20Th Century Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland?
2. What did Henry James describe as "loose baggy monsters" ?
3. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928.
4. Which poet could be described as part of "The Movement" of the 1950s?
5. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England's large-scale imperialism?
6. In what decade did the textbackslash angry young mentextbackslash come to prominence on the theatrical scene?
7. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
8. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?
9. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?
10. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?
11. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916?
12. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers?
13. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory?
14. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?
15. Which poet could be described as part of textbackslash The Movementtextbackslash of the 1950s?
16. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
17. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
18. What did Henry James describe as textbackslash loose baggy monsterstextbackslash?
19. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more ..... but less ..... than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound
20. What characteristics of seventeenth-century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics?