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Post by sargassosea on Oct 30, 2009 14:11:43 GMT -5
9 ‘Open Book’ questions in 3 Days: True/False – Multiple Choice – Very Short Essay* Submit all nine of your answers with the subject line ----> I Got Mine, here: sargassosea31 at charter, and a dot, and a net (you’ll need to translate that into an email address so the spambots don’t get me… ) … for your chance to win My Personal Copy (shipping included!) of Reading Lolita in Tehran... This is a wonderful read, lady friends. Winner announced as soon as Vyckie gets back from New York! * Choose any of the nine questions for your essay! Remember: outspokenness, clarity and a sense of hilarity count…
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 1, 2009 19:37:42 GMT -5
Who is Jessica Watson's nautical mate?
A) Cherry Smore
B) Rachael Scott
C) Ella's Pink Lady
D) The 'Divine Miss M'
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Post by 356 on Nov 1, 2009 19:43:53 GMT -5
I think I know it!!!!!
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 2, 2009 8:50:59 GMT -5
Joy Behar was once a school teacher.
True or False
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 2, 2009 15:13:10 GMT -5
Ann B. Davis, "Alice" of The Brady Bunch tv show, lives in what type of religious community:
A) Catholic
B) Episcopalian
C) Jewish
D) Mennonite
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 3, 2009 7:06:44 GMT -5
RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) was co-founded by singer-songwriter Tori Amos.True or False RAINN ---> www.rainn.org/
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 3, 2009 14:32:49 GMT -5
Judy Shepard is
A) a world renown poet
B) an author and gay rights activist
C) an anthropologist
D) Judy Jestson's 'married' name
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 4, 2009 8:20:02 GMT -5
The Sargasso Sea is an actual geographical location.
True or False
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Post by grandmalou on Nov 4, 2009 9:51:17 GMT -5
Review A triumph of atmosphere—of what one is tempted to call Caribbean Gothic atmosphere….It has an almost hallucinatory quality. -- The New York Times Novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966. A well-received work of fiction, it takes its theme from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in Jamaica and returns with him to his home in England. Locked in a loveless marriage and settled in an inhospitable climate, Antoinette goes mad and is frequently violent. Her husband confines her to the attic of his house at Thornfield. Only he and Grace Poole, the attendant he has hired to care for her, know of Antoinette's existence. The reader gradually learns that Antoinette's unnamed husband is Mr. Rochester, later to become the beloved of Jane Eyre. Much of the action of the novel takes place in the West Indies. The first and third sections are narrated by Antoinette, the middle section by her husband. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature The novel is a triumph of atmosphere—of what one is tempted to call Caribbean Gothic atmosphere. . . . It has an almost hallucinatory quality. (New York Times ) Working a stylistic range from moody introspection to formal elegance, Miss Rhys has us traveling under Antoinette's skin. -- The Nation Working a stylistic range from moody introspection to formal elegance, Miss Rhys has us traveling under Antoinette's skin. It is an eerie and memorable trip. (The Nation ) Jean Rhys, the troubled author who was far ahead of her time in the 1920's, felt a strange kinship with Antoinette or Bertha Mason, the madwoman locked in the attic in Bronte's "Jane Eyre." From the first time Rhys read "Jane Eyre" she knew she would someday write her story because she felt she'd lived it. Like Antoinette, Rhys grew up in the Caribbean, a troubled and hermetic world of Creoles, colonists and former slaves. Antoinette is truly a loner--the reversal of family fortunes causes her to be rejected by her own people, and despised by those who previously were on a lower rung of society. Throughout the novel, Antoinette is used, buffeted and never in charge of her own life. She feels that, as a woman, she is an object, not a person. As a woman, she is not in charge of her ultimate destiny, and this provides the conflict for the novel. Her madness is only an extension of this isolation and rejection. What makes Rhys a masterful novelist is her use of conversation and immediate events to describe the world in which Antoinette lives. There are no long passages of exposition; we see the world only through the eyes of the characters, mostly at the same time that they experience it. However, the immediate events and conversation or narration are so cleverly constructed that the reader sees through the narrator's eyes and can really see and feel the surroundings. This intimate point of view puts the reader in the skin of the character, but can be a bit confusing because we cannot always rely on the veracity of the narration. The point of view itself switches in the novel from first person to third person, in the second part, and back to first in the third and final portion, where Antoinette is locked in the attic. I'm pretty sure Sargasso Sea is a real place...and I want to read this book!
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 4, 2009 10:43:07 GMT -5
Tracy Ullman impersonates which famous blogger on her show State of the Union?A) Perez Hilton B) Vyckie Garrison C) Digby D) Arianna Huffington
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 4, 2009 19:36:14 GMT -5
Your Hostess with the Most-est (me, Sea) is behind in posting questions because:A) she's a pathetic loser B) she's really, really tired C) her family just rescued a emaciated, criminally neglected pit bull D) all of the above
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Post by sargassosea on Nov 5, 2009 15:07:16 GMT -5
Where is Jessica Watson now?
A) space
B) in a cave
C) Nancy Campbell's house
D) the South Pacific
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