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Question 1

origin of the name of Africa

Answer 1

aprica (Latin meaning sunny)
aphrike (Latin meaning without cold)

Question 2

africa contains the hottest desert named

Answer 2

The Sahara Desert

Question 3

africa contains the longest river called

Answer 3

The Nile River

Question 4

most common language spoken in Africa

Answer 4

Swahili

Question 5

the tallest animal found in Africa

Answer 5

giraffe

Question 6

the system of racial segregation experienced by Africa

Answer 6

apartheid

Question 7

Nobel Prize for Peace winner in 1993 and the first black president of South Africa, serving from 1994 to 1999

Answer 7

Nelson Mandela

Question 8

born in Ghana and served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations

Answer 8

Kofi Annan

Question 9

authored the poems “My Black is Beautiful (Woman)” and “My Black is Beautiful (Man)”

Answer 9

Naomi Johnson

Question 10

authored “A Private Experience”

Answer 10

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Question 11

wrote the short story “Inscape”

Answer 11

Yaa Gyasi

Question 12

author of “War for God”

Answer 12

Zaynab Quadri

Question 13

author of “The Sack”

Answer 13

Namwali Serpell

Question 14

wrote the poem from Zimbabwe “Saturday”

Answer 14

Charles Mungoshi

Question 15

refers to written and oral works created by
literary writers in South America, and the Caribbean

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Latin American Literature

Question 16

author of “In the Name of Salome”

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Julia Alvarez from Dominican Republic

Question 17

wrote the novel “Signs Preceding the End of the World”

Answer 17

Yuri Herrera from Mexico

Question 18

wrote the short story “How to Date a Brown Girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)

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Pulitzer Prize winning Junot Diaz

Question 19

authored the short story “Ghosts”

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Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)

Question 20

guidelines in developing a literary comparative essay

Answer 20

1. identify the basis of comparison
2. make a list of similarities and differences
3. come up with thesis statement and structure for the essay

Question 21

usually a single sentence near the beginning of your paper that presents your argument to the readers

Answer 21

thesis statement

Question 22

two patterns of a comparative essay

Answer 22

point-by-point (alternating) pattern
subject-by-subject (block) pattern

Question 23

two types of literary critical approach

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Formalist Criticism
Cultural Criticism

Question 24

This literary critical approach evaluates a piece just through lookin gat its form, such as style, structure, tone, plot, imagery, among others which are all found within the text.

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formalist criticism

Question 25

This criticism studies how different religions, ethnicities, class identifications, cultural backgrounds, political beliefs and socio-cultural views affect the ways in which texts are created and interpreted.

Answer 25

Cultural Criticism

Question 26

refers to any narrative nonfiction writing about someone’s experience that speaks on some pivotal segments of the author’s life

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memoir

Question 27

is a lexical variant of a flash fiction which is involved in creating very short fictional stories within the length of 300 words.

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micro-fiction

Question 28

structure of a memoir

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1. framed 2. straightforward 3. thematic

Question 29

elements of a memoir

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1. truth 2. theme 3. voice 4. point of view 5. perception

Question 30

elements of a micro-fiction

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1. plot 2. characters 3. conflict 4. theme 5. point of view

Question 31

also known as the west Indies, it is the second largest and the most diverse country in the Caribbean

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Dominican Republic

Question 32

a character in the name of salome she is an educator and a literary critic advocating intellectual study for women daughter of Francisco Henriquez Carvajal and Salome Urena

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Camila Henriquez Urena

Question 33

a character in the name of salome was a Dominican poet and an early proponent of women's higher education in the Dominican Republlic

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Salome Urena

Question 34

a character in the name of salome was a doctor, lawyer, writer, educator and politician from the Dominican Republic, who served as president just prior to the US occupation of the country.

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Franciscio Hilario Henriquez Carvajal

Question 35

(born March 1, 1984) an American author, photographer, and blogger. author of Humans of NewYork, a photoblog and book

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Brandon Stanton

Question 36

(born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award

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Padgett Powell