2201. Gradually light returns to the street means_______________?
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A. life resumes to normal routine

B. streets are bright

C. life is unpredictable

D. it is day break

2202. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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A. finding spiritual meaning

B. Critic slavery

C. Defend Slavery

D. Both B and C
2203. From where does Eliza cross into Cananda ?
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A. Lake Huron

B. Lake Erie

C. Northern Minnesota

D. Niagara Falls

2204. How was the priests sons prayer answered ?
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A. The dead uncle sent an earthquake to punish the corn clan for their wrongdoings

B. The priests son was told to set fire to the village

C. The dead uncle sent a hail storm to destroy the land

D. The prayer was not answered and the people continued to live in sin

2205. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory ?
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A. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.

B. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.

C. All of the above answers are correct.

D. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.
2206. This quote comes from what writing: God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________?
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A. Hell and Salem

B. Hands of Satan

C. Sinners in the Hand

D. Spiders of the World

2207. What event provides the motivation for Shelby to release all the slaves ?
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A. Toms daughters wedding

B. Elizas escape

C. Toms death

D. Tom saving Eva

2208. Aristotles critical work is entitled_______________?
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A. Ars Poetica

B. Poetics

C. Art Poetique

D. De Arte Poetica

2209. Where does Senator Bird take Eliza and Harry ?
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A. To a Methodist community

B. To a Quaker settlement

C. To Philadelphia

D. To a Congregationalist community

2210. What promise did Augustines sudden death prevent him from fulfilling ?
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A. Overcoming his alcoholism

B. Reuniting Tom with Aunt Chole

C. Relearning to pray

D. Freeing his slaves
2211. Over which river does Eliza make her miraculous crossing ?
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A. The Colorado

B. The Mississippi

C. The Ohio

D. The Danube

2212. Aristotle and Plato belong to phase of criticism ?
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A. Hellenistic

B. Graeco-Roman

C. Hellenic

D. Renaissance

2213. During the Revolutionary time period, what great document was written ?
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A. The Declaration of Independence.

B. Confessional poetry.

C. The first romance novel.

D. The Heiner Papers

2214. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a works meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
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A. T.S. Eliots Tradition and the Individual Talent

B. Jacques Lacans The Mirror Stage..

C. Platos The Republic

D. Jacques Derridas Of Grammatology

2215. The Lyrical Ballads was published in____________________?
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A. 1805

B. 1798

C. 1780

D. 1815

2216. I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experimentthat of looking down within the tarnhad been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition for why should I not so term it?served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?
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A. Cataleptic effect

B. Ratiocinactive effect

C. Didactic effect

D. Unity of effect
2217. Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism ?
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A. Interest in the common man

B. Celebration of the individual

C. Age of reason

D. Both A and B
2218. This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation ?
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A. Cherokee

B. Teton

C. Navajo

D. Utes

2219. About the Delaware_______________?
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A. Told the story of Wolam Olum

B. All the above

C. Settled in Northeast US

D. Used pictographs to explain nature

2220. Left the house of the subscriber, bounden servant, Hezekiah Mudgehad on when he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, masters third best hat. One pound currency reward to whoever shall lodge him in any jail in the province. Hezekiah Mudge is a bounden servant, meaning that he is bound by contract to be a servant (essentially a willing slave) for seven years in repayment for____________?
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A. Escape from enslavement

B. Transportation to the colonies

C. Freedom

D. Dropping charges for murder

2221. About John Smith_______________?
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A. A and B

B. Exaggerated and embellish events and depicted Native Americans as barbaric

C. Was saved by Squanto

D. In the General History of Virginia, attempted an objective, journalistic style

2222. This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?
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A. Psychological

B. Mythological/Archetypal

C. Historical/Biographical

D. Mimetic

2223. Why was the book Uncle Toms Cabin written ?
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A. as a view point from Canada

B. the author was a runaway slave

C. as propaganda against slavery

D. as a pro- slavery argument

2224. Christopher Ricks would most likely DISAGREE with which of the following claims about literary theory ?
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A. Literary theory often depends on esoteric knowledge to be properly understood.

B. Literary theory is employed mostly by academics.

C. Literary theory is the only proper way to conceptualize literary texts.

D. Literary theory is limited in its ability to interpret a text.

2225. This author wrote of the Pilgrims voyage to the New World ?
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A. Nelson Holden

B. William Bradford

C. Bradford Nelson

D. William Holden

2226. Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has defined poetry in these words ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth

C. Matthew Arnold

D. Shelley

2227. The poem ends on a_____________?
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A. happy and meaningful note

B. courageous and hopeful note

C. tragic and painful note

D. philosophical note
2228. Who established the Lyceum ?
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A. Horace

B. Plato

C. Aristotle

D. Longinus

2229. Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?
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A. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.

B. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.

C. The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.

D. The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.

2230. Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?
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A. Walt Whitman

B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. R. W. Emerson

D. Robert Frost

2231. Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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A. portray humans allegorically

B. create a very vivid and impressive picture

C. examine the aggressive, dominating and stupid nature of human warfare

D. shows his real intentions in writing

2232. is the end of fame_______________?
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A. Misfortune

B. Pity

C. Love

D. Death

2233. This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) ?
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A. Exposition

B. Convocation

C. Connotation

D. Constitution

2234. Aristotle said of chorus in Greek tragedy that_____________?
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A. It should only comment on the action

B. It should make only reports

C. It should be regarded as one of the actors

D. It is only lyrical songs in the play

2235. Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word hoar ?
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A. Grey or white with age

B. Wrinkled with age

C. Ancient or venerable

D. Scarred

2236. Who considers poetry a mother of lies ?
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A. Aristotle

B. Stephen Gosson

C. Plato

D. Pope

2237. Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent________________?
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A. His style of writing

B. a feeling of excitement

C. the joyous moment

D. a wide range of emotion from joy to sorrow
2238. What does the term meta-language mean, according to Andrzej Warminski ?
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A. A language about another language

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. A supernatural language

D. A language that does not yet constitute a real language

2239. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Thoreau ?
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A. Father of american poetry

B. Father of Free verse

C. Father of American Liteature

D. Self-reliance
2240. This character survived a massacre______________?
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A. Magawisca

B. Faith

C. Madeline

D. Hope
2241. What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?
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A. It illustrates the fundamental political equality of all nations.

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. It has little relationship to the colonization of Asian countries by the West.

D. It was produced by Western scholarship.
2242. Which of the following is NOT among the 13 virtues Franklin struggles to master ?
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A. Temperance

B. Order

C. None of the above

D. Silence

2243. As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?
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A. Seeing his mother die

B. Watching a slave get beaten to death

C. Watching his aunt get whipped

D. Watching his dad beat his mother

2244. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
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A. Indian autobiography

B. Most popular slave narrative

C. None of the aboveE. All of the above

D. First african american to speak to mixed audience

2245. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
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A. Sinclair Lewis

B. Upton Sinclair

C. Raymond Chandler

D. John Steinbeck

2246. In which book of the Republic did Plato ban poets from his ideal world ?
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A. Book 10

B. Book 1

C. Book 7

D. Book 5

2247. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can assert several, contradictory interpretations of one text ?
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A. Formalist Criticism

B. Deconstructionism

C. Mimetic Criticism

D. Structuralism

2248. What is Christopher Rickss attitude toward literary theory ?
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A. He has no misgivings about the practical usability of literary theory.

B. He considers theory to be the only way that literary texts can be interpreted.

C. He feels that literary theory is ultimately too limited in scope to serve as a proper method of interpretation.

D. He considers it to be vital in order to understand literary texts.

2249. What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object ?
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A. A baptism

B. A christening

C. A wedding

D. A conversion

2250. Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. It is known, also, that it still remains in his possession. What is the meaning of the verb to purloin ?
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A. To steal

B. To ruin

C. To borrow

D. To return