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Quiz about Tridents Literature Challenge II

Trident's Literature Challenge II Quiz

Think you know your literature? Test your prowess with these Literature GRE-inspired questions.

A multiple-choice quiz by trident. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
trident

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
342,171

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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651

Question 1 of 10

1. "I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed."

From which of the following Bront� works is the above paragraph? Hint

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bront�

"Agnes Grey" by Anne Bront�

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bront�

"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Bront�

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Question 2 of 10

2. I. "While her tongue rambled on Gabriel tried to banish from his mind all memory of the unpleasant incident with Miss Ivors."

II. "Maria thought he was a colonel-looking gentleman and she reflected how much more polite he was than the young men who simply stared straight before them."

III. "This vision made him feel keenly his own poverty of purse and spirit."

Which of the preceding sentences from James Joyce's "Dubliners" use synecdoche? Hint

I and III

I and II

II only

II and III

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Question 3 of 10

3. From Percy Bysse Shelley's "Ozymandias"

"And on the pedestal these words appear --
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Which of the following ideas best represents the mood of the lines above? Hint

The importance of preserving historic treasures.

The irrelevance of might given time.

The value of powerful, charismatic leaders.

The horror of nomadic desert life.

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Question 4 of 10

4. From Don DeLillo's "White Noise":

"'Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.'

He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced at once by others.

'We're not here to capture an image, we're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies.'"

Which of the following postmodern ideas popularized by Jean Baudrillard is most closely exhibited in the passage above? Hint

Deconstruction

Narratology

Diff�rance

Simulacrum

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Dogs, did you think that I should not come back from Troy? You have wasted my substance, have forced my women servants to lie with you, and have wooed my wife while I was still living. You have feared neither God nor man, and now you shall die."

Which literary character says the lines above and where does he say them? Hint

Achilles in Ephesus

Odysseus in Ithaca

Oedipus in Thebes

Virgil in Purgatorio

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Now-such is progress-the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think-or if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always ______, delicious ______, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon".

Which of the following completes the two blanks in the above sentence from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"? Hint

Malpais

hypnopaedia

soma

Malthusian belt

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Question 7 of 10

7. The following passage is from a feminist essay by Asad al-Galith concerning an English Restoration comedy:

"Congreve's _______ achieves a self-awareness that makes her stand apart from Pre-Restoration comic heroines. Congreve creates a woman character who is highly educated, yet she is not made the object of satire....She is witty enough to banter successfully with Mirabell and the other characters, yet her humor is never so brittle as to cover her sensitivity and vulnerability."

Which of the following female characters indicated by the blank is the essayist referring to? Hint

Miss Loveit - "The Man of Mode"

Lady Fidget - "The Country Wife"

Millamant - "The Way of the World"

Angellica - "The Rover"

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of the following would be LEAST ascribed to the literary movement marked by the Cavalier poets? Hint

Richard Lovelace

Courtship

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

Metaphysical poetry

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Question 9 of 10

9. From a commentary on V.S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas" by Rosemary Pitt:

"Mr. Biswas himself is a man caught between two cultures and unable to settle fully in either. As a second-generation Indian, whose grandfather crossed the 'black waters' from India, he is part of the Indians' attempt to recreate their world in the predominantly Creole society of Trinidad."

The above passage discusses the tribulations of the protagonist of the novel as a result of which of the following historical events? Hint

The crossing of Beringia

The rise of Chinese communism

World War I

European colonialism

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Question 10 of 10

10. From William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily":

"Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair."

As seen in the last lines of the story, which of the following narrative points-of-view (for which the story is famous) does Faulkner employ? Hint

First-person plural

Third-person omniscient

Second-person singular

Third-person limited

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed." From which of the following Bront� works is the above paragraph?

Answer: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bront�

"Jane Eyre" is perhaps the most famous of the works by the Bront� sisters, though "Wuthering Heights" has gained popularity from critics. The Bront� sisters published their works under the pseudonyms Acton (Anne), Currer (Charlotte), and Ellis (Emily), stating, "we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice."

2. I. "While her tongue rambled on Gabriel tried to banish from his mind all memory of the unpleasant incident with Miss Ivors." II. "Maria thought he was a colonel-looking gentleman and she reflected how much more polite he was than the young men who simply stared straight before them." III. "This vision made him feel keenly his own poverty of purse and spirit." Which of the preceding sentences from James Joyce's "Dubliners" use synecdoche?

Answer: I and III

Synecdoche is a figure of speech where a part of something represents the whole. In I, the tongue represents the woman talking. It is not exactly a personification, as the sentence doesn't try to give the object human qualities as much as the tongue represents the woman as a whole, who is rambling.

In III, the synecdoche can be seen in the phrase "poverty of purse". Indeed, the man's purse isn't itself impoverished, but his finances in general. Here, purse stands in for his whole financial situation. It could also be argued that "spirit" stands in for spiritual well-being, but the word itself often has that connotation, so this would be less of an instance of synecdoche.

3. From Percy Bysse Shelley's "Ozymandias" "And on the pedestal these words appear -- 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." Which of the following ideas best represents the mood of the lines above?

Answer: The irrelevance of might given time.

"Ozymandias" represents one of Shelley's most famous poems and is a moral lesson of sorts. The greatness that was Ozymandias' (Ramses II's) is leveled to virtual nothingness. There is nothing to despair, though during his rule, there surely was. What has accomplished this? Time, which readers better beware that it will likely do the same of all of us.

4. From Don DeLillo's "White Noise": "'Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.' He fell silent once more. People with cameras left the elevated site, replaced at once by others. 'We're not here to capture an image, we're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. Can you feel it, Jack? An accumulation of nameless energies.'" Which of the following postmodern ideas popularized by Jean Baudrillard is most closely exhibited in the passage above?

Answer: Simulacrum

A simulacrum, in its most basic form, is a representation of an original. Baudrillard theorized that the simulacra of today have become the truth in and of themselves. They are not necessarily the originals, but they might as well be, considering we don't know any better.

In "White Noise", the most photographed barn in America is argued by one of the characters to no longer be a barn, but simply a representation of what we ought to think a barn should be. It is only the most photographed barn in America because everyone wants to take a photo of the most photographed barn.

5. "Dogs, did you think that I should not come back from Troy? You have wasted my substance, have forced my women servants to lie with you, and have wooed my wife while I was still living. You have feared neither God nor man, and now you shall die." Which literary character says the lines above and where does he say them?

Answer: Odysseus in Ithaca

The quote comes from Homer's "Odyssey", which takes the character Odysseus through many different locations in his pursuit for his home in Ithaca. When he arrives, he and his son proceed to kill of all the suitors that have attempted to usurp his throne through marriage to his wife Penelope.

6. "Now-such is progress-the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think-or if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always ______, delicious ______, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon". Which of the following completes the two blanks in the above sentence from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"?

Answer: soma

"Soma" is the fictional drug used in "Brave New World" as a means for the government to control the general population. It induces its user into a hangover-free ecstasy, leading the populace to be complacent.

7. The following passage is from a feminist essay by Asad al-Galith concerning an English Restoration comedy: "Congreve's _______ achieves a self-awareness that makes her stand apart from Pre-Restoration comic heroines. Congreve creates a woman character who is highly educated, yet she is not made the object of satire....She is witty enough to banter successfully with Mirabell and the other characters, yet her humor is never so brittle as to cover her sensitivity and vulnerability." Which of the following female characters indicated by the blank is the essayist referring to?

Answer: Millamant - "The Way of the World"

Millamant is William Congreve's female opposite of the male Mirabell in his work "The Way of the World". As Restoration comedies often were, it was a bawdy work of drama, full of witticisms and frank banter. The essayist al-Galith argues that Millamant was one of the first female characters to be "boldly self-willed".

8. Which of the following would be LEAST ascribed to the literary movement marked by the Cavalier poets?

Answer: Metaphysical poetry

The Cavalier poets wrote a great deal on the theme of love and courtship, sometimes seen as the secular opposite of the metaphysical movement, which dealt largely with religious and philosophical themes. Some of the most famous Cavalier poets include Richard Lovelace, Robert Herrick (who wrote "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"), Ben Jonson, and Thomas Carew.

The most famous metaphysical poet is likely John Donne.

9. From a commentary on V.S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas" by Rosemary Pitt: "Mr. Biswas himself is a man caught between two cultures and unable to settle fully in either. As a second-generation Indian, whose grandfather crossed the 'black waters' from India, he is part of the Indians' attempt to recreate their world in the predominantly Creole society of Trinidad." The above passage discusses the tribulations of the protagonist of the novel as a result of which of the following historical events?

Answer: European colonialism

"A House for Mr. Biswas" is generally seen as a postcolonial novel, one that surfaces the effects that colonialism had on the poverty-stricken. Much of Caribbean literature in the 20th century focuses on such postcolonial ideas as the area had just come to see colonialism's exit.

The novel shows how conflicted the cultures could be considering that Mr. Biswas was of Indian descent, whose grandfather was brought to the French-cultured Trinidad by the British. Identity is a main theme in many postcolonial novels.

10. From William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily": "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair." As seen in the last lines of the story, which of the following narrative points-of-view (for which the story is famous) does Faulkner employ?

Answer: First-person plural

It may be confusing, but the pronoun "we" is considered first-person. First-person plural works are rare, though many modern authors have made it more popular. Faulkner was especially fond of experimenting with narrative points-of-view in his works.

Source: Author trident

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