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Themes and Motifs of Existentialism

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Introduction:
"The following questions involve stories that regard human existence as unexplainable, or stress freedom of choice."


1. Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" consisted of six sections. Of these six, how many sections concentrated on the punishment?
    Answer: (numerical)


2. What type of imagery was not present in Margret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"?
    spiritual
    gustatory
    olfactory
    kinesthetic


3. What kind of society does Aldous Huxley's dystopian work, "Brave New World", allude to?
    democracy
    republic
    communist
    anarchy


4. What is the name of the alien race created by Kurt Vonnegut?
    Trafaldorians
    Tralfamadorians
    Tramadorians
    Trafalamorians


5. Who is the protagonist of Albert Camus' "The Stranger"?
    Meursault
    Celeste
    Raymond
    Salamano


6. Which of the following is not a work by Kurt Vonnegut?
    "Welcome to the Monkey House"
    "Return to Slaughter House Five"
    "The Sirens of Titan"
    "Cat's Cradle"


7. Which of the following novels is a satire on the Russian Revolution?
    "Animal Farm"
    "Island"
    "1984"
    "Communist Manifesto"


8. Which of the following was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky?
    "The Brothers Karamazov"
    "War and Peace"
    "The Death of Ivan Ilych"
    "Master and Man"


9. What year was Orwell's "1984" published?
    1980
    1954
    1976
    1949


10. Was is evident in most books about utopias, especially those that have an existential motif?
    the utopia is overthrown by an alien race
    the utopia splits into different societies that resemble a democracy
    the utopia turns out to be a dystopia
    the utopia is a paradise where all live together in harmony


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