World Lit Final COPY

Just what does the so-called "garden of forking paths" turn out to be?

A labyrinthine book, a story so vast in its complexity of narrative variations as to be nearly infinite.

What is the effect of the Mau Mau uprising on Wariuki?

He reaps minor economic benefits by cooperating with the colonialists.

What is the one requirement that Douglas Jones and his wife make for Wariuki, should he wish to marry their daughter?

It must be a church wedding (and thus an expensive one)

Without attention to context, both temporal and geographical, one cannot fully enjoy a story. What was the setting of "The Women's Swimming Pool?"

Lebanon

We learn from the introduction that Hanan Al-Shaykh's novels (the first of which she published at the tender age of 25) and plays have drawn critical attention for all but which of these?

Their shockingly iconoclastic (if it makes any sense to use that term for a religion that abjures icons) criticism of Muslim orthodoxy.

What is Wariuki's "one consuming passion," which he nurses "like one nurses a toothache with one's tongue"?

To contemptuously flaunt his success before the men who had humiliated him.

We heard in class today Ngugi Wa Thiong'o describe loss of language in terms of ___________.

alienation