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Who is heroic, taller, and governs with justice in the lands?
King Shahryar
Who withholds her stories to delay execution?
Scheherazade
What is the rhymed-prose story collection featuring Abul-Fath al-Iskanderi?
Maqamat
What does the word ‘Jinni’ mean?
Genie
What collection of stories was made chaotically over centuries?
One Thousand and One Nights / Arabian Nights
From which literature is One Thousand and One Nights?
Arabian Literature
What is an example of a cognitive process in reading?
Remembering
Who is all-wise and all-knowing in One Thousand and One Nights?
Allah
What is the recognition and interpretation of information in reading called?
Decoding
What is the title of Shahrazad's first story to King Shahryar?
The Fable of the Merchant and the Ifrit
What is the process by which humans learn to comprehend language?
Language acquisition
Who translated One Thousand and One Nights stories in Europe?
Antoine Galland
Who is the master of armies that ruled over Samarkand al-Ajam?
King Shahzaman
What is the action of recognizing information received called?
Decoding
What reading technique involves getting the main ideas quickly?
Skimming
Complete the analogy: 990-1008 :: Maqamat :: ______
Hung Poems
What refers to the process of thinking and remembering?
Cognitive Process
What refers to obtaining something from a specified source?
Deriving
What reading technique finds specific information without reading the entire text?
Scanning
What refers to grouping words together to mean something?
Phrase Reading
What is the active process of deliberate reading for comprehension called?
Deep Reading
Which critical approach says language is too ambiguous for definitive meaning?
Deconstruction
Which literary criticism corrects male-dominated perspectives?
Feminist Criticism
Which criticism argues that language use is influenced by social class?
Marxist Criticism
Which approach focuses on literary texts in social and historical context?
New Historicism
Which critical approach describes what goes on in a reader’s mind?
Reader-Response Criticism