Online Test: Unit 3: Cultural Studies in Practice: Hamlet & To His Coy Mistress

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1. Which two characters in 'Hamlet' are at the centerstage in its cultural reading?

2 points

Ophelia and Gertrude

Osric and Horatio

Horatio and Hamlet

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

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2. Through which of the following lens is 'Hamlet' studied in Cultural Studies?

2 points

The Power relationships

The Biographical account

The oedipus complex

The Gender Bias

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3. Who observed this: '. . . Credited the new historicists with dealing with 'questions of politics, power, indeed on all matters that deeply affect people's practical lives'. ?

2 points

Levith, Murray J. What's in Shakespeare's Names. Hamden, CT: ShoeString Press/Archon, 1978.

Veeser, Harold Aram. ed. The New Historicism. NY: Routledge, 1989

Pechter, Edward. "The New Historicism and Its Discontents: Politicizing Renaissance Drama." PMLA 102 (May 1987):292-303

Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to shakespeare. 2 vols. princeton:Princeton University Press, 1946

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4. What is the meaning of the names - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

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Roses Crushed - and - Guided Storm

Rose and Crane - and - Guild of Stern

Killer Roses - and - Guile Storm (cunning and deceitful storm)

Garland of Roses - and - Golden Star

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5. Who has studied the names of the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

2 points

Pechter, Edward. "The New Historicism and Its Discontents: Politicizing Renaissance Drama." PMLA 102 (May 1987):292-303

Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to shakespeare. 2 vols. princeton:Princeton University Press, 1946

Levith, Murray J. What's in Shakespeare's Names. Hamden, CT: ShoeString Press/Archon, 1978

Joseph, Bertram. Conscience and the Kng: A Study of Hamlef' London: Chatto and Windus, L953

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6. What is the significance of the cultural study of two marginalized characters in 'Hamlet'?

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One can get deeper insight into Shakespeare's culture by thinking not about kings and princes but about the lesser persons caught up in the massive opposites.

One can get deeper insight into Shakespeare's culture by thinking about kings and princes rather than about lesser persons caught up in the web of affairs.

The poor and powerless shall not interfere in the matters of kings and princes.

The poor and powerless are nothing but 'pawns' in the power conflicts of 'mighty opposites'.

7. Who is the writer of the absurd play 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'?

2 points

Harold Pinter

Tom Stoppard

Eugene Ionesco

Samuel Beckett

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8. How are these marginalized characters alluded in Tom Stoppard's absurd play?

2 points

They are industrialists who are atrocious on previous landlords like Hamlet

They are archetypal human beings caught up on a ship - spaceship Earth for the twentieth or the twenty-first century - that leads nowhere, except to death, a death for person who are already dead.

They are middle class citizens doing jobs like salespersons where in the new kings i.e. corporate owners, rule the world

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9. We allude to the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the little people, who have been caught up in the corporate downsizing and mergers in recent decades - the effects on these workers when multinational companies move factories and offices around the world like pawns on a chessboard. True or False?

2 points

True

False

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10. What is the major cultural concern in reading 'To His Coy Mistress'?

2 points

To study the metaphors of love in the poem

To study implied culture versus historical fact

The study the power in its cultural context

To study the metaphysical elements in the poem

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11. Who is the writer of the poem 'To his Coy Mistress'?

2 points

Alexander Pope

John Donne

Andrew Marvell

John Dryden

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12. How do we understand the 'speaker' in the poem 'To His Coy Mistress?

2 points

We know that the speaker is the person who is suffering from very terminal diseases like STD or plague

We know that the speaker is knowledgeable about poems and conventions of classic Greek and Roman literature, aobut other conventions of love poetry, such as the courtly love conventions of medieval Europe, and about Biblical passages

We know that the speaker in poor serf - a farm laborers who is unaware about classical conventions of Greek/Roman or courtly love poems.

We know that the speaker is in deep love and his love in genuine which is expressed in highly embellished language with exotic imagery.

13. Who studied the 'implied reader' of the poem 'To His Coy Mistress' as distinct from the 'fictive lady' - who would 'be able to summon up a certain number of earlier or contemporaneous examples of this kind of love poem and who could be counted on, in short, to supply the models which Marvell may variously have been evoking, imitating, distorting, subverting or transcending'. ?

2 points

Option 5

Wamer, Michael. "Literary Studies and the History of the Book." Book 12 (1987):3-9

Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits: A Selection. 1966. Trans. Alan Sheridan. NewYork: W. W. Norton, 1977. Revised version reprinted 2002' Trans.Bruce Fink

Brody, Jules. 'The Resurrection of the Body: A New Reading of Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'. ELH 56 no 1. (1996). 53-80

Cain, William E. "Why English Departments Should Focus on Close Reading, Not Cultural Studies." lnChronicle of Higher Education (13 Dec.1996):B'

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14. We can say that the speaker (lover), listener (beloved) - like poet Andrew Marvell - are highly educated persons - those well read, whose natural flow of associated images moves lightly over details and allusions that reflect who they are- and expects listener / readers to respond in a kind of harmonic vibration. Why do we infer all these things?

2 points

Because the speaker thinks of plagues, diseases, and miserable death.

Because the speaker thinks of work to be done before the time's winged chariot brings in the evening

Because the speaker thinks in terms of precious stones, of exotic and distant places, of a milieu where eating, drinking, and making merry seem to be an achievable way of life

Because the speaker thinks of online tests / thinking activity blogs / assignments to be completed before deadline.

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15. The cultural studies of the poem 'To His Coy Mistress' examines what it does not show? - what does it ignore from the culture? What do you get to know about these questions?

5 points

It does not think of disease as a daily reality that he might face.

It does not think of poverty, the demographics and socio-economic details of which would show how fortunate his circumstances are.

It shows that the poor people die of plagues and are in utterly dreadful situation... and so he requests beloved to make love before the plague catches them.

It shows that wealth and leisure and sexual activity are his currency, his coin for present bliss.

16. Which of the following historical realities, a dimension that the poem ignores?

5 points

India is the land of richness.

Plague - more ominous, more wrenching, in its grasp of mind and body of the general population

Syphilis and other sexualy transmitted diseases were just as real a phenomenon in Marvell's day as in our era.

Disease - real and present disease - what has been called the 'chronic morbidity' of the population.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's play

The Speaker and the Listener of the poem To His Coy Mistress

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