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English 11 2nd Semester Exam
Second semester exam stuff.
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English
11th Grade
05/20/2013

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Abigail Williams
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Primary cause of the witch trials
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Betty Parris
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Daughter of Samuel Parris
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Ezekiel Cheever
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Man who arrested Elizabeth Proctor
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Giles Corey
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Pressed to death
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Thomas Danforth
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Judge of the witch trials
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Elizabeth Proctor
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John's wife
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Reverend John Hale
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Expert spirit remover (lol)
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Arthur Miller
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Author
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Mary Warren
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Gave a poppet to Elizabeth
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Rebecca
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Mrs. Nurse; maintained her innocence.
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Reverend Samuel Parris
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Disliked Proctor; Proctor disliked him
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Putnam
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Thomas and Ann; baby miscarriages
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Tituba
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Samuel Parris' slave from Barbados
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John Proctor
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Had an affair with Abigail
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Harlem Renaissance
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A literary movement in the 1920's that centered on Harlem
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James Weldon Johnson
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Author of "My City." Both an artist and activist, this man spent his life introducing the U.S. to the creative voice of A. Americans while fighting racism.
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Countee Cullen
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Birthplace unknown; "Any Human to Another"; embodied ideal of the "New Negro".
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Georgia Douglass
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Wrote "Your World". Born in Atlanta, GA
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Raised in Eatonville, FL. Anthropologist and Folklorist
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Langston Hughes
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Joplin, MO. Transposed themes + rhythms from blues + jazz into poems. Celebrated African American life.
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Jazz Music
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Form of music - largely improv., with rhythmic framework
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Blues Music
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Born from A. American spirituals + work songs
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