Childrens Lit Mid-Term Exam
Questions and Answers
Working Child - Answer- view of children that casts them as necessary and useful
contributors to the household
ex: Ragged Dick (orphan who supports himself)
romantic child - Answer- view that children are purer and more virtuous than adults,
closer to nature and God, and beautified by their naivete
ex: The Secret Garden
working and sacred child - Answer- Anne of Green Gables can be seen as a
transitional figure (or hybrid) between which two paradigms of children
has profound effects on social and educational policy, helps us understand literature
written for and about children - Answer- Understanding how we think about
childhood is important because...?
those written for a general audience of children and audience and those written
primarily for adults but appropriated by children - Answer- Some of the earliest works
read and enjoyed by children were...?
use of simple style, matter-of-fact tone despite strangeness of events described,
importance of leaving home - Answer- What does children's literary scholar Perry
Nodelman say are characteristics of children's lit as a genre
there has always been a market for children's literature - Answer- your textbook
pinpoints which time frame as the advent of a distinct market for children's literature
actually written for adults, but were read and enjoyed by children and were written
and published during the Golden Age of children's literature - Answer- many books
that we consider children's classics are...?
educational, commercial, literary/artistic - Answer- the books describes three
competing (sometimes overlapping) functions of children's lit. These can be
described as how ?
mockery and ridicule - Answer- In Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
treats education with
1865-1915 - Answer- "Golden Age" of children's literature is identified at what time
period?
imagines danger in the form of illness, social intrigue, and loss of status
character and relationship based
understands rewards as moral, spiritual, or social
girl books
, involves concern with poverty, wealth, property and class - Answer- What is
associated with domestic fiction rather than adventure fiction?
Little women - Answer- psychological complexity in domestic fiction
Elise Dinsmore - Answer- home as a dangerous place
Holes - Answer- self-reflexivity of contemporary adventure
Tarzan - Answer- escaping civilization or home
Nodelman - Answer- which theorist discusses home/away as the basic binary for
children's literature?
domestic fiction - Answer- is the home itself more likely to be considered a
dangerous place (or at least of tension) in domestic or adventure fiction?
false - Answer- texts are always clearly domestic or adventure, there is no crossover
adventure - Answer- Holes exaggerates the characteristics of which genre in order to
suggest that it cannot be taken quite seriously (making it a comedy)?
thematic and structural - Answer- "The links between myths and fairytales are both
___ & ____"
be interested in how they shed light on individual and collective psychology
read Freud, Jung, and Bettelheim
Look at archetypes - Answer- someone taking a psychoanalytical approach to
interpreting fairytales might... ?
socio-historical approach - Answer- a critic who sees fairytales as a reflection of the
historical time in which they were created is using ...?
reinforce gender stereotypes
emphasize female beauty and passivity - Answer- feminist critics of fairytales are
concerned that fairytales
myths and legends - Answer- Which are considered or at some point were
considered to be at least in part true/real?
canon - Answer- Term for those texts that by social and cultural consensus have
been acknowledged as the most important or central works of a period, country or
genre
false - Answer- In the late 17th C, Charles Perrault's book of fairy tales was not
influenced by the values, fashions, or social politics of the day because fairytales are
timeless
Jack Ziples - Answer- Textbook relies heavily on the work of this critic- including
work from the Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales & Breaking the Magic Spell
Questions and Answers
Working Child - Answer- view of children that casts them as necessary and useful
contributors to the household
ex: Ragged Dick (orphan who supports himself)
romantic child - Answer- view that children are purer and more virtuous than adults,
closer to nature and God, and beautified by their naivete
ex: The Secret Garden
working and sacred child - Answer- Anne of Green Gables can be seen as a
transitional figure (or hybrid) between which two paradigms of children
has profound effects on social and educational policy, helps us understand literature
written for and about children - Answer- Understanding how we think about
childhood is important because...?
those written for a general audience of children and audience and those written
primarily for adults but appropriated by children - Answer- Some of the earliest works
read and enjoyed by children were...?
use of simple style, matter-of-fact tone despite strangeness of events described,
importance of leaving home - Answer- What does children's literary scholar Perry
Nodelman say are characteristics of children's lit as a genre
there has always been a market for children's literature - Answer- your textbook
pinpoints which time frame as the advent of a distinct market for children's literature
actually written for adults, but were read and enjoyed by children and were written
and published during the Golden Age of children's literature - Answer- many books
that we consider children's classics are...?
educational, commercial, literary/artistic - Answer- the books describes three
competing (sometimes overlapping) functions of children's lit. These can be
described as how ?
mockery and ridicule - Answer- In Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
treats education with
1865-1915 - Answer- "Golden Age" of children's literature is identified at what time
period?
imagines danger in the form of illness, social intrigue, and loss of status
character and relationship based
understands rewards as moral, spiritual, or social
girl books
, involves concern with poverty, wealth, property and class - Answer- What is
associated with domestic fiction rather than adventure fiction?
Little women - Answer- psychological complexity in domestic fiction
Elise Dinsmore - Answer- home as a dangerous place
Holes - Answer- self-reflexivity of contemporary adventure
Tarzan - Answer- escaping civilization or home
Nodelman - Answer- which theorist discusses home/away as the basic binary for
children's literature?
domestic fiction - Answer- is the home itself more likely to be considered a
dangerous place (or at least of tension) in domestic or adventure fiction?
false - Answer- texts are always clearly domestic or adventure, there is no crossover
adventure - Answer- Holes exaggerates the characteristics of which genre in order to
suggest that it cannot be taken quite seriously (making it a comedy)?
thematic and structural - Answer- "The links between myths and fairytales are both
___ & ____"
be interested in how they shed light on individual and collective psychology
read Freud, Jung, and Bettelheim
Look at archetypes - Answer- someone taking a psychoanalytical approach to
interpreting fairytales might... ?
socio-historical approach - Answer- a critic who sees fairytales as a reflection of the
historical time in which they were created is using ...?
reinforce gender stereotypes
emphasize female beauty and passivity - Answer- feminist critics of fairytales are
concerned that fairytales
myths and legends - Answer- Which are considered or at some point were
considered to be at least in part true/real?
canon - Answer- Term for those texts that by social and cultural consensus have
been acknowledged as the most important or central works of a period, country or
genre
false - Answer- In the late 17th C, Charles Perrault's book of fairy tales was not
influenced by the values, fashions, or social politics of the day because fairytales are
timeless
Jack Ziples - Answer- Textbook relies heavily on the work of this critic- including
work from the Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales & Breaking the Magic Spell
