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WL-209 World Literature in English Final Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers In The Doll Queen, why does the older couple not believe that the narrator is Senor Valdivida? - ANSWER-Because Valdivida is dead Which author is NOT considered a member of the Latin American Boom? - ANSWER-Jose Mar...

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WL-209 World Literature in English Final

Exam Study Guide Questions and Answers


In The Doll Queen, why does the older couple not believe that the narrator is Senor Valdivida? -

ANSWER✔✔-Because Valdivida is dead


Which author is NOT considered a member of the Latin American Boom? - ANSWER✔✔-Jose Marti


The Boom is a literary phenomenon that occurred in Latin America during the - ANSWER✔✔-1960s and

1970s.


When does it seem that the father may finally return in The Third Bank of the River? - ANSWER✔✔-

When the son is old and offers to take his place.


In The Third Bank of the River, how does the father survive on the river for so long without returning

home? - ANSWER✔✔-His son secretly brings him provisions.


Which is NOT one of the elements of short fiction we are considering this week? - ANSWER✔✔-

Symbolism


In The Night Face Up, the other patient in the hospital attributes the main character's strange

hallucinations and dreams to: - ANSWER✔✔-the fever


The major works of the Latin American Boom period were: - ANSWER✔✔-Prose


When the narrator of The Doll Queen returns to the park where he used to play what happens? -

ANSWER✔✔-Everything seems much smaller than he had remembered it.


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If the father's journey in The Third Bank of the River could be connected to the idea of a journey through

life, and the river as time or death, as Gonzalez Echevarria suggests, this would best be an example of -

ANSWER✔✔-Allegory


Joao Guimaraes Rosa was from - ANSWER✔✔-Brazil


In one reality of The Night Face Up, a man cruises through the avenues of a Latin American capital city -

ANSWER✔✔-On a motorcycle.


Why does the narrator of The Doll Queen decide to look for his long lost friend? - ANSWER✔✔-He finds

a card in a book that she had written to him long ago.


The Pre-Columbian culture referred to in The Night Face Up is that of the: - ANSWER✔✔-Motecas


Amilamia is a central character in: - ANSWER✔✔-The Doll Queen


True or False? Women writers like Rosario Ferre have rejected the Big Names of Latin American literature

such as Borges and Cortazar because they are men and they want to establish a new, distinctly feminine

voice. - ANSWER✔✔-False


In The Walk, the family would entertain itself at night playing




A: Billiards


B: With the dog


C: Poker


D: Bridge - ANSWER✔✔-Billiards




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Cristina Peri Rossi would best be described as a/an:




A: International writer of universal themes


B: Regional writer of local themes


C: Surrealist writer, friend of Andre Breton


D: Modernist writer, friend of Ruben Dario - ANSWER✔✔-International writer of universal themes


Which of the characters from When Women Love Men is more independently successful financially?




A: Isabel Luberza


B: Isabel la Negra - ANSWER✔✔-Isabel la Negra


Jose Donoso's fiction is usually about the Chilean




A: Upper or Middle Class


B: Lower Class


C: Indigenous communities - ANSWER✔✔-Upper or Middle Class


Rosario Ferre is from:




A: Dominican Republic




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B: Puerto Rico


C: Cuba


D: New York - ANSWER✔✔-Puerto Rico


In The Walk, why does Aunt Matilde not say goodbye to the narrator when she finally leaves the house?




A: He happened to be playing with friends at the time.


B: She didn't want to upset him


C: He was taking his walk when she left


D: She said she was just walking the dog but never came back. - ANSWER✔✔-She said she was just

walking the dog but never came back.


Two of the main characters from When Women Love Men have the following in common:




A: They both like the same nail polish


B: They both loved the same man


C: They both have the same first name


D: A and B


E: All of the above - ANSWER✔✔-All of the above


How does the mathematics professor in Lispector's story think he can pay the price for his crime?




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