1) Voltaire wrote Candide in response to what natural disaster? a) The Haiti Earthquake of 2010 b) The French Reign of Terror from 1793 to 1794 *c) The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 d) The Flooding of the Paris Sewers in 1700 e) The Collapse of the Louvre Museum in 1788 2) Who is Candide’s cousin, whom he loves? a) Pangloss b) The Baron of Thunder-Ten-Tronckh *c) Cunégonde d) The Baroness e) Paquette 3) Who suffers the most in the war between the Bulgarsand the Abares? a) The Bulgars b) The Abares c) Both sides suffer equally *d) The non-combatants on both sides e) The foot-soldiers on both sides 4) Which scene does Voltaire use to illustrate the hypocrisy of religious institutions? a) Candide in the Bulgararmy b) Candide walking across half of Europe c) Candide running the gauntlet d) Candide being healed by the King *e) Candide asking the street preacher for food 5) What religion did Jacques adhere to? a) He was a Roman Catholic b) He was a Lutheran c) He was a non-denominational Christian *d) He was an Anabaptist e) He was a Samaritan 6) What religion did the pirates who kidnapped the old woman practice? a) Lutheranism b) Swedenborgianism c) Judaism *d) Islam e) Catholicism 7) How do Candide and Cacamboget to El Dorado? a) They climb over the mountains that keep El Dorado hidden b) They work very hard to find a secret passage into El Dorado *c) They are carried by the current under the mountains that guard El Dorado d) The Jesuits lead them to El Dorado e) They are lifted by a crane over the mountains that surround El Dorado 8) Which of the following is NOT true of the land of El Dorado? a) The people are generous b) Hotels are maintained by the state; therefore, eating in a hotel is free c) Gold has the same value as pebbles *d) The people are polytheistic; they worship many gods e) There are no monks or parliaments to teach, govern, or punish the civilians 9) What missionary activity did Voltaire base his ideas about El Dorado on? a) The Jesuits were selling slaves to Portugal b) The Jesuits were selling slaves to Spain c) Jesuit advisors were corrupting the courts of Europe d) Jesuits were working with the colonizers to pacify the indigenous peoples *e) The Jesuit Reductions 10) Why can Cacambo teach Candide things that Pangloss cannot? a) Pangloss’ disease has prevented him from thinking clearly b) Cacambo teaches practicality; Pangloss is not practical at all c) Cacambo sees the world as it truly is; Pangloss’ optimism blinds him to the world d) Both A and B *e) Both C and D 11) In order, define the hortus mentis and the hortus conclusis. a) Europe and the Middle East b) El Dorado and Europe *c) The garden of the mind and the walled garden d) The walled garden and the garden of the mind e) The Bulgars and the Abares 12) How does Candide come to travel with Martin? *a) Candide pays Martin’s passage because he’s the most unfortunate man in the province. b) Cacambo recommends Martin to Candide c) Candide is attracted to Martin because Martin is just like Pangloss d) Martin saves Candide’s life e) Pangloss recommends Martin to Candide 13) Why is Pococurante so unhappy? a) He has recently lost his fortune *b) He has the best of everything, but nothing gives him pleasure c) His wife left him for a philosopher d) His political enemies are working against him e) Martin has bested him in a battle of wits 14) Why does the dervish slam the door in Pangloss’ face? a) Candide and his company do not respect Islam b) The women of the group did not have their heads covered c) Pangloss does not respect the dervish’s wisdom d) The dervish must meditate before he can answer Pangloss *e) There can be no answer to the questions Pangloss poses 15) According to the farmer, what cures the ills of boredom, poverty, and vice? a) Practicing your religion well b) Marriage *c) Work d) Being a good citizen e) Getting involved in politics 16) How is the narrator able to tell us the old lady's story? a) He's recalling the lives of the women in his life b) She's telling it to him, and he's telling it to us c) He saw an old lady one day, and made up this tale about her life *d) He's eavesdropping on her telling her story to two men e) One of the two men to whom the old lady speaks told the narrator this story 17) What characters represent the opposite extremes of the human experience in this text? a) The old lady and the narrator *b) The two men to whom the old lady is speaking c) The narrator and the abbot d) The old lady and the young samurai e) The domain lord and the disciple of the Buddha 18) How old was the woman when she began to pit herself against the accepted social order? a) Fifty b) Twenty-one *c) Eleven d) Seventy e) Thirty-five 19) What subject does the woman teach in Kyoto? She recognizes its power and it gives her insight into people. a) Martial Arts *b) Writing c) Business Administration d) History e) Political Science 20) How many of the disciples of the Buddha has the woman had sex with? a) None b) Just one c) Half of them d) Two out of three *e) All five hundred 21) Is this a text that "empowers" women? a) No; the old lady is basically a sex slave b) No, the old lady never got to do what she wanted to do c) Yes; the old lady lived her life on her own terms d) Yes; the old lady used her skills to be independent *e) Both yes and no; all of the above are true 22) Romantics viewed the rationality of the Enlightenment as: a) Something they had to get past b) A disease infecting western Europe c) Something to be used to write poetry *d) Both A and B e) Both B and C 23) Which of the big Romantic ideas was both racist and sexist? a) The attraction to far-away setting in time and in place *b) Championing of people who were "primitives" c) The religion of nature d) The subjective "I" e) The use of the "politics of emotion" 24) Which of these poems was taken from Songs of Innocence? *a) The Lamb b) The Tiger c) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell d) Jerusalem e) Albion 25) For Blake, what's the difference between "innocence" and "experience"? a) Innocent people have committed no crimes *b) Innocent people have not yet been exposed to the world as it truly is c) Experienced people have spent time in a prison or poor house d) “Experienced” people have lost their sense of fun e) Both young and old people can be innocent, but they can’t be experienced 26) In the first "The Chimney Sweeper," what is the name of the boy who has a dream? *a) Tom Dacre b) Tommy Mottola c) Tom Clancy d) Tom Selleck e) Tommy D'Mile 27) In the first "The Chimney Sweeper," who comes along to set the boys free? a) Their gang leader *b) An angel c) A stray dog d) The people whose chimneys they sweep e) Their parents 28) What does "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" mean in English? a) The beautiful woman who cleans nicely b) The bell-ringing woman who cleans c) The crazy woman without reason *d) The beautiful woman without pity e) The naked woman who moans 29) How many people are present in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"? a) One, a speaker b) One, a knight at arms c) Twelve, a group of knigts at arms *d) Two, the speaker and a knight at arms e) One, the reader 30) What dream does the knight at arms have? a) He's lost underground b) He's flying in Winchester Cathedral c) He's writing this poem d) Kings and princes congratulate him on having such a beautiful woman *e) Kings and princes warn him about the woman he's with 31) What is the technique Keats uses to make Autumn look like a human being? a) Allusion b) Meter *c) Personification d) Assonance e) Consonance 32) With whom (or what) does Autumn conspire to "load and bless the vines . . ."? a) The coming Winter *b) The maturing Sun c) The Summer past d) The lost Innocence e) The work of Man 33) What volume of poetry contains "Song of Myself" *a) Leaves of Grass b) Leaves on Trees c) Blades of Grass d) Blades of Glory e) Glory, Glory, Hallalujah 34) What's the opening line of Whitman's "Song of Myself"? *a) I celebrate myself, and sing myself, b) Once upon Paumanok's shore c) Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth d) Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Walt e) I love you, you love me; we're a happy family 35) Where in America does Whitman imagine himself in "Song of Myself"? a) In New York and Louisiana b) Only on Long Island *c) Both in the South and the North, and in almost every state d) On both coasts e) Rollin' down Highway 41 36) What three concentric circles make up the subject matter of "Song of Myself"? a) Whitman, Anericans, and Canadians *b) Whitman, Americans, and all humans c) Whitman, New Yorkers, and Georgians d) Whitman, Northerners, and Southerners e) All men, all women, and all children 37) What level of connection does Whitman want with all humans? a) Friends with benefits b) A purely sexual relationship c) Connection at the atomic level d) Connection at the spiritual level *e) Connection at both the atomic and spiritual levels 38) What does Paumonok mean? *a) Long Island b) New York c) New England d) The original 13 colonies e) All of the United States 39) What animal loses its partner in "Out of the Cradle . . "? a) A swan from Poughkeepsie b) A European swallow c) A robin d) An arctic tern *e) A migratory bird from Alabama 40) What is thw word "stronger and more delicious than any other"? a) Life b) Sex c) Joy d) Faith *e) Death 41) What state did Douglass sepnd most of his time as a slave in? a) Georgia b) North Carolina c) South Carolina d) Virginia *e) Maryland 42) How often did the slaves on Great Home Farm get new clothing? a) Once a month b) Twice a year *c) Once a year d) Once every two years e) When they wore through their current clothes 43) What does Douglass say will teach a person more about slavery "than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do"? a) The "savage barbarity of Mr. Gore" b) Mr. Gore saying that Demby "had become unmanageable" *c) "the mere hearing of those songs [sung by the slaves on Great House Farm]" d) The slaves who "find less difficulty from the want of beds, than from the want of time to sleep" e) The slaves who "were in very deed men and women of sorrow, and acquainted with grief" 44) What event did Douglass call "was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery"? *a) The whipping of his aunt b) The murder of Demby c) The death of his grandmother d) The loss of his lucky root e) His fight with the slave-breaker 45) Who was Douglass' first master? a) Sophia Auld b) Captain Anthony c) Mister Plummer *d) Colonel Lloyd e) Captain Auld 46) How did Douglass's grandmother die? a) She was turned out to live by herself b) She was killed by a slave-breaker *c) Douglass doesn't know how she died d) She died of starvation e) She contracted typhoid 47) What does Douglass do in his "Sunday School"? a) He teaches the Bible to the slaves b) He translates the weekly sermon into language the slaves can understand *c) He teaches the slaves how to read and write d) He teaches the slaves how to escape e) He arms the slaves for a revolt 48) What is the "root incident"? a) Douglass prays to Jesus to keep him rooted in his faith *b) Douglass is protected from harm by a root he carries with him c) Douglass is "rooting around" for something to wear during his escape d) Douglass has problems pronouncing "roof," and it gets him into trouble with his master e) Douglass knows that the distance from Baltimore to Philadelphia is the square root of 19,600 49) How old is Chandara? *a) not more than seventeen or eighteen b) of a middling age, around thirty c) centered in her twenties d) a well-rounded, compact, and sturdy thirty-five e) well past middle age, in her late forties 50) Who is Chandara's husband? *a) Chidam b) Dukhiram c) Rhada d) Ramlochan e) Zamindar 51) What excuse does Chidam give for his lie? a) If I have to be a witness in court, I'll miss my work. b) I am the head of the household, and thus cannot go to jail. c) Surely the murderer would do the same for me. *d) If I lose my wife I can get another, but if my brother is hanged, how can I replace him? e) An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. 52) What does Chidam say on the witness stand? a) My wife is a murderer! b) I cannot lie; Chandara killed Rhada. c) My brother committed this foul crime of passion! d) Rhada killed herself by falling on yon knife. *e) I swear to you sir, my wife is innocent! 53) When faced with the penalty for murder, what does Chandara say? a) I protest my innocence--my brother-in-law did it. b) Do you not know the truth when you see it? I am innocent. *c) Do what you like--I can't take it any more. d) But he was going to break every bone in my body! e) It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. 54) What is Chandara's response when Chidam asks to see her in jail? a) Yes, please-- I miss him so much. b) Perhaps we can be together again. c) We'll always have Paris. *d) To hell with him. e) So now he wants to make up? It's too late. 55) What does the speaker tell the woman in "When You Are Old"? a) When you are old, you'll regret not taking care of yourself *b) When you are old, you'll regret not loving me now c) When you are old, you'll regret not staying limber d) When you are old, you'll regret not reading more e) When you are old, you'll regret not dancing like no one is watching 56) How does the speaker in "When You Are Old" separate himself from all other men? a) Other men loved her when she was happy; he loved her when she was sad b) Other men loved her for her body; he loved her for her soul c) Other men loved her sense of humor; he loved her crying *d) Both A and B e) Both B and C 57) Easter 1916 was written to commemorate what event? a) The 1916 Olympics b) The beginning of WWI *c) The Easter Rebellion in Dublin d) The creation of the Irish Free State e) The end of the Irish Civil War 58) Who were Constance Gore-Booth, Thomas MacDonagh, John MacBride, James Connolly, and Patrick Pearse? a) Yeats' drinking buddies b) Members of the Dublin Hermetic Society c) Other writers in Yeats' circle *d) The leaders of the Easter Rebellion e) British troops who put down the rebellion 59) "A terrible beauty is born" is an example of what literary device? a) Simile b) Euphemism c) Foreshadowing d) Metaphor *e) Oxymoron 60) In what capacity did Yeats serve the Irish Free State? a) Chancellor *b) Member of the first Irish Senate c) Editor of the Irish Times d) National Tax Collector e) Minister of the Steinach 61) Who was Leda? a) The woman who ran away to Troy with Paris *b) The mother of Helen and Klytemnestra c) The wife of Zeus d) The wife of Agamemnon e) The leader of the Argonauts 62) Who is doing all the action at the beginning of "Leda and the Swan"? *a) Zeus, as the swan b) Leda, the girl c) The gyres of history d) The Greek army e) The Trojan Defense Force 63) Ilium is a Latin name for which city? a) Athens b) Sparta c) Menelaus *d) Troy e) Thebes 64) The Second Coming was written in the immediate aftermath of what great event? a) The fall of Troy b) The Irish Civil War *c) World War I d) World War II e) The Korean War 65) What does the beast that is coming look like? a) A shape with tiger boy and the head of a bat, b) A shape with human body and the head of a snake, c) A shape with falcon body and the head of a lion, d) A shape with phoenix body and the head of an eagle, *e) A shape with lion body and the head of a man, 66) What idea from Western religion is Yeats referring to with the title of "The Second Coming"? a) The arrival of the Jewish Messiah b) The second coming of the Gnostic Great Leader c) The second coming of the Demi-Urge *d) The second coming of the Christian deity e) The second coming of Zuul 67) What intellectual period follows Romanticism? a) Postmodernism *b) Modernism c) Pre-Modernism d) Post-Postmodernism e) The Enlightenment 68) Which of the following is NOT an element of Modernism? a) Mixing high and low culture b) Focusing on fragmented forms *c) A new emphasis on reliable narrators d) Bending genres in literature e) Making readers aware that they're looking at a product, not something natural 69) Who wrote the most important Modernist poem and the most important Modernist novel (both published in 1922)? a) Yeats and Eliot b) Yeats and Joyce *c) Eliot and Joyce d) Eliot and Akhmatova e) Akhmatova and Joyce 70) Where was Eliot born? a) Outside Pittsburgh, PA b) Outside London, England c) Outside Dublin, Ireland *d) Outside St. Louis, MO e) Outside, in a manger 71) What type of poem is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? a) A comedy *b) A dramatic monologue c) A history of the fall of Western civilization d) A lyric on the passage of time e) A limerick 72) What is synecdoche? *a) A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something b) An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly c) A literary device which emphasizes impressionism and subjectivity d) An idea or pattern of thought that replicates like a virus by being passed along from one thinker to another e) A city in upstate New York 73) From which work does Eliot take the quotation from that he begins the poem with? a) Homer's Odyssey b) Vergil's Aeneid *c) Dante's Inferno d) Whitman's "Song of Myself" e) Yeats' "Easter 1916" 74) Where does Prufrock want to take us in the opening ines of the poem? *a) Through certain half-deserted streets b) Along the Palisades in New York c) On the Champs-Elysee in Paris d) To Soviet Russia e) Into the Himalayas 75) What does Prufrock do with problems that are too big for him to tackle (like women)? a) He hints at the ending of or at an upcoming event (foreshadowing) b) He makes the external world reflect his own state of mind (pathetic fallacy) c) He gives human characteristics to non-human things (personification) d) He uses classical texts to understand them (allusion) *e) He breaks them into smaller parts (synecdoche) 76) Who does Prufrock say he's NOT like? a) Lazarus, from the story of Lazarus and Dives *b) Hamlet, from Hamlet c) Polonius, from Hamlet d) John the Baptist e) Joe Studly, the chick magnet 77) Prufrock's desire to become "a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." is an example of what literary device? a) Personification b) Allusion c) Repetition *d) Synecdoche e) Anaphraxis 78) “Til human voices wake us, and we drown” is an example of this: a) Synecdoche, a reference to a woman as a collection of parts b) A tip of his fedora and a nod, greeting a woman with, "M'lady" c) A reference to a dung beetle d) A recognition that he's now living in London *e) A reminder that we've been looking at a work of art, not the real world 79) Who was sentenced to a gulag in Siberia, about whom Akhmatova wrote "Requiem" ? a) Her first husband, Nikolay Gumilyov b) Her second husband, Nikolai Punin *c) Her son, Lev Gumilyov d) Her mother, Inna Erazmovna Stogova e) Her father, Andrey Antonovich Gorenko 80) What Russian leader, infamous for his "purges," did Akhmatova wrote poetry about in the hope of saving her son? a) Gorbachev b) Breshnev c) Trotsky d) Lenin *e) Stalin 81) To what famous religious figure does Akhmatova compare herself? a) Eve, the mother of Cain and Abel b) Naomi, the mother-in-law of Ruth c) Pauline, the mother of Paul *d) Mary, the mother of Jesus e) Sarah, the mother of Isaac 82) What inevitable force does Akhmatova personify and speak to in "Requiem"? a) Life *b) Death c) Joy d) Sorrow e) Pain 83) Where does Akhmatova wish to have a statue erected to her? a) By the sea, where she was born b) In Tsarkoe Selo, where she used to spend time with her first husband *c) By the doors of the Kresty prison, in Leningrad d) In front of the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg e) By the Kremlin, in Moscow 84) What is a requiem? a) A sentence to internal exile and a work camp b) A sense of grief that causes pain c) A mass said or sung for the repose of the soul of a dead person d) A musical setting of a mass for the respose of the soul of a dead person *e) Both C and D 85) What literary and ideological movement, led by French-speaking black writers and intellectuals, claimed Senghor as one of its founders? a) The Black Arts Movement *b) Négritude c) The Black Panthers d) Les Panthères Noires e) Move On When Ready 86) Which of these is NOT a feature of Négritude? a) Rejecting European Colonization b) Denouncing Europe's historical lack of humanity c) Pride in "blackness" d) Commiting to traditional African values and culture *e) Recognizing that the rich will eventually close the gap between themselves and the poor 87) Senghor became the first president of this African nation: a) Tanzania b) Nigeria *c) Senegal d) South Africa e) Algeria 88) In "Black Woman," Senghor compares Africa to what musical instrument? a) Flute *b) Tom-tom c) Violin d) Oud e) Zither 89) Which of these lines from "Black Woman" reminds readers that the poet, in writing, can create something that lasts longer than just one life? a) Clothed with your color that is life, with your shape that is beauty! b) Ripe fruit with firm flesh, shadowed raptures of black wine, c) Sculpted tom-tom, taut tom-tom, crying out under the conqueror’s hands d) Oil that no breath ruffles, oil calming the muscles of athletes, *e) I sing your beauty that passes, a form I fix for Eternity, 90) Which of these lines in "Prayer to the Masks" uses the Modernist practice of reminding readers that they're looking at a production? a) Here dies the Africa of empires — it is the agony of a pitiful princess b) And with it Europe, for we are bound by the navel. c) I salute you in silence! *d) You have painted this portrait, my face bending over this altar of white paper. e) They call us men of cotton, coffee, and oil 91) Which of the following is NOT a tenet of Existentialism? a) Reality defies ultimate comprehension b) Existence is absurd c) Humans are unique, so “human nature” is problematic d) We are alone *e) Each life is predetermined 92) Existentialism takes its name from this core concept: *a) Existence precedes Essence b) Essence precedes Existence c) Nature precedes Nurture d) Nurture precedes Nature e) Essence precedes Nature 93) Why is the camp storage facility and sorting area called "Canada"? a) It was as cold as Cananda in that facility *b) Like the country of Canada, it symbolized wealth and prosperity c) It was a neutral space, like the country of Canada in WWII d) It was where all prisoners were allies, and Canada fought on the side of the Allies e) When the water leaks there froze, the prisoners could play hockey 94) There are two main groups of prisoners coming off the trains. Who goes where? a) Those who go to the right go to the camp; those who go to the left go to the gas b) The young and healthy go to the camp; the old, infirm, and very young go to the gas c) Those on foot go to the camp; those in the trucks go to the gas *d) All of the above e) None of the above 95) What it the camp law concerning speaking to people headed to their deaths? a) They must be told the truth about the Zyklon B b) They must be given a last cigarette c) They must be made fun of; it's the only humor in the camp *d) They must be deceived until the end; it's a form of charity e) They must be told that they have a choice about where they'll be sent 96) What does the Red Cross van contain? a) Food for the hungry b) Clothing for the naked c) All the valuables taken from the incoming prisoners d) Blankets for the prisoners' beds *e) The gas used in the gas chambers 97) Who has the only rose in Rosal del Virrey? a) The peasants in the town square b) The important people in the town *c) The senator d) Laura Farina e) Nelson Farina 98) What is the difference between what the Senator tells the townspeople and what he tells the "important people"? a) He lies to the townseople, then tells the hard political truth to the important people b) He gives the townspeople hope, but it cynical with the important people c) He tells the townspeople he is in good health, but tells the important people he's dying *d) A and B e) B and C 99) Why was Nelson Farina in prison? a) He cheated on his taxes b) He bribed a government official *c) He murdered his wife d) He prostituted his daughter e) He participated in a military coup 100) The writing style that represents ordinary events and details together with fantastic and dreamlike elements is called: *a) Magical Realism b) Modernism c) Existentialism d) Acmeism e) Animism 101) How is this story existential? a) It shows that "reason alone is an adequate guide to living" *b) It recognizes that "the universe is indifferent to our expectations and needs, and death is ever stalking us" c) It demonstrates that "some thoughts shouldn't be acted out" d) It affirms the idea of a common "human nature" e) It says that "only absolute truths can give life meaning" 102) Laura Farina's last name alludes to which Greek myth? a) Zeus and Hera b) Apollo and Daphne *c) Demeter and Persephone d) Orpheus and Euridice e) Castor and Pollux 103) What disease is the narrator suffering from? a) cancer b) leukemia c) hepatitis d) AIDS *e) a lack of meaning in his life 104) How does the narrator's search proceed? a) pleasure - pain - compromise b) animal - human - spiritual c) education - employment - retirement *d) law - commerce - politics - art e) Cairo - Khartoum - Sinai - Jerusalem 105) What is the great divide between the places the narrator searches? *a) He begins with changeable activities, and ends up with unchangeable activities b) He begins with men of power, and ends with powerless men c) He begins with the lower classes, and ends in the upper classes d) He begins by himself, and ends with a group searching with him e) He begins with purity, and ends in decadence 106) What happens to the narrator when he gets drunk? *a) he loses his will, his past, and his future b) he makes a fool of himself c) he starts a fight with the bartender d) he loses his car keys e) he ends up in jail 107) What is mysticism? a) A secret way of knowing about the world b) A way of reading Tarot cards *c) The direct, unmediated experience of the Divine d) A way of seeing in the fog in London e) The use of incense in prayer 108) What is disponability? a) Creating a sense of space for oneself *b) Making oneself available for the direct, unmediated experience of the Divine c) Being alienated even from oneself d) Remembering one’s religious roots e) Desiring a future that is comfortable 109) What is Walcott’s poetic project, according to “As John To Patmos”? a) To recreate “the leprosy of empire” b) To “hound his heart to peace” c) To live “among the rocks and the blue, live air” d) To slouch “toward Bethlehem to be born” *e) “To praise, lovelong, the living and the brown dead” 110) On what island was Walcott born? a) Jamaica b) Ireland *c) St. Lucia d) England e) Aruba 111) How does Walcott characterize his island in "As John To Patmos" a) "Full of slaves" b) With "rocks and blue, live air" *c) "This island is heaven" d) With "bleak air" e) Rotting with "the leprosy of empire" 112) According to Walcott, where is the history of the Caribbean written? a) In the faces of the natives *b) Under the ocean, in the coral and the shipwrecks c) In the centers of the Empire d) On the sand of their beaches e) In the tourists on the beaches 113) Which of these does Walcott use to present Caribbean history in "The Sea Is History"? a) The Upanishads b) Greek myths c) Roman myths d) The Aeneid *e) The Old Testament 114) The line, "strop on these goggles, I’ll guide you there myself" demonstrates what about the narrator? *a) He has physical strength and courage b) He's just as smart as the Europeans c) He's a fisherman d) He's just walking along the beach e) He has never left the island 115) What job did Soyinka have after school in England? a) He worked on the London Underground *b) He was a play reader at the Royal Theater in London c) He ran a fish-and-chips van in dublin d) He became a politician in Nigeria e) He wrote political tracts for the Nigerian resistance 116) What religion does the tribe follow in Death and the King’s Horseman? a) Christianity b) Islam c) Kikuyu *d) Yoruba e) Mohammedism 117) Who is the "mother of the marketplace"? a) Olunde *b) Iyaloja c) Elesin d) Pilkings e) Amusa 118) As the King's Horseman, what final job must Elesin perform? a) He has to take over for the King b) He has to make deals with the British colonizers c) He has to fight in WWII *d) He has to kill himself so he can guide the King to the next life e) He has to repopulate the earth 119) What are Egungun masks traditionally used for in Nigeria? a) Colonial services b) Visits of the King c) Marriages d) Dancing the tango *e) Burial ceremonies 120) How do we know that Elesin's sex with the Bride isn't what he claims it to be? a) It's on the day of his death *b) It happens in the middle of the marketplace c) Iyaloja approves of it d) He already has children e) The Praise Singer can't watch 121) What story demonstrates the difference in understanding between Olunde and Jane? *a) The captain who had to blow up his ship b) The prince who's touring the colonies c) The queen who lives forever d) The doctor who treats the wounded from WWII e) The people who treat Olunde poorly in London 122) What do the character of Olunde and the writer Soyinka have in common? a) They’re both from the Caribbean *b) They’re both educated in England, the heart of the Empire c) They both live long lives d) They both pay a debt their fathers owe e) They both write poetry 123) Who sends Olunde to London to study, and who objects to this? a) Elesin sends him and the Pilkings object b) The market mothers send him and Elesin objects *c) The Pilkings. send him and Elesin objects d) The Pilkings send him and Iyaloja objects e) Iyaloja sends him and Elesin objects 124) What is a subaltern? *a) One of the colonized who is co-opted into working for the colonizer against his own people. b) One of the colonizers who doesn’t fit in anywhere. c) One of the colonized who actively fights against the colonizer. d) One of the colonizers who sympathizes with the colonized. e) One of the colonized who takes the place of the colonizers after they are gone. 125) Why does Soyinka claim that Death and the King's Horseman is not a "clash of cultures" text? a) The use of military force made this impossible b) The Africans and British had nothing in common c) The Africans were incapable of clashing with the British *d) The British never attempted to understand the cultures that they colonized e) The British hoped that the Africans would mimic them 126) What is the significance of the setting of the final scene in Death and the King’s Horseman? a) The creation of the Great House has the bones of the dead underneath it b) The Pilkings take what is best in each culture and mix those things together c) The subalterns will always be rejected by the colonizers *d) The foundations of the colonial enterprise are built on slavery e) As John Donne, said, “No man is an island” 127) What is the first image we see of Heaney's father in "Digging"? a) "snug as a gun" *b) "his straining rump among the flowerbeds / Bends low" c) "He straightened up / To drink it, then fell to right away" d) "the curt cuts of an edge" e) "heaving sods / Over his shoulder" 128) What does the pen/gun turn into by the end of "Digging"? a) A rifle b) Heaney's father c) A window d) A ring *e) A shovel 129) What famous historical incident is a part of “Requiem for the Croppies”? a) The granting of Catholic civil rights *b) The 1798 rebellion c) Bloody Sunday d) The founding of the Irish Free State e) The disbanding of the IRA 130) Why does the hillside blush in “Requiem for the Croppies”? a) It's full of the blood of the rebels b) The earth is embarrassed by this massacre c) It is full of tannic acid, which is red *d) Both A and B e) Both B and C 131) Heaney wrote his Bog Poems in response to what period of time in Ireland? a) The 1798 Croppie Rebellion b) The 1916 Easter Rising *c) "The Troubles" of the 1960s - 1990s d) The partition of Ireland e) The planatation of Northern Ireland 132) What mummifies the bodies in the "Bog Poems"? a) The pressure from the mountains on them b) The coal with which they are buried *c) The tannic acid in the bogs d) The alcohol poured into the bogs e) The peat used as a fuel source 133) "Punishment" is about which bog body? a) The Tollund Man b) The Grauballe Man *c) The Windeby Girl d) The Incorruptibles e) The Londonderry Air 134) The American English equivalent of the word "clearance" is: a) the loss of one's innocence through a miserable experience b) an increase in the value of an object c) a child's maternal parent d) the death of one's family members *e) a clearing in the woods; a place where trees have been removed 135) Which poem focuses on Heaney's teenage relationship with his mother? a) Clearances I b) Clearances II *c) Clearances III d) Clearances V e) Clearances VII 136) What is Heaney's favorite technique for dealing with present events that are too emotional? a) He ignores them *b) He creates a third space, a mixture of memory and the present c) He thinks of the future d) He breaks them into smaller parts, like Prufrock e) He just talks about them; he doesn't write about them 137) The first four sections of "Keeping Going" are filled with *a) Heaney's memories of times with his brother b) Heaney's memories of the death of his mother c) Heaney's memories of his time at school d) Heaney's memories of working at Harvard e) Heaney's memories of winning the Nobel Prize 138) What is is that keeps Hugh going in "Keeping Going"? a) Seamus's encouragement of him b) Hugh's ignorance of the violence around him c) Hugh's hope for a reunification of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland *d) Hugh's memories of the past with his family e) Seamus's sending him a check every month for expenses