A. it is represented in a way that implies collective activity is needed
B. it reveals the sense of imprisonment that comes from routine
C. it reveals characters’ literal inability to move away from Ireland
D. All of the Above
Related Mcqs:
- According to critics, what is the function of The Dubliners’ third person narration ?
A. it counters the sense of unrequited love
B. it is used only to disrupt the more prominent first-person narration
C. it makes the stories seem more impersonal
D. it breaks through the sense of paralysis - What do most critics say that Issy represents to her brothers and father ?
A. she is a source of secret, repressed desire
B. she represents the functional family structure
C. she is an example of piety
D. she dissolves the tension of the Oedipal references - I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be–while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other crime? I’ll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! Awful injustice! ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - Gerald Graff’s “They Say, I Say” encourages students to become______________?
A. passive readers and critics of literary texts.
B. involved in critical conversations about literary texts.
C. capable of realizing that the viewpoints of some critics are more important than others.
D. aware that Hamlet is a remarkable work of literature. - In The Dubliners, which literary device does Joyce use most frequently ?
A. acatalectic
B. chiasmus
C. fantasy
D. pentameter - Which writer arranged for the publication of The Dubliners ?
A. Ezra Pound
B. W.B. Yeats
C. Ernest Hemmingway
D. Virginia Woolf - In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc ?
A. adolescence, maturity, childhood
B. childhood, maturity, adolescence
C. childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life
D. childhood, adolescence, maturity - Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners ?
A. the positive side of war with Germany
B. the supremacy of Britain
C. Irish nationalism
D. the Irish nation’s inability to survive without England’s help - In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies ?
A. they sometimes clarify the connection between death and life
B. they are often coupled with resignation, sadness, and frustration
C. they create a system of hope, followed by passive acceptance
D. All of the Above - Which of the following exemplifies the Modernist style of The Dubliners ?
A. the positive representation of cultural institutions
B. the representation of a shallow, drab culture
C. the positive representation of the Catholic Church
D. the representation of adventures the city offers to the mind
