Lauren Beth Signore’s essay, “Anne of Green Gables: The Transformation from Bildungsroman to Romantic Comedy”, argues that Anne of Green Gables is ultimately what kind of character ?

A. A romantic awaiting true love
B. A cynic awaiting the world’s destruction
C. A delusional girl with no grasp on reality
D. A young girl with a particularly dark mindset

A gothic novel will probably not deal with which of the following themes ?

A. The sublime
B. The supernatural
C. Love
D. The manners and traditions of the upper classes

What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?

A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.

Marxist theory focuses on examining which of the following aspects of literary texts ?

A. The political and social meanings of literary texts
B. Characters who are sympathetic to issues facing the working classes
C. The relationship between economics and the production of literary texts
D. All of these

According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s “The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative”, what is the difference between a historical narrative and a historical novel ?

A. A historical narrative and a historical novel are the same thing.
B. A historical narrative tells only part of the story surrounding a historical event; a historical novel tells the whole story.
C. A historical novel focuses on providing the reader with only the central truth of a historical event, while a historical narrative attempts to tell the entire truth of a historical event.
D. Faruqi actually argues that historical novels do not exist.

Which of the following statements offers the best definition of the term Bildungsroman ?

A. A story of one person’s fall from grace and into destruction
B. A story of one person’s growth and development within a particular social order
C. A story of one person’s success within a capitalistic economic system
D. A story of one person’s selfrealization and attempt to return to innocence

A play that begins in medias res________________?

A. Begins at the apparent end of the story.
B. Introduces the characters of the play one by one.
C. Opens by plunging the viewer into a crucial series of events.
D. Begins with a preview of the play’s conclusion.

Which of the following statements offers the best definition of an epistolary novel ?

A. A novel set in the past
B. A novel that consists entirely of dialogue
C. A novel that is set in the countryside of europe
D. A novel that consists of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

Which of the following statements best represents Lacan’s view of Ophelia in his essay, “Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in ’Hamlet’” ?

A. Hamlet desires his mother, not ophelia.
B. Hamlet desires revenge, not ophelia.
C. Hamlet desires ophelia, but only when she is unattainable.
D. Hamlet desires attaining the throne of denmark, of which ophelia is a symbol.

Dr. Allen Shoaf’s essay, “’Hamlet’: Like Mother, Like Son”, argues which of the following points ?

A. Hamlet’s father’s ghost is not really a ghost.
B. Hamlet feels a sense of desire for both his mother and his father.
C. Hamlet is truly insane in the play.
D. Hamlet is an impossible play to truly understand.