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