A. To include the tribe’s favorite food, corn, into the myth
B. To warn its youth about the consequences of promiscutiy and other inquities
C. To explain how floods came into existence
D. To explain how earthquakes came into existence
Related Mcqs:
- What does the priest’s son’s prayers for the punishment of the tribe’s iniquities tell us about the Zuni tribe ?
A. They are nosey and stays busy tending to other people’s business
B. The Zunis are spiritual and have a strong moral code that they live by and teach to their children
C. That the Zunis are afraid of earthquakes and floods
D. That the Zunis like to make up stories for pure entertainment - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?
A. Bear
B. Coyote
C. Snake
D. Hare - What type of myth is the tale “The Jealous Uncle” ?
A. Origin tale
B. Trickster tale
C. Hero tale
D. A fable - Define trickster tale ?
A. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
B. The struggle found in fiction
C. Giving human qualities to animals or objects
D. A story about a mischievous, supernatural being - According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
A. He killed all of the old people
B. He killed all of the female children
C. He killed all of the male children
D. He killed all of the women - Who is the author of “The Origin of Species” ?
A. Charles Darwin
B. A. Pope
C. T. Hardy
D. O. Goldsmith - One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?
A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
D. All of the above answers are correct. - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities ?
A. London and Rome
B. Paris and Rome
C. London and Paris
D. Berlin and London - Who is the writer of the poem ‘Nun Priest’s Tale’ ?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Cynewulf
C. Robert Browning
D. Shelley
