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