English 10 Part 2 Final Exam (Test,Quizes)
One of the questions Marxist critics ask is: How does the text promote capitalism? In the passage below from pg. 66, how does Holden promote capitalism? While I was eating my eggs, these two nuns with suitcases and all--I guessed they were moving to another convent or something and were waiting for a train--came in and sat down next to me at the counter. They didn't seem to know what the hell to do with their suitcases, so I gave them a hand. They were these very inexpensive-looking suitcases--the ones that aren't genuine leather or anything. It isn't important, I know, but I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody, just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases with them. Something happened once. For a while when I was at Elkton Hills, I roomed with this boy, Dick Slagle, that had these very inexpensive suitcases. He used to keep them under the bed, instead of on the rack, so that nobody'd see them standing next to mine. It depressed holy hell out of me, and I kept wanting to throw mine out or something, or even trade with him. Mine came from Mark Cross, and they were genuine cowhide and all that crap, and I guess they cost quite a pretty penny. But it was a funny thing. Here's what happened. What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it. But here's what he did. The day after I put mine under my bed, he took them out and put them back on the rack. The reason he did it, it took me a while to find out, was because he wanted people to think my bags were his. He really did. He was a very funny guy, that way. He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois. That was his favorite goddam word. He read it somewhere or heard it somewhere. Everything I had was bourgeois as hell. Even my fountain pen was bourgeois. He borrowed it off me all the time, but it was bourgeois anyway. We only roomed together about two months. Then we both asked to be moved. And the funny thing was, I sort of missed him after we moved, because he had a helluva good sense of humor and we had a lot of fun sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if he missed me, too. At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn--it was sort of funny, in fact. Then, after a while, you could tell he wasn't kidding any more. The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. It's one of the reasons why I roomed with a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were as good as mine. Select one: a. Holden notices, right away, the quality of suitcases (expensive or not) and sympathizes with those who are not well-off, but later ironically regrets it. b. All of these c. Holden changed roommates to get away from poor Dick Slagle and his cheap suitcases d. Holden changed roommates so his new rich roommate, Stradlater, had the same expensive suitcases as him
All of these
An exact copy or re-print of an original source is NOT considered a primary source.
FALSE
In the first Terminator film, the Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor. But in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sarah Connor is attempting to break out of a mental institution when she encounters the same Terminator that was out to kill her in the first film. This Terminator, we and Sarah find out later, is there to protect her. This type of irony is known as ______
Situational irony
Marx's essential question is, "What does it mean to be free?"
TRUE
We tend to accept our Narrating Self as plain reality, but our Narrating Self is just a storyteller and, therefore, sometimes unreliable. True or False: In our own life's story, our Narrating Self tells ourselves what we want to hear, and it usually shares the best version of our experiences.
TRUE
When reality meets expectations, the event is NOT ironic.
TRUE
______ sources contain no new information.
Tertiary
In The Saturday Evening Post article: The teenager emerged in the middle of the 20th century thanks to the confluence of three trends in... Select one: a. rebellion, angst, and counter-culture b. education, economics, and technology c. changing family values, comic books, and advertising d. fashion, cigarettes, and a high dropout rates
education, economics, and technology
The unreliable narrator of_____is, in the end, a surprise to the audience. We thought there were two characters but find out that he's both in one: he splits his personality, inventing an uber-masculine and violent version of himself.
fight club
Fill-in-the-Blank, from the lesson "Context: Post-War and the Birth of the Teenager" "The Beats had shifted the epicenter of American life,______, toward westward expansion, namely...1960s_____."
1. New York 2.San Fransico
One of the questions Marxist critics ask is: Who in a society is oppressed? In the passage below from pg. 66, who does Holden think is oppressed? While I was eating my eggs, these two nuns with suitcases and all--I guessed they were moving to another convent or something and were waiting for a train--came in and sat down next to me at the counter. They didn't seem to know what the hell to do with their suitcases, so I gave them a hand. They were these very inexpensive-looking suitcases--the ones that aren't genuine leather or anything. It isn't important, I know, but I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody, just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases with them. Something happened once. For a while when I was at Elkton Hills, I roomed with this boy, Dick Slagle, that had these very inexpensive suitcases. He used to keep them under the bed, instead of on the rack, so that nobody'd see them standing next to mine. It depressed holy hell out of me, and I kept wanting to throw mine out or something, or even trade with him. Mine came from Mark Cross, and they were genuine cowhide and all that crap, and I guess they cost quite a pretty penny. But it was a funny thing. Here's what happened. What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it. But here's what he did. The day after I put mine under my bed, he took them out and put them back on the rack. The reason he did it, it took me a while to find out, was because he wanted people to think my bags were his. He really did. He was a very funny guy, that way. He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois. That was his favorite goddam word. He read it somewhere or heard it somewhere. Everything I had was bourgeois as hell. Even my fountain pen was bourgeois. He borrowed it off me all the time, but it was bourgeois anyway. We only roomed together about two months. Then we both asked to be moved. And the funny thing was, I sort of missed him after we moved, because he had a helluva good sense of humor and we had a lot of fun sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if he missed me, too. At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn--it was sort of funny, in fact. Then, after a while, you could tell he wasn't kidding any more. The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. It's one of the reasons why I roomed with a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were as good as mine. Select one: a. A roommate who tries to trick someone into thinking his roommate's nice suitcases are his b. Anyone with inexpensive or poor quality suitcases c. Anyone who tries to show off his nice suitcases.
Anyone with inexpensive or poor quality suitcases
Situational irony, and irony in general, is often misunderstood and confused with...
Coincidence
Sarcasm = Verbal Irony + ____
Mockery
Why was The Catcher in the Rye banned in schools?
Profanity, lying/fear of juvenile delinquency, drinking and smoking, and sexial innuendo
According to "1950s Teens Rebel Against Society's Rules": Why was Rock and Roll such a threat to many of American parents and community leaders?
Rock and roll was considered "Black music" and supported integration of the races
______ is when you expect one thing in a story's plot—but get the opposite.
Situational irony
What were American teens of the late-1940s and early-1950s either afraid of or rebelling against?
conformity / societal norms, nuclear war / another world war, Cold War / Communism, suburbia / materialism
One of the questions Marxist critics ask is: Who has the power in a society? In the passage below from pg. 66, who does Holden think has the power? While I was eating my eggs, these two nuns with suitcases and all--I guessed they were moving to another convent or something and were waiting for a train--came in and sat down next to me at the counter. They didn't seem to know what the hell to do with their suitcases, so I gave them a hand. They were these very inexpensive-looking suitcases--the ones that aren't genuine leather or anything. It isn't important, I know, but I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody, just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases with them. Something happened once. For a while when I was at Elkton Hills, I roomed with this boy, Dick Slagle, that had these very inexpensive suitcases. He used to keep them under the bed, instead of on the rack, so that nobody'd see them standing next to mine. It depressed holy hell out of me, and I kept wanting to throw mine out or something, or even trade with him. Mine came from Mark Cross, and they were genuine cowhide and all that crap, and I guess they cost quite a pretty penny. But it was a funny thing. Here's what happened. What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it. But here's what he did. The day after I put mine under my bed, he took them out and put them back on the rack. The reason he did it, it took me a while to find out, was because he wanted people to think my bags were his. He really did. He was a very funny guy, that way. He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois. That was his favorite goddam word. He read it somewhere or heard it somewhere. Everything I had was bourgeois as hell. Even my fountain pen was bourgeois. He borrowed it off me all the time, but it was bourgeois anyway. We only roomed together about two months. Then we both asked to be moved. And the funny thing was, I sort of missed him after we moved, because he had a helluva good sense of humor and we had a lot of fun sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if he missed me, too. At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn--it was sort of funny, in fact. Then, after a while, you could tell he wasn't kidding any more. The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense ofhumor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. It's one of the reasons why I roomed with a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were as good as mine. Select one: a. the nuns b. himself; Holden c. Mark Cross d. Dick Slagle
himself; Holden
A comment about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech from an unknown author at the bottom of a personal blog is a: Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source
not a credible source
Daily news stories, original maps, government records, art, and films are considered: Select one: a. primary sources b. secondary sources c. tertiary sources d. not credible sources
primary sources
Which of these headlines is situational irony, or the EXACT opposite of what we expect to happen?
"Man bites dog."
One of the questions Marxist critics ask is: Which classes are in conflict? In the passage below from pg. 66, who does Holden think is in conflict? While I was eating my eggs, these two nuns with suitcases and all--I guessed they were moving to another convent or something and were waiting for a train--came in and sat down next to me at the counter. They didn't seem to know what the hell to do with their suitcases, so I gave them a hand. They were these very inexpensive-looking suitcases--the ones that aren't genuine leather or anything. It isn't important, I know, but I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody, just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases with them. Something happened once. For a while when I was at Elkton Hills, I roomed with this boy, Dick Slagle, that had these very inexpensive suitcases. He used to keep them under the bed, instead of on the rack, so that nobody'd see them standing next to mine. It depressed holy hell out of me, and I kept wanting to throw mine out or something, or even trade with him. Mine came from Mark Cross, and they were genuine cowhide and all that crap, and I guess they cost quite a pretty penny. But it was a funny thing. Here's what happened. What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it. But here's what he did. The day after I put mine under my bed, he took them out and put them back on the rack. The reason he did it, it took me a while to find out, was because he wanted people to think my bags were his. He really did. He was a very funny guy, that way. He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois. That was his favorite goddam word. He read it somewhere or heard it somewhere. Everything I had was bourgeois as hell. Even my fountain pen was bourgeois. He borrowed it off me all the time, but it was bourgeois anyway. We only roomed together about two months. Then we both asked to be moved. And the funny thing was, I sort of missed him after we moved, because he had a helluva good sense of humor and we had a lot of fun sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if he missed me, too. At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn--it was sort of funny, in fact. Then, after a while, you could tell he wasn't kidding any more. The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. It's one of the reasons why I roomed with a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were as good as mine. Select one: a. (himself; Holden) vs. Stradlater b. Stradlater vs. Dick Slagle c. (himself; Holden) vs. the nuns d. (himself; Holden) vs. Dick Slagle
(himself; Holden) vs. Dick Slagle
From "The Beat Generation Characteristics": Its first few lines capture the spirit of the Beat movement: madness, the streets, and drugs. This "defining poem of the Beat generation debuted in 1955 when the World War II generation was raising their Baby Boomer kids in neat little houses with picket fences..."
"Howl" by Alan Ginsberg
______ is the point of view of the narrator, and there are four perspectives: _______
1. Narrative perspective 2. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 3rd person omniscient
From "The Beat Generation Characteristics": Hundreds of years before, the_____ school of poetry had rebelled against the Enlightenment school of reason and rationality. Also against rigid form and tradition, the Beat poets rebelled again the Modern school of ______
1. Romantic 2. T.S Eliot Rigid Form
Sarcasm is the same as verbal irony. The two terms are interchangeable.
FALSE
Michael Scott (Steve Carrell), the boss of Dunder Mifflin from the TV show The Office, is a type of unreliable narrator who gives a skewed perspective of reality.
TRUE
According to Marx's conflict theory, it is difficult in capitalism is to see which classes are in conflict with each other because the social classes : Select one: a. ...are too many to count. There are mega-rich, rich, middle class, upper middle class, and so on... b. ...are not clearly defined. There's no law that says who labors and who doesn't, who can be rich or poor... c. ...don't exist. There's no such thing as social class in a capitalist economy d. ...are in a never-ending war, the rich against the poor, and no class can ever win
..are not clearly defined. There's no law that says who labors and who doesn't, who can be rich or poor...
According to "The Beat Generation Characteristics," Jack Kerouac coined the term "Beat" because he felt figuratively "beat down" by the conformity of the military and business cultures.
True
The dominant symbol of the current teenager is, of course, the mobile phone. But in the post-war economic boom, it was ______ that defined teenage freedom, promiscuity, and danger.
car
Forrest Gump is an example of the_____type of unreliable narrator.
innocent
According to Bressler's Capitalist Pyramid, match the following: 1. The bottom tier, a majority of the population, the working class who support the upper-class above them 2. The middle tier, those who protect the upper class elite and do what the religious class tell them 3. The upper class, or social elite, who are supported by the working class and protected by the military 4. The top of the pyramid, those who control all and set rigid class distinctions to keep it that way 5. The second tier from the top, the moral educators who tell the military what to believe and are controlled by the tyrants at the top
1. Proletariat 2. Military leaders 3. Bourgeoisie 4.Aristocracy, or tryants 5.religious leaders
The Catcher in the Rye is told in flashback, which starts as an outer story (set in the present) and then shifts back in time to an inner story (set in the past). The flashback, or inner story, take places over ____, and its main setting is _______.
1. a long weekend 2. New York City
The novel The Catcher in the Rye is about ______ and the main character Holden Caulfield wants to make _________.
1. alienation 2. a connection (to friend or family)
Irony is the opposite of expectation. Match the following: When what we expect to happen doesn't happen, it creates _______. When someone says one thing but means another, it creates _________. When we know the truth about a dangerous situation and we watch someone else get close to that danger, it creates _________.
1. conflict 2. complexity 3. suspense
The Catcher in the Rye is a Bildungsroman, or a novel dealing with one's ________ and it is told in a(n) ________ structure.
1. formative years or spiritual education 2. episodic (loosely connected)
Maybe we are our own unreliable narrators. Psychologists divide human consciousness into two selves. Match the following: Feels sensations and emotions: fear, happiness, pain, pleasure________. Spins emotional input into conflict or resolution in order to make sense of it all______.
1. the experiencing self 2. the narrating self
Holden is obsessed with things that are both child-like and stuck in time, like: Select one: a. the "Little Shirley Beans" record he's excited to give Phoebe b. the essay about Egyptians he writes for Old Spencer c. checkers: Jane keeping her kings in the back row d. ALL OF THESE e. kissing Jane all over her face, but NOT her lips f. the carousel in the park that goes round and round g. Allie's glove with the poems written all over h. his Elmer Fudd-style red hunting hat i. being a catcher in the rye to keep kids from falling off a cliff j. the ducks in the lagoon in Central park: where do they go in winter when it's frozen?
ALL OF THESE
_____is when an audience seems to know more about an event, a situation, or a conversation than the characters in a story.
Dramatic Irony
In The Matrix, Neo and his crew are betrayed by one of their own. If we had learned of this at the moment of betrayal, we certainly would have been shocked but because we learn about it before any of the other characters, we have a nice, juicy piece of_____
Dramatic irony
Nellie Stone, a Civil Rights activist, made an interview about a march on Washington when she was older. Because she did not write down her notes during the march and only later recorded them after the event, her oral history is NOT considered a primary source.
FALSE
The novel The Catcher in the Rye take place in the 1950s, and its protagonist Holden Caulfield is in a mental hospital.
FALSE
The use of the unreliable narrator goes as far back as the Medieval Period when Chaucer first introduced it using an unknown narrator in The Canterbury Tales.
FALSE
How soon does the reader understand that Holden is an unreliable narrator? Select one: a. From the first sentence of the book, when he says: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. b. At the end of chapter 7 when he says goodbye to Pencey Prep: I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, "Sleep tight, ya morons!" I'll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor. Then I got the hell out. Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn near broke my crazy neck. c. From the conversation with the woman on the train, when he gives her a false name: "Oh, how nice!" the lady said. But not corny. She was just nice and all. "I must tell Ernest we met," she said. "May I ask your name, dear?" "Rudolf Schmidt," I told her. I didn't feel like giving her my whole life history. Rudolf Schmidt was the name of the janitor of our dorm. d. From the conversation with Mr. Spencer in Chapter 2 when he says: I had to sit there and listen to that crap. It certainly was a dirty trick.
From the first sentence of the book, when he says: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them
Observe the exchange between Mr. Spencer and Holden in Chapter 1: "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules." "Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it." Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right--I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game. "Has Dr. Thurmer written to your parents yet?" old Spencer asked me. "He said he was going to write them Monday." "Have you yourself communicated with them?" "No, sir, I haven't communicated with them, because I'll probably see them Wednesday night when I get home." Which lines are examples of sarcasm? Select one: a. Game, my ass. Some game. b. No, sir, I haven't communicated with them, because I'll probably see them Wednesday night when I get home c. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules d. He said he was going to write them Monday
Game, my ass. Some game.
Observe this exchange between Holden and Mr. Spencer from Chapter 1: "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules." "Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it." Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right--I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game. "Has Dr. Thurmer written to your parents yet?" old Spencer asked me. "He said he was going to write them Monday." "Have you yourself communicated with them?" "No, sir, I haven't communicated with them, because I'll probably see them Wednesday night when I get home." Interior monologue is used by an author to show a character's inner thoughts. Which lines are an example of interior monologue? Select one: a. Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right--I'll admit that. b. "No, sir, I haven't communicated with them, because I'll probably see them Wednesday night when I get home." c. "Has Dr. Thurmer written to your parents yet?" d. "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules."
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right--I'll admit that.
Why does Holden hate the movie so much? Select one: a. He knows the movies are better than books and plays, and he is just too much in denial to admit it. b. Movies are where he gets rejected by girls, like Jane and Sally. c. His older brother went from writing short stories to writing for Hollywood, and Holden resents him for selling out and being a phony. d. His younger brother just died, and the movies have tear-jerking scenes that remind him of death.
His older brother went from writing short stories to writing for Hollywood, and Holden resents him for selling out and being a phony.
In The Catcher in the Rye, identify the speakers: "You know that song, 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'? I'd like--" "It's 'If a body meet a body through the rye'! It's a poem by Robert Burns." Select one: a. Holden and Mr. Spencer b. Holden and Jane c. Holden and Sally d. Holden and Phoebe
Holden and Phoebe
The most iconic example of the innocent type of unreliable narrator is: Select one: a. Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird b. Huckleberry Finn from Huckleberry Finn c. Christopher Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time d.Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump
Huckleberry Finn from Huckleberry Finn
She was different. She kept her kings in the back row. She was terrific to hold hands with. She was ________. Select one: a. Faith Cavendish b. Jane Gallagher c. Sally Hayes d. Phoebe Caulfield Feedback
Jane Gallagher
What character connection is Salinger revealing by his allusion to characters in the play Romeo and Juliet? Holden is talking to the nun who taught English: "I mean I felt much sorrier when old Mercutio got killed than when Romeo and Juliet did. The thing is, I never liked Romeo too much after Mercutio gets stabbed by that other man--Juliet's cousin--what's his name?" "Tybalt." "That's right. Tybalt," I said--I always forget that guy's name. "It was Romeo's fault. I mean I liked him the best in the play, old Mercutio. I don't know. All those Montagues and Capulets, they're all right--especially Juliet--but Mercutio, he was--it's hard to explain. He was very smart and entertaining and all. The thing is, it drives me crazy if somebody gets killed-- especially somebody very smart and entertaining and all-- and it's somebody else's fault." Select one: a. The reference to Mercutio is foreshadowing the death of James Castle. They die in the same way. b.Mercutio is a reference to Holden, who feels he is a victim in his own kind of tragedy, at the hands of "phonies." c. The reference is to Holden and Jane, who are star-crossed lovers, like Romeo and Juliet, and will both later die for each other. d. Tybalt is a reference to Holden, as Holden will later accidentally kill Maurice in the robbery.
Mercutio is a reference to Holden, who feels he is a victim in his own kind of tragedy, at the hands of "phonies."
Fill-in-the-Blank, from the lesson "Context: Post-War and The Birth of the Teenager":This new invention, the ____ had portability, and with a Beatnik style it captured the ethos of American teen culture and presaged the hippie movement of the 1960s.
Paperback
Secondary sources are the considered to be ______ for the most part.
Persuasive
During the action of Huckleberry Finn, slavery in the South was legal. Huckleberry Finn was taught (wrongly!) that slavery was also moral; thus, he calls himself a "sinner" for helping the slave Jim escape to the North on the river. The reader of Huckleberry Finn can't help but cheer when Huck Finn utters the famous line, "All right, then I'll go to hell." True or False: In other words, a narrator may be unreliable but also morally superior to the society in which he lives.
TRUE
Marx believed that humans, unlike animals, were poorly adapted to the natural world. In other words, if humans lived in nature alone, or on a deserted island, they would not survive.
TRUE
The Catcher in the Rye is told as a confessional.
TRUE
According to the "Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources" video lesson, a persuasive tweet of a political nature can be both a primary and secondary source. Select one: True False
True
Some critics believe it is impossible to have a narration in first person perspective that is NOT unreliable because the story is being filtered only through only one perspective and, therefore, subject to bias or limitations. Select one: True False
True
The most powerful character is literature is NOT the narrator; it is us (the reader), trained with a critical eye, multiple perspectives, and the skill in seeing through unreliable narrators to seek the truth. Select one: True False
True
The term teen-ager dates back to the early 1900s, but the word didn't stick. Even until World War II, there are hardly any instances of teenagers in the popular press. Select one: True False
True
In Mean Girls, we have this scene: REGINA GEORGE: I love your skirt! Where did you get it?GIRL IN PLAID SKIRT: It was my mom's in the 80s.REGINA GEORGE: Vintage! So adorable.[A beat, after the Girl in Plaid Skirt leaves...to CADY HERON]REGINA GEORGE: That is the ugliest, effin' skirt I have ever seen. REGINA GEORGE is using_____
Verbal irony
_____ is when someone says something—but truly means the opposite.
Verbal irony
One of the questions Marxist critics ask is: Who establishes the cultural expectations, and what do they do to establish them? In the passage below from pg. 66, who does Holden think establishes the cultural expectations, and what is done to establish them? While I was eating my eggs, these two nuns with suitcases and all--I guessed they were moving to another convent or something and were waiting for a train--came in and sat down next to me at the counter. They didn't seem to know what the hell to do with their suitcases, so I gave them a hand. They were these very inexpensive-looking suitcases--the ones that aren't genuine leather or anything. It isn't important, I know, but I hate it when somebody has cheap suitcases. It sounds terrible to say it, but I can even get to hate somebody, just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases with them. Something happened once. For a while when I was at Elkton Hills, I roomed with this boy, Dick Slagle, that had these very inexpensive suitcases. He used to keep them under the bed, instead of on the rack, so that nobody'd see them standing next to mine. It depressed holy hell out of me, and I kept wanting to throw mine out or something, or even trade with him. Mine came from Mark Cross, and they were genuine cowhide and all that crap, and I guess they cost quite a pretty penny. But it was a funny thing. Here's what happened. What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddam inferiority complex about it. But here's what he did. The day after I put mine under my bed, he took them out and put them back on the rack. The reason he did it, it took me a while to find out, was because he wanted people to think my bags were his. He really did. He was a very funny guy, that way. He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois. That was his favorite goddam word. He read it somewhere or heard it somewhere. Everything I had was bourgeois as hell. Even my fountain pen was bourgeois. He borrowed it off me all the time, but it was bourgeois anyway. We only roomed together about two months. Then we both asked to be moved. And the funny thing was, I sort of missed him after we moved, because he had a helluva good sense of humor and we had a lot of fun sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if he missed me, too. At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn--it was sort of funny, in fact. Then, after a while, you could tell he wasn't kidding any more. The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. It's one of the reasons why I roomed with a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were as good as mine. Select one: a. Who: Holden establishes the expectation What: The rich (or those with the nice suitcases) put suitcases out on the rack for display. b. Who: the nuns establish the expectations What: They wait for someone else to tell them where to put their suitcases. c. Who: Dick Slagle establishes the expectation
Who: Holden establishes the expectation What: The rich (or those with the nice suitcases) put suitcases out on the rack for display.
What is the one question that Holden wants to ask adults in New York City but is too afraid to ask? Select one: a. Will it be okay to flunk out of school? b. Will it be okay being an adult? c. Will it be okay if I don't get a job? d. Will it be okay if I don't like my family all that much?
Will it be okay being an adult?
This is what those without power become: nothing more than a tool or possession for the owner or person with power, a means to an end, alienated, with a loss of self and identity Select one: a. service-oriented b. a commodity c. goods-oriented d. laborers
a commodity
Holden is sarcastic with nearly everyone in the novel, calling them "phony" or the like. But who does he actually like and respect? Select one: a. Phoebe Caulfield b. the nuns near Grand Central Station c. Jane Gallagher d. Allie Caulfield e. all of them
all of them
Primary sources are the considered to be ______ for the most part.
authoritative
Marxist Theory: According to Marx and defined by Charles Bressler, these are the "social elite, or the upper class controlling the lower class through economic and political policy" Select one: a. bourgeoisie b. commoners c. clergy d. proletariat
bourgeoisie
What are the main topics of beat poetry?
controversy, nature, free love
Holden uses the word yellow a lot in the novel: What does he mean? "It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves." Select one: a. angry b. depressed c. cowardly d. sarcastic
cowardly
Identify the meaning of the underlined word: "Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell." Select one: a. favored b. depressed c. angry d. materialistic
depressed
This is cultural dominance. This is what the upper classes have taught the lower classes to believe as "the way things are." It's the internalized means of control establishing bourgeois values as the norm. It's a trick that the upper classes use on the lower classes: that there is a choice to be rich or poor or successful or not successful. Select one: a. jurisdiction b. means of production c. prerogative d. hegemony
hegemony
The Beats were heavily influenced by the writings of the Romantics of the 18th Century and modern,_______
improvisational Jazz music
What are the two broad categories of the unreliable narrator? Select one: a. formalist and transformationalist b. masculine and feminine c. proletariat and bourgeois d. intentional and unintentiona1
intentional and unintentiona1
Sarcasm takes simple verbal irony a step further and uses it to passive-aggressively insult someone. The difference between irony and sarcasm is quite simple: if no one is being insulted, it_____ sarcasm
is NOT
The birth of the teenager arose mainly because of_____, as the economy changed from a farming-based society to an industrial one, as teenagers were free from so much work at home.
mandatory education
The unlikeability of evil narrators, such as Montressor from Edgar Alan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Humbert Humbert from Nabokov's Lolita, and the alternating dysfunctional narrators in Gone Girl, suggest that authors of these works use unreliability to _____ the audience
manipulate, or trick
The Catcher in the Rye: What type of irony is in bold? End of Chapter 7 When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the goddam corridor. I was sort of crying. I don't know why. I put my red hunting hat on, and turned the peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, "Sleep tight, ya morons!" I'll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor. Then I got the hell out. Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn near broke my crazy neck. Select one: a. situational irony b. dramatic irony c. understatement d. overstatement, or hyperbole
overstatement, or hyperbole
To read a work from a Marxist perspective, one must understand that Marxism asserts that literature is a reflection of culture, and that culture can be affected by literature. Marxism is linked to Freudian theory by the subconscious—Freud dealt with the individual subconscious, while Marx dealt with the _______ subconscious. Marx believed that oppression exists in the political subconscious of a society—social pecking orders are inherent to any group of people.
political
A copy of the Minneapolis Spokesman newspaper from April 1968 on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but published a day after the event is a: Select one: a. secondary sources b. primary source c. tertiary sources d. not credible sources
primary source
Jackie Robinson's letters about breaking the color barrier in baseball were published as a book in 2007 well after his death. The book is a: Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. primary source d. not a credible source
primary source
This source may provide the most credible, first-hand information at the time but may not be as reliable over time because of subjectivity or bias. Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source d. primary source
primary source
Matthew Little, a Civil Rights activist, attended Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Little's notes, letters, and photos of the event are considered: Select one: a. secondary sources b. primary sources c. not credible sources d. tertiary sources
primary sources
Marxist Theory: These are the "working or lower classes oppressed or controlled through economic and political policy" Select one: a. bourgeoisie b. clergy c. nobility d. proletariat
proletariat
The Catcher in the Rye: What type of irony is in bold? End of Chapter 7 When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the goddam corridor. I was sort of crying. I don't know why. I put my red hunting hat on, and turned the peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, "Sleep tight, ya morons!" I'll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor. Then I got the hell out. Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn near broke my crazy neck. Select one: a. sarcasm b. dramatic irony c. situational irony d. verbal irony
sarcasm
What literary device is Salinger using in this exchange between Ackley and Holden? He kept standing there. He was exactly the kind of a guy that wouldn't get out of your light when you asked him to..."What the hellya reading?" he said. "Goddam book." He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the name of it. "Any good?" he said. "This sentence I'm reading is terrific." Select one: a. situational irony b. overstatement, or hyperbole c. sarcasm d. dramatic irony
sarcasm
A book about the Civil Rights movement written by a history professor (not a participant) in 1990, after the time period, is a: Select one: a. primary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source d. secondary source
secondary source
A review or critique of a primary source that is published well after the fact is known as a... Select one: a. primary source b. secondary source c. tertiary source d. not a credible source
secondary source
What are the characteristics of beat poetry?
simple diction, free verse, and emotional tone
After soldiers returned home from World War II, there was an economic and baby boom in the United States. As an example, Levitown was created in New York, the first reverse assembly line-built neighborhood in which contractors first laid in foundations, house by house. Then, plumbers laid in the plumbing, house by house. Then, the framers came, house by house. Then, the electricians, house by house. Then, the roofers, and so on. Finally, came the families. This mass production of homes that all looked alike lead to conformity and a "cultural sameness" known as [[1]]. Select one: a. new urban style b. ethnic neighborhoods c. suburbia d. urban core
suburbia
Dramatic irony creates what feelings in the audience?
tension and suspense
A Wikipedia page about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which has a Works Cited, is considered a: Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. primary source d. not a credible source
tertiary source
This source uses many primary and secondary sources to give a general or topical overview Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source d. primary source
tertiary source
An unreliable narrator is one who perceives and/or presents the events of a story in a way that is either skewed or disconnected from _____
the shared reality of the author and reader
Marxist Theory: These are "all the social and legal institutions, all political and educational systems, and all religion and art" affected by economic reality Select one: a. the means of production b. the bourgeoisie c. the infrastructure d. the base e. the superstructure
the superstructure
What literary term of technique does the last line of Mr. Antolini's monologue reveal? "All right. Listen to me a minute now . . . I may not word this as memorably as I'd like to, but I'll write you a letter about it in a day or two. Then you can get it all straight. But listen now, anyway." He started concentrating again. Then he said, "This fall I think you're riding for--it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started... 'The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.'" Select one: a. sarcasm b. verbal irony c. point of view d. theme
theme
According to the video lesson "Who Can You Trust?": "In a way, the narrator's skewed perspective crystalizes what it is about the true perspective that makes it true." So, an author's choice is using an unreliable narrator provides the reader with_____________
two lenses: our (the reader's) and the narrator's
________ is NOT one of the four main areas of Marxist study.
types of governments
In an era of propaganda, fake news, and Twitter bots, reading a novel with a(n) ___________ can help us distinguish between what is real and what is a biased account or reality. Select one: a. unreliable narrator b. dystopian setting c. romantic complication d. tragic plot
unreliable narrator
Holden's family is part of which socio-economic class? Select one: a. lower class (proletariat) b. upper class (bourgeoisie) c. military class d. government workers
upper class (bourgeoisie)