World Lit Midterm

Question 1

Voltaire

Answer 1

• wrote Candide
• was constantly in trouble with authorities for making fun of everyone with his works

Question 2

Immanuel Kant

Answer 2

• wrote “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”
• was an important Enlightenment thinker

Question 3

Aphra Behn

Answer 3

• wrote Oroonoko
• was a white, British woman who had never experienced slavery

Question 4

Olaudah Equiano

Answer 4

• Wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
• was a slave and bought his own freedom (very rare occasion)
• may not have travelled the Middle Passage but this does not take any validity away from him since he would have heard stories from other slaves

Question 5

Rudyard Kipling

Answer 5

• wrote “The White Man’s Burden”
• very racist man (obviously)

Question 6

Joseph Conrad

Answer 6

• wrote Heart of Darkness
• had gone to the Congo during Belgian colonization and witnessed the atrocities that occurred there

Question 7

Chinua Achebe

Answer 7

• wrote “An Image of Africa”
• a writer from Nigeria
• wrote “An Image of Africa” in response to Heart of Darkness