This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Master of realism A) Gustave Courbet. B) Salvador Dali. C) Van Gogh. D) Pablo Picasso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gustave Courbet. 2. Aims to provide a textual equivalent to the stream fo a fictional character's consciousness A) Free verse poetry. B) Modernist themes. C) Stream of consciousness. D) Features of narratives. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stream of consciousness. 3. What is one thing that pulls the speaker of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" away from the woods? A) Promises the speaker needs to keep. B) The freezing, harsh wind. C) The darkness of the evening. D) The cold, snowy weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Promises the speaker needs to keep. 4. What did Hart say about facebook being a new form of autobiography? A) People are writing what reflects the values of their society. B) It creates a global village. C) It promotes risk societies. D) People are more exposed to exploring different cultures and participate in cultural borrowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People are writing what reflects the values of their society. 5. What is the name of Miss Emily's love interest? A) Homer Simpson. B) Homer Iliad. C) Homer Odyssey. D) Homer Barron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homer Barron. 6. According to paragraphs 3 and 4 of "Loneliness ..... an American Malady" by Carson McCullers, what paradox do people struggle with in life? A) Maturity can only be gained once people become more aware of their personal needs. B) Gaining awareness of one's "self" causes a person to yearn for companionship with others. C) Even though other animals are unaware of self, humans and other animals still struggle with social conformity. D) Self-consciousness arises at an early age, but people continue to develop personality in later years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gaining awareness of one's "self" causes a person to yearn for companionship with others. 7. Which of these Art Movements developed during this time? A) Rococo. B) Renaissance. C) Baroque. D) Futurism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Futurism. 8. Which Postmodernist philosopher famously pronounced, "god is dead" ? A) Friedrich Nietzsche. B) Michel Foucault. C) Walter Truett Anderson. D) Jean-Francis Lyotard. E) Richard Rorty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friedrich Nietzsche. 9. What is the belief that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, truth, or essential value. A) Nihilism. B) Sophist. C) Poststructuralism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nihilism. 10. According to Postmodernism, words are about things. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Who was thought the mother of the American modernism? A) Lucrecia Borgia. B) Georgia O'Keefe. C) Caterina Sforza. D) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Georgia O'Keefe. 12. Define FORESHADOW. A) The way an author writes. B) Word choice. C) A warning or indication of a future event. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A warning or indication of a future event. 13. ..... is a method of literary analysis that seeks to expose the underlying ideology of a text. A) Deconstruction. B) Metanarratives. C) Anti-realism. D) Pragmatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deconstruction. 14. Postmodernists claim that the notion of subjective truth is used to oppress others A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. In the modernist period, a new type of character appears: A) Dreamer. B) Miser. C) Liar. D) The lucid intellectual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The lucid intellectual. 16. True or False:Satire is a popular technique to making social commentary in television A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. In contemporary society, you are increasingly controlled and monitored in ways that are not always recognised-CCTV and loyalty cards. Private companies and security guards are used in place of the police and prison service. A) Maffesoli. B) Heather. C) Foucault. D) Katz. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foucault. 18. 3)Ma gic Realism A) Included writers like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. B) Had a significant impact on literature. C) Magic realism emerged as a literary genre. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magic realism emerged as a literary genre. 19. Which genre of literature is typically written in verse? A) Graphic Novel. B) Speech. C) Poem. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poem. 20. A sphere on which the map of the Earth is represented A) Globe. B) Atlas. C) Advocate. D) Paradigm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Globe. 21. Helen does not know how to hunt, so the helpers have to catch their dinner. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. What is this an example of:I walk across sand And find myself blistering In the hot, hot heat A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Slam Poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 23. What is the goal of postmodernism? A) Make society have a stable foundation. B) Building a rational society. C) Offering new values to society. D) Enable society to live in consumerist opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Offering new values to society. 24. What change took place in Miss Emily's relationship with the town for a period of several years when Miss Emily was in her forties? A) She began dating again. B) She opened her house for friends to visit. C) She taught china painting lessons. D) She gave tours of her house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She taught china painting lessons. 25. According to this excerpt from "Loneliness ..... an American Malady" by Carson McCullers, what paradox do people struggle with in life?Consciousness of self is the first abstract problem that the human being solves. Indeed, it is this self-consciousness that removes us from lower animals. This primitive grasp of identity develops with constantly shifting emphasis through all our years. Perhaps maturity is simply the history of those mutations that reveal to the individual the relation between himself and the world in which he finds himself.After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us. A) Self-consciousness arises at an early age, but people continue to develop personality in later years. B) Even though other animals are unaware of self, humans and other animals still struggle with social conformity. C) Gaining awareness of one's "self" causes a person to yearn for companionship with others. D) Maturity can only be gained once people become more aware of their personal needs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gaining awareness of one's "self" causes a person to yearn for companionship with others. 26. A generous donor A) Philanthropist. B) Misogyny. C) Anthropologist. D) Homage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philanthropist. 27. Which sociologist studied Identity and digital forms of communication A) Johal and Bains. B) Beck. C) Collins. D) Mcluhan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collins. 28. What occurred during the modernist era? A) Limited options. B) Profound religious dedication. C) New possibilities. D) Extreme poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New possibilities. 29. Artistic, literary and intellectual A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Modernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 30. The state lost its control over people A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British. 31. The response of the men to the women in the play "Trifles" suggests that the men think the women are A) Dangerous and subversive. B) Lazy and annoying. C) Silly and superficial. D) Helpful and accommodating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silly and superficial. 32. True or False:Parodies imitate the style and technique of something/someone A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. Which of the following is an element of Modernism? A) Paradox. B) Emphasis on nature. C) Influenced by growth of cities. D) Early 2000s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Influenced by growth of cities. 34. First conceived by Pablo Picasso with his work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and in Georges Braque's works A) Surrealism. B) Cubism. C) Impressionism. D) Expressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cubism. 35. Please fulfill the blanks to complete the sentence meaning:We're having a new carpet ..... in the hall next week. A) Interrupted. B) Laid. C) Attracted. D) Sprouted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Laid. 36. The process of breaking apart into small pieces A) Experimentalism. B) Fragmentation. C) Stream of consciousness. D) Disintegration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragmentation. 37. Focus on irrational A) Modernism. B) Post-modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post-modernism. 38. DOROTHY WAKES UP IN HER BED AFTER CLICKING HER HEELS. WAS IT ALL REAL? A) INTERTEXTUALITY. B) SELF-AWARENESS. C) DREAMS. D) HYPER-REALITY. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) DREAMS. 39. What isanintellectualmovementthat contendshumancommunicationisnotreallyaboutthingsbutabout theviews andmotivations ofthoseinvolvedintheconversation. A) Post-structuralism. B) Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post-structuralism. 40. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath? A) T.S. Eliot. B) Robert Frost. C) John Steinbeck. D) Langston Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Steinbeck. 41. Jean-Francis Lyotard describing Postmodernism as an "incredulity towards ..... " A) Pragmatism. B) Reality. C) Metanarrative. D) Postmodernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metanarrative. 42. Modernists aimed to reflect ..... A) The hope felt after then end of war. B) The love of nature. C) The disjointed and scattered nature of post-war society. D) The enjoyment of capitalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The disjointed and scattered nature of post-war society. 43. Which of these items is most likely an important symbol in the play "Trifles" ? A) The kitchen towels. B) The rocking chair. C) The dead bird. D) The windows. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The dead bird. 44. Language, according to postmodernism is: A) A means for describing objective reality. B) A method of communicating truth. C) A tool of power and manipulation. D) A jumble of non-coherent sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A tool of power and manipulation. 45. What type of heroes do we find in writing during the time period of Modernism? A) Lovable. B) Brave. C) Complex. D) Flawed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flawed. 46. No connection with history or institutions Championship of the individual and celebration of inner strength Life is unordered Concerned with the sub-consciousWhat do these statements mean? A) Characteristics of Kubizm. B) Characteristics of Modernism. C) Characteristics of Classism. D) Characteristics of Impressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characteristics of Modernism. 47. Roaring Twenties A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American Modernism. 48. Which Postmodernist philospher famously prounounced, "God is dead" ? A) Friedrich Nietzsche. B) Micheal Foucault. C) Walter Truett Anderson. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friedrich Nietzsche. 49. What did Bjorkland say about Facebook as an autobiography? A) It regulates behaviour and reduces crime. B) It has allowed the development of "blurred boundaries". C) Digital forms have become more dominant due to the ability to manipulate and information. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Digital forms have become more dominant due to the ability to manipulate and information. 50. Which is a statement with a postmodernist style? A) "Maybe the target nowadays is to discover what we are". B) "Things-in-themselves". C) "Cogito Ergo Sum" - "I think, therefore I am". D) " This may be true for you, but not for me.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) " This may be true for you, but not for me.". 51. Makes things idealized, beautiful, grand, perfect A) Realism. B) Modernism. C) Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 52. What did Modernist reject the existence of? A) God. B) Love. C) Dogs. D) Deodorant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) God. 53. Modernists lament fragmentation while postmodernists celebrate it A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 54. True or False:According to Postmodernism, words are about things. A) True. B) Decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decisions. 55. Modernism refers about ..... A) Old culture. B) Modern fashion. C) Global movement and society. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Global movement and society. 56. True or False:Postmodernism and middle-way Buddhism share a similar view of truth. A) Decisions. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 57. THE BAD WITCH HAS NIGHT TERRORS THROUGHOUT THE PLAY. SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHETHER SHE'S BEING TERRORIZED BY THE WIZARD IN HER DREAMS OR IN REALITY. A) SELF-AWARENESS. B) HYPER-REALITY. C) DREAMS. D) INTERTEXTUALITY. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) HYPER-REALITY. 58. Positions the role of man amidst the industrial revolution. succeeds romanticism A) Realism. B) Modernism. C) Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Realism. 59. The view that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. A) Nihilism. B) Sophism. C) Gorgiasism. D) Objectivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nihilism. 60. The denial of the existence or accessibility of an objective reality A) Realism Denier. B) Anti-Objectivity. C) Anti-Realism. D) Anti-Existence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anti-Realism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesModernism Quiz 1Modernism Quiz 2Modernism Quiz 3Modernism Quiz 4Modernism Quiz 5Modernism Quiz 7Modernism Quiz 8Modernism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books