This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It features organic shapes and the exterior looks like a shell. Visitors would begin on the upper level following a sloping ramp downward to view the exhibit. A) Villa Savoye. B) Guggenheim Museum. C) Johnson Wax Administration Building. D) Unite d'Habitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Guggenheim Museum. 2. When happened revolution in Russia? A) 1932. B) 1914. C) 1917. D) 1924. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1917. 3. On what point can Christians and Postmodernism find some agreement? A) We cannot judge between competing ideas. B) We cannot perceive reality as it actually is. C) All language is manipulative. D) All of the above. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) None of the above. 4. Which sociologist studied "Surveillance" A) Beck. B) Foucalt. C) Pakulski and Waters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foucalt. 5. What is the Classical feature that inspired the animation characters featured in this Eisner Building? A) Caryatid. B) Greek Sculpture. C) Atlas. D) Roman Sculpture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atlas. 6. Which one is NOT a Postmodernist? A) Jacques Derrida. B) Michel Foucault. C) Ivan Pavlov. D) Jean-Francois Lyotard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ivan Pavlov. 7. Virtual reality allows you to experience and control reality more with your senses. A) Correct. B) Vale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vale. 8. He is much less concerned with spiritual relationships and much more with a sort of material fatalism ..... A) Rupert Brooke. B) Dylan Thomas. C) Joseph Conrad. D) Samuel Beckett. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joseph Conrad. 9. The theme of violence and destruction was often used in the literature of the second half of the 19th century. A) Vale. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vale. 10. What war provides the ending date of modernism? A) Korean war. B) WWII. C) The revolutionary war. D) Ww1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WWII. 11. Free verse is written with a structured meter and strict rhyme scheme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. What are value of postmodernism? A) Objective. B) Negative. C) Subjective. D) Passive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subjective. 13. Postmodernism is a reaction against the intellectual assumptions and values of ..... A) Romanticism. B) Classicism. C) Modernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modernism. 14. The society lost its right to define "us" and "them" A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American. 15. One important trend in Modernist architecture is the movement toward ..... or reductivist design. This includes-open floor plans with few if any interior walls;-emphasis on the outline or frame of the structure;-incorporating negative spaces around the structure as part of the overall design;-using lighting to dramatize geometric lines and planes; and-stripping the building of all but the most essential elements A) Austere and Clean. B) White Box movement. C) Modernism (1850s). D) Minimalism (1940s). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Minimalism (1940s). 16. Choose ALL elements of Postmodernism below: A) Intertextuality. B) Reference to the individual. C) Fragmentation. D) Social Evils. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intertextuality. 17. Who is the author of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?" A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Walt Whitman. C) Robert Frost. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Frost. 18. Who wrote "Death of a Hired Man" A) Langston Hughes. B) John Steinbeck. C) T.S. Eliot. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Frost. 19. THE DIRECTORS USE OF SCENES, MUSIC, AND DIALOGUE TO BREAK THE STORY INTO VIGNETTES. A) DREAMS. B) INTERTEXTUALITY. C) SELF-AWARENESS. D) FRAGMENTATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) FRAGMENTATION. 20. Style has become important in defining features of identity. Advertising and marketing play an important role as they generate 'must have' fashions and 'must have' products. A) Pakulski and Waters. B) Strinati. C) Grunsky. D) Bauman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strinati. 21. Why are ethnic representations so different than racial representations? A) It is an incredible source of information in our lives. B) We need to be telling everyone's story.This is a wrong answer we need to be telling everyone's story. C) To show us about the characters on TV. D) Can validate the existence of ourselves and others. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can validate the existence of ourselves and others. 22. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Modernism era? A) Absurdity. B) Experimentation. C) Informalism. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Informalism. 23. Which of these followings are an extension of Postmodernism style? A) Vernacular & Regionalism. B) Hi-Tech & Deconstructivism. C) Utilitarian & Metabolism. D) De Stijl & Futurism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hi-Tech & Deconstructivism. 24. What was J.S. Bach's lifelong favorite instrument? A) The violin. B) The organ. C) The piano. D) The Magic Flute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The organ. 25. The Wasteland is a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories or fragments of stories A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 26. Modernism is also seen in..... A) Music. B) Sculpture. C) Philosophy. D) All of the options listed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the options listed. 27. According to Postmodenrism, there is meaning in the text. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 28. Houses that can be assembled using pre-fabricated wood sandwich panels erected with simple construction. A) Usonian Houses. B) Villa Savoye. C) Villa Dirickz. D) Unite d'Habitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Usonian Houses. 29. Branch of modernism known as "the fleeting reality" A) Surrealism. B) Impressionism. C) Expressionism. D) Cubism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impressionism. 30. My mother developed pericarditis. Pericarditis means ..... A) A type of cancer. B) An infection of the eye. C) An inflammation of the thin membrane that goes around the heart. D) A crippled leg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An inflammation of the thin membrane that goes around the heart. 31. True or False:Postmodern literary criticism claims that words cannot accurately describe objects in the world. A) True. B) Decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. A common narrative of modern art in academic literature is that religion plays a constructive role in the development of modern art. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 33. What does the narrator find on the pillow at the end of the short story? A) A gray hair. B) A rose. C) A handkerchief. D) Her father's watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gray hair. 34. Focus on inner life and human subjectivity A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British Modernism. 35. Which one is the best example of postmodernism A) Family Guy. B) Tom and Jerry. C) Power Puff Girls. D) Princess Sofia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Family Guy. 36. When did the era of postmodernism begin? A) The end of the era of consumerism. B) The End of Post-fordism. C) The start of the cold war. D) Start of the Vietnam war. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The start of the cold war. 37. Modernsim is based in the concept of the ..... as finder of originality and harmony A) Sadness. B) Simplicity. C) Attractiveness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attractiveness. 38. When did Modernism roughly occur in American literature? A) 1920-1960. B) 1960-present day. C) 1914-1945. D) 1890-1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1914-1945. 39. He notes that globalisation has played a role in helping to shape a postmodern consumer society. Whereby people can access and blend different cultures and ideas though picking and mixing. A) Pakulski and Waters. B) Strinati. C) Grunsky. D) Bauman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grunsky. 40. What is entanglement? A) Capital writing. B) Writing with a capital letter at the beginning of the verse. C) Writing with a small letter at the beginning of the verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Writing with a small letter at the beginning of the verse. 41. Writing was ..... A) Conventional. B) Experimental. C) Judgemental. D) Fantastical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Experimental. 42. Postmodernism rejects 'grand narratives and promotes 'mininarratives' A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. Modernism Period A) 1860s-1970s. B) 1850s-1980s. C) 1860s-1980s. D) 1850s-1970s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1850s-1970s. 44. What information does the following passage (paragraph 1) mainly reveal about modernism and postmodernism?Even though the word reality is in the title, most reality shows are in fact carefully constructed narratives pieced together by directors and producers. The dramatic confrontations, the way viewers identify with or vilify the participants, the self-aware finales, and the fragmented storylines are all elements with roots in literary periods known as modernism and postmodernism. A) It is wrong to vilify reality show contestants. B) Modernism and postmodernism continue to affect popular culture today. C) Reality shows are not as "real" as they claim to be. D) Modernism and postmodernism are unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism and postmodernism continue to affect popular culture today. 45. Loosely related free associations A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British Modernism. 46. Modernist heroes often..... A) Experience injustice and frustration with everyday life. B) Overcome all obstacles during their journey. C) Have supernatural abilities. D) Are optimistic about the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Experience injustice and frustration with everyday life. 47. True or False:According to Postmodernism, science cannot tell us what is true, only what science believe to be true. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. Ms. Perry likes to engage students in projects that make a difference in the real-world. One project had students designing their ideal school. Ms. Perry probably believes in which teaching philosophy? A) Essentialism. B) Progressivism. C) Social reconstructionism. D) Perennialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social reconstructionism. 49. An empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles A) Experimentalism. B) Fragmentation. C) Interiority. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Experimentalism. 50. Historiographic metafiction A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British. 51. What contendsthatpropositionsdon'tmirror realityand shouldthereforebetreatedas toolsandjudgedbytheir practicalconsequences. A) Pragmatism. B) Anti-Realism. C) Deconstruction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pragmatism. 52. A consumption-based identity developed in the 1950s and 1970s A) Correct. B) Vale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 53. Imagist poets sought to create ..... in each poem. A) Long epics. B) A complex rhyme scheme. C) Complex, elevated langauge. D) A single, evocative image. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A single, evocative image. 54. Precursors of modernism: A) Sigmund Freud and Ernst Mach. B) Andrew Bird. C) Nat King Cole. D) Taylor swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sigmund Freud and Ernst Mach. 55. Postmodernism agrees there is one individual "self." A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 56. Mcluhan studied the concept of Global Village A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 57. Class is reduced to a crude and blunt instrument, incapable of handling the nuances of postmodern society. Concentrating on social class is unhelpful because societies are changing from class based society towards ones where stratification is primarily cultural. Societies are organised around differences of lifestyle and patterns of consumption. A) Pakulski and Waters. B) Strinati. C) Grunsky. D) Bauman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pakulski and Waters. 58. Postmodernism movement may have been influenced by this factors, EXCEPT, A) Reaction against future architectural development. B) Inspired from a book titled 'Learning from Las Vegas'. C) Appreciation towards precedence architecture. D) As a reaction against Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reaction against future architectural development. 59. Which of these is not a Mati Undi novel? A) "Autumn Ball". B) "There are things in the night". C) "The Name of the Rose". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Name of the Rose". 60. One of Mozart's lifelong passions was ..... A) Opera. B) Playing the organ. C) Dancing the Waltz. D) Yoga. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opera. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesModernism Quiz 1Modernism Quiz 2Modernism Quiz 3Modernism Quiz 4Modernism Quiz 6Modernism Quiz 7Modernism Quiz 8Modernism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books