This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Postmodernism states that knowledge is ..... A) Made. B) Discovered. C) Both options are false. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Made. 2. In the poem "Chicago, " Carl Sandburg described the city as the "City of Big Shoulders." This is an example of ..... A) Theme. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. When used in the context of Modernist literature, the word "salon" means: A) A place where you go to get your hair and/or nails done. B) A place where writers, artists and musicians gathered to discuss their work. C) The part of a church that holds the altar. D) A type of restaurant that serves French cuisine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A place where writers, artists and musicians gathered to discuss their work. 4. Which of the following literary devices are most widely used in the Modernism Era? A) Personification and Symbolism. B) Symbolism and Imagery. C) Imagery and Personification. D) Personification and Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism and Imagery. 5. THE MUSICAL WICKED IS A PREQUEL WRITTEN 90 YEARS AFTER THE WIZARD OF OZ. IT CONTINUALLY REFERENCES THE STORY AND CHARACTERS. A) METAFICTION. B) DREAMS. C) SELF-AWARENESS. D) INTERTEXTUALITY. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) INTERTEXTUALITY. 6. This cubic structure in San Cataldo Cemetery may have been inspired by this type of internment or memorial A) The Catacomb. B) Columbarium. C) Reliquary. D) Ossuary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Columbarium. 7. Humorous or satirical mimicry A) Parody. B) Satire. C) Cynicism. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 8. ..... concern means seeking to understand life in relation to the presence and absence of God A) Modern. B) Religious. C) Secular. D) Theological. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theological. 9. Giving voice to minorities A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British. 10. Founded by the French writer Andre Breton, who had a background in psychoanalysis. fostered the use of 'automative writing' A) Expressionism. B) Surrealism. C) Cubism. D) Impressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surrealism. 11. Carpe Diem attitude A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British Modernism. 12. Branch of modernism known as "deconstructed images" A) Surrealism. B) Expressionism. C) Cubism. D) Impressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cubism. 13. ..... in an intellectual movement that believes humans 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) Nihilism. B) Structuralism. C) Deconstruction. D) Postsrtusturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structuralism. 14. Concrete poetry is an example of ..... A) Postmodernism. B) Romanticism. C) Modernism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Postmodernism. 15. Postmodernists deny Enlightenment faith in science and technology as instruments of human progress. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Which of the following poems could be considered a modernist love letter to a certain place and time? A) "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards. B) "Chicago" by Carl Sandberg. C) "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. D) "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Chicago" by Carl Sandberg. 17. Which are the characteristics of Post-modernism? A) Nihilism. B) Enlightenment vision/values. C) Reason. D) Industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nihilism. 18. The characteristics of Modernism include all of the following except: A) An attempt to portray the world idealistically, as the writer thinks it should be. B) Alienation of the individual. C) Experimental writing techniques. D) An attempt to capture the complexities of modern life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An attempt to portray the world idealistically, as the writer thinks it should be. 19. True or False:Media representation normally does not challenges the status quo A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 20. Assumes that the viewer is in constant motion A) Impressionism. B) Surrealism. C) Cubism. D) Expressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impressionism. 21. Focus on inner life A) Post-modernism. B) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. 22. Of a person's own free will or design A) Voluntary. B) Dynamic. C) Migrate. D) Incidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary. 23. The Post-Modernist writing style was popular during the late 1600s. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. The theory of synchronism:-is based on the collection of literature. Romanian to European civilizations, to the spirit of the age A) True. B) Fals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. What does it mean by "attract" ? A) To make something new, especially to invent something. B) To make people interested so that they move closer. C) To stop a person from speaking for a short period. D) To show the meaning or truth of something more clearly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make people interested so that they move closer. 26. Postmodernist claim that we can have what type of access to reality? A) Ummediated. B) Direct. C) Immediate. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the Above. 27. The state of being outside A) Exteriority. B) Experimentalism. C) Interiority. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exteriority. 28. Constantly changing, improving, or progressing A) Static. B) Migratory. C) Dynamic. D) Egocentric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dynamic. 29. Modernist themes include all except ..... A) Loss of sense of tradition. B) Dominance of technology. C) Revolution and conservatism. D) Religious devotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Religious devotion. 30. No such thing as subculture anymore. Coined the term 'Neo Tribes' which means a social grouping with a looser structure than a subculture, organised around the life style themes and consumer choices rather than a shared position in the social structure. Neo tribe members share similar states of minds rather than social class. A) Katz. B) Heather. C) Maffesoli. D) Foucault. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maffesoli. 31. How does the poet describe the woods in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ? A) Lovely. B) Dark. C) Deep. D) All of the above. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 32. What was PM literature originally called? A) Urban literature. B) Noisy literature. C) The literature of silence. D) War literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The literature of silence. 33. ..... refers to the sociocultural conditions of modernization-especially the complex transformations associated with industrialization, urbanization and democratization-which profoundly reshapes the attitudes, presuppositions and patterns of life fitted to those conditions. A) Secularity. B) Secularism. C) Modernism. D) Modernity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modernity. 34. The story focuses on the life of Emily after she has already died. What is the term for this story structure? A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Flashback. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 35. Read the last stanza of the poem:The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.The poet probably repeated the last two lines in order to- A) Make the woods seem even more attractive and lovely. B) Make the speaker seem forgetful and less smart than earlier in the poem. C) Make the reader pay special attention to the meaning of the line. D) Make the speaker seem like he or she is already asleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Make the speaker seem like he or she is already asleep. 36. Also called the Administration Building is constructed with more than 200 sizes and shapes of Bricks. A) Unite d'Habitation. B) Johnson Wax Administration Building. C) Guggenheim Museum. D) Villa Savoye. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Johnson Wax Administration Building. 37. Formal properties of a literary work don't include:Words (meaning of the words); Shape/structure of the text; and the rhythm of the sentences. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 38. Conceived as a method to "free the mind" A) Expressionism. B) Surrealism. C) Impressionism. D) Cubism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surrealism. 39. An operation that represents the basic idea of repeated addition of the same number A) Hierarchy. B) Multiplication. C) Parody. D) Fragmentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multiplication. 40. Multiple perspective A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American Modernism. 41. The study and classification of speech sounds A) Animal sounds. B) Phonetics. C) Audiology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phonetics. 42. ..... is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress as a well as skepticism towards towards religion. A) Postmodernism. B) Modernism. C) Nihilism. D) Sophism. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. 43. The International Style was inspired by this movement A) Bauhaus. B) German Werkbund. C) The style. D) Build new. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bauhaus. 44. This philosophy places the highest priority on students directing their own learning. Learning is self-paced and includes a lot of individual contact with the teacher. A) Existentialism. B) Essentialism. C) Progressivism. D) Social Reconstructionist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Existentialism. 45. What is 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 grammers that societies have developed over time. A) Structuralism. B) Post-Structuralism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Structuralism. 46. Gothic Cathedrals= A) Solidity. B) Ambiance. C) Lightness. D) Massiveness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lightness. 47. True or False:Postmodernists claim that the notion of subjective truth is used to press others. A) True. B) Decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decisions. 48. Postmodern literary criticism claims that words cannont accurately desrcibe objects in the world. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in A) 1930s. B) 1970s. C) 1950s. D) 1920s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1970s. 50. This period was called rejection of truth and logical reasoning. A) Contemporary. B) Medieval. C) Post. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Post. 51. Which of these works is Bernard Show's? A) Man and superman. B) The waste land. C) Sounds and lovers. D) Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man and superman. 52. Paintings are characterized by blurry images with splashes of bright colors A) Cubism. B) Impressionism. C) Surrealism. D) Expressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impressionism. 53. Please fulfill the blanks to complete the sentence meaning:Scientists are hoping for a ..... in the search for a cure for cancer. A) Masterwork. B) Breakthrough. C) Facade. D) Architecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Breakthrough. 54. Many; an increase in the number or amount of something A) Stream of consciousness. B) Experimentalism. C) Fragmentation. D) Multiplication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Multiplication. 55. The Modern Era consists of a shift in writing style from previous movements because Americans were profoundly affected after which events? A) WWI. B) The Great Depression. C) WWII. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 56. Postmodernists agree on the Modernism's ideologies. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. DURING ONE SONG, WE FOLLOW THE STORY OF THE GOOD WITCH IN HER LOVE FOR A MUNCHKIN. THE SCENE ENDS, AND IN THE NEXT WE FOLLOW THE STORY OF THE BAD WITCH WHO ALSO LOVES THE SAME MUNCHKIN. A) METAFICTION. B) HYPER-REALITY. C) FRAGMENTATION. D) DREAMS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) METAFICTION. 58. Parody means ..... A) To assemble for a formal exhibition or ceremonial occasion. B) An artwork that combines contradictory features or qualities. C) Imitating an artwork or image with a humorous, exaggerated slant. D) A collective gathering of intellectual and artistic achievement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imitating an artwork or image with a humorous, exaggerated slant. 59. We are first introduced to the main characters in the story through their dialogue (conversation between them). A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. The characteristic "free verse" in modernism is demonstrated mostly in what type of literature? A) Poetry. B) Fairy tales. C) Drama. D) Fiction. 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