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Mrs. Hawkins - 10th Grade Literature
Literature Test 8
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Literature
10th Grade
02/12/2013

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Wrote about his experiences as a pilot
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Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Wrote "To Build a Fire"
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Jack London
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Stories described life in New England
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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Wrote "Two Ancient Indian Fables"
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William Carey
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Sailed on the Kon-Tiki to Polynesia
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Thor Heyerdahl
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Wrote The Call of the Wild
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Jack London
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Wrote "A Prayer in Spring"
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Robert Frost
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Wrote "What Is So Rare as a Day in June"
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James Russel Lowell
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Epic
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Long, narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters in heroic proportions.
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Setting
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Physical background against which the events of a story take place.
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Who wrote "Once by the Pacific"?
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Robert Frost
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Who wrote "Angus McGregor"?
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Lew Sarett
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Who wrote "Crystal Moment"?
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Robert P. Tristam Coffin
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Who wrote "The Eagle"?
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Who is Utnapistim?
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Sumerian "Noah" figure
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Who is Enkidu?
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Gilgamesh's dead friend
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Who is Sylvia?
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little girl; went to woods to get grandmother's cow
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Who is Urshanabi?
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ferryman who took Gilgamesh across the waters of death
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Who is Siduri?
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maker of wine
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Who is Gilgamesh?
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seeker of everlasting life
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Whose life events does the oldest book of the Bible record?
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Job

"Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."

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