they lost their souls”
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Octavio Paz
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“henot busy being born is busy dying” who wrote this
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Bob Dylan
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Who spoke of their writing as a “physical absorption of the world”
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Ted Hughes
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In II Postino Mario and the postmaster, as they look atNeruda's incoming mail, note two different sides of Neruda. What are thesesides
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Lover and communist
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who dreamed of a fin breaking through thesurface of a “blank,vast, sea”
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Sylvia Plath
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“If I canbe said to have a home, it is in new orleans which has provided me with morematerial than any other part of the country” who said this
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Tennessee Williams
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The beat poet Allen Ginsberg appears frequently in NoDirection Home as an interviewee. Which of the following did he say aboutDylan?
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What struck me is that he was at one, or hebecame identical with his breath”
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In the movie II Postino we learn that at least two famousItalian poets wrote poems to a woman named Beatrice. Which of the following isone of these poets
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Dante
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The movie version of the night of the iguana wasshot where
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Puerto Vallarta and Mismaloya
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Who said “Nature made me feel inherited. I must have been about10 years old but I was already a poet.. I was stunned by the perfection of theinsects”
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Pablo Neruda
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What important event took place on July 25, 1965
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Newport Folk Festival
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Who of the following was not a good confessional poet
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Margaret Atwood
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Who helped Capote research In Cold Blood
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Harper Lee
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From which Neruda poem does this line come? “the smell of barbershops makes me break into hoarsesobs”
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“walking around”
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Who directed “no direction home”
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Martin Scorsese
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Which of the following was one of the reasonsDylan headed to new york city for the first time
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to meet Woody Guthrie
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Which of the following was not written by Capote
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To kill a mocking bird
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Which of the following writer was interested in the notion ofa women perpetually waiting for a gentleman caller
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Pablo Neruda
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In her fiction, which of the following was mostcentral to Virginia Woolf
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Her handling of time and her probing into the mind
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Which of the following indicated aliterary/musical stream that was important to Dylan's creative development
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Beat
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Which one of the following writers did not have significant problems with illness,whether in childhood adulthood or both
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Bob Dylan
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Which of the following is a William's play
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A streetcar named desire
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What did Neruda write about waking up after hisfirst experience of sexual love
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When I woke up I put out a startles hand and found only awarm hollow a warm absence”
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From which song does this quote come from “Takeme on a trip upon your magic swirling ship my senses have been stripped myhands cant feel to grip”
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Mr. Tambourine man
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She has to rob herself of skills and securitysend away her muse and become helpless that her duende might come and deign tofight her hand to hand” whosaid this about whom
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Lorca about the singer La nina de los Peinas
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“Anartist has got to be careful never to really arrive at a place where he thinkshes at you always have to realize you're constantly in the state of becoming” Who said this
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Bob Dylan
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Through what device is Neruda first introduced to the viewer in II Postino
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Newsreel film
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Who directed the night of the iguana
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John Huston
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