English 240-World literature final review

Who was Bartolome de las Casas?

A Monk who denounced the treatment of native peoples

What do the three women poets have in common, based on both their introductions and their poems? (There could be more than one correct answer.) A) we don't have a lot of information about their lives B) We know a whole lot about their lives C) They all use metaphor to represent love D) They all write about love and sex candidly

A) we don't have a lot of information about their lives; D) they all write about love and sex candidly

On page 1312, Elesin says "I am master of my Fate." This line refers to a poem by William Ernest Henley called "Invictus." What is the official name for such a reference?

Allusion

Why is the Florentine Codex referred to as "Florentine?"

Because it is kept in Florence, Italy

The following line in Paz's poem "Central Park" uses what type of poetic device? "leafy river knotting into itself:/it runs motionless through the leaden buildings"

Imagery

What author's work Heart of Darkness is Achebe objecting to, claiming that it is essentially racist, and embodies the racism with which Europeans and European-Americans view Africa and Africans?

Joseph Conrad

To what phenomenon do the following lines refer (spoken by Krishna)? "The embodied one passes through/childhood, youth, and then old age/then attains another body;/in this the wise are undeceived."

Samsara (the cycle of reincarnation)

What is it, ultimately, that makes the historian (the granddaughter Grace/Afamefuna) "headstrong?

She questions colonial teachings of Nigerian history and revises it

To what Chinese text does Krishna refer when he says the following? "You must act as bid, for action/is better than non-action is;/not even functions of the body/could be sustained by non-action."

The Daodejing

The Epic of Sunjata is the basis for the story of which film?

The Lion King

Neruda's poem "I'm Explaining a Few Things" addresses events in which twentieth-century war?

The Spanish Civil War

According to the India introduction (621-629), what is the major difference between a bard/poet and a Vedic reciter?

The Vedic reciter cannot change the words and the bard can.

Poet Leopold Sedar Senghor makes an extended comparison between a beautiful woman and something else in his poem "Black Woman." To what does he compare the woman?

The continent of Africa

With what did Hunahpu and Xbalanque replace Seven Macaw's teeth?

White Corn

What is the significant feature of the narrator's grandfather - proof that the narrator is his grandson?

his nose