The trickster tales, such as the Br'er Rabbit stories of the American South, may be seen as:
a. A thinly veiled protest against oppression and domination.
b. No more than foolish stories that have no real significance.
c. A product of a society with limited interest in verbal folklore.
d. The protest of the little worker against the modern bureaucracy.
e. Particularly characteristic of an egalitarian society.
Question 2
In the Spanish understanding of bullfighting, the matador is:
a. An angry combatant who uses force to vanquish his enemy.
b. A male seeking revenge for an insult or infidelity.
c. An honorable male: skilled, self-controlled, and calm.
d. The passive victim of the forces of nature.
e. Demonstrating the principle that violence should always be met with violence.
Adult Dwarf Rabbit
In American Progress (1872), John Gast depicts a feminized (and eroticized) America moving westward,
American soldiers—some of them regulars in deep blue uniforms, others in buckskin cowboy outfits— fi
In 1979 Islamic militants held American embassy workers hostage in Tehran.