WORLD LITERATURE – MCQ QUESTIONS

– You can use this reference, if you need and have it, : THE BEDFORD ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD LITERATURE. PACKAGE B (Volumes 4, 5, 6). Eds. Paul Davis, Gary Harrison.(Bedford / St. Martins, 2003). ISBN 0–312–40482–4
– Question 3 is about the famous story that is well known in all cultures which is about a dog who sees himself in water with a piece of meat and he jumps in water to get the piece which cause him to lost what he had before because of his greed.
-Our Professot told us that you shoud take any story simply as it is but to go beyond what is mentioned.
– Please, again, I need an expert who has read all the famous works and is familiar the language used in World Lit because otherwise I’ll get a bad grade.
Representative figures of the Enlightenment include:
A) Charles I, Louis XIII, and Henry II
B) Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Copernicus
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Frederick Douglass
D) Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine, and Saint Francis of Assisi
E) John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Rene Descartes
2
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” conveys the idea of:
A) the superior power of metaphor over metonymy
B) the endless power of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II
C) the different views of artists and art patrons
D) the pain and suffering of the writer as motivation of the poem
E) the impermanence of art
F) all of the choices for this question are correct
3.
The underlying meaning of the story “The Dog and the Piece of Meat” is:
A) an encouragement to read beyond the literal
B) a warning against greed
C) all of the choices for this question are correct
D) an invitation to self-reflection
E) a reminder that what we do to others might also be done to us
4.
The Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil War
A) were motivations of the transition to the Enlightenment
B) deeply divided Europeans and caused concern over the dangers of politicized religious fanaticism
C) were related to the clash of Protestants and Catholics
D) marked the decline of the Renaissance
E) all of the choices for this question are correct
5.
The coexistence of contradictory perspectives within a given literary work is an effect that can result from:
A) the conflicting interests and views of artists and the patrons who support their work
B) the overdetermination of the work
C) all of the answer choices for this question are correct
D) the nature of art as an attempt to both express and disguise something unacceptable, threatening, or forbidden
E) the influence of unconscious impulses beyond the author’s comprehension
F) the perspectives of different readers
6.
At its deeper levels, the ancient Greek story of Oedipus illustrates:
A) the idea that fate is unavoidable
B) all of the choices for this question are correct
C) the innocence of Oedipus and the cruelty of fate
D) the aesthetics of ancient Greek tragedy
E) the responsibility of Oedipus in his own tragedy
F) the blindness of destiny
7.
Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is:
A) an attempt to celebrate life and love and also lament their impermanence
B) an example of ancient Greek poetic and artistic styles
C) an illustration of the overdetermination of literary texts
D) an effort to show the subtle differences between truth and beauty
E) all of the choices for this question are correct
F) a representative example of Enlightenment literature
8.
The Seven Years’ War
A) renewed the optimism of Enlightenment thinkers and their hope of a better world
B) marked the transition from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
C) all of the choices for this question are correct
D) signaled the decline of Enlightenment thought and created the perception that new approaches were needed
E) brought about prosperity to Europeans and the European colonies in North America
9.
The meaning of a work of literature can best be established by:
A) an attentive, well-informed, and self-aware reader
B) subjective, personal interpretation
C) any reader
D) the author
E) a reader without any previous knowledge or prejudice about the work
F) all of the choices for this question are correct
10.
The Enlightenment
A) embraced the individualism of the Renaissance and the religious spirit of the Middle Ages
B) continued the ideas of the Middle Ages and rejected the values of the Renaissance
C) embraced the values of the Renaissance but put greater emphasis on society
D) rejected both the values of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and created an entirely new approach to the solution of human problems
E) had an ambiguous relation to the cultures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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