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Which concept describes the way several social identities combine to produce particular opportunities, constraints, and forms of recognition?
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07/12 7. Identity, Power, and Representation Online Quiz Questions
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What can code-switching reveal about a character's identity?
- A
It can express belonging and pressure to assimilate.
- B
It always shows that a speaker rejects their cultural identity.
- C
It proves that one language variety is inherently superior.
- D
It removes social meanings from language.
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When analyzing power and representation in a literary text, which question is most important?
- A
Whether the text contains only historical facts
- B
Whether every character has the same social position
- C
Who has the power to represent and whose knowledge counts
- D
Whether the author explicitly explains the intended meaning
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Select all statements that accurately reflect the material's approach to identity and representation.
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A character's identities can interact to create particular opportunities and constraints.
- B
A text should be examined for how it represents a group, not only whether the group appears.
- C
A character's identity can be understood adequately through one category alone.
- D
A writer's identity automatically makes the writer a spokesperson for an entire group.
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Select all practices that belong to a responsible close reading of identity and representation.
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Treating a marginalized character's presence as proof that the text is progressive
- B
Examining how point of view, repetition, or silence shapes representation
- C
Connecting an interpretation of identity to specific textual techniques
- D
Using a character as evidence about an entire real-world group
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True or false
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True or false: The material presents literary identity as something that is often negotiated rather than permanently fixed.
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True
- B
False
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True or false
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True or false: A narrator's identity can always be assumed to be the same as the author's identity.
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True
- B
False
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What term describes the way several social identities combine to produce particular opportunities, constraints, and forms of recognition?
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How many numbered stages are included in the method for close reading identity and representation?
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A common disability-representation problem is the “” narrative, in which disability exists mainly to inspire nondisabled characters.
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A community dispersed from an ancestral homeland while maintaining or revising connections across places is described as a .
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Open ended
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How does Joy Harjo's “An American Sunrise” use literary form to represent Native national belonging as both contested and claimed?
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A novel uses a first-person narrator from a marginalized community, but the narrator misunderstands some events. Which interpretation best fits the material?
- A
First-person narration always gives readers complete and objective knowledge.
- B
First-person narration may give a marginalized speaker authority while still revealing limits of self-knowledge.
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First-person narration prevents a text from representing social power.
- D
First-person narration makes historical context irrelevant.
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A story depicts a disabled character facing inaccessible public spaces and also shows the character's humor, relationships, and ordinary ambitions. What is the most appropriate analytical approach?
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The analysis should ask how social barriers shape the character's exclusion and opportunities.
- B
The analysis should treat disability only as a symbolic defect.
- C
The analysis should assume that a nondisabled character's response is the central meaning.
- D
The analysis should judge the character primarily by how inspiring they are.
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A literary analysis examines how a character’s gender, race, class, and migration history combine to shape both the character’s opportunities and the way other characters interpret them. Which concept best describes this approach?
- A
It treats identity as a fixed category that operates independently of other categories.
- B
It examines how several social identities combine to shape a person’s opportunities and constraints.
- C
It argues that all members of a social group have identical experiences.
- D
It replaces close reading with a purely biographical account of the author.
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When evaluating the representation of a marginalized group in a literary work, which set of questions most directly follows the method described in the material?
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Whether the group appears exactly as it exists in the author’s biography.
- B
Whether the text contains the largest possible number of characters from that group.
- C
How the group is portrayed, who speaks, and whether the text reinforces or challenges hierarchy.
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Whether the group is mentioned without regard to narrative voice or historical context.
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A character shifts between a community language and the dominant language depending on the social setting. Which interpretation is most consistent with the material?
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It can express cultural belonging while also revealing pressure to assimilate.
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It proves that one language variety is inherently more intelligent than another.
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It shows that the character has no stable identity or cultural affiliation.
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It matters only when the work explicitly explains the character’s education.
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True or false
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A narrator’s identity and perspective should automatically be treated as identical to the author’s identity and beliefs.
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True
- B
False
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Written response
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What term describes a community dispersed from an ancestral homeland that maintains or revises connections across different places?
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What term names the movement between languages or language varieties that can express both cultural belonging and pressure to assimilate?