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3211English LiteratureMedium

In his essay “What Is an Author?” what position(s) on authorship does Michel Foucault take?

AAll of the above.

BThe names of authors serve a classificatory function.

CThe author is not a source of infinite meaning.

DThe author may not always exist.

Correct answer

A. All of the above.

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the above..

3212English LiteratureMedium

In Ulysses, which experimental technique(s) does Joyce use?

Aunconventional syntax

Bparodies

Cpuns

DAll of the Above

Correct answer

D. All of the Above

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the Above.

3213English LiteratureMedium

Which problem(s) shaped Joyce’s early home life?

AAll of the Above

Bhis father’s alcoholism

Clack of stable work

Dpoverty

Correct answer

A. All of the Above

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the Above.

3214English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business?

AA new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.

BCommercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public

Call of the above

DEducation reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.

Correct answer

C. all of the above

Explanation

The correct answer is all of the above.

3215English LiteratureMedium

According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition?”

AA and B only

BTradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.

CIn English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”

DAll of the above

Correct answer

A. A and B only

Explanation

The correct answer is A and B only.

3216English LiteratureMedium

Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pound’s interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his________?

Ainterest in ancient Rome.

Banti-capitalism.

Cinterest in Fourier’s utopian socialist thought.

Dendorsement of Marxism.

Correct answer

B. anti-capitalism.

Explanation

The correct answer is anti-capitalism..

3217English LiteratureMedium

Fill in the blank. A ________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat?

ASatire

BMasque

CTragedy

DComedy

Correct answer

B. Masque

Explanation

The correct answer is Masque.

3218English LiteratureMedium

dominated English literature from the Restoration until the end of the 18th century with the emergence of Romanticism?

AVictorianism

BMedievalism

CNeoclassicism

DModernism

Correct answer

C. Neoclassicism

Explanation

The correct answer is Neoclassicism.

3219English LiteratureMedium

The adventure of another lay/Just as it happened, I’ll relay?

AThe line alludes to a poem with religious undertones.

BThe line seems to frame a story with plot complications.

CThe strong alliteration creates rhythm that accentuates the adventurous spirit.

DThe line has obvious rhyme and meter, and the opening words suggest a story of adventure and excitement.

Correct answer

D. The line has obvious rhyme and meter, and the opening words suggest a story of adventure and excitement.

Explanation

The correct answer is The line has obvious rhyme and meter, and the opening words suggest a story of adventure and excitement..

3220English LiteratureMedium

Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

AEarl of Worcester

BEarl of Northumberland

CEarl of March

DEarl of Douglas

Correct answer

B. Earl of Northumberland

Explanation

The correct answer is Earl of Northumberland.

Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business?

AA new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.

BCommercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public

Call of the above

DEducation reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.

Correct answer

C. all of the above

Explanation

The correct answer is all of the above.

According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition?”

AA and B only

BTradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.

DAll of the above

Correct answer

A. A and B only

Explanation

The correct answer is A and B only.

The adventure of another lay/Just as it happened, I’ll relay?

AThe line alludes to a poem with religious undertones.

BThe line seems to frame a story with plot complications.

CThe strong alliteration creates rhythm that accentuates the adventurous spirit.

DThe line has obvious rhyme and meter, and the opening words suggest a story of adventure and excitement.

Correct answer

D. The line has obvious rhyme and meter, and the opening words suggest a story of adventure and excitement.

Explanation

The correct answer is The line has obvious rhyme and meter, and the opening words suggest a story of adventure and excitement..