İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I - Deneme Sınavı - 23

James Joyce is known for his unique stream of consciousness style, which inspired William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf later on. The correct answer is B.

Mrs. Mooney is a butcher’s daughter. She is married to her father’s foreman and opened a butcher’s shop with her husband. The correct answer is C.

Jake Mooney is Mrs. Mooney’s son who works as a clerk. The correct answer is D.

On Sunday nights, the people in the boarding house unite. They listen to music, dance and talk. The correct answer is A.

He confesses to a priest and the priest told him that what he had done was a sin. Under this social pressure, Mr. Doran considers his family’s reaction to Polly since she has a disreputable father and the boarding house of her mother is beginning to get a certain fame. The correct answer is C.

Mr. Doran has more to lose: public respect and his job. He fears about the social critique of the priest although he used to declare that he did not believe in God. He is also afraid of his Boss and Jake Mooney. Mr. Doran cares about what others will think of him. Mr. Doran does not think about how Polly feels but he considers her background and manner of speaking. The correct answer is E.

In the story, the events are told from Mrs. Mooney’s, Mr. Doran’s and partly Polly’s viewpoint and the focus is on what and how they feel rather than the events. Three different points of view help to overcome the limitations of the first person narration. The use of this narration technique helps the story become more novel like. The correct answer is C.

Mr. Mooney is Mrs. Mooney’s husband whom she left after he behaved violently. He used to work as the foreman for her father and it is not clear whether she trapped him to marry her like she trapped Mr. Doran to marry her daughter.

She is called “The Madam” by the residents of the boarding house which shows that she holds the power and keeps a certain distance that makes others fear her. The correct answer is B.

She was born İn St. Louis. The correct answer is A.

Chopin had her education in a monastery for nuns “The Sacred Academy” and won medals for her exceptional work. The correct answer is B.

Naturalism is a literary movement that began to be formed through the end of the 19th century and developed in the 20th century. The idea of naturalism is driven from the Darwinian Theory that one’s character is shaped by heredity and social conditions s/he lives in and that people have little control over their lives. Naturalism focuses on and questions the conditions that lead the characters into conflict. The correct answer is C.

In the 19th century women were considered inferior to men. The basic duties of women were to look after their children, take care of the household and satisfy the needs of their husbands. They had no political and civil rights and when they married all they owned were their husband’s, and they had no control over their possessions. Moreover, the chances for education and occupation were very low which disabled them from achieving any financial and social independence. Therefore, they were brought up as a wives from childhood. There was also little chance for divorce as it was the right of men to divorce. The correct answer is E.

Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605) can be considered as one of the earlier examples of the genre. A is the correct answer.

Some of the important examples of Victorian novel are Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield. B is the correct answer.

In the 20th century, the novel genre has been influenced by the great events of the century such as World War I, The Great Depression, World War II, The Cold War and the advances in technology. E is the correct answer.

The Metamorphosis was written by Franz Kafka in 1915. C is the correct answer.

In "Epistolary Novel", the story is told through letters written by one or more of the characters. A is the correct answer.

It is Richards, Brentley’s friend who brings the news that Brentley was killed in a railroad accident. The correct answer is B.

In "Gothic Novel", the atmosphere of the novel is created through supernatural and mystic elements like monsters, ghosts and demons. B is the correct answer.