Question 1

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels If you were going to write a satire of modern life, what social or political situations would you choose as subjects? Explain.

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Question 2

Gulliver's Travels

Do these two groups take their dispute seriously?

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Question 3

Gulliver's Travels

Why is Lilliput in danger?

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Question 4

Gulliver's Travels

After Gulliver captures the Blefescudian ships, what does the emperor of Lilliput want Gulliver to do?

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Question 5

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels Differentiate between the kings of Lilliput, Blefuscu and Brobdingnag.

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Question 6

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels fearing that the author would be charged with treason, the original publisher of gullivers travels censored the novel. why would the novel have been so controversial in the early 1700s?

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Question 7

Gulliver's Travels

How did the people take the new law in Gulliver's Travels and Lilliput in Part 1?

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Question 8

West with the Night

How does Beryl Markham try to get us to change our thinking? How do you think the book got away from her?

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Question 9

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Using the book to justify your response, do Ishmael and his companions have any choice but to become perpetrators of violence rather than victims of it? (chapter 12)

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Question 10

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Why do you think Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is mentioned? What is jarring or unusual about that reference in this context? (chapter 12)

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Question 11

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

What melted in the fire that was precious to Ishmael? What is this symbolic of? (chapter 12)

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Question 12

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

What is foreshadowing about Ishmael’s childhood game? (chapter 12)

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Question 13

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

What do you think the corporal means when he says, “…worship your Lord today, because you might not have another chance?” (chapter 13)

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Question 14

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

How does the quote “My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed” indicative of how Ishmael has changed from the beginning of the book? (chapter 13)

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Question 15

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

What saying does the boy’s Tupac shirt have on it? How is it ironic? (chapter 13)

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Question 16

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

In Chapter 11, describe how Ishmael is “lucky” in this chapter?

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Question 17

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

What is ironic about the situation with Ishmael’s family?

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Question 18

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Why do the words “None of this is anyone’s fault” make Ishmael angry?

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Question 19

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone What leads Ishmael to violence? Predict how “violence” will change as far as Ishmael is concerned from this point in the novel forward?

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Question 20

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

This is a “transition” chapter. What is the nature of this “transition?” (Chapter 11)

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Question 21

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

On p.65, the title of the book is used. Explain the context in which it is used.

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Question 22

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

How is the chief convinced to let the boys go?

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Question 23

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

What inspired Ishmael to keep moving, even when he didn’t know where he was going?

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Question 24

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A long way gone

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Question 25

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive”? (p. 179). What does Ishmael learn by asking these “Job”-like questions?

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