This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is often true about the message of a Modern short story? A) It is often has an underlying meaning of the text. B) It often does not contain a message at all. C) It is often an apparent and happy message. D) It is located in story's resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is often has an underlying meaning of the text. 2. Jumbled chronology A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 3. Which of this quote is NOT from the Modernists? A) 'Form follows function'. B) 'Form follows precedence'. C) 'Less is more'. D) 'Ornament is a crime'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'Form follows precedence'. 4. What does the Green Light represent? A) The American Dream. B) The unobtainable. C) The past. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 5. A notable characteristic of modernism is self-consciousness A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 6. Relativist prospect is the A) Axiology of postmodernism. B) Ontology of postmodernism. C) Epistemology of postmodernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistemology of postmodernism. 7. AccordingtoPostmodernism, whichofthefollowingaffect howwesee theworld? A) Culture. B) Language. C) Gender. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 8. The young man received a conscription to the United States military. Conscription means ..... A) A summons. B) The practice of ordering people by law to serve in the armed forces; the draft. C) A referral. D) A reward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The practice of ordering people by law to serve in the armed forces; the draft. 9. What decades are included in the modern period? A) 17th-18th centuries. B) 19th-20th centuries. C) 20th-21st centuries. D) 18th-19th centuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 19th-20th centuries. 10. Because capitalism is still at the heart of western society we can hardly be in a fundamentally new type of society. A) Hetherington and Harvard. B) Harvey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harvey. 11. Postmodernism is a broad movement developed in the mid-to late ..... A) 18th century. B) 19th century. C) 20th century. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 20th century. 12. Which ONE of these following Postmodern buildings shown an example of anthropomorphism? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 13. Which cultural revolution is most closely associated with the Modern era? A) American. B) Russian. C) Industrial. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Russian. 14. Postmodernism and middle-way Buddhism share a smiliar view of truth. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. This type of government prohibits all opposition to the governing forces. A) Authoritarian. B) Totalitarian. C) Dictatorship. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Totalitarian. 16. Why didn't Homer marry Emily? A) He was a Northerner and it was not appropriate to marry a Southern girl. B) He liked men, and it was know that he drank with the younger men at the Elk's Club, and he was not the marrying type. C) The towns people did not approve of Homer. D) Her father did not approve of Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He liked men, and it was know that he drank with the younger men at the Elk's Club, and he was not the marrying type. 17. What is Modernism? A) A reaction that began during the WWI period that focused on a break from convention and tradition in art, literature, culture, etc. B) A reaction against the Romantic authors that focused on creating realistic, gritty narratives. C) A continuation of the Realist movement that now focused on WWI and the horrors of war. D) A break from Imagism that turned against using imagery and focused on hidden meaning in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A reaction that began during the WWI period that focused on a break from convention and tradition in art, literature, culture, etc. 18. 5)Stream of Consciousness A) Subjectivity. B) Evolution of Modernism in Literature. C) Fragmentation. D) Influences of Cultural Revivals. E) Intertextuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evolution of Modernism in Literature. 19. All Post-Modernists strictly adhere to traditional writing rules and regulations A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Which of the following is true about modernism? A) It was hopeful. B) It was mainly about naturalism and politics. C) It was pessimistic. D) It stated that the government was the highest form of authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was pessimistic. 21. On what point can Christians and Postmodernist find some agreement? A) Our culture plays a role in shape who we are. B) Our experience contribute to who we are. C) Language can be use to manipulate people. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 22. The word "verses" is synonymous with: A) Sol. B) Parfum. C) LYRICS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LYRICS. 23. Artists of this time period include all of the following except ..... A) William Faulkner. B) Ryder Frost. C) Susan Glaspell. D) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ryder Frost. 24. What is a major difference between Existentialism and Postmodernism? A) Existentialists focus on choice-making and life's purpose, while Postmodernists focus on finding truth and constructing ideas. B) Postmodernists focus on choice-making and life's purpose, while Existentialists focus on finding truth and constructing ideas. C) Existentialists do not believe in ultimate truths. D) Postmodernists believe that we should often reflect on our actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Existentialists focus on choice-making and life's purpose, while Postmodernists focus on finding truth and constructing ideas. 25. The writer of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was: A) Carl Sandberg. B) Robert Frost. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) T. S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) T. S. Eliot. 26. Disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be A) Disillusionment. B) Modernism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Biblical allusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disillusionment. 27. Mixing high and low genres A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 28. Uses lessons that both intellectually and emotionally stir students about the inequities that surround them. A) Essentialist. B) Perennialist. C) Social Reconstructionist. D) Progressivist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Reconstructionist. 29. Who is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) A) Bernard Show. B) Thomas Stearns Eliot. C) David Herbert Lawrence. D) James Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bernard Show. 30. How many major themes of literary works in modernism? A) 5. B) 4. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 31. The book Spring and All was written by: A) Alain Locke after world war 1William Carlos Williams after world war 1. B) Arthur Dove before world war 1Claude McKay during the world war 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alain Locke after world war 1William Carlos Williams after world war 1. 32. Rejection of historical styles. Materials and functional requirements determine the result. The elimination of unnecessary detailing leads to machine aesthetics. A) Bauhaus. B) Modernism. C) Late Modernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. 33. Frost's characterization of Silas is presented through ..... A) Silas's words and actions. B) Ambiguity. C) The speaker. D) Other character's words and dialogues. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Other character's words and dialogues. 34. The view that the truth of a proposition is determined by how accurately it describes the facts of reality. A) Correspondence theory of reality. B) Collective Consciousness. C) Cosmological Argument. D) Correspondence theory of truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Correspondence theory of truth. 35. Who is the author of The Grapes of Wrath? A) Virginia Woolf. B) Anna Akhmatova. C) James Joyce. D) John Steinbeck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Steinbeck. 36. Who wrote about problematic parent-child relationships? A) Bernard Show. B) Virginia Woolf. C) James Joyce. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bernard Show. 37. True or False:Postmodernism does not have a specific definition. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. The process of breaking or being broken into small or separate parts A) Fragmentation. B) Parody. C) Multiplication. D) Hierarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fragmentation. 39. Any ideological, artistic, literary movement that, spontaneously or programmed, breaks with tradition or even denies it, opting for anti-conservative attitudes, ways of thinking and expression, is situated in the direction of modernism. A) True. B) Fals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. When did the modernism appear? A) 2022. B) 19th-20th century. C) 18th-19th century. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 19th-20th century. 41. Postmodern writes use more than one voice to narrate a story. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Which of the following is NOT a theme in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?" A) Modernism. B) Inaction and indecision. C) Social anxiety. D) Renaissance art. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Renaissance art. 43. Modernism is an era in which aurthor's rebelled against ..... ? A) Clear-cut storytelling. B) Formulaic verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formulaic verse. 44. Pick out the phrase used by Ezra Pound to describe his poem The Cantos A) Sack-bag. B) Duck-bag. C) Rag-bag. D) Duck-back. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rag-bag. 45. What year was the work "The Sound and the Fury" published? A) 1930. B) 1928. C) 1929. D) 1927. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1929. 46. ..... want to leave their country because they are afraid for their safety. A) Expatriate. B) Expedient. C) Explicit. D) Exodus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expatriate. 47. Having fore-knowledge A) Palisade. B) Prescient. C) Incipient. D) Magnanimous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prescient. 48. Beck studied "Blurred boundaries" A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 49. Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in A) Early-to mid 20th century. B) Early-to mid 19th century. C) Mid-to late 20th century. D) Mid-to late 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mid-to late 20th century. 50. The Love Song of J.Alfred Proofrock was written by famous Modernist ..... A) Alfred Tennyson. B) Emily Dickinson. C) T. S Eliot. D) Allen Ginsberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T. S Eliot. 51. A person who supports and publicly campaigns for a particular cause, idea, or person A) Volunteer. B) Paradigm. C) Advocate. D) Successor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Advocate. 52. "Make it NEW" was the motto of what specific literary movement? A) Imagism. B) Lost Generation. C) Harlem Renaissance. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modernism. 53. In "Death of a Hired Man" Why doesn't Warren want Silas to come back? A) Silas once stole money from Warren. B) Silas is not good at his work of rolling the hay into bales. C) Warren thinks that Silas is unreliable. D) Harold Wilson is a better educated worker than Silas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Warren thinks that Silas is unreliable. 54. Modernism is an architectural movement developed to modernise Barcelona A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. Merging of human sciences with literary theory A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American. 56. Theological thinking about modern art means ..... of religious question into the conversation A) Reintroduction. B) Reinvention. C) Restoration. D) Reinstatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reintroduction. 57. Which ONE of these following is the work of Frank Lloyd Wright? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 58. The Dadaists wrote flowery, elaborate verses A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 59. During the story, the main characters do not return to civilization to get Harry medical care because he is stubborn and doesn't want to. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 60. 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