How to Read Literature Like A Professor Quiz 2

Foster argues that place

• can make us loathe/despise our own geographical birth place
• makes the reader forget what's really important
• brings us to ideas, to the minds and hearts of the characters, to what the author is trying to say
• is transcendent enough to be meaningless and consequently cause an existential crisis in the reader

Foster argues that geography can be symbolic.

• true

• false

Foster argues that geography can help us see what's going on inside a character.

• true

• false

Geography can change who a character is and who he/she becomes.

• true

• false

Which examples fall into Foster's definition of "geography" discussed in this chapter? List at least SIX. (one example is a river).