Week 2 Quiz

A  quotation marks

B  bracket

C  box

D  parenthesis

A  beyond the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought

B  becoming aware of our higher-order thinking skills

C  all of these

D  thinking about thinking

A  Dubriwny is concerned that TV reports on postpartum conditions use medical authorities to emphasize “biological causes” rather than “the social context of mothering.” (290)

B  Johnson contends that although the heroine seems tormented, she actually finds her interaction with the wallpaper “liberating and redemptive” (523).

C  “Her experience should finally be viewed not as a final catastrophe but as a terrifying, necessary stage in her progress toward self-identity and personal achievement” (Johnson 523).

D  On page 230, Gilman’s narrator sadly reports that her husband considers her disorder to be just a “slight hysterical tendency.”

A  italicized

B  underlined

C  in bold

A  text

B  author and publisher

C  author, cultural context, and reader

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  Dee protests to her mother that her sister does not know the true value of the quilts. “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use” (Walker 490).

B  Dee protests to her mother that her sister does not know the true value of the quilts, “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use” (Walker 490).

C  Dee protests to her mother that her sister does not know the true value of the quilts: “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use” (Walker 490).

D  Dee protests to her mother that her sister does not know the true value of the quilts; “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts! She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use” (Walker 490).

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  the feelings or ideas that the word suggests and its emotional association

B  its literal meaning and its dictionary definition