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What is an example of verbal irony

How about 'Hurry up and wait'...that one is pretty popular in the military.

Which word best characterizes yang guizi

Beast-like

Hairy

What European cultural practice was considered barbaric to the Chinese

Dancing arm-in-arm

Public physical contact

What is a common element of postmodern plays

The characters seem stuck.

(APEX)

According to Woolf why do great literary works often go unwritten

Because of the inconveniences of life

Because of society's indifference to literature

What was the context of the two speeches given by FDR that were studied in this lesson

Due to an attack by Japan, America needed to enter World War II and fight the Axis powers.

Which statement best explains the historical contradiction about women that Woolf describes

In the world of imagination, women were important, but in the ordinary world they were insignificant.

Women filled the pages of poetry but earned little attention in history books.

Women were powerful in stories yet considered property of their husbands in reality.

According to Qian Long why are European missionary activities restricted in China

Because the Chinese religion is an ancient tradition that doesn't need to change.

According to the narrator of A Visit To Europe which belief did the British hold about Indian marriages

Indian men had hundreds of wives

What question best represents the theme Woolf analyzes in A Room of One's Own

Why are women important characters in literature but unimportant in history?

In the excerpt you read from Mukharji's A Visit to Europe what assumption did the British commoners make about the visiting Indians

Everyone there knew each other.

What is one of the faults of imperialism that becomes clear in Heart of Darkness

the colonists activities are largely ineffective -apex

What is one example of the ineffectiveness colonialists activities that Marlow witness in Africa

A warship fires guns at an unpopulated hillside.-APEX

why is marlow's critique of colonialism questionable

He assumes that he, a white man, has the right to decide what goal Africans need to pursue.

Which sentence describes an example of situational irony in Gulliver's Travels

Instead of horses pulling carriages full of people, people pull carriages full of horses.

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