Magical Realism Quiz 4 (60 MCQs)

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1. "When I was about five, one day an electrician came to our house in Aracataca to change the meter ..... On one of these occasions, I found my grandmother trying to shoo away a butterfly with a duster, saying, 'Whenever this man comes to the house, that yellow butterfly follows him." '
2. Magical Realism was first used in the year (a)
3. Fill in the blank:The police ordered the rowdy protesters to ..... and return to their homes.
4. The AlchemistWhat is the message conveyed by the fact that, although Urim and Thummim are available to help Santiago make decisions, he only uses them once?
5. A husband whose wife is pregnant is envious of her ability to create life. A set of drawers materializes in the husband's chest. In one moment, the wife asks her husband to carry her lipstick in one of his chest-drawers at a party.
6. The king of the gods; another name for Zeus
7. The AlchemistAt one point the alchemist tells Santiago, "When you possess great treasure within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed." How does this simple lesson save Santiago's life?
8. The Alchemist"You don't have to understand the desert; all you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see all the marvels of creation." What point is the alchemist making with this statement?
9. To struggle in contest with
10. What is an unreliable narrator?
11. Which of the following people is engaging in suspension of disbelief?
12. Which is true of "The Rememberer"
13. This takes place in a world in which insomnia has become an epidemic with no cure. Insomnia is treated as a scientific phenomenon:people can donate their sleep in hours, a process that is described clinically; nurses at the sleep banks can literally smell the sleep streaming out of the donors.
14. The AlchemistAlthough the alchemist leaves Santiago to finish his journey alone, he does one more thing to help him live out his Personal Legend. What is it?
15. The wife of Jupiter
16. There is always a definite conclusion in Magical Realism.
17. Instead of having elaborate adventures, William always suspected his father was really doing what?
18. The roots of Magical Realism start with Paolo Coelho
19. How do endings in Modern Gothic literature usually conclude?
20. ..... refers to the lack of clear opinions about the accuracy of events and the credibility of the world views expressed by the characters in the text.
21. Which option describes the main purpose of paragraph 31 in the story?
22. A girl whose life is realistic in every way, except that she can taste the feelings of the chef in the foods that she eats.
23. There are always regular human characters in Magical Realism. True or False?
24. Why do the townspeople like Spider Girl more than the old man with wings?
25. MetamorphosisA large part of Gregor's anxiety with his job centers around
26. MetamorphosisThe reason Gregor had continued to work at a job he hated was
27. In what way is the character of the mayor dynamic?
28. What does the third task require?
29. Which story was written first?
30. When authors deliberately leave the magic in their stories unexplained in order to normalize it as much as possible and reinforce it as everyday life, that is an example of what?
31. How do the children who first see the drowned man react to him?
32. The man in The Book of Sand is a .....
33. What is the "magical" element in this clip?
34. The boy was safe from the Hunger Birds in the
35. In "The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", all of the following are magical elements except
36. Out of the two stories, which one is more emotionally written and emotionally themed?
37. The conflicts of realism stories are often .....
38. What is the name of the eerie town Edward finds traveling through the woods?
39. Science fiction and fantasy .....
40. What world does Magical Realism take place in?
41. Identify the point of view of the sentence from a magical realism story.He wanders through the underground market looking for the most precious thing in the world, eventually finding a flying carpet.
42. Who is a well known magical realist author that we saw today?
43. What does the angel do for Pelayo and Elisenda?
44. Magical Realism can best be described as
45. Where is the narrator of "Ocean" leaving in the Prologue?
46. The Alchemist"Every search begins with beginner's luck and every search ends with ..... " Finish the alchemist's explanation.
47. In Gothic novels, the conflict is often .....
48. Existentialists believe that one is solely responsible for what one becomes
49. Magical realism.....
50. Fairytales, Legends and Folklore are examples of Magical Realism. True or False?
51. The Chronicles of Narnia is an example of MR
52. Magic realism happens when
53. Pretends to be someone else
54. In Pan's Labyrinth, who is Capitan Vidal?
55. What happens to the brother and sister at the end of the story "House Taken Over?"
56. Which language would you most likely see in a Gothic work?
57. What is the setting for "A Very Old Man ..... "?
58. Magical realism means that
59. Having survived cancer as a child, the millionaire was always ..... to cancer-related charities.
60. In "The Metamorphosis, " how does Gregor's transformation affect him physically?