MA English Literature 2

Question 1

What literary movement is characterized by an interest in the unconscious mind, dreams, and irrational elements?

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Answer

Naturalism

Answer

Realism

Answer

Romanticism

Question 2

What is the primary concern of New Criticism as a school of literary theory?

Accepted Answer

Close reading of the text itself, without outside context

Answer

The author's biographical context

Answer

The historical and political conditions of a work

Answer

Reader response and interpretation

Question 3

Which of the following best describes an 'unreliable narrator'?

Accepted Answer

A narrator whose credibility is compromised, leading readers to question the account

Answer

A narrator who only relates third-person events

Answer

A narrator who withholds key information until the end

Answer

A narrator who speaks directly to the audience

Question 4

The Harlem Renaissance was primarily a:

Accepted Answer

African American cultural and artistic movement centered in New York in the 1920s–30s

Answer

European modernist literary movement

Answer

Post-Civil War Southern literary revival

Answer

1960s Black Power literary collective

Question 5

Which term describes a novel that follows a protagonist's moral and psychological growth from youth to adulthood?

Accepted Answer

Bildungsroman

Answer

Picaresque novel

Answer

Epistolary novel

Answer

Roman à clef

Question 6

In Toni Morrison's Beloved, what does the character Beloved primarily represent?

Accepted Answer

The haunting trauma and memory of slavery

Answer

The promise of freedom in the North

Answer

The ideal of a reconstructed Southern identity

Answer

The legacy of Native American dispossession