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Close reading questions on plot, narration, setting, and ambiguity in Julio Cortázar's story.
#literature
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One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.
The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
When the narrator first hears muffled noises beyond the oak door, what decision changes life in the house?
After the first part of the house is taken over, how do the siblings respond?
Which part of the house is lost in the first takeover?
When the second set of noises comes from their own side of the house, what does the narrator do?
At the end, why does the narrator throw the key into the drain?
What does the siblings' long unmarried life in the old house suggest about them?
Irene keeps knitting before and after the first takeover. What does that habit mainly show?
After the narrator loses access to his French books, what does his new pastime show?
Neither sibling asks what is taking the rooms. What does their silence reveal?
Who narrates “House Taken Over,” and what point of view does the story use?
What does the first-person point of view allow the story to withhold?
The narrator describes cleaning, meals, and lost rooms in the same calm voice. What is the effect of that tone?
Why does the opening spend time on the house, cleaning, income, and daily habits before the first noise?
What does the large old family house carry in the story?
What is the oak door's role after the first sound?
The narrator's library and books are trapped behind the closed door. What does that loss suggest?
Which statement best identifies a situational irony in the story?
What makes the source of the takeover ambiguous?
Why can the story be read as using absurdism or magical realism?
Which theme is most directly supported by the siblings' behavior and the ending?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.
Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
Frederick Douglass: Rhetoric and the Slave Narrative
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