The author of The Bluest Eyes (1970) is__________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In his essay “The Roots of Modernism,” Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?

   A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.
   B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.
   C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.
   D. Both A and C

2. Please identify the story: “her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition. ”

   A. “The Boarding House”
   B. “Clay”
   C. “Eveline”
   D. “A Little Cloud”

3. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

4. This author wrote of the Pilgrims’ voyage to the New World ?

   A. Bradford Nelson
   B. William Holden
   C. Nelson Holden
   D. William Bradford

5. Name the author of The New Criticism ?

   A. F. R. Leavis
   B. Allen Tate
   C. John Crowe Ransom
   D. R. P. Blackmur

6. A work of criticism that considers how the author’s childhood trauma influenced his characters would be an example of_____________?

   A. psychoanalytic criticism.
   B. Marxist criticism.
   C. New Criticism.
   D. structuralism.

7. With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?

   A. Claude Lévi-Strauss
   B. Jacques Derrida
   C. Jacques Lacan
   D. Michel Foucault

8. Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?

   A. Plato’s The Republic
   B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
   C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
   D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”

9. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

   A. “Euphues”
   B. “Paradise Lost”
   C. “Utopia”
   D. “Zelauto”

10. Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?

    A. Sir Thomas Malory
    B. Margery Kempe
    C. Geoffrey Chaucer
    D. William Langland