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by BlastRoom
Close reading questions on Kugelmass, Persky's cabinet, Madame Bovary, and the story's comic twist.
#literature
20 questions
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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.
Early in the story, Kugelmass complains to his analyst about marriage and routine. What choice moves the plot from ordinary dissatisfaction into fantasy?
Persky explains how his cabinet works. Besides the traveler, what must go inside the cabinet before he taps it three times?
Kugelmass asks Persky to take Emma out of the novel for a weekend. What problem follows from that decision?
After Emma is finally returned to her novel, Kugelmass later goes back to Persky. What does that plot turn show?
What makes the story's final turn a twist ending?
Kugelmass wants romance and adventure but avoids changing his marriage. What motive best explains his visits to Persky?
Emma accepts Kugelmass's invitation to New York rather than staying only in Flaubert's world. What attracts her?
Kugelmass lies to Daphne while keeping Emma nearby in New York. What does that reveal about him?
Persky keeps treating the cabinet as a practical trick even when it violates reality. What self-image does he project?
The narrator describes therapy, New York errands, and impossible travel into a novel in the same matter-of-fact voice. What is the effect?
College readers notice Kugelmass appearing in Madame Bovary, and professors try to account for it. What does that episode satirize?
Why does the story keep the reader at a comic distance from Kugelmass instead of making his affair deeply romantic?
Which label best fits the story's handling of a reader walking into Madame Bovary while ordinary New York continues around him?
Persky's cabinet is cheap, Chinese, and unreliable rather than grand or mysterious. What does that object emphasize?
In the story, Madame Bovary is not only a novel Kugelmass has read. What does the book become?
What comic contrast is created when Emma Bovary is placed in modern New York?
Kugelmass is a humanities professor who enters a classic novel. What is ironic about his use of literature?
Which statement best captures the situational irony of the ending?
What tone is created by mixing adultery, literary study, broken machinery, and a grammar-book monster?
What theme does Kugelmass's repeated use of Persky's cabinet develop?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
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Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.
Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
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