Jonathan Safran Foer #287041 - Prove ed esercizi Zanichelli

Tick the words and phrases related to the themes of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

A: Death

B: Loss

C: Trauma

D: Envy

E: Rage

F: Dreams

Scelta multipla

Jonathan Safran Foer: life and work

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in ________.
Jonathan Safran Foer was born into a ________ family.
Jonathan Safran Foer studied ________ at Princeton University.
Jonathan Safran Foer had ________ as a creative writing teacher.

Completamento chiuso

Jonathan Safran Foer: life and work

Jonathan Safran Foer's ________ novel was Everything Is Illuminated.
Extremely Loud &Incredibly Close was Foer's ________ book.
Eating Animals was Foer's first ________ work.
Extremely Loud &Incredibly Close was ________, so it was initially criticised.

Posizionamento

Jonathan Safran Foer: life and work

Everything Is Illuminated won awards like the Times First Book Award.
Everything Is Illuminated is based on the search of a man involved in World War II.
Extremely Loud &Incredibly Close became a film starring Tom Ford and Sandra Bullock.
Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at Harvard University.

Trova errore

A: Oskar sets out on a quest to find the owner of a car.

B: The key Oskar had found has nothing to do with his father.

C: Oskar analyses a series of photographs of a man falling from a train.

D: Oskar imagines time going backwards.

Vero o falso

A: The time and place of the novel are fixed.

B: The novel is experimental in that it uses various graphic devices.

C: The readers are engaged in the narration and their curiosity is always stimulated.

D: Jonathan Safran Foer employs a sort of visual writing.

Vero o falso

Oskar Schell

A: is nine years old.

B: suffers from depression.

C: finds a tape in an envelope.

D: was personally involved in a terrorist attack.

E: suffers from epilepsy.

Scelta multipla

Oskar's grandfather abandoned his wife when she got ________.
Oskar's grandfather lost all his loved ones in a bombing attack in ________.
Oskar's grandfather didn't meet his ________ when he came back to New York.
Oskar's grandfather buried the letters he wrote to his son in his ________.

Completamento aperto

Oskar tries to mask his pain by self-inflicting ________.
Oscar eventually accepts ________, admitting he is not able to know how his father died.
________ connects all the characters of the novel.
Oskar's grandfather suffers from survivor's ________.

Completamento chiuso

The story is told by ________ first-person narrators.
The novel links ________ terrible experiences.
The reader gets to know Oskar's grandparents through their ________.
The narration of Oskar's grandparents mainly refers to 1945 and their post-war ________.

Posizionamento