This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This type of style is a trademark of Mies van der Rohe who favors the use of steel and glass materials in his work A) Smoke & Mirror. B) Solid & Void. C) Vertical & Horizontal. D) Skin & Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skin & Bone. 2. Which of the following is a result of Sandburg"s willingness to write about both positive and negative characteristics of Chicago? A) It makes Chicago seem like all other cities. B) It makes Sandburg seem like he does not know the city well. C) It makes Chicago look boring. D) It builds Sandburg's credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It builds Sandburg's credibility. 3. The Modernism was a movement that begun with the industrialization after the second world war in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It principal mission was A) Continue with the fine arts methods, looking for the classic forms and the medieval aesthetic. B) Make clean and pure designs based principally on their structure as a design element to organize the space. C) Break all connections to classical times, bringing down the barriers between the fine arts and applied arts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Break all connections to classical times, bringing down the barriers between the fine arts and applied arts. 4. His full name is Charles Edouard Jeanneret A) Louis Sullivan. B) Le Corbusier. C) Frank Lloyd Wright. D) Mies Van Der Rohe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Le Corbusier. 5. Which philosophy questions purpose, impact, and existence? A) Existentialism. B) Postmodernism. C) Constructivism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Existentialism. 6. An intellectual movement that believes human knowledge is not based on an accurate understanding of reality but is the product of linguistically constructed forms or grammars that societies have developed over time. A) Postmodernism. B) Sophism. C) Pragmatism. D) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structuralism. 7. The occurrence or frequency of occurrences of something undesirable A) Dynamic. B) Hierarchy. C) Incidence. D) Paradigm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incidence. 8. What was the name for the expatriate artists who left the United States after World War I? A) The War Generation. B) The Lost Generation. C) Lost Artists. D) Traitors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Lost Generation. 9. Pastiche refers to ..... A) When an artist adds materials corrode or eat away the surface of (something). B) A unit of liquid or dry capacity using for ceramic materials. C) An art movement from the 1800s. D) The borrowing and combing of aspects from different styles and/or cultures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The borrowing and combing of aspects from different styles and/or cultures. 10. True or False:Postmodernism and Modernism are not seen in poetry today. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. A celebration of diversity can be found in much of the literature of the Post-Modernist period. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. Father of Modernism A) Mies Van Der Rohe. B) Louis Sullivan. C) Frank Lloyd Wright. D) Le Corbusier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Louis Sullivan. 13. The American Literature Modernist movement occurred approximately between ..... A) 1910-1945. B) 1810-1840. C) 1310-1340. D) 1910-2000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1910-1945. 14. True or False:Postmodernism are not seen in poetry today. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 15. Which art cult uses silk-screen printing techniques to create its works? A) Pop Art. B) Surrealism. C) Fauvism. D) Impressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pop Art. 16. The most used elements in modernism architecture are A) Straight lines, circles and mosaics. B) Curved animals, waves and flowers. C) Big windows and clear facades. D) Waved feminine figures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Curved animals, waves and flowers. 17. Multiple narration A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 18. Use of poetic line, massive alliteration, and non-traditional meter is characteristic of ..... A) Rhythmic poetry. B) Free verse poetry. C) Spoken word poetry. D) Gothic poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse poetry. 19. Which movement promoted the practice of randomly inserting statements from newspapers and coffee table books to compose poems? A) Surrealism. B) Dadaism. C) Romantic Period. D) Victorian Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dadaism. 20. True or False:a Modern painter would have loved to be exhibited in the Louvre (the museum in Paris where the Mona Lisa and many other masterpieces are displayed). A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 21. Subjective perception of time A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British Modernism. 22. Who wrote the poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" and is considered America's first poet laureate? A) Carl Sandberg. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) Robert Frost. D) T. S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Frost. 23. To move from one country or region to another and settle there A) Volunteer. B) Migrate. C) Dynamic. D) Paradigm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Migrate. 24. Which author is known for his complex works? A) John Fowles. B) Kurt Vonnegut. C) Thomas Pynchon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Pynchon. 25. Which of the following historical events did NOT influence the Modernist period of literature? A) World War II. B) Technological innovation. C) World War I. D) Industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) World War II. 26. How many elements of modernism in literature and what are they? A) 3. B) 4. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 27. All of these followings are categorized as Hi-Tech style, EXCEPT, A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 28. Useful-Recognises that groups are formed because of consumer choices rather than your class or social position. A) Heather. B) Katz. C) Maffesoli. D) Foucault. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maffesoli. 29. A system of ranking according to status, power, or importance A) Paradigm. B) Advocate. C) Hierarchy. D) Incidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hierarchy. 30. The author suggests that we should rethink about modern art narrative to understand how Christian influences and impulses shape modern art A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 31. Which literary technique involves the repetition of certain sounds or letters? A) Simile. B) Tone. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 32. Postmodernsit doubt the objectivity of which of the following disciplines? A) Evolutionary biology. B) Science. C) Math. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 33. Jean-FrancisLyotarddescribedPostmodernismasan "incredulity toward what? A) Metanarratives. B) Christian Postmodernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metanarratives. 34. THE EVIL WITCH IS TALKING WITH THE GLINA THE GOOD WITCH. THE EVIL QUEEN THEN LOOKS AT THE AUDIENCE AND SAYS, "GOD SHE'S SUCH AN AIRHEAD!" A) SELF AWARENESS. B) HYPER-REALITY. C) METAFICTION. D) DREAMS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SELF AWARENESS. 35. Using an image from pop culture would most likely be: A) Recontextualization. B) Layering. C) Appropriation. D) Reference to authority. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appropriation. 36. An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect A) Pseudonym. B) Patriarchy. C) Parody. D) Paradigm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parody. 37. The hybrid worldview of ..... teaches that since we are fallen and limited, we should demonstrate Christian humility by refusing to make exclusive truth claims. A) Christian Postmodernism. B) Post Modernism. C) New Spirituality. D) Anti-realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christian Postmodernism. 38. Reality is created by the psyche. german movement in the early 20th century A) Cubism. B) Expressionism. C) Surrealism. D) Impressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expressionism. 39. Which themes are common in Carson McCullers's works? A) Wealth and greed. B) Loneliness and isolation. C) Adventure and intrigue. D) Mystery and suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loneliness and isolation. 40. The Modernist agreed with the traditional american dream A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 41. Who is the first important writer coming from a working class? A) David Herbert Lawrence. B) Agatha Cristy. C) Ernest Hemingway. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) David Herbert Lawrence. 42. If impressionism uses whole-tone scale, expressionism uses what scale? A) Diatonic scale. B) Pentatonic scale. C) Twelve-tone scale. D) Whole-tone scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Twelve-tone scale. 43. Artists respond to the context of suffering and cruelty of modern life such as sweatshops, world wars, death camps, nuclear warfare, genocides, environmental catastrophes ..... This does not necessitate the rejection of religion, but does imply a ..... relation to its traditions A) Worn. B) Unbreakable. C) Fragile. D) Tenuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fragile. 44. According to to Postmodernism, things do not have an essences. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche argues that art should strike a balance between which two "gods" ? A) Apollo and Dionysus. B) Yahweh and Moloch. C) Zeus and Hades. D) Hecate and Demeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apollo and Dionysus. 46. A direct attack against any social structure that controls an individual A) Romanticism. B) Modernism. C) Realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. 47. True or False:According to Postmodernism, there is meaning in the text. A) True. B) Decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decisions. 48. What is a "trifle" ? A) A chocolate candy. B) A dessert. C) A small, insignificant problem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A small, insignificant problem. 49. Postmodernism rejects the metanarrative inherent in which of the following worldviews? A) New Spirituality. B) Secularism. C) Marxism. D) All of the above. E) A and B only. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 50. Who/what gives his harness bells a shake in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ? A) The little mule. B) The little cow. C) The little pony. D) The little horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The little horse. 51. What is "pastiche" ? A) A literary collage. B) A text within a text. C) Many texts about the same topic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A literary collage. 52. A person's thoughts, feelings, and reactions to events are perceived as a continuous flow A) Multiplication. B) Stream of consciousness. C) Fragmentation. D) Train of thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stream of consciousness. 53. Form follows function A) Le Corbusier. B) Louis Sullivan. C) Frank Lloyd Wright. D) Mies Van Der Rohe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Louis Sullivan. 54. Define FLASHBACK. A) A contradictory statement that reveals a truth. B) A sudden realization or "A-ha" moment. C) A scene set in an earlier time. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A scene set in an earlier time. 55. Three reasons of secularity given by Charles Taylor include rejection of religion, fragile religion, and ..... of religion A) Publicity. B) Destatization. C) Nationalization. D) Privatization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Privatization. 56. Which of the following best describe Modern Literature? A) Impressionism, subjectivity, stream of consciousness. B) Omniscient external narration. C) Documentary and prose like poems. D) Fragmented forms, discontinuous narrative, collage of disparate materials. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 57. Taking familiar ideas and putting them in a new situation is: A) Gaze. B) Recontextualization. C) Layering. D) Appropriation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recontextualization. 58. Romanian modernism has the following stages: A) Neomodernism-avant-garde-. B) Neomodernism-Lovinesian modernism-avant-garde. C) Neomodernism-. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neomodernism-Lovinesian modernism-avant-garde. 59. The following is a criticism of the postmodernist philosophical movement. A) Tends to be ineffective. B) Tends to be radical. C) Tends to offer consistency of meaning. D) Tends to embrace only a handful of parties. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tends to be ineffective. 60. According to Postmodernism, truth is what? A) Objective. B) Universal. C) Neutral. D) Socially constructed. E) A and B only. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Socially constructed. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesModernism Quiz 1Modernism Quiz 2Modernism Quiz 4Modernism Quiz 5Modernism Quiz 6Modernism Quiz 7Modernism Quiz 8Modernism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books