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3451English LiteratureMedium

How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts?

AKristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.

BKristeva suggests that women are not subject to traditional fetishes.

CAll of the above answers are correct.

DKristeva rejects the idea that neuroses provide insight into the unconscious.

Correct answer

A. Kristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.

Explanation

The correct answer is Kristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development..

3452English LiteratureMedium

Which of Upton Sinclair’s books is about the meat-packing industry?

AMain Street

BElmer Gantry

CThe Jungle

DArrowsmith

Correct answer

C. The Jungle

Explanation

The correct answer is The Jungle.

3453English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following is the best example of a morality play?

A“The Second Shepherds’ Play”

B“The Dream of the Rood”

C“The Seafarer”

D“Everyman”

Correct answer

D. “Everyman”

Explanation

The correct answer is “Everyman”.

3454English LiteratureMedium

In Finnegans Wake, how does Joyce represent the theme of tragic love?

Ahe uses an allusion to the mythical Odysseus

Bhe uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult

Che refers to the mythical Daedalus

Dhe refers to the Oedipal myth

Correct answer

B. he uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult

Explanation

The correct answer is he uses an allusion to Tristian and Iseult.

3455English LiteratureMedium

What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign?

AThe Lutheran Church

BCalvinism

CThe Anglican Church

DThe Roman Catholic Church

Correct answer

C. The Anglican Church

Explanation

The correct answer is The Anglican Church.

3456English LiteratureMedium

Yes, when the stars glisten’d, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong?

AA pointed, projected part of something

BAn edgy platform

CAn adumbration

DOther side

Correct answer

A. A pointed, projected part of something

Explanation

The correct answer is A pointed, projected part of something.

3457English LiteratureMedium

Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ________’s work?

AFreud

BMarx

CDarwin

DAristotle

Correct answer

B. Marx

Explanation

The correct answer is Marx.

3458English LiteratureMedium

According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century?

AAll of the above

BWrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment

CBecoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive

DFeeling like an outcast in your own house

Correct answer

A. All of the above

Explanation

The correct answer is All of the above.

3459English LiteratureMedium

Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance?

AIts curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.

BIt was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.

CIt was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.

DIt was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium

Correct answer

A. Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.

Explanation

The correct answer is Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning..

3460English LiteratureMedium

The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?

Aplots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes

Bsupernatural phenomenon

Call of the above

Dperversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution

Correct answer

C. all of the above

Explanation

The correct answer is all of the above.

How are Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories distinct from traditional Freudian concepts?

AKristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.

BKristeva suggests that women are not subject to traditional fetishes.

CAll of the above answers are correct.

DKristeva rejects the idea that neuroses provide insight into the unconscious.

Correct answer

A. Kristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development.

Explanation

The correct answer is Kristeva offers a more central place for women’s issues within psychological development..

Which of the following statements is not an accurate reflection of education during the English Renaissance?

AIts curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.

BIt was conducted by tutors in wealthy families or in grammar schools.

CIt was aimed primarily at sons of the nobility and gentry.

DIt was ordered according to the medieval trivium and quadrivium

Correct answer

A. Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning.

Explanation

The correct answer is Its curriculum emphasized ancient Greek, the language of diplomacy, professions, and higher learning..