Unit 3: Into the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Literature UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Unit 3: Into the Twenty-First Century:
Contemporary Literature UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Read these excerpts from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and F. Scott
Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams." What common theme do they share?
-I don't like our room a bit. I w...
Unit 3: Into the Twenty-First Century:
Contemporary Literature UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Read these excerpts from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and F. Scott
Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams." What common theme do they share?
-I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza [large porch].
. . but John would not hear of it. He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without
special direction.
(from "The Yellow Wallpaper")
-His heart turned over like the fly-wheel of the boat, and, for the second time, her casual
whim gave a new direction to his life . . . Dexter had no desire to change her. Her deficiencies
were knit up with a passionate energy that transcended and justified them . . . The helpless
part of trying to do anything about it was that she did it all herself.
(from "Winter Dreams") - CORRECT ANSWER- The dynamics between genders
What sentence structure can an author use to create a sense of urgency in a text? - CORRECT
ANSWER- Short sentences that are direct and to the point
For which literary work did Joseph Heller use his military experiences as a primary source? -
CORRECT ANSWER- Catch-22
In the following excerpt from The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, which line alludes to the
narrator's heritage?
-At dawn a taxi is called to ferry them through deserted Cambridge streets, up Massachusetts
Avenue and past Harvard Yard, to Mount Auburn Hospital. Ashima registers, answering
questions about the frequency and duration of the contractions, as Ashoke fills out the forms.
She is seated in a wheelchair and pushed through the shining, brightly lit corridors, whisked
into an elevator more spacious than her kitchen. On the maternity floor she is assigned to a
bed by the window, in a room at the end of the hall. She is asked to remove her Murshidabad
silk sari in favor of a flowered cotton gown that, to her mild embarrassment, only reaches her
knees. - CORRECT ANSWER- She is asked to remove her Murshidabad silk sari in favor of
a flowered cotton gown
Who coined the term cyberspace? - CORRECT ANSWER- William Gibson
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