İNGİLİZ/AMERİKAN EDEBİYATI I - Deneme Sınavı - 24

The aim of the artist in Realism is to make a picture of life through observation rather than an exploration of individual feelings and perceptions.

One thing that is significant in postmodernism is the disbelief in originality. According to postmodernism, there is nothing like original anymore.

Anachronism is defined as “a chronological misplacement of persons, events, objects or customs in regard to each other”.

Robinson names the savage as Friday to commemorate the day of Friday’s survival.

Crusoe is born in 1632 to a middle-class family that emigrated from Bremen/Germany.

His father wants him to study law.

Robinson’s heart has always been in the seas.

All come true when Robinson is left desolate on the island which he calls “The Island of Despair”.

Xury consents and the two escape to their liberty.

A woman named Rosa Parks did not want to give her seat after a hard working day to the white rider, even though she was sitting on the first row reserved for the blacks. The bus driver noticed that few white people were standing during the ride. He stopped the bus and asked the blacks to give their seats to the whites standing. Other blacks did what was ordered yet Rosa Parker refused. The bus driver called the police and Rosa Parker was arrested. She was charged with a violation to segregation law of the Montgomery City code. After the arrest of Rosa Parks, blacks started a bus boycott and never used busses for a year. The correct answer is B.

Martin Luther King played another great role on increasing the awareness of civil rights for the black community. He was a clergyman and a prominent leader of African American civil rights movement. On August 28, 1963 there was a march in Washington DC and there Martin Luther King made his famous speech “I Have a Dream” which helped many to become aware of civil rights. The correct answer is A.

During working for the Harlem newspapers she had the opportunity to publish her first short story “Marie of the Cabin Club” in 1939 in one of the editions of The Afro American, but under a pseudonym male name, Arnold Petry. The correct answer is E.

The end of struggle may be considered as spiritual death of Johnson. The symbols that are given like “lipstick” and “wind sheet” also show the mentioned struggle above to continue to fight for his family’s morals that it is not right to hit women. The correct answer is C.

The day was Friday thirteenth and Mr. Johnson is late for the work as usual. The correct answer is A.

There are different dramatic places that the story takes place. The story begins in Johnson and Mae’s house. The initial scene is the bedroom of the couple. Then the setting moves to the plant where Johnson works. The machines and the working ladies are fully described there and little time is spent in the storeroom. There the workers get their wages. After the plant setting the street and the all night open restaurant. After the restaurant the readers find Johnson in the subway going home. The story ends where it begins physically. It is Johnson and Mae’s house where the story dramatically ends. The correct answer is D.

Even though his boss Ms. Scott calls him a nigger he does not shout or get bad tempered but responds gently. He get mad, so mad but keeps himself calm, the relevant lines prove this; “You got the right to get mad’ he interrupted softly. ‘You got the right to cuss me four ways to Sunday but I ain’t letting nobody call me a nigger”. The correct answer is E:

Johnson comes home in such a mood that he cannot bear any jokes that his wife Mae makes. All of a sudden he finds himself hitting his wife meaninglessly and he cannot stop himself.They are both white and literally they are superior to the black man in a racist society. The fact here is that Mae is a black woman and black women are inferior to black men. So Mae is the only person Johnson may use his physical power on. The correct answer is B.

When it is his turn the white coffee serving girl says that “there is no more coffee available for a while”. Johnson takes this personally and wants to hit the coffee lady as well.He thinks that she did not want to serve him because of her racist ideas. However it was because the coffee pot was finished. The correct answer is C.

It was Ms. Scott who called him "nigger". The correct answer is D.

James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882. The correct answer is A.