This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The name "Liszt" translates to the word ..... A) Power. B) Shower. C) Tower. D) Flour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flour. 2. True and False:According to Postmodernism, universal truth can be known. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Nietzche predicted that once we killed our belief in God, all truth, meaning, and morality would continue to exist without him. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 4. Modernism started in A) 1900. B) 2000. C) 1800. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1900. 5. What do the town members finally do about "the smell" around Miss Emily's house? A) They cleaned her house for her. B) Judge Stevens made her move out. C) Sprinkle lime around and in her house. D) Tobe, her servant, stopped killing rats in the yard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sprinkle lime around and in her house. 6. What is significant about the boy finding his own drawings in the chest? A) The boy finally understands that the value of the chest is in preserving his family history in documents and other mementos. B) The boy takes comfort knowing that he will live on in his family history in the generations to come, even after he dies. C) The boy becomes emotional thinking about his childhood and is thankful to the chest for preserving his memories. D) The boy comprehends that, despite his best efforts, he cannot escape time, and he too will become a part of history. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The boy comprehends that, despite his best efforts, he cannot escape time, and he too will become a part of history. 7. Deconstruction says that the readers interpretation is more important than the author's intent. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Intertextuality is unique to literature. A) Wrong. B) Right. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrong. 9. Recalling the surrealist complexity of the conscious mind and early photographic techniques is: A) Layering. B) Glazing. C) Recontextualization. D) Appropriation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Layering. 10. A convention of modernism is ..... A) Positivity. B) Love. C) Conformity. D) Rebellion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rebellion. 11. Author haven't got control over his/hercharacters A) Post-modernism. B) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post-modernism. 12. One of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. He was was an apprentice of Louis Sullivan and embraced the use of new technology. A) Le Corbusier. B) Louis Sullivan. C) Frank Lloyd Wright. D) Mies Van Der Rohe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frank Lloyd Wright. 13. The belief that propositions do not mirror reality and should therefore be treated as tools and judged only by their practical consequences A) Realism. B) Power. C) Pragmatism. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatism. 14. A worldview of a particular subject or discipline A) Genre. B) Religion. C) Paradigm. D) Dynamic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradigm. 15. What does the word "glazed" in "The Red Wheelbarrow" suggest? A) It suggests that the shine created by the rain attracted the chickens to it. B) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was intentional. C) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was too bright. D) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was not natural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was intentional. 16. Modernism is..... A) A machine. B) A genre. C) A literary and artistic movement. D) An affliction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A literary and artistic movement. 17. During his boyhood, the main character in John Updike's "The Brown Chest" believes that the present is more powerful than the past. Which sentence from paragraph 1 of "The Brown Chest" supports this statement? A) The entire front of the house had this neglected quality, with its guest bedroom where guests hardly ever stayed. B) It held a gray-painted bed with silver moons on the headboard and corner posts shaped at the top like mushrooms. C) His mother sometimes, but not often, wrote letters and confided sentences to her diary in her tiny backslanting hand. D) The occasional scratch of her pen exerted just enough pressure to keep away the frightening shadows, the sad spirits from long ago, locked into events that couldn't change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The occasional scratch of her pen exerted just enough pressure to keep away the frightening shadows, the sad spirits from long ago, locked into events that couldn't change. 18. All are modernist novelist except..... A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) F. Scott Fitzgerald. C) W. Faulkner. D) E. Hemingway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 19. Writers use Pastiche in a book with only one genre. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Select one personality in the list who was was not bracketed as literary 'high priest' of Modern Period? A) Matthew Arnold. B) James Joyce. C) Wyndham Lewis. D) Ezra Pound. E) T.S.Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Matthew Arnold. 21. What does it mean by "architecture" ? A) Making and designing buildings. B) The pointed tops of buildings like churches. C) A powerful vision. D) *The front of a building. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making and designing buildings. 22. What were writers during this time period considered? A) The lost generation. B) Fools of the night. C) The new generation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The lost generation. 23. According to Postmodernism, language functions as what? A) A means for describing objective reality. B) A method for communicating truth. C) A tool of power and manipulation. D) A and B only. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A tool of power and manipulation. 24. What century did modernism occur? A) 16th century. B) 19th century. C) 17th century. D) 20th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20th century. 25. Which of the following selections best explains why many modernist authors and artists rejected realism in their work? A) They felt that realism was boring and wanted to be more creative. B) Rejecting realism was a form of protest after World War I. C) They wanted their work to reflect the new sense of instability in the world. D) They believed realism was for the elite and wanted to create new art for the people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They wanted their work to reflect the new sense of instability in the world. 26. After Modernism came ..... A) Post-Modernism. B) Prior-Modernism. C) Pure Modernism. D) Pre-Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post-Modernism. 27. Which psychoanalyst coined the term "archetype" and developed the theory of the Collective Unconscious? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Carl Jung. C) Friedrich Nietzsche. D) William James. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carl Jung. 28. True or False:Media representation is very limited to racial minorities. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. Postmodernism rehects the metanarrative inherent in which of the following worldviews? A) New Spirituality. B) Secularism. C) Marxism. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 30. Postmodernists agree on long-held beliefs. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 31. What is Postmodernism A) Everything could be explained through religion or science. B) Ideas and values associated with a form of modernism. C) Refers to an opinion or movement. D) It is often viewed as a culture of quotations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is often viewed as a culture of quotations. 32. Which of the following terms Webern is NOT known for A) 12 Tone. B) Neoclassicism. C) Timbre melody. D) Pointillism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neoclassicism. 33. Which literary technique is used by a writer to create a "mental picture" for the reader? A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 34. Simulation and stimulation consist in 1. The forms of higher civilization are first adopted by imitation 2. The own fund is created A) Fals. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 35. Originated in Europe toward 1800 to 1850 A) Modernism. B) Romanticism. C) Realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 36. BAROQUE music was a combination of ..... and ..... A) Love + War. B) Peanut Butter + Jelly. C) Ballads + Rap Battles. D) Intellect + Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intellect + Emotion. 37. The nomenclature of Brutalism Architecture was coined due to the use of this main material A) Beton Arme. B) Raw Concrete. C) Beton Prefabrique. D) Raw wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raw Concrete. 38. What is the effect of the structure in the essay "Loneliness ..... an American Malady" by Carson McCullers? A) The melancholic thoughts in the narration create a frustrated and incoherent mood. B) The sense of moral isolation creates a need to belong among emotionally detached readers. C) The stream-of-consciousness narration allows a more intimate connection to the reader. D) The clear and concise narration allows the reader to draw connections across the essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stream-of-consciousness narration allows a more intimate connection to the reader. 39. True or False:Postmodernism rejects all metanarratives. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 40. Clear distinction between high and lowgenres A) Post-modernism. B) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. 41. Who helped develop the Existentialist philosophy? A) Jean paul Sartre. B) John Dewey. C) Albert Bandura. D) B.F. Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jean paul Sartre. 42. During the ..... era, melodies were not as precise (i.e. vague, blurred, but impactful). A) Baroque. B) Classical. C) Impressionist. D) Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impressionist. 43. A hybrid worldview that incorporates elements of postmodern philosophy and Christian theology. A) Christian Consciousness. B) Christian Left. C) Christian Conditioning. D) Christian postmodernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christian postmodernism. 44. In Postmodernism, "universal truths" may be abolished. What is universal truth? A) Time. B) Right vs. Wrong. C) Life has ups and downs. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. A person who follows next in order A) Supervisor. B) Advocate. C) Predecessor. D) Successor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Successor. 46. Which of the following best describes the Modernist view of cities? A) Similar to the Romantic view:cities are a scar on the natural world and debilitating to the humans who live in them. B) Conflicted:cities are both an energizing and a dehumanizing force. C) Fundamentally positive:cities are a melting pot where new fortunes may be made. D) Neutral:Modern artists rarely engaged with the motif of city versus nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflicted:cities are both an energizing and a dehumanizing force. 47. What is the philosophy that says that a pluralistic worldview that states that there is no one truth but various subjective interpretations and all individual truths have an equal chance? A) Postmodernism. B) Marxism. C) Idealism. D) Behaviourism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Postmodernism. 48. A pre-socratic school of philosophy that taught the art of rhetoric and held skeptical views of truth, knowledge, and morality; a derogatory term used to describe a specious argument intended to manipulate, trick, or deceive. A) Sophism. B) Gorgiasism. C) Platonism. D) Mullinsism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sophism. 49. Portrays life (even the ugly issues) A) Modernism. B) Romanticism. C) Realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realism. 50. It's development became a crucial aspect of Modern architecture. It had its roots in the iron frames that began to make their appearance in the tall office buildings of Chicago in the 1880s.with it development, the walls were no longer required to bear any weight; instead, the building was held up by the interior frame, while the walls kept the weather out.-allowed for considerable flexibility of plan, -with steel beams and girders allowing for the creation of wide interior spaces. A) Iron frame. B) Wooden frame. C) Glass frame. D) Steel frame. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Steel frame. 51. What does Miss Emily purchase from the druggist? A) Ajax. B) Arsenic. C) Bleach. D) Borax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arsenic. 52. He describes a house as a machine for living in. A) Louis Sullivan. B) Frank Lloyd Wright. C) Mies Van Der Rohe. D) Le Corbusier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Le Corbusier. 53. Russian formalism was founded in 1961 in St. Petersburg A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 54. A postmodern society is characterised by social divisions based on class. Freedom of choice is still based on income. A) Hetherington and Harvard. B) Harvey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hetherington and Harvard. 55. Which author was influenced by the war? A) Kurt Vonnegut. B) Thomas Pynchon. C) John Fowles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kurt Vonnegut. 56. An intellectual movement that agrees with structuralism-it is more important to study language and relationships because it is impossible to have knowledge of objective reality-but progresses further by contending that human communication is not really about things but about the views and motivations of those involved in the conversation A) Post Haste. B) Poststructuralism. C) Postman. D) Post Meta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poststructuralism. 57. What isamethodofliteraryanalysisthatseeks toexposetheunderlyingideologiesofatext A) Anti-Realism. B) Pragmatism. C) Deconstruction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deconstruction. 58. It is not that modern art rejects God; it is that it contests the belief of God A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. Lovinescu is considered the founder of Romanian modernism according to the theory of imitation and synchronism A) True. B) Fals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. Where was modernism more important? A) Zaragoza. B) Barcelona. C) Zamora. D) Astorga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barcelona. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesModernism Quiz 1Modernism Quiz 2Modernism Quiz 3Modernism Quiz 5Modernism Quiz 6Modernism Quiz 7Modernism Quiz 8Modernism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books