ENG 224 Fall 2024 Final Exam Study Guide PDF

ENG 224 Fall 2024 - Final Exam Study Guide 1. The roots and context of the Black Arts movement included the (know these names it asks which of the follow isn’t included) a. Harlem Renaissance b. Negritude c. Black Arts Movement Aligned Book Culture d. Cold War An...

ENG 224 Fall 2024 - Final Exam Study Guide 1. The roots and context of the Black Arts movement included the (know these names it asks which of the follow isn’t included) a. Harlem Renaissance b. Negritude c. Black Arts Movement Aligned Book Culture d. Cold War Anti-Racism and Transnationalism e. Rise of Black studies 2. Dawn is the first novel in the Xenogenesis Trilogy.(t or f) 3. The four parts of Dawn are (in order fill in the blank) a. Womb b. Family c. The nursery d. The training floor. 4. Khaguyahat is an ooloi [biological sex]. 5. (Question about which of the follow are NOT characters in Dawn)- Celene Dion 6. The Neo-Slave narrative a. focused on the interiority of slave protagonists b. has its political and aesthetic roots in the 1960s c. filtered ideas of freedom through race, gender, and presumptions of privilege. 7. Thomas More’s Utopia was published in 1516. It was a satire of European society, and it is set in the new world. 8. Conventions of the gothic include (CPDF) a. castles and monasteries b. preoccupations with history and the past c. doubles, family secrets, and ancestry d. focus on fear and the supernatural. 9. The “Gothic Cusp” describes the intersection between romance and realism.(t or f question but it changes realism to something else so it’s false) 10. The hell is a kind of dystopic fiction in which a more wretched kind of life is described as simply existing elsewhere. (T or f question but changes the wording so it’s f) 11. Gernsback coined the term “scientifiction” in the 1920s. 12. The science fiction subgenre of the space opera is born on the pages of Amazing Stories and Astounding Stories. (Fill in the blank) 13. Technology does NOT become a significant focus of science fiction by the late 19th Century. (T or f- f) 14. In New Wave science fiction… (multiple choice they change d to say it does NOT and that is the only one u don’t click) a. technology becomes the enemy b. science fiction becomes literary fiction  c. the notion of progress is critiqued d. WW2 and the atomic age change North Atlantic discourses around science fiction. 15. Received myths of Lilith come from (multiple choice) a. Sumerian b. Assyrian c. Babylonian d. Greek e. Turkish f. Rabbinic midrash g. The alphabet of Ben Sira. 16. Lilith is a figure in Mesopotamian & Jewish folklore. (T or f- t) 17. Lilith was reimagined by feminist scholars and artists in the 70s [decade]. 18. There is a “print” of Lilith. (T) 19. The 14th Century definition of simulation- to deceive under false pretence.(t) 20. A simulacra is a representation or imitation of a person or a thing. 21. Jean Baudrillard claims there are 3 [number] levels of simulation. (Fill in the blank number) 22. The New Journalism was popular from the 60s to the 70s. (T) 23. New journalism (multiple choice these are the correct answers) a. offered reportage filtered through the subjectivity of the author, as opposed to journalism’s attachment to objectivity. b. It was primarily a magazine genre, rather than newspaper. c. Employed literary techniques such as metaphor imagery subjective narration drama 24. Joan Didion’s “The White Album” was named after a Beatles album. (Fill in the blank) 25. During the first Great Migration, African-Americans left the South & moved to the North.(fill in the blank) 26. Literary Modernism (multiple choice) a. emerged out of 19th Century romanticism. b. Literary modernism also featured experimentations with narration form perspective. c. Literary modernism featured art works that demonstrated a tension between tradition and the new. 27. Zora Neale Hurston studied anthropology with Franz Boas (fill in the blank) 28. Hurston’s Color Struck (multiple choice correct answers) a. appeared in the literary journal fire b. featured an exploration of colorism amongst African-Americans c. won second place in the opportunity literary contest 29. Hurston’s Color Struck featured a cakewalk competition. (Fill in the blank) 30. There was renewed interest in the works of Zora Neale Hurston in the 70s. (T) 31. Social problem fiction novels (multiple choice) a. are focused on contemporary societal issues. b. Social problem fiction flourished in Britain and France during the 19th Century. c. Social Problem fiction has been around since the rise of the novel form itself in the 18th Century. 32. Both Claire & Irene attempt to pass in Passing by Nella Larsen. (T) 33. H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, RI [location]. (T) 34. “The Horror at Red Hook” takes place in Brooklyn [location]. (They change the location so it’s false) 35. In “The Rats in the Walls,” the Delapores move from England to Virginia to Massachusetts to England. (They change the locations so it’s false) 36. T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, MO [location]. (They change the location so it’s false) 37. Eliot was heavily inspired by French symbolist poetry. (Fill in the blank) 38. There was only one question not covered in here