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Cultural And Literary In Modernity Quiz 1 (50 MCQs)

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1. Who wrote "Take up the White Man's burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-" in order to inspire Western Europeans to propagate benevolent, enlightened colonialism?
2. Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is an example of which of the following literary trends?
3. Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which "Post-Modern" school of criticism?
4. What is the "Post-Modern" practice of "Deconstructionism" ?
5. Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer?
6. According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, "Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century, " which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period?
7. Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post-Colonial theory?
8. The motto "art for art's sake" means that artists began to do which of the following?
9. Fill in the blank. The novel "Things Fall Apart" explores ..... society and its encounter with European colonialism.
10. T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written?
11. Georges Braque's "Woman with a Guitar" is an example of which of the following artistic movements?
12. Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness, " accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa?
13. Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author?
14. Wilfred Owen's war poem "Dulce et Decorum est" ends with which of the following Latin phrases?
15. Fill in the blank. "Lolita" is infamous for its controversial subject as it depicts a middle-aged protagonist, ....., who becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl, Dolores Haze.
16. Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work?
17. Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction?
18. Who was Le Corbusier?
19. How may W.B. Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming, " be interpreted?
20. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of "Modernism" ?
21. Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of "Magical Realism" ?
22. Who wrote the following statement: "When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant" ?
23. "In Parenthesis" is David Jones's modernist adaptation of which traditional literary form?
24. Who wrote the collection of poems entitled "The Wind Among the Reeds? "
25. Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement?
26. "Post-Modernism" is often characterized by which of the following attitudes?
27. E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels?
28. Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott's poem "Becune Point"
29. Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso's periods of artistic production?
30. What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries?
31. Which of the following is a literary work of "The Lost Generation? "
32. Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country?
33. Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire's "B'en'ediction" ?
34. Siegfried Sassoon's poem "To Victory" is concerned primarily with which of the following themes?
35. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological "transference" helps to understand the nature of .....
36. "Fl^aneur, " according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay "The Fl^aneur, " is a term the French understand to mean which of the following?
37. Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians?
38. Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work?
39. Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term "Orientalism" ?
40. Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics?
41. The poem "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae referring to which war?
42. Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author?
43. Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of .....'s work.
44. Who painted "The Accommodations of Desire" ?
45. The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists?
46. Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India's post-colonial situation?
47. As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor?
48. Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism?
49. Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography?
50. Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature?
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