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Book One: Genesis
The Things We Carried
The Things We Carried, continued
Book Two: The Revelation
The Revelation, continued
The Revelation, continued
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Bel and the Serpent
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Song of the Three Children and The Eyes in the Trees
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Book One: Genesis
The Things We Carried
The Things We Carried, continued
Book Two: The Revelation
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The Judges
The Judges,continued
Bel and the Serpent
Bel and the Serpent Continued
Exodus
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Song of the Three Children and The Eyes in the Trees
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Nathan serves as the embodiment of ___ in the novel.
Western hubris
God's omnipotence
Western generosity
Intellectualism
2
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What is presented as a spiritual antidote to the sin of the West?
Christianity
Pantheism
Books
War
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What or who represents different answers to the question, "How should we live with the burden of guilt"?
Ruth May
The Congo
Nathan
Each narrator
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Which motif is used to underscore ideas of cultural arrogance and understanding?
Light and Dark
Vision
Language as Revelatory
The Demonstration Garden
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Who or what serves as a symbol for the doomed Republic of Congo?
Brother Fowles
Methuselah
Nathan
The poisonwood tree
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