“Flâneur,” according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay “The Flâneur,” is a term the French understand to mean which of the following ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?

   A. Identify the Mode of Development
   B. Analysis of the Author
   C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
   D. Identify External Factors Related to the Work

2. The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?

   A. Identify the Mode of Development
   B. Analysis of the Author
   C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

3. According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?

   A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
   B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
   C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
   D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

4. Why does the “Flâneur” begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?

   A. Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris
   B. Because of the advent of arcade projects
   C. Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape
   D. Because they were threatened by police with jail

5. The statements below are parts of the steps on “How to Write an Analytical Essay about Short Fiction”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the writing an essay about short fiction ?

   A. Begin your paper with an introduction that identifies the purpose of the paper and the text you are addressing.
   B. Compose topic sentences (four or five, perhaps) that support, explore, demonstrate, or illustrate your thesis.
   C. Select specific passages in the text of the story that help you to develop each topic sentence.
   D. Build your paper to a climax; save your most engaging or important topic sentence for discussion last.

6. According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?

   A. Genteel
   B. Symbolist
   C. Impressionist
   D. Decadent

7. According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”

   A. In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
   B. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
   C. All of the above
   D. A and B only

8. According to the essay “A Defense of Poetry,” which of the following is one of the two “classes of mental action” ?

   A. Reason
   B. Fear
   C. Illogic
   D. Indifference

9. Competence is a term to describe the knowledge possessed by native users of a language which enables them to speak and understand their language fluently was introduced by________?

   A. Sassure
   B. Enoch Powel
   C. Noam Chomsky
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

10. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?

    A. Incest
    B. Trauma
    C. Taboo
    D. Love