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5 Written Questions

1. A story about a man and a woman who love eachother, but never at the same time. It explores the relationship between art and reality.
2. Speaks of Stalinist terror
3. a readable account of life in a concentration camp, shows importance of relationships
4. nationalistic poem about the independence of Ireland after a contract was signed
5. nocturne, traditionally a soothing lullaby, made to seem more like a nightmare with harsh, disturbing dream imagery from the subconscious

5 Matching Questions

1. Endgame
2. A Wind Called Bob Rauschenberg
3. A Doll's House
4. The Library of Babel
5. Death Fugue

1. a A short story in which Borges imagines that the universe is like a library.
2. b A poem whcih describes the modern world through many abstract metaphores
3. c existential literature with a lot of name symbolism/story about death
4. d A poem about life in a Nazi Death camp, in which the inmates were forced to dig graves and play music for the Nazis. Its style captures the tedium and despair of life in death camps.
5. e revolutionary at the time because a man wrote about a woman who cares more about her own development than her duties as a wife and mother

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. 1st a simple story that the author described himself as a story about a sympathetic character (Felicite)
   1. The Library of Babel
   2. A Simple Heart and Travels In Egypt
   3. Heart of Darkness
   4. The Garden of Forking Paths
2. one of the most significant works of russian literature, shows conflict between needs of the state and needs of the citizens as the main character curses the statue of Peter the Great for building St. Petersburg in an unsafe location
   1. The Tyger
   2. The Echoing Green
   3. The Bronze Horseman
   4. The Book of Yolek
3. A poem which anticipates the possibility of a "worl wide web" and the tangle of cause and effect which result.
   1. Requiem
   2. The Web
   3. The Tyger
   4. The Dead
4. A poem about yearning to be in an ideal place. Yeats travels to the peaceful lake isle of Innisfree in his mind to escape the bustle of the modern world.
   1. The Yellow Wallpaper
   2. The Book of Yolek
   3. The Library of Babel
   4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
5. worshipping a bird as a deity, wishes he were as carefree as the bird, not having to worry about mortality, time passage. realizes that writing poetry allows him to soar like the bird, transcending those fears
   1. Ode to a Nightingale
   2. Death Fugue
   3. Get High
   4. The Social Contract

5 True/False Question

1. Oroonoko → people have many hidden aspects even when they seem normal
   

   True        False

2. A Room of One's Own → important to 20th century feminist thought; Woolf argues that women need certain conditions to write, and the conditions she mentions have been denied to women historically
   

   True        False

3. To Autumn → A somewhat different take than that of Don Giovanni, Don Juan isn't as much as a player and is more into actual love, the book says "Byron exposes both the power and the gragility of love together with the power an fragility of anyone whol claims to understand love. Human insight is found directly on human instability."
   

   True        False

4. Archaic Torso of Apollo → questions the way we look at art, it should make us change our lives
   

   True        False

5. The Tyger → A poem which anticipates the possibility of a "worl wide web" and the tangle of cause and effect which result.
   

   True        False