A. It symbolizes Dante’s distrust of the Church.
B. It is the home of the angels.
C. It separates heaven from hell.
D. It reminds Dante of his own pride
Related Mcqs:
- In The Purgatorio, what is the function of the residents’ punishments ?
A. The punishments prevent hope from being reborn in sinners.
B. The punishments keep the sinners from entering the path to salvation.
C. The punishments allow the sinners to purge their sins.
D. The punishments remind the sinners that they are damned to hell. - What is the function of the River Lethe ?
A. It separates heaven from hell.
B. It prevents sinners from escaping hell.
C. It washes away the memory of sin.
D. It separates Dante from the other sinners - According to scholars, what is the function of the rose that Dante sees in paradise ?
A. It alludes to the Garden of Eden.
B. It symbolizes perfection and paradise.
C. It is a symbol of the Virgin Mary.
D. All of the above - 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 - 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 - What is the function of the Linati schema ?
A. it outlines the transition from child to adult in The Dubliners
B. it outlines the order of stories in The Dubliners
C. it outlines the fundamental structure of Ulysses
D. it outlines the movement of time in Finnegans Wake - 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 - What is the main function of literary theory ?
A. To formulate relationships among an author, a reader, and a literary work
B. To understand the role of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity in literary study
C. To evaluate the role of historical context in the interpretation of literature
D. All of the above. - According to the Geneva School, what is the function of the reader ?
A. Entering the author’s mind through his or her literary works
B. Understanding the author’s consciousness
C. Reproducing the author’s thoughts in a critical context
D. All of the above. - What was the function of the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle ?
A. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the history of the continuity and persistence of Anglo-Saxon culture in Old English.
B. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle offers a lay person’s perspective on Anglo-Saxon history.
C. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle focuses on the courtly adventures of Anglo-Saxon English.
D. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle presents an accurate description of the Second and Third Crusades.
