What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact ?

Related Mcqs:

1. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

3. Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of “An Indian’ Looking Glass for the White Man” ?

   A. Critic the way white people’s society treats people of color wrong.
   B. Making peace
   C. Working together
   D. both B and C

4. The purpose of placing ‘fallen cold and dead’ at the end of each section is to_____________?

   A. remind the leader of the tragedy
   B. repeat the lines for the rhyming
   C. keep the readers aware of what is to come
   D. clarify his idea

5. What is the author’s purpose in the Zuni origin tale “The Flood” ?

   A. To include the tribe’s favorite food, corn, into the myth
   B. To warn its youth about the consequences of promiscutiy and other inquities
   C. To explain how floods came into existence
   D. To explain how earthquakes came into existence

6. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?

   A. finding spiritual meaning
   B. Critic slavery
   C. Defend Slavery
   D. Both B and C

7. According to Randy Hofbauer, what is/are the purpose(s) of the epiphany ?

   A. it enables Stephen to say in Ireland forever
   B. it prepares Stephen to accept his artistic rebirth
   C. it ends Stephen’s period of enlightenment
   D. it helps Stephen to decide to join the Catholic church

8. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art ?

   A. To connect human beings with a higher ideal
   B. To entertain those who enjoy it
   C. To criticize society through satire
   D. To bring to light social oppressions

9. What is the primary purpose of Chetien de Troye’s medieval romances ?

   A. To convert readers to Christianity through positive examples
   B. To inform illiterate readers about Arthurian legend
   C. To reconcile the hero’s responsibilities in love and wars
   D. To sway audiences away from reading tales of courtly love

10. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

    A. Fanny Burney
    B. Mary Wollstonecraft
    C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
    D. Jane Austen