This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Fiction > Magical Realism – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Magical Realism Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Imminent A) Ready to take place; hanging threateningly over one's head. B) Stretched out face down on the ground; to lay on one's stomach. C) To seize or hold by force. D) To limit one's strenth or resources by "tying" them down. E) Capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ready to take place; hanging threateningly over one's head. 2. What is the main idea of the story House Taken Over? A) People should take up hobbies to make them stay busy and not get bored. B) Each time people avoid confronting their fear, they lose a little more of themselves, until, finally, they have lost everything. C) When you are wealthy, bad things don't happen to you. D) If you live a happy life, good things will happen to you. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Each time people avoid confronting their fear, they lose a little more of themselves, until, finally, they have lost everything. 3. Turns Arachne into a spider; also known as Athena A) Pallas. B) Antigone. C) Juno. D) Europa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pallas. 4. Which of the following would you expect to see at the beginning of a magical realism story? A) A setting 200 years in the future. B) A setting that includes dinosaurs. C) A setting in a suburban home. D) A setting in the home of a super-famous rock star. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A setting in a suburban home. 5. There has to be magic in MR A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. What is a single ash-gray color at the beginning? A) The sky and sea. B) The crabs. C) The beach. D) Pelyao's complexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sky and sea. 7. Themes that emerge from the story include ALL BUT WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING: A) Freedom and Confinement. B) Prejudice & Marginalizing "outsiders". C) Suffering & Old age. D) Birth & Growing up / One's youth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birth & Growing up / One's youth. 8. Big Fish:During his abnormal growth spurt as a child, Ed discovers his ambition to keep growing in larger surroundings from the encyclopedia entry of what animal? A) Goldfish. B) Giraffe. C) Gorilla. D) Gerbil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Goldfish. 9. What does the creature of Ursula want to give people? A) What They Deserve. B) What They Want. C) What They Have Lost. D) What They Hate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What They Want. 10. Magical realism was popularized by ..... A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabelle Allende. B) Sophocles and Aristotle. C) Sherman Alexie and Lorraine Hansberry. D) Bald headed English teachers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabelle Allende. 11. Which of the following would you expect to see at the beginning of a Modern Gothic story? A) A drafty old mansion. B) A World War II army base. C) A saloon in the Wild West. D) A suburban home in Reno, Nevada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A World War II army base. 12. Magic Realism does NOT include A) Predictable and boring. B) Ordinary with the extraordinary. C) Silly and crazy. D) Mundane with the fastastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predictable and boring. 13. Myths and fables are an example of MR A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. What do the young women want to name the drowned man? A) Emilio. B) Lautaro. C) Sven. D) Esteban. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lautaro. 15. In Magical Realism, the landscape tends to be urban A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. What tone of the narrative voice is most obvious to the reader? A) Condescending. B) Unimpressed. C) Anxious. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unimpressed. 17. Which setting would you be most likely to find in a magical realist story? A) The home of the richest person in the world. B) A sixth-grade classroom in a small town. C) The cone of a volcano that is about to erupt. D) Backstage at the Super Bowl before the halftime show. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sixth-grade classroom in a small town. 18. Ursula is described by wearing which 2 colors? A) Pink and gray. B) Blue and white. C) Black and red. D) White and gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pink and gray. 19. Which text would you most likely see in a Gothic work? A) I felt an icy, sickening sentiment in the unredeemed and blackest depths of my heart. I would not be able to overcome the horrible sins of my past; indeed, I sensed that I was fated to commit yet another foul and heinous crime. B) I felt an odd buzz in my heart that told me that somehow I could overcome the mistakes I had committed in the past. The sun was coming out! I now knew that I could do what I wanted and be what I wanted to be. C) The dawning of a new and horrible idea washed through me as cold as ice. I let them take the puppy home. My puppy is gone forever and there is nothing that I can do about it now. D) The handwriting was on the wall. It is what it is. No beating around the bush here. No posing or posturing. This was the moment of truth. I either had the goods or I didn't. I was determined to give one hundred and ten percent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I felt an icy, sickening sentiment in the unredeemed and blackest depths of my heart. I would not be able to overcome the horrible sins of my past; indeed, I sensed that I was fated to commit yet another foul and heinous crime. 20. MR is inspired by A) Surrealism. B) Melodrama. C) Looking for identity. D) Realism. 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