- 1. Which literary device is commonly associated with unreliable narrators?
A) Simile
B) Foreshadowing
C) Irony
D) Personification
- 2. What effect can an unreliable narrator have on a story?
A) Create ambiguity and suspense
B) Clarify the plot
C) Decrease tension
D) Speed up the narrative
- 3. Which novel by Kazuo Ishiguro features an unreliable narrator who struggles with memory loss?
A) Beloved
B) Midnight's Children
C) The Remains of the Day
D) White Teeth
- 4. Which author's novel 'House of Leaves' explores unreliable narrators through its complex narrative structure?
A) Margaret Atwood
B) Mark Z. Danielewski
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Haruki Murakami
- 5. Which literary movement influenced the rise of the unreliable narrator in postmodern literature?
A) Renaissance literature
B) Romanticism
C) Victorian literature
D) Modernism
- 6. Which famous postmodern author is known for using unreliable narrators to explore themes of identity and perception?
A) Toni Morrison
B) George Orwell
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Don DeLillo
- 7. What role does the reader play when encountering an unreliable narrator in postmodern literature?
A) Ignoring character development
B) Skipping over inconsistencies
C) Interpreting and questioning the narrative
D) Passively accepting the story
- 8. Which author's novel 'The Sound and the Fury' features multiple unreliable narrators sharing their perspectives of the same events?
A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B) Virginia Woolf
C) William Faulkner
D) Herman Melville
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