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#20. During the Titanomachy, Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus. As a result, the brothers and sisters gave Zeus the honor of being their leader, thus, earning the right to rule over the sky. What does this show about the Greeks?

Choices:

A The Greeks value heroism

B The Greeks value respect.

C The Greeks value honor.

D All of the above.

Answer: All of the above.

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#21. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Choices:

A Rabindranath Tagore

B Po Chu-I

C Wole Soyinka

D Yasunari Kawabata

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

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#22. Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.

Choices:

A Hinduism

B Taoism

C Confucianism

D Buddhism

Answer: Confucianism

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#23. This ethical concept suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the Japanese.

Choices:

A seppuku

B on

C Kami

D giri

Answer: giri

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#24. What insight is suggested by this haiku from Basho?
Poverty’s child –

He starts to grind the rice

And gazes at the moon.

Choices:

A Child labor is a reality in many Asian nations

B Life is never-ending routine of work and leisure.

C The poor dreams and are hopeful of better things in their life.

D Nature has a soothing effect on the human spirit.

Answer: The poor dreams and are hopeful of better things in their life.

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#25. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.

Choices:

A Leopold Senghor

B Dennis Brutus

C Wole Soyinka

D David Diop

Answer: Leopold Senghor

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#26. The plot development of the Ramayana.

Choices:

A Pyramid

B En medias res

C Circular

D Linear

Answer: Linear

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#27. The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.

Choices:

A Bessie Head

B Barbara Kimenye

C Ousmane Sembene

D Nadine Gordimer

Answer: Nadine Gordimer

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#28. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred texts.

Choices:

A The Tale of Genji

B Dream of the red Chamber

C On Learning to be an Indian

D Record of a Journey to the West

Answer: Record of a Journey to the West

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#29. Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.

Choices:

A Ch’in

B T’ang

C Shang

D Han

Answer: T’ang

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#30. This excerpt from Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation indicates the universal issue of _________.

“ARE YOU DARK?OR VERY LIGHT?” Revelation came.

“You mean- like plain or milk chocolate?” Her assent was clinical, crushing its light Impersonality. Rapidly, wave length adjusted, I chose, “West African sepia.” – and as an afterthought, “Down in my passport.

Choices:

A colonial mentality

B human rights violation

C racial discrimination

D gender discrimination

Answer: racial discrimination

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#31. The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.

Choices:

A kama

B artha

C maya

D dharma

Answer: maya

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#32. In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Choices:

A Mansfield Park

B Pride and Prejudice

C Sense and Sensibility

D Northanger Abbey

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

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#33. Which novel by Thomas hardy begins with the hero selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?

Choices:

A Under the Greenwood Tree

B The Mayor of Casterbridge

C Tess of d’Urberville

D Return to the Native

Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge

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#34. In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear?
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!

Choices:

A A Midsummer Night’s Dream

B Hamlet

C Romeo and Juliet

D King Henry IV

Answer: Hamlet

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#35. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s ‘Tale of Horror’?

Choices:

A Frankenstein

B Heart of Darkness

C Tale Tale heart

D Bleak House

Answer: Frankenstein

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#36. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:
“I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST SAINTS- I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE! – AND, IF GOD CHOOSE, I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH.”

Choices:

A Sonnet 53

B Sonnet 14

C Sonnet 15

D Sonnet 43

Answer: Sonnet 43

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#37. What sound device is exemplified in the first two lines of Poe’s ‘The Raven’?
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” This I whispered and an echo murmured back the word, Lenore!” Merely this and nothing more. - From The Raven; Edgar Allan Poe

Choices:

A Assonance

B Alliteration

C Onomatopoeia

D Anaphora

Answer: Alliteration

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#38. What atmosphere do the images create?

Choices:

A Solitude

B Longing

C Confusion

D Contentment

Answer: Solitude

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#39. Who did Abraham Lincoln call “the little woman who started the Civil War”?

Choices:

A Rosa parks

B Sojourner Truth

C Harriet Beecher Stowe

D Zora Neale Hurston

Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Education Exams (Educ English) – Page 2

#20. During the Titanomachy, Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus. As a result, the brothers and sisters gave Zeus the honor of being their leader, thus, earning the right to rule over the sky. What does this show about the Greeks?

#21. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

#22. Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.

#23. This ethical concept suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the Japanese.

#24. What insight is suggested by this haiku from Basho?
Poverty’s child –

He starts to grind the rice

And gazes at the moon.

#25. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.

#26. The plot development of the Ramayana.

#27. The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.

#28. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred texts.

#29. Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.

#31. The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.

#32. In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

#33. Which novel by Thomas hardy begins with the hero selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?

#34. In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear?
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!

#35. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s ‘Tale of Horror’?

#36. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:
“I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST SAINTS- I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE! – AND, IF GOD CHOOSE, I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH.”

#38. What atmosphere do the images create?

#39. Who did Abraham Lincoln call “the little woman who started the Civil War”?

Helpful LET Resources

Education Exams (Educ English) – Page 2

#20. During the Titanomachy, Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus. As a result, the brothers and sisters gave Zeus the honor of being their leader, thus, earning the right to rule over the sky. What does this show about the Greeks?

#21. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

#22. Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.

#23. This ethical concept suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the Japanese.

#24. What insight is suggested by this haiku from Basho? Poverty’s child – He starts to grind the rice And gazes at the moon.

#25. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.

#26. The plot development of the Ramayana.

#27. The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.

#28. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred texts.

#29. Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the Golden Age of Chinese civilization.

#31. The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.

#32. In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear? “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

#33. Which novel by Thomas hardy begins with the hero selling his wife and daughter to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?

#34. In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear? What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!

#35. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s ‘Tale of Horror’?

#36. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken: “I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST SAINTS- I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE! – AND, IF GOD CHOOSE, I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH.”

#38. What atmosphere do the images create?

#39. Who did Abraham Lincoln call “the little woman who started the Civil War”?

Helpful LET Resources

#24. What insight is suggested by this haiku from Basho?
Poverty’s child –

He starts to grind the rice

And gazes at the moon.

#32. In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

#34. In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear?
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!

#36. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:
“I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST SAINTS- I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE! – AND, IF GOD CHOOSE, I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH.”