What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What does Edward Said argue about the concept of the Orient ?

   A. It has little relationship to the colonization of Asian countries by the West.
   B. It illustrates the fundamental political equality of all nations.
   C. It was produced by Western scholarship.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

   A. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
   B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
   C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.
   D. All of the above

3. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

   A. Ophelia’s madness represents the social oppression of women.
   B. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
   C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

4. In the play, “Richard III,” who is the mother of Prince Edward ?

   A. Lady Anne
   B. Queen Elizabeth
   C. Margaret
   D. Duchess of York

5. Which kind of poem is Edward Lear associated with ?

   A. Nature
   B. Epics
   C. Sonnets
   D. Nonsense

6. About Edward Taylor_____________?

   A. Wrote Huswifery in an ornate style that wouldn’t have been accepted by the Puritans
   B. Wrote a poem about his house burning down
   C. Was exiled to the New World because he wouldn’t talk to the Church of England
   D. A and C

7. Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?

   A. lycidas
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. II penseroso
   D. none of the above

8. Some critics of literary theory argue that literary theory is problematic for which reason ?

   A. Literary theory does not offer a holistic interpretation of a text.
   B. Literary theory depends on specialized knowledge that is outside the realm of literary studies.
   C. Literary theory is sometimes very abstract and difficult to read.
   D. All of the above.

9. A number of the British Romantic poets argue what character to be the protagonist (or “hero”) of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?

   A. Eve
   B. Adam
   C. God
   D. Satan

10. What do scholars Michael O’Rourke and David Collings argue about “Queer Romanticism” ?

    A. Romantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.
    B. Deviant sexuality, including homosexuality, has historically been associated with Romantic literature.
    C. The sexual lives of Romantic-era authors are not relevant to our understanding of queer Romanticism.
    D. The “Queer Gothic” is understudied.