Online Test: Unit 4: Cultural Studies in Practice: Frankenstein & Writer's Market

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1. What is the way of studying 'Frankenstein' in as Cultural Critic?

2 points

It is studied as a part of literature which is both highbrow as well as popular. It teaches us not to underestimate the power of youth culture / popular culture.

It is studied as part of scientific fiction as in this era of science and technology it is very important

It is studied as a literary text written by women which was not recorded in the history, so far.

It is studied as a literary text which represents gothic/ghost-like setting & character as symbols of sexual repression and abuse in the pre-victorian era.

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2. Who remarked - "Today 'Frankenstein' is a vital metaphor, peculiarly appropriate to a culture dominated by a consumer technology, neurotically obsessed with 'getting in touch' with its authentic self and frightened at what it is discovering."?

2 points

Haining, Peter, ed. The Frankenstein Omnibus. London: Orion, 1994. Reprint. Edison, N]: Chartwell Books, 1994

KranzIeg Laura. " Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation 44 (Winter 1988-89): 4249.

Hunter, J. Paul ed. Mary SheIIey, Frankenstein. New york: W. W. Norton, L996.

Levine, George. "The Ambiguous Heritage of Frankenstein." In Levine and Knopelmacher

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3. It is observed that 'perhaps no other literary text addresses such critical contemporary scientific and political concerns while at the same time providing Saturday afternoon entertainment to generations'. Identify the literary text.

2 points

Chetan Bhagat's Revolution 2020

Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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4. Match

6 points

The Creature as Proletarian

A Race of Devils

From Natural Philosophy to Cyborg

The Greatest Horror Story ever written

On the Stage performances

Film adaptations

Television Adaptations

Frankenstein's critical contemporary scientific & political concerns

Frankenstein's entertaining aspects which makes it popular

5. Who observed: "In 'Frankenstein' the alternation between fear of vengeful revolution and sympathy for the suffering poor illuminates Mary Shelley's own divisions between revolutionary ardor and fear of the masses".?

2 points

Levine, George. "The Ambiguous Heritage of Frankenstein." In Levine and Knopelmacher

Smith, |ohanna M., ed. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 1831 Text. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Malchow, H. L. "Was Frankenstein's Monster 'a Man and a Brother'?" Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

KranzIeg Laura. " Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation 44 (Winter 1988-89): 4249.

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6. Who makes an interesting observation that 'The Creature's literary education is radical'?

2 points

KranzIeg Laura. " Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation 44 (Winter 1988-89): 4249.

Florescu, Radu. In Search of Frankenstein. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975

Lederer, Susan E. Visiting Curator. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. Exhibition by the National Library of Medicine. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Morton, Timothy, ed. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. London and New York: Routledge,2}lZ.

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7. Which of the following books are read by The Creature?

2 points

Milton's Paradise Lost; Plutarch's Lives; Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther

Milton's Paradise Lost; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

Milton's Paradise Lost; Marlowe's Faustus; Goethe's Faust

Milton's Paradise Lost; Plutarch's Lives; Goethe's Faust

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8. Match the book with the radical thought it represented to the Creature:

6 points

Eternal questions about the ways of God and man relevant to their predicament; seminal work of republicanism and the sublime that inspired many of the Romantics

A classic republican text, admired in the Enlightenment by such writers as Rousseau

The prototypical rebellious Romantic novel

Plutarch's Lives

Milton's Paradise Lost

Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther

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9. Who observed this: "'Frankenstein' may be analyzed in its portrayal of different "races." Though the Creature's skin is only described as yellow, it has been constructed "out of a cultural tradition of the threatening 'Other'-whether troll or giant, gypsy or Negro-from the dark inner recesses of xenophobic fear and loathing," - ?

2 points

Smith, |ohanna M., ed. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 1831 Text. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Levine, George. "The Ambiguous Heritage of Frankenstein." In Levine and Knopelmacher

KranzIeg Laura. " Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation 44 (Winter 1988-89): 4249.

Malchow, H. L. "Was Frankenstein's Monster 'a Man and a Brother'?" Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

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10. Interestingly,one of Mary Shelley's letters mentions an allusion to Frankenstein made on the floor of Parliament by Foreign Secretary George Canning (1770-1827), speaking on March 16,1824, on the subject of proposed ameliorations of slave conditions in the West Indies: "To turn him [the slave] loose in the manhood of his physical strength, in the maturity of his physical passion,but in the infancy of his uninstructed reason would be to raise up a creature resembling the splendid fiction of a recent romance" What does this observation signify?

1 point

It signifies that the negro / black people are referred as senseless, nonsensical beasts and non-human creatures

It signifies that the creature made by Frankenstein was black negro

It signifies that The Creature was powerful in his physical strength as he had got the genes of negro people

It signifies that the negroes are without reason and as The Creature was negro, he was also without reason

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11. Frankenstein's Creature also recalls theories of polygeny and autogenesis (the idea that the races were created separately) from German race theorists of the day. Do you agree?

2 points

Yes

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12. ________ describes the novel as a critique of empire and racism, pointing out that "socialengineering should not be based upon pure, theoretical, ornatural-scientific reason alone. . . ." Frankenstein's "language of racism-the dark side of imperialism understood as social mission---combines with the hysteria of masculism into the idiom of (the withdrawal of) sexual reproduction rather than subject constitution."

2 points

Smith, |ohanna M., ed. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 1831 Text. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism." Critical Inquiry 12 (Autumn 1985):243-6t Rep

Lederer, Susan E. Visiting Curator. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. Exhibition by the National Library of Medicine. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Florescu, Radu. In Search of Frankenstein. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975

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13. The novel 'Frankenstein' is 'written from the perspective of a narrator 'from below''. Who said this?

2 points

Johanna Smith

Susan Lederer

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Mary Sheller herself in her letter.

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14. According to cultural critic _________ , Victor's creation of life and modem sperm banks and artificial wombs show a"masculine desire to claim female (re)productivity"

2 points

Smith, |ohanna M., ed. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 1831 Text. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

Lederer, Susan E. Visiting Curator. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. Exhibition by the National Library of Medicine. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

KranzIeg Laura. " Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation 44 (Winter 1988-89): 4249.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism." Critical Inquiry 12 (Autumn 1985):243-6t Rep

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15. From Natural Philosophy to Cyborg is all about . . . .

2 points

Frankenstein is relevant today as it helps us understand the discourse between the natural philosophy of 'selective reduction' and 'life by artificial means'

Frankenstein is relevant today as it is the connecting link like the invention of electricity between the old world without technology and the 21st cen of technology revolution

Frankenstein is relevant today as it helps us understand the philosophy of 'back to Nature'.

Frankenstein is relevant today as it is the prototype of modern day robots.

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16. Match

4 points

Phonemes

Graphemes

sonic element of language as used in structural linguistics

visual elements

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17. Who used the term 'Frankenphemes', drawn from 'phonemes' and 'graphemes as elements of culture that are derived from 'Frankenstein'.

2 points

Morton, Timothy, ed. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. London and New York: Routledge,2}lZ.

Lederer, Susan E. Visiting Curator. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. Exhibition by the National Library of Medicine. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Smith, |ohanna M., ed. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 1831 Text. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000.

KranzIeg Laura. " Frankenstein and the Technological Future." Foundation 44 (Winter 1988-89): 4249.

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18. Who called 'Frankenstein' - 'the single greatest horror story novel ever written and the most widely influential in its genre'.?

2 points

Johanna Smith

Laura Kranzleg - Frankenstein and the Technological Future

Peter Haining - Frankenstein Omnibus

Timothy Morton

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19. Match the writers with their retellings of Frankenstein in fiction

4 points

The Bell Tower

The Future Eve

The Surgeon's Experiemnt

The Thousand Deaths

Herman Melville

Jack London

W.C. Morrow

Villiers de L'Isle Adam

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20. What were the challenges against Nathaniel Hawthorn in establishing himself as an author, successful author?

5 points

The world of American publishing at the time - which was selling pirated works of British writers

The readers were largely female and there were writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Sedgwick catering the sentimental needs of these readers,

He was not able to find publishers for his works

Hawthorne's exploration of his own personal fears during the 1830s - the Puritan forefathers who scorned the profession of writing

21. What do you mean by 'Dark Reform text'?

2 points

The text which attempts to reform witches and evil person

The texts which supposedly communicate warnings against certain tabooed sexual practices like prostitution, it in fact deliberately aroused interest in them and was often quite lewd.

The texts which deal with ghosts and gothic elements

The writing which may be described as 'immoral didacticism'

22. The reason for the success of Nathaniel Hawthorne was - 'in exposing not only Satanic evil but also religion, sexuality and politics, he hit upon a sensational combination'. Do you agree?

2 points

Yes

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23. Do you agree: "In a publishing world that made it difficult for an American writer to be rewarded on the basis of his own efforts, in a time when women writers and women readers were dominant, in a time when Hawthorne was wrestling with being a writer at all and probing his own dark recesses of imagination, he was able to spin a tale of evil, of 'the power of blackness', and demonstrate his fitness for both classic literature and his contemporary marketplace."

2 points

Disagree

Agree

Agree with latter part but disagree with 'difficult for an American writer' - sentence

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24. The success story of Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates clearly not only the difference between popular trend and great literature but also their common roots in popular culture. Do you agree?

2 points

Strongly disagree

Neutral

Agree

Strongly agree

Disagree

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25. Chetan Bhagat's focus in his works primarily centers around:

2 points

a) Historical events

b) Youth and their issues

c) Political ideologies

d) Science fiction

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26. Chetan Bhagat's writing style is characterized by:

2 points

a) Complex vocabulary and syntax

b) Lengthy narratives

c) Conversational and youth-friendly language

d) Extensive use of metaphors and symbolism

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27. Chetan Bhagat's books are priced in a way that they are affordable to:

2 points

a) Senior citizens

b) Children

c) Young readers

d) High-income professionals

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28. What demographic does Chetan Bhagat primarily target in his works?

2 points

a) Middle-aged individuals

b) Children

c) Educated Indians in the age group of 20 to 35

d) Senior citizens

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29. Chetan Bhagat's success is attributed to his ability to:

2 points

a) Write complex and thought-provoking narratives

b) Use social media for marketing

c) Target a niche audience of senior citizens

d) Promote Hindutva ideology

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30. Assertion: Chetan Bhagat's works are rooted in popular culture. Reason: He addresses contemporary issues and appeals to the youth of India.

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a) Both the assertion and reason are correct, and the reason explains the assertion.

b) The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.

c) The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct.

d) Both the assertion and reason are incorrect.

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31. Assertion: Chetan Bhagat's narratives are shorter, designed to be read in a single seating. Reason: He believes that people today have limited time for reading longer narratives.

2 points

a) Both the assertion and reason are correct, and the reason explains the assertion.

b) The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.

c) The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct.

d) Both the assertion and reason are incorrect.

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32. Whose video song was watched in the class to get the essence of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story 'Young Goodman Brown'?

2 points

Brandon Flower's "Cant Deny My Love"

Coldplay's "Clocks"

Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out"

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