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Modernism Quiz 8 (60 MCQs)

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1. Thehybrid worldviewof what teaches thatsincewearefallenandlimited, weshoulddemonstrateChristian humilitybyrefusingtomakeexclusivetruthclaims.
2. In the postmodernist period, people are believed to be guided mostly by objectivity.
3. How does the word haunted appear as a motif in John Updike's "The Brown Chest, " and how does it contribute to the meaning of the story?
4. The animal associated with death in the story is the hyena.
5. Johnson Wax Administration Building
6. Which famous artists influenced a new type of visual art in the Harlem Renaissance?
7. Nonlinearity of history
8. Helen does not want Harry to drink scotch and soda, but eventually she decides to have cocktails with him in the evening.
9. Who, according to Habermas were the 'young conservatives'?
10. Referred to edgework in which he claims people commit crime for the thrill of it. Risk taking behaviour is pleasurable for young males. This risk taking is seen as 'edgework'. There is a thrill gained by acting on the edge of security/danger.
11. Which two sentences in this excerpt from John Updike's "The Brown Chest" reflect the main character's uneasiness with his family history?The smell seemed also to belong to the contents ..... lace tablecloths and wool blankets on top, but much more underneath. A. The full contents of the chest never came quite clear, perhaps because he didn't want to know. B. His parents' college diplomas seemed to be under the blankets, and other documents going back still farther, having to do with his grandparents, their marriage, or the marriage of someone beyond even them. There was a folded old piece of paper with drawn-on hearts and designs and words in German. C. His mother had once tried to explain the paper to him, but he hadn't wanted to listen.
12. What is modern art?
13. This excerpt from the story, "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka is an example of what characteristic of Modernism in literature? "Gregor's serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month-the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it-seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more."
14. Postmodernism is characterized by scepticism and .....
15. Do formal properties of a literary work include author's moral, religious, or political values?
16. Please fulfill the blanks to complete the sentence meaning:The air in the balloon ..... when heated.
17. The aim of education in postmodernism is
18. The breakdown of the Grand Narrative
19. Type in https://tinyurl.com/slampoem8 and watch the video. Then answer this question:What does Tom Hanks do in his slam poem to emphasize his points?
20. Which were the main reasons why postmodern literature included a Paranoic theme?
21. Which of the following terms best describes the style present during the time of Modernism?
22. A tenement housing in France. Modulor a design made from the combination of anthropometrics and Golden Proportion
23. Which cathedral designed by Auguste Perret?
24. The theory of imitation:-reply to the theory of forms without background-theorized according to Gabriel Tarde's theory of imitation-the reorientation of literature towards the West-taking over through imitation and creating an own background
25. When was born Thomas Stearns Eliot?
26. Appropriation means .....
27. The two types of knowledge identified in Blaga's work are:
28. Which of the following describes the Modernist view of technology and machines?
29. The speaker of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" stops to-
30. Which of the following describes the impact of Einstein's Theory of Relativity on the Modern era?
31. What caused the smell around Emily's house?
32. Art in the modern worlds such as impressionism, cubism
33. Poet philosopher is considered to be
34. A visual manifestation of "deconstruction, " where the subject becomes fragmented and recomposed into an abstraction
35. The curriculum should not be viewed as discrete subjects and disciplines.
36. When does the poet visit the woods in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ?
37. Central to modernism was an ambition to be more fully and freely "alive" in the face of and in resistance to all that was deadening and dehumanizing about modern life
38. How does the line structure of each stanza (a longer line followed by a short line) of "The Red Wheelbarrow" convey an image?
39. Branch of modernism known as "psychological landscapes"
40. The only mature and professional writer to Virginia Woolf mind was .....
41. What does militarization mean?
42. Define EPIPHANY.
43. How did Modernism attempt to reinvent art?
44. The modernists broke with traditional styles of art and high culture, but not necessarily because they wanted to attack the traditional.
45. Which of the following is a theme that we studied during this time period?
46. True or False:To Postmodernists there is no such thing as human nature.
47. The following is what postmodernism rejects against modernism, except.
48. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 3)?As a result, many rejected realism, the practice of representing or depicting people, places, and situations as close to how they look in real life as possible. Instead, their works explored the subjective interiority of a narrator's inner life and the fragmentation of time.Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and James Joyce's Ulysses are classic examples of modernism. The novels lack linear plot, chronology, and a reliable narrator.
49. True or False:Postmodernists do not believe we can have objective knowledge.
50. The state of being inside or within
51. Which of the following is true about impressionism?
52. What is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress as a well as skepticism toward religion?
53. Useful-Considers that we are controlled and monitored by a significant number of private companies, not just police
54. 1) World Wa r II
55. According to Postmodernism, the problem with humanity is our adherence to what?
56. A new element, taken from Baudelaire by Arghezi, is:
57. An important type of formalism that relates directly to the work of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language.
58. Guggenheim Museum
59. Which literary period reflected the hope, optimism and real-lfie experience of Americans in the early 20th century?
60. In the postmodern world, the boundaries and hierarchies of phenomena that had been clear until now became blurred.
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