This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Postmodernism > Postmodernism – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Postmodernism Quiz 6 (38 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Sophist Gorgias is best known for A) The loss of meaning. B) God is Dead. C) There is no truth. D) Questioning Everything. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There is no truth. 2. It is not a characteristic of Postmodernism: A) Postmodernist writers disowned the exoticism and fantastic themes of modernist literature. B) They returned, in many cases, to confidential and intimate literature. C) They sought to recover the emotion for the humble and simple things of everyday life. D) They use elegant, exquisite and refined language. E) They purify the poetic language of the decorative elements and opt for an increasingly clear and simple form of expression without so much grandiloquence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They use elegant, exquisite and refined language. 3. ..... is humorous or satirical mimicry A) Parody. B) Late capitalism. C) Fragmentation. D) Pastiche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 4. Definition of postmodernism A) Fight modernism. B) Criticism of modernism. C) Continuation of modernism. D) Enemies of modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Criticism of modernism. 5. Which of the two movements are we in at this time? A) Modernism. B) Postmodernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Postmodernism. 6. The character is in a postmodern novel A) With a definite identity. B) With a changing identity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With a changing identity. 7. A criticism of postmodernists is that their claims are not generally backed up by extensive empirical (scientific) research. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What is the concept of hyperreality in postmodernism? A) The blurring of lines between the real and the unreal. B) The dominance of simulated events and opportunities. C) The fragmentation of identities in society. D) The breakdown of grand narratives and meta-narratives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The blurring of lines between the real and the unreal. 9. Reasoning about God today is irrelevant, because God can no longer be proven by human reason so it can no longer be believed and will be forgotten. A) Correct. B) Salah. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salah. 10. Which economic system involves private ownership of the means of production and the use of wage laborers? A) Socialism. B) Capitalism. C) Feudalism. D) Communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capitalism. 11. What is NOT a key change brought about by globalisation? A) Social Changes. B) Decrease in interconnectedness. C) Environmental Changes. D) Cultural Changes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decrease in interconnectedness. 12. What is the term for the confusion of time and space in postmodernism? A) Intertextuality. B) Bricolage. C) Global village. D) Collapse of time and space. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collapse of time and space. 13. What is a distinctive characteristic of postmodernism? A) Emphasis on simplicity. B) Assessment of originality. C) Focus on uniformity. D) Rejection of technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assessment of originality. 14. 1-RI means international relations? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 15. Postmodernism rejects which of the following metanarratives? A) Science/Secularism. B) Christian. C) Muslim. D) All metanarratives are rejected. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All metanarratives are rejected. 16. In "A Double Impulse, " as a result of her classmate's question, Jeanne wants to A) Be invisible. B) Become the class leader. C) Go to a Japanese school. D) Become an American citizen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Be invisible. 17. Please choose the correct verb tense for the following sentence:By this time next year, Senator Smith will have been in office for 24 years. A) Past progressive. B) Present perfect progressive. C) Present progressive. D) Future perfect progressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Future perfect progressive. 18. Revolution 2.0 talks about the development of the Internet A) Salah. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salah. 19. Who argues that religions claim to hold the monopoly of the truth? A) Morgan. B) Weber. C) Lyotard. D) Hervieu Leger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyotard. 20. What are the characteristics of modernism? A) Highlights daily events and activities experienced by the community. B) New social movements. C) Rupture with the existing current. D) Describe contemporary objects and situations that are real and typical of their everyday environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rupture with the existing current. 21. In"Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?" what do Paul Berlin's memories and fantasies tell us about his family? A) They were close and loving. B) They were odd and quirky. C) They were cold and unemotional. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were close and loving. 22. Identify two theorists associated with the Postmodernism theory. A) Jean-Francois Lyotard and Fredric Jamieson. B) Erick Erickson and Gilles Deleuze. C) Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jean-Francois Lyotard and Fredric Jamieson. 23. In "Sure You Can Ask Me A Personal Question" , The questions asked of the poem's speaker reflect ..... about Native Americans. A) Truths. B) Stereotypes. C) Knowledge. D) Understanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stereotypes. 24. The ability of artworks to provoke emotional, sensory and intellectual responses from the viewer A) Subjective. B) Cultural. C) Postmodern. D) Structural. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subjective. 25. Read these lines from the poem.looking low and looking high, until we found the ideal spotWhat does the word ideal mean in these lines? A) Low. B) Idea. C) Calm. D) Perfect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfect. 26. 5-According to the video, what are the characteristics of Post-Modernism? A) Looks beyond states and nonstate actors very much. B) Abstracts values are taken into account. C) States become important actors in the international arena. D) All of the above . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above . 27. Which late Modernist architect designed this building? A) Renzo Piano. B) Frank Gehry. C) Zaha Hadid. D) Richard Meier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frank Gehry. 28. Who talked about disproportionate power of mass media and popular culture through media saturation? A) Strinati. B) Baudrillard. C) Chomsky. D) Lyotard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strinati. 29. The belief that denies the existence or accessibility of an objective reality is called A) Pragmatism. B) Metanarrative. C) Anti-realism. D) "God is dead". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anti-realism. 30. What does the term 'Relativist Position' in postmodernism refer to? A) No views are true for anyone. B) There is only one true view. C) All views are false for the people who hold them. D) All views are true for the people who hold them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All views are true for the people who hold them. 31. Does anyone in Latvia deal with Postmodernism art? A) Yes. B) No. C) I do not know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 32. A media text made up of pieces from other media texts-particularly the imitation of other styles. Similar to parody but more respectful. A) Hyperreality. B) Images. C) Intertextuality. D) Pastiche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pastiche. 33. The Postmodern frame is a point of view that ARTISTS A) Use when they make artworks. B) Use when they look at and talk about art. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use when they make artworks. 34. A metafictional narrator A) Purposefully draws attention to himself and his storytelling techniques. B) Does not deliberately draw attention to himself and his storytelling techniques. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purposefully draws attention to himself and his storytelling techniques. 35. A critique of Postmodernism is that ..... A) People are too busy to commit to religion. B) NAMs will be rising. C) NAMs are short lived. D) Church attendance is decreasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NAMs are short lived. 36. Who was Ajiseco? A) A dog. B) The owner. C) Carmel Rival. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carmel Rival. 37. Characteristics of postmodernism in film A) Represents ambiguity. B) Dilm war against the invaders. C) FIlm korea. D) Representing multiculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Representing multiculture. 38. The imitation of one media text for comic effect, can also be used as satire. A) Parody. B) Hyperreality. C) Pastiche. D) Intertextuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPostmodernism Quiz 1Postmodernism Quiz 2Postmodernism Quiz 3Postmodernism Quiz 4Postmodernism Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books