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Category: English Literature Mcqs
Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism?
A. Formalist Criticism
B. Deconstructionism
C. Structuralism
D. Mimetic Criticism
Richard Wright said he created the character of Bigger in Native Son because______________?
A. He had known many “Biggers” in his life.
B. He was trying to overcome his fears of powerful men.
C. He was proud of all the African American men he had seen stand up to Whites.
D. He wanted to show African American males how not to live.
Which of the following statements offers the best definition of “rhetoric” ?
A. Questions for which the answers are obvious
B. Persuasive writing and speaking
C. Writing that is complicated and scholarly
D. Logical writing and speaking
How does Queen Gertrude die ?
A. Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
B. Drowns in the river outside the castle.
C. Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.
D. Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet’s cup.
Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
A. Diamonds
B. Land
C. Gold
D. Gasoline
What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer’s lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
A. human reverence for the classics
B. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks
C. pride for the vernacular language
D. a and c only
What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
A. a long verse
B. a long narrative poem
C. an overriding view
D. an overstatement about something
Reader-response theory focuses on considering how ?
A. readers choose their favorite works of literature.
B. readers experience a literary work.
C. readers decide which works of literature to read.
D. readers develop their own unique and personal critical discourses.
With which theorist is the term identity thinking most closely associated ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Carl Jung
C. William James
D. Theodor W. Adorno
Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
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