Magical Realism Quiz: Test
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- 1.All of the following statements are true about magical realism EXCEPT:
- A.
Elements of the dream, fairy story, or mythology combine with the everyday.
- B.
Has a strong narrative drive.
- C.
Emphasizes the common and every day in people's lives.
- D.
Frame or surface of the story may be conventionally realistic.
- E.
Is often about opposites
- 2.Which of the following authors is considered the "father" of magic realism?
- A.
Octavio Paz
- B.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- C.
Guenter Grass
- D.
Jorge Luis Borges
- E.
Pablo Neruda
- 3.Gabriel Garcia Marquez' work that in 1982 that is credited for his winning the Nobel Prize in literature is:
- A.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- B.
A Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- C.
Love in the Time of Cholera
- D.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- E.
The Handsomest Drowned Man
- 4.Magic or Magical Realism is defined as:
- A.
A literary genre where magical elements are a natural part of a realistic environment
- B.
A literary genre in which the real is more important than the unreal
- C.
A liteary genre that is dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention.
- D.
None of the above
- E.
All of the above
- 5.The 4 elements of magic realism are:
- A.
The usual in the unusual
- B.
Distortion of time
- C.
Binary opposites juxtaposed
- D.
Vagueness/uncertainty of events
- E.
All of the above
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