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Question 1

Early Modern Period
London Diary
What triggers the English Reformation?

Answer 1

the act of supremacy in1534
- the king wanted to get divorced but the church didn’t let him, so he became the head of the church

Question 2

Early Modern Period
The Tempest
Explain the Aristotelian unities. Do they apply to the tempest?

Answer 2

• unity of time, place and action
  -> they do apply becuase it is all set in one island, one place and there’s only one plot

Question 3

Early Modern Period
The Tempest
Who are the main characters?

Answer 3

Prospero, Miranda
(Ariel and Caliban)

Question 4

Early Modern Period
The Tempest
What happens in the end? Who remains on the island and what is a possible reading regarding the historial context?

Answer 4

• the naitive of the island stayed on the island
• at the end everyone learned smth -> character development
• Prospero gives away his magic: he thorws it into the sea
• everyone has a happy ending (ariel is free, prospero gives away his magic, Caliban is wiser, etc.)

Question 5

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko & Robinson Crusoe
What did the bill of rights constitute?

Answer 5

• freedom of speech
• voting rights (every man can vote)
• free press and no censorship (no one controls what willbe published)

Question 6

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
How does the text describe Oroonoko?

Answer 6

• very handsome and a good looking person for his race
• part of the aristocracy
• well-read man, speaks a lot of languages, gernerally a great character who became a slave by chance, treated differently than other slaves

Question 7

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
Why does the master change his name?

Answer 7

• name was changed to ceasar
• by changing his name, he takes away his identitiy, power and personality
• to make him more european

Question 8

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
general plot

Answer 8

• Oroonoko is the last descendant of a royal line
• at 17 he becomes the general (military leader), he fights at war and leads his army to victory
• an english sea captain invites Oroonoko and double crosses him and his attendants and sells them to the slave owner Trefry
• Trefry promises to free him and reunites him (unknowingly) with his love -> she gets pregnant
• Oroonoko (now Caesar) decides too flee (with the other slaves) but they are caught
• …

Question 9

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
How does the narrative portray/convey authenticity?

Answer 9

• 1st person narrator: Cursoe is the narrator
• the narration very detailed, which makes it very authentic
  -> it feels like we are experiencing evrything with him, like he’s writing a journal in that exact moment

Question 10

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
How did Crusoe take part in the Triangular Trade?

Answer 10

• he becomes part of the slave trade (with Xury)
• he later is the owner of a plantation, hes part of the slave trade with his plantation

Question 11

Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
Why are the texts considered part of “hypercanonicity”?

Answer 11

• because it is/both texts are still relevant today
• canon: smth that is written down and it’s true (ex: ships in shows)

Question 12

British Romanticism
Frankenstein
When and why did Shelly write Frankenstein?

Answer 12

• Summer 1816, Lake Geneva
• Vulcano errupted and the sky turned dark
• they competed in telling ghost stories during the summer and it inspired her

Question 13

British Romanticism
Frankenstein
What is the general plot?

Answer 13

• ??

Question 14

British Modernism
The Wasteland
What is Eliot’s goal in writing this poem?

Answer 14

• “try to interpret it, you can’t”
• his goal was to confuse ppl
• if you have trouble understanding, that’s exactly what he intended

Question 15

Postcolonial Period
Background
Explain the difference between imperialism and colonialism

Answer 15

Imperialism: the attitude
Colonialism: putting the ideas into practice

Question 16

Postcolonial Period
Lawley Road
What happens to the statue in the end?

Answer 16

• Statue of Frederick Lawley - no one knows who he is, they only know that it exists
• turns out its a statue of a freedom fighter
• the narrator (I-narration) puts it in his house and claims that it is his
• he makes the government pay for it, it stays in his house but they make it a park everyone can go to

Question 17

Postcolonial Period
Girls at War
The two main characters meet several times. What changes between the meetings?

Answer 17

• 1. Time: nothing happens, beginning of the new nation
• 2. Time: check point, his car his searched by the girl, the girl is a soldier
• 3. Time: the girl stopped being the soldier, it gets bad; the guy gives her a lift

Question 18

Postpostmodernism
Citizen
Rankine’s work is structured around racism. How does it touch upon these topics? How does it relate to “I feel most colored when I am thrown against sharp white bachground?”

Answer 18

• Shows microagressions (everyday)
  -> E.g. you smell like a white person, implies that black people smell bad
  -> she also shows it in school, Tv, University, etc.
• but also deadly aggression, death of people just because they are black
• her own experience, but also experiences of friends and which she
• you feel more different (black), when you are compared to white (normal) people;
  it shows how common it can be in everyday life when she is around white people,
  e.g. at work when people only see her as black and not a person
• she is living in a mainly white culture, the culture is westernized; when she is compared to white people, she feels most colored because she is looked at with a wester/white lense (being the odd one out)

Question 19

Postpostmodernism
Citizen
Which different styles and genres can be found in the poems?

Answer 19

• Pictures, prose, poems, essays
• Contemporary life writing
• a lot of styles are combined, personal experiences, those of friends and family, as well as those of public figures (athletes, etc.)

Question 20

Puritansims to American Romanticism
Huswifey
– conceit??

Answer 20

• works with a conceit
• (fanciful poetic image/elaborate or exaggertaed comparison)

Question 21

The Middle Ages
Beowulf
There’s a king, what does he do, what is his name?

Answer 21

• King Hrothgar of Denmark, he enjoys a proserous and successful reign
• he build the mead hall

Question 22

Dark Romanticism
The Fall of the House of Usher
What is the poem? What does it mean?

Answer 22

• ??

Question 23

British Romanticism
Mary, A Fiction
There are two women, how are they different?

Answer 23

• Eliza is the mother, Mary the daughter
• Eliza doesn’t care about Mary and neglects her
• Mary gathers her own wisdom and experiences by going out
  -> learns how to be content with her own emotions
  -> no traditional upbringing
• Eliza was a slave to stereotypes of society, she stopped educating herself after the kids were born