This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Teacher role in postmodernism is A) Making students active learner. B) To discover new things provide opportunities to discuss. C) Think a critical way. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making students active learner. 2. What does intertextuality mean? A) An author copies another author. B) An author cites another author. C) The author refrains from the influence of other authors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An author cites another author. 3. Plurality of truth A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 4. What was the main the purpose of the Harlem Renaissance? A) Create a new social structure. B) Navigate and venture into new lands. C) Fighting and freeing societies from hierarchy. D) Tried to make a change in culture, social, art and literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tried to make a change in culture, social, art and literature. 5. Which modernist architect declared that 'decoration is a crime' A) In Adolph. B) Mies van Rohe. C) Le Corbusier. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In Adolph. 6. Which of these building designed by Walter Gropius? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 7. Postmodernism asserts that all worldviews offer unbaised truth claims about reality. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. According to Postmodernism, science cannot tell us what is true, only what scientists believe to be true. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 9. A period of 10 years A) Century. B) Millennium. C) Score. D) Decade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decade. 10. Why does Mrs. Hale wish she had visited Mrs. Wright? A) So she could find out about the Wright family business and gossip. B) She realizes that Mrs. Wright was very lonely and would have liked a visit from a friend. C) To get her recipes for canning. D) She was a young and wild woman and needed guidance on being a wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She realizes that Mrs. Wright was very lonely and would have liked a visit from a friend. 11. What literary time period includes symbols of death, the supernatural and other dark imagery? A) American Gothic. B) Modernism. C) Beat Poetry. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) American Gothic. 12. Who created the Postmodern philosophy? A) Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. B) Maria Montessori. C) John Dewey. D) Albert Bandura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. 13. According to Postmodernism, universal truth can be known A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. Which is the second Spanish city with more modernist buildings? A) Melilla. B) Cartagena. C) Barcelona. D) Mallorca. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melilla. 15. When does Modernism as a literary and artistic movement begin? A) During the 1960s. B) Post WWII. C) Post WWI. D) Post Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Post WWI. 16. Representin' refers to: A) Artist represents their past and troubles. B) Artist represents their mistakes or fears. C) Artist represents their culture or identity. D) Artist represents their hopes and dreams. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 17. A single, overarching interpretation, or grand story, of reality. A) Meta. B) Metaverse. C) Metaphysics. D) Metanarrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metanarrative. 18. Capable of being held or defended A) Eschew. B) Germane. C) Emulate. D) Tenable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tenable. 19. Modernism avoids the similarity with nature A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 20. What is media representation A) Creating something new. B) Ways in which the media portrays particular groups. C) Helps to break some formulaic approaches. D) Powerful role models and sources of inspiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ways in which the media portrays particular groups. 21. Popularity of psychoanalysis A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British Modernism. 22. Which of the following are not synonymous with Postmodernism? A) Surrealism. B) Parody. C) Pastiche. D) Aleatory writing. E) Eclectic approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surrealism. 23. Before modernism started to take place in Barcelona's streets, it was a(n) ..... A) Industrial dark city. B) Small village inhabited by farmers. C) Better city than after modernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Industrial dark city. 24. Which of the following composers are not known as part of the "Second Viennese School" A) Arnold Schoenberg. B) Franz List. C) Anton Webern. D) Alban Berg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Franz List. 25. Explored the idea of a consumer society and claimed any division in society that exists are now formed by creative self-expression through consumption rather than by social class or employment. A) Pakulski and Waters. B) Strinati. C) Grunsky. D) Bauman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bauman. 26. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century. A) True. B) Falso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. Very emotional and dramatic | subjects are often taken from historical events or great literary works | elements of fantasy and magic A) Romanticism. B) Modernism. C) Realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 28. Which is not a definition of contemporary art? (Contemporary Art) A) Contains content or techniques developed from past creations. B) Copying the artist's original work into a new piece without change. C) Adopt the techniques of past creations. By changing the content to suit the present. D) Creating art that has content related to the present or the time at that time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Copying the artist's original work into a new piece without change. 29. According to Postmodernism, which of the following affects how we see the world? A) Culture. B) Language. C) Gender. D) All of the above. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 30. Modernist art reflects images with A) Vibrant colors. B) Clean, straight lines. C) Realistic human qualities. D) Distortion of shapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distortion of shapes. 31. Who was the first to coin the term of Defamiliarization A) Jacques Derrida. B) Edward Said. C) Viktor Shklovsky. D) Fredric Jameson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Viktor Shklovsky. 32. Who is an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century? A) Agatha Cristy. B) Virginia Woolf. C) George Orwell. D) James Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) James Joyce. 33. True or False:Media representation construct or remake your reality A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 34. A skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, that is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth claims are political power plays. A) Postmodernism. B) Philosophy. C) New Spirituality. D) Secularism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Postmodernism. 35. According to Postmodernism, human beings are what? A) Bodies and Souls. B) Persons. C) Centralized personalities. D) Social Constructs. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social Constructs. 36. Why representation on television is so important? A) It is an incredible source of information in our lives. B) We need to be telling everyone's story. C) Can validate the existence of ourselves and others. D) To show us about the characters on TV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Can validate the existence of ourselves and others. 37. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and was awarded the order of Merit by Britain A) Joseph Conrad. B) Thomas Stearns Eliot. C) Bernard Show. D) George Orwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Stearns Eliot. 38. Is a characteristic of Formalism Literary Criticism A) The symbolism of the work. B) Disregard to cultural or historical influences. C) Discontinuous narrative. D) Analysis of the background of the work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disregard to cultural or historical influences. 39. All of the following are aim of education according to postmodernism except A) Teaching critical thinking. B) Production of knowledge. C) Education helps students to construct their identities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Education helps students to construct their identities. 40. Which philosophy is based on real-world experiences and John Dewey's work? A) Existentialism. B) Progressivism. C) Social Reconstructionism. D) Perennialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Progressivism. 41. Which of the following statements about modernist and postmodernist literature's similarities is best supported by the text? (paragraph 6) A) Both movements focus on the reader's experience reading the text. B) Modernism and postmodernism rely on coherent meaning and a linear narrative. C) The two movements are characterized by an unreliable narrator. D) Each movement expresses the complexity and changes of their time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Each movement expresses the complexity and changes of their time. 42. Disruption of traditional plot A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 43. Postmodernism rejects all metanarratives. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. Who are the architects behind this creation? (shown in the image) A) Herzog & Meuron. B) Rogers & Piano. C) Foster & Koolhaas. D) Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rogers & Piano. 45. What does the narrator find on the pillow at the end of the short story about Miss Emily? A) A gray hair. B) A rose. C) A handkerchief. D) Her father's watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gray hair. 46. In "In a Station of the Metro, " to what does Ezra Pound compare the faces he sees? A) Flower petals. B) Trees. C) Rain. D) The sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flower petals. 47. Which describes one of the conflicts in the story 'A Rose for Emily'? A) Man vs. Man:Miss Emily's Dad is a draft dodger. B) Man vs. Society:Emily refuses to pay the town's taxes. C) Man vs. Society:Emily isn't allowed to go to college because she is a woman. D) Man vs. Nature:Emily's house is very run down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. Society:Emily refuses to pay the town's taxes. 48. All of these followings are Postmodern buildings inspired from Classical style, EXCEPT, A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 49. Ms. Swift emphasizes learning skills in the classroom. Ms. Swift probably subscribes to which philosophy? A) Essentialism. B) Perennialism. C) Social reconstructionism. D) Progressivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Essentialism. 50. True or False:Postmodernism asserts that all worldviews offer unbiased truth claims about reality. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 51. Modernism existed during A) From 1700-1740. B) Around 1890-1950. C) Around 1940s. D) Around 1845. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Around 1890-1950. 52. Postmodernism developed in the 20th century A) 1960ndatel. B) 1980ndatel. C) 1920ndatel. D) 1940ndatel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1960ndatel. 53. Is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way, in order to enhance perception of the familiar. A) Literary. B) Formalist. C) Dramaric construction. D) Defamiliarization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Defamiliarization. 54. Before the concept of postmodernism there was a concept of A) Industrialization. B) Modernism. C) Capitalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. 55. Harry has several flashbacks of life experiences he could have written about as he is dying, which Hemingway describes using stream-of-consciousness style. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 56. The author wants to make a claim that modern art may ..... the religious and theological impulse in the art and art making. A) Drop. B) Overlook. C) Dominate. D) Forget. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overlook. 57. Harry is suffering from snakebite. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 58. Which of the following is NOT a value shared by Modern artists? A) Mimesis. B) Individualism. C) Primitivism. D) Experimentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mimesis. 59. Has its etymology from the Latin word modo which means now or new A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Modernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modernism. 60. What isthedenialoftheexistenceoraccessibility ofanobjectivereality A) Anti-Realism. B) Realism. C) Pragmatism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anti-Realism. Next →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesModernism Quiz 2Modernism Quiz 3Modernism Quiz 4Modernism Quiz 5Modernism Quiz 6Modernism Quiz 7Modernism Quiz 8Modernism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books