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From the narrator of “Cathedral” to Willy Loman, we have seen characters that feel out of place.  Why do so many authors this term have characters like this?  Justify your opinion.  

The First World War and the Second World War had a major influence on art and culture.  What author or work do you think was influenced by one of the World Wars the most?  Justify your answer.  

Twyla and Roberta wonder about Maggie’s _______________.  

Whitman’s “Song of Myself” was only published once. 

Passage Explication 4: don’t sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don’t eat fruits on the street—flies will follow you; but I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school; this is how to sew on a button; this is how to make a buttonhole for the button you have just sewed on; this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming;

In “Cathedral,” the blind man often calls the narrator ___________.  

In “Cathedral,” the blind man and the narrator’s wife communicated through _____________.  

What work that we have had this term is most exemplifies American culture?  Explain.  

In “Petrified Man,” Leota saw the Petrified man at a _______________.  

In the Hurston story, “Sweat,” Sykes tries to kill Delia with a ___________.