Composition II, Second Half

What does Joan Didion refer to as "the Valley fate" in "Notes from a Native Daughter"?

A character who blackmails Nora in A Doll's House

Which essay revealed the least about its author's life?

Which phrase most nearly matches the "increasingly omnipresent class" that William Vollmann calls the Unamericans?

What's the central message of Antigone and of lots of Greek drama?

Which word refers to all the writing skills that contribute to the effect of any piece of literature?

In "Generation Why," what expressive part of Zuckerberg's face does Smith observe never moves?

In "My Private Property," why did the Jivaro Indians sew the eyes and mouth shut?

Who was buried dishonorably in Antigone?

Which of the following quotations is the central point of David Foster Wallace's "Commencement Speech, Kenyon College"?

Which kingdom does Jonathan Swift calculate contains about two hundred thousand couples in "A Modest Proposal"?

Which type of clown does Joshua Cohen reveal in "It's a Circle" to be the more aristocratic kind of clown?

Which of the following quotations is an example of stage directions?

What was the group of citizens in Greek theater that commented on the action and characters of the play?

Which of the following essayists was not first a novelist?

Which of the following would not be nonfiction?

What ironic sartorial issue does James Baldwin face when his father dies (in "Notes of a Native Son")?

Why do we read and admire Antigone?

Which of the following traits does Joshua Cohen not list as being shared by both Donald Trump and P. T. Barnum?

Which best describes why so many literary texts are so dark?

In "It's a Circle," what do all the executives blame for the demise of the circus?

Which characters kill themselves in a vault of stone?

In "Notes of a Native Son," what does James Baldwin describe as "the ghetto's chronic need"?

In which city does Antigone take place?

Which kind of mind does Facebook reflect that we're "trapped" inside, according to Zadie Smith in "Generation Why"?

Which character in A Doll's House is treated most like a child?

For which terrorist had William Vollmann been an FBI suspect? (From "Life as a Terrorist")

Who follows Creon's commands?

Which type of clown does Joshua Cohen reveal in "It's a Circle" to be the sad, tragic clown?

Which group of people does Smith declare The Social Network to be about, and which group is it made by?

What's the Greek word describing a central character flaw of arrogance, refusing to listen to the gods?

What phrase does Vollmann call "the certificate of American health I have always longed for"? ("Life as a Terrorist")

What does Helmer say "infects and poisons the whole life of a home"?

In "Life as a Terrorist," how does William Vollmann say that he got access to his FBI file?

Which of the following authors did we not identify as having intellectual connections to feminism?

According to "Generation Why," what does Lanier think computers "cannot currently do"?

It is nearly Thanksgiving when A Doll's House opens.

What vice does James Baldwin say that he and his father share? ("Notes of a Native Son")

Who's Antigone's father?

In what way, according to Mary Ruefle in "My Private Property," is a shrunken head like a photograph?

Which dated gender norm forms the source of the main conflict in the play A Doll's House?

At the end of Act II, why does Nora want Helmer to spend all day teaching her the Tarantella?

Who is a soothsayer?

In "My Private Property," what pun or word-connection does Mary Ruefle make to connect shrunken heads and psychiatry?

Who refers to the head as "the terrible master," something to be disciplined with conscious attention?

Based on the fragment of a poem in "Notes from a Native Daughter," whom or what is it that Joan Didion mourns for?

Which of these essays is least clearly making a social or political argument?

Sophocles's Antigone was performed in an amphitheater that sat about how many people?

Which text was most self-conscious about using cliches that would bore its audience?

Which word best characterizes this Woolf line: "How much thinking those old gentlemen used to save one!"