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
Related Mcqs:
- In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis ?
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 - In The Divine Comedy, what do many critics believe Beatrice allegorically represents ?
A. Natural light
B. Revelations
C. The light of grace
D. All of the above - 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. - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - 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 - How do most critics believe Joyce’s exile affected his use of language ?
A. After his exile, he only used one “voice” in his works
B. After his exile, he disliked the intricacy of language
C. After his exile, he never used split narratives
D. After his exile, he used a mixture of languages and linguistic traditions in his works - In “The Dead,” what do most critics suggest is important about the snowfall ?
A. the snow represents Ireland’s inability to become independent
B. the snow represents the quiet that covers life and death
C. the snow represents the promise of love
D. the snow represents the characters’ ability to escape Ireland - In A Portrait of the Artist, how do most critics suggest that the flight motif functions ?
A. it represents the desire to flee Ireland
B. it represents the hero’s fear that he will overestimate his abilities
C. it implies that the artist must take flight to do his work
D. All of the Above - What is the significance of the words “moocow” and “tuckoo,” according to most critics ?
A. it represents Joyce’s decision not to use stream of consciousness
B. it emulates an adult’s intellectual process
C. it captures the intellectual perceptions of a child
D. it represents Joyce’s shift to more conventional language
