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Το Σώμα στη Σύγχρονη Αμερικανική Λογοτεχνία

Ενότητα 4

Preparatory questions:

What is your opinion about gay people? Where and how do we draw the line on what is sexually acceptable?

What is your opinion about people who break the law?

What do people seek when they express themselves sexually?

Are we defined by what we think of ourselves, or by what other people call us?

Supplementary readings:

Jacques Lacan, all excerpts

Ερώτηση 1 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

People cheer Earl Adcock on for leaving Vesta because:

They understand that even men can be trapped by their prescribed gender roles

They don’t acknowledge that women can be trapped by their prescribed gender roles

They feel sorry for him because he is childless

They feel sorry for him because he is poor

Ερώτηση 2 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

The incident with the supermarket punk and Evelyn’s “balls” diatribe all show that:

Phallogocentrism has power over bodies

We are entirely what other people call us

As Freud said, “anatomy is destiny”

Hate makes one powerful against one’s enemies

Ερώτηση 3 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

Stump humiliates Peggy Hudson because:

He is afraid of being with her

She is not developed enough for his taste

She is not like his aunt Idgie

“Men don’t make passes to women who wear glasses”

Ερώτηση 4 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

For Evelyn, the fantasy of Towanda:

Is initially harmful but eventually helpful, because she fulfills her wishes

Makes her trade places with the men in her life who hurt her

Is initially helpful but eventually pointless, because hatred is no long-term solution

Shows Evelyn’s literary imagination

Ερώτηση 5 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

Why does Artis go to all this trouble just to help a dog?

Because it’s his dog

Because the dog’s owner is his best friend

Because he identifies with the animal

Because he hates the white dog-catcher

Ερώτηση 6 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

Grady’s character shows us that:

Racism is a learned mentality, not a natural condition

Racism is impossible to influence because it is set at childhood

There are good and bad racists, like Grady as opposed to Frank

A racist society will produce invariably racist individuals

Ερώτηση 7 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

Frank Bennett’s glass eye symbolizes:

His one-sided view of life

His efforts to look good

His inner determination

His handicap against Ruth

Ερώτηση 8 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

According to Rich, a “lesbian continuum” is:

A lesbian mother having a lesbian daughter

the way patriarchy has erased the history of women’s interrelations

opposed to the survival of the species through procreation

an alternative model for women to relate to one another (non-)sexually

Ερώτηση 9 (Πολλαπλής Επιλογής (Μοναδική Απάντηση) — 1 βαθμός)

According to Rich, women accept violence in sexual relations because:

Deep down, they like it

They have been taught to like it

They have been taught it’s normal for men

Violent men are considered more sexually adept