ENG-3299 Final Exam

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What is one distinctive feature of Kincaid's style that can be observed in both "Girl" and A Small Place?

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What is one distinctive feature of Kincaid's style that can be observed in both "Girl" and A Small Place?

Dense, lengthy sentence structure

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In Kincaid's "Girl," what is one interpretation about why neither the girl nor the mother are named in the story?

Their anonymity allows their characters to be symbolic

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In "Girl," how does the reader know when the girl is speaking?

her dialog is in italics

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In "Girl," if the mother and daughter are symbolic, what idea(s) may they represent?

archetypes of “girls” and “mothers”

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5

In Kincaid's A Small Place, what building is named after the Prime Minister?

the airport

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In Kincaid's A Small Place, she describes that the library was damaged in what natural disaster?

The Earthquake in 1974

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In Kincaid's A Small Place, what ideas does the library represent?

culture, learning, literacy

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In Kincaid's A Small Place, how does the text offer criticism about Antigua's corruption?

  1. Describing and characterizing mansions owned by unscrupulous figures, like drug dealers

  2. Writing that "the government is for sale"

  3. Critiquing the decrepit state of the school and the hospital

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In Kincaid's A Small Place, the author critiques the Mill Reef Club; what idea(s)/issue(s) do you think this club represents?

Lingering resentment and distrust from colonialism

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In Kincaid's A Small Place, what was "built by some people from North America who wanted to live in Antigua...but who seemed to not like Antiguans"?

The Mill Reef Club

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In Kincaid's A Small Place, she writes that "In countries that have no culture, or are afraid they have no culture, there is a __________." Fill in the blank.

Ministry of Culture

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12

What country is Kincaid criticizing in A Small Place, when she describes that "money is a neutral commodity, and time is neutral too"?

Switzerland

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As Kincaid informs the reader in A Small Place, what are the physical dimensions of Antigua?

9 miles by 12 miles

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14

In Rhys' "Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers," what is the meaning of describing the men as wearing "dark trousers even when the temperature was ninety in the shade"?

It shows that the white characters care more about conforming to English culture than they do about personal comfort

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In Rhys' "Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers," what detail about Mr. Ramage's purchase of the Spanish Castle foreshadows his demise?

It’s described as “bad luck”

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In Rhys' "Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers," what characters encounter a naked Mr. Ramage?

Mr. and Mrs. Eliot

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In Rhys' "Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers," what piece of writing criticizes Mr. Ramage for "his very eccentric behaviour"?

The Leeward Islands Gazette article

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At the end of Rhys' "Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers," one character says that it "was really a blessing in disguise...He was evidently mad." To what is she referring?

Mr. Ramage’s death

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In Carpentier's "Journey to the Seed," what is a detail, or details, that indicate to the reader that Don Marcial is growing smaller, younger?

  1. The furniture grows larger

  2. The repeated emphasis on clocks and time

  3. The repeated emphasis that Marcial doesn't feel well

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In Carpentier's "Journey to the Seed," the story experiments with the boundaries of time and death; these are some characteristics of what genre that Carpentier is associated with?

magical realism

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Marquez's "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship," when the narrator describes the ship as "obedient" and "fearsome," he is personifying it.

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: Personification is an upsetting of reader expectation.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: VS Naipaul's "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book," begins with the first night watchman getting fired for drinking on the job.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In VS Naipaul's "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book,"  the second night watchman, who becomes the story's main character, initially signs the watchman's book with his full name, but as the story progresses, he uses his initials: C.E.H.

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: In VS Naipaul's"The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book,"the night watchman, Charles Hillyard, and the hotel's manager, W.A.G. Inskip, seem to be equals.

False

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TRUE OR FALSE: Astrid Roemer's story "The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening," begins by being set in Suriname.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Roemer's "The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening," the father of the girl is black and her mother is white.

true

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FILL IN THE BLANK: In the opening of Marquez’s “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”, the narrator says, “Now they’re going to see ___”

who I am

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In Marquez's "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship," how old is the narrator when he first sees the ghost ship?

hes an adolescent boy

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In Marquez's "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship," what month is it each time the ghost ship appears for the narrator?

march

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In Marquez's "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship," what bad fortune follows the narrator's second sighting of the ghost ship?

his mother dies

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In Marquez's "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship," the narrator compares the ghost ship to what?

a white whale

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At the end of Marquez's "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship," the narrator refers to the ship as "Halalcsillag"; what does this translate to?

death star

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Marquez's "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" is all one sentence, told in what kind of writing style?

stream of consciousness

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VS Naipaul's "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book" is told through a series of entries into a log, like diary entries. What is the term for this style of writing?

epistolary

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In VS Naipaul's "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book," what are indications that the main character Charles Hillyard is uneducated?

  1. He frequently misspells words

  2. His writing isn't grammatically correct

  3. He fails to punctuate correctly

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Ironically, at the end of VS Naipaul's"The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book," how does the new, acting manager of the hotel want Hillyard to write in his occurrence book?

to be as “brief as possible”

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In Roemer's "The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening," the grandmother refers to the girl as "Bonkoro"; what does "Bonkoro" mean?

a black person whose skin is light

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In Roemer's "The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening," the girl learns at the end of the story that her father was excluded from inheriting his family's land for what reason?

because he married a person of another race

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In Roemer's "The Inheritance of my Father: A Story for Listening," the story is told in both 1st person and 3rd person; who is presumed to be the woman "who will be forty tomorrow" in the 3rd person narrated sections?

the adult “Bonkoro”

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41

TRUE OR FALSE: In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, Senor Pico is rushing home to see his newborn son and kills a person with his motorcycle.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Danticat'sThe Farming of Bones,  Senora Valencia laments that her husband killing someone on the day her son is born is "bad luck."

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Danticat's The Farming of Bones,  the reader learns that Amabelle's parents drowned, crossing the Dajabon River, when she was a child.

true

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44

The Parsley Massacre occurred in the Dominican Republic in October 1937.

true

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, the main character's name is Amabelle Desir; what is the English meaning of the name "Amabelle"?

lovable, beautiful

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones,  the novel begins with an epigraph from the Bible; what does this epigraph establish?

the origin of the term “shibboleth”

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47

What is a "shibboleth"?

A word/term that provides a method for distinguishing between people, like a password

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, drawn from history, what was the "shibboleth" used in the 1937 Massacre?

“Perejil” - the spanish word for “Parsley”

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49

In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, Amabelle is a housemaid for a wealthy family; her love interest, Sebastien, has what other common job in the valley?

sugarcane harvester

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In the beginning of Danticat's The Farming of Bones, Senora Valencia gives birth to twins; what ominous part of the birth is a piece of foreshadowing?

that the baby girl, Rosalinda, is born with a caul over her face

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51

In Danticat'sThe Farming of Bones,  what does Senor Pico do with the tea set that Valencia uses to serve Kongo?

smashes it, one by one

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52

In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, who says, "In sugar land, a shack's for sleeping, not for living. Living is only work"?

Kongo

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, what does the title of the novel refer to?

the harvesting of sugarcane

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54

In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, Senor Pico names his son after whom?

Rafael Trujillo

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55

In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, how does Joel die?

he’s struck by Senor Pico’s car

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56

In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, the book alternates between the present and Amabelle's dreams, nightmares, and memories. How does the typeface indicate dreams, nightmares, and memories?

it’s in bold

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones, who is Kongo?

Joel’s father

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones,  which twin is born first?

the boy, Rafael

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones,  which character says, "My poor love, what if she's mistaken for one of your people?"

Senora Valencia

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In Danticat's The Farming of Bones,  in an interior monologue, which character says, "My parents had no coffins"?

Amabelle

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TRUE OR FALSE: In the podcast Scattered, Chris Garcia tells the listener that his father, Andres, often talked about the labor camp and was open about his experience there.

false

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In the podcast Scattered, Chris Garcia explores what life would have been like for his father in the labor camp by interviewing both an historian and a man who had survived the camps.

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: In the podcast Scattered, Garcia tells the listener that after his parents were able to access visas and leave Cuba, they immigrated to directly to the United States.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In the podcast Scattered, Garcia describes for the listener that the time his parents and sister spent in Spain was "the happiest time of their lives."

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: In a sensitive episode of the podcast Scattered, Garcia describes his father's attempt to take his own life.

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: In episode 4 of the podcast Scattered, Garcia discusses his father's religious awakening and Chris' birth; when he was born, his mother recounts Andres' desire to give him the middle name "Angel"; she remembers her joke: "Christian Angel Garcia? Why don’t we just name him Mr. Bible-Jesus?”

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: In the podcast Scattered, Garcia is waiting for his sister, Laura, to agree to take his father's ashes to Cuba so that they can fulfill his father's last wish.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In the podcast Scattered, Chris Garcia's mother, Ana, never agrees to return to Cuba to scatter Andres' ashes.

false

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In the last episode of the podcast Scattered, Garcia tells the listener that they were never able to fulfill his father's wish and were unable to scatter his ashes off the coast of Cuba.

false

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In the film, In the Time of the Butterflies, Minerva's first encounter with a fellow Dominican who has suffered and experienced loss under Trujillo's regime is with her friend at boarding school, Sinita.

True

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TRUE OR FALSE: The film, In the Time of the Butterflies, depicts a dramatization of the real life Mirabal sisters, who were jailed and murdered for the political activism during Trujillo's regime.

true

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The podcast Scattered is written and hosted by what comedian?

Chris Garcia

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In episode 1 of the podcast Scattered, Garcia describes his father by telling the listener that his father introduced himself by saying "Soy Andrés, a tus pies"; what does this mean?

“Im Andres, I serve at your feet”

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In episode 1 of the podcast Scattered, Chris Garcia tells the listener that his father, Andres, died from what disease?

Alzheimer’s

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In episode 1 of the podcast Scattered, Chris Garcia tells the listener that he wants to fulfill his father's dying wish; what is this wish?

That his ashes be scattered off the coast of Cuba

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In the podcast Scattered, Chris Garcia describes that his parents immigrated to the United States, but first they immigrate elsewhere. Where do they go first?

Spain

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In the podcast Scattered, Chris Garcia learns more about his father's time in a Cuban labor camp. Why did his father serve time in this camp?

It was one way of earning a visa to leave Cuba; he was labeled a “traitor”

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In the podcast Scattered, Garcia describes that his father, Andres, stayed in a Cuban psychiatric hospital after he was released from the Cuban labor camp. What is the name of the Cuban psychiatric hospital?

Mazorra Psychiatric Hospital

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In the podcast Scattered, Garcia tells the listener that eventually his family settled near what American city, where he was born?

Los Angeles

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In episode 5 of the podcast Scattered, Garcia forces himself to come to terms with the ashes. Where have the ashes been kept?

In a box in Chris’ closet

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In episode 5 of the podcast Scattered, Garcia describes his father's illness and eventual death. What role at his father's funeral does Chris describe that he "bombed"?

Eulogy

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In the last episode of the podcast Scattered, Garcia describes his family's quest to scatter his father's ashes. What is one thing that is hard to get ahold of to help them scatter the ashes?

a boat

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In the film, In the Time of the Butterflies, Trujillo is often referred to by what nickname?

Jefe

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In the film, In the Time of the Butterflies, who is Manolo Tavares?

Minerva’s husband

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In the film, In the Time of the Butterflies, which character says, "Justice? Here? There is no justice."

Lio Morales

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow Casiopea has a shard of Hun-Kame's tooth lodged in her right leg and this binds her to him.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, Veracruz is the first city where Casiopea and Hun-Kame travel.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, Vucub-Kame sends owls as his messengers between the Underworld of Xiblaba and the Middleworld.

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, every time Hun-Kame uses his magic, he sucks away some of Casiopea's vitality.

true

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, Xtabay is the ghost of Casiopea's dead father.

false

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TRUE OR FALSE: In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, while in Mexico City, Casiopea has her hair styled into the fashion of the era, a "bob."

true

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow is set in what era?

1920s Mexico, during the Jazz Age

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Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow uses what culture's mythology as the basis for its narrative?

Mayan

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Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow is a quest narrative that involves tests and temptations that enable the main character to develop; what is the term for this narrative?

Hero’s Journey

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Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow features common themes of a The Hero's Journey; what themes does this include?

Hospitality, Test and Challenges, Magic/Supernatural

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In the beginning of Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, what does Casiopea do to release Hun-Kame from his prison?

Opens a forbidden chest in her grandfather's bedroom

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Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow is set during the Jazz Age; what characterizes this cultural time period?

  1. Flourishing Black music

  2. Progressive fashion, especially for women

  3. Progressive ideals and values

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In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, who is Casiopea's cousin?

Martin Leyva

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In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, what is the name of the fictional town where Casiopea lives with her mother in her grandfather's house?

Uukumil

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In Moreno-Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, the Mam returns what piece of Hun-Kame?

His ear

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