Note: To help you prepare, you may read the Chapter “Astral America” from Jean Baudrillard’s America
A. His profession makes him compromise his ethics
B. He is specially selected by the Tommyknockers to torment
C. His profession symbolically moves between the Earth and the Underworld
D. He is both a man and like the dwarves in Snow White
A. Emasculation
B. Emancipation
C. Hallucination
D. Intimidation
A. The Jim Crow
B. The black Adonis
C. Ananse
D. Tar Baby
A. The superiority of humans over machines
B. The superiority of black bodies over whites
C. The superiority of the majority over the individual
D. The superiority of the machine over human bodies
A. The assimilation of immigrants in the American “melting pot”
B. The decline of the steel mill industry in the face of new technologies
C. The end of the era of mass immigration and the beginning of turmoil
D. The triumph of capitalism over workers
A. Their belief that the future belongs to the machine
B. Their mixed attitude of both awe and apprehension
C. Their identification of the power of the machine with the power of U.S. hegemony
D. All of the above
A. He knows he will die, but goes on to compete anyway
B. He knows he will defeat the machine, but is ignorant of the consequences
C. He is like a black Jesus, happy to sacrifice himself for the common people
D. He leaves behind a wife and a small child
