This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > 20Th Century > 20Th Century – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books 20Th Century Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland? A) W. B. Yeats. B) James Joyce. C) Seamus Heaney. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 2. What did Henry James describe as "loose baggy monsters" ? A) Publishers. B) Novels. C) The English. D) Plays. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Novels. 3. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928. A) 2000. B) 1930. C) 1960. D) 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1960. 4. Which poet could be described as part of "The Movement" of the 1950s? A) Thom Gunn. B) Dylan Thomas. C) Philip Larkin. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 5. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England's large-scale imperialism? A) Salman Rushdie. B) John Ruskin. C) Joseph Conrad. D) Rabindranath Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salman Rushdie. 6. In what decade did the textbackslash angry young mentextbackslash come to prominence on the theatrical scene? A) 1930s. B) 1910s. C) 1970s. D) 1950s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1950s. 7. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century? A) Eminent Victorians. B) Jungle Books. C) The Way of All Flesh. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 8. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel? A) Stream of consciousness. B) Narrative realism. C) Free indirect style. D) Irresolute open endings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative realism. 9. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature? A) Automatic writing. B) Confused daze. C) Total recall. D) Stream of consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stream of consciousness. 10. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated? A) Eugenics. B) Psychoanalysis. C) Phrenology. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychoanalysis. 11. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916? A) The southern counties of Ireland. B) Canada. C) Ulster. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The southern counties of Ireland. 12. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers? A) Orson Wells. B) Evelyn Waugh. C) George Orwell. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Orwell. 13. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory? A) Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. B) Paul Scott's Staying On. C) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. D) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paul Scott's Staying On. 14. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century? A) Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. B) The creation of the internet. C) The invention of the airplane. D) Wireless communication across the Atlantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The creation of the internet. 15. Which poet could be described as part of textbackslash The Movementtextbackslash of the 1950s? A) Thom Gunn. B) Dylan Thomas. C) Philip Larkin. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 16. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot? A) "angry young men. B) "kitchen sink drama". C) "political correctness gone mad". D) "nothing happens-twice". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "nothing happens-twice". 17. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Sir James Frazer. C) Immanuel Kant. D) All but C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All but C. 18. What did Henry James describe as textbackslash loose baggy monsterstextbackslash? A) Publishers. B) Plays. C) Novels. D) The English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Novels. 19. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more ..... but less ..... than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound A) Popular; reverenced. B) Brash; confident. C) Radical; inventive. D) Anxious; haunting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radical; inventive. 20. What characteristics of seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics? A) Its intellectual complexity. B) Its union of thought and passion. C) Its uncompromising engagement with politics. D) A and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A and b. Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature Quizzes 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books