This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Author haven't got control over his/hercharacters A) Modernism. B) Post-modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post-modernism. 2. One of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. He was was an apprentice of Louis Sullivan and embraced the use of new technology. A) Mies Van Der Rohe. B) Frank Lloyd Wright. C) Le Corbusier. D) Louis Sullivan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frank Lloyd Wright. 3. The belief that propositions do not mirror reality and should therefore be treated as tools and judged only by their practical consequences A) Realism. B) Power. C) Pragmatism. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pragmatism. 4. A worldview of a particular subject or discipline A) Paradigm. B) Dynamic. C) Religion. D) Genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradigm. 5. What does the word "glazed" in "The Red Wheelbarrow" suggest? A) It suggests that the shine created by the rain attracted the chickens to it. B) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was intentional. C) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was too bright. D) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was not natural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It suggests that the shine created by the rain was intentional. 6. During his boyhood, the main character in John Updike's "The Brown Chest" believes that the present is more powerful than the past. Which sentence from paragraph 1 of "The Brown Chest" supports this statement? A) The entire front of the house had this neglected quality, with its guest bedroom where guests hardly ever stayed. B) It held a gray-painted bed with silver moons on the headboard and corner posts shaped at the top like mushrooms. C) His mother sometimes, but not often, wrote letters and confided sentences to her diary in her tiny backslanting hand. D) The occasional scratch of her pen exerted just enough pressure to keep away the frightening shadows, the sad spirits from long ago, locked into events that couldn't change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The occasional scratch of her pen exerted just enough pressure to keep away the frightening shadows, the sad spirits from long ago, locked into events that couldn't change. 7. All are modernist novelist except..... A) E. Hemingway. B) W. Faulkner. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 8. Writers use Pastiche in a book with only one genre. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. Select one personality in the list who was was not bracketed as literary 'high priest' of Modern Period? A) T.S.Eliot. B) James Joyce. C) Matthew Arnold. D) Ezra Pound. E) Wyndham Lewis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matthew Arnold. 10. What does it mean by "architecture" ? A) Making and designing buildings. B) The pointed tops of buildings like churches. C) A powerful vision. D) *The front of a building. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making and designing buildings. 11. What were writers during this time period considered? A) The lost generation. B) Fools of the night. C) The new generation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The lost generation. 12. According to Postmodernism, language functions as what? A) A means for describing objective reality. B) A method for communicating truth. C) A tool of power and manipulation. D) A and B only. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A tool of power and manipulation. 13. What century did modernism occur? A) 19th century. B) 20th century. C) 17th century. D) 16th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20th century. 14. Which of the following selections best explains why many modernist authors and artists rejected realism in their work? A) They felt that realism was boring and wanted to be more creative. B) Rejecting realism was a form of protest after World War I. C) They wanted their work to reflect the new sense of instability in the world. D) They believed realism was for the elite and wanted to create new art for the people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They wanted their work to reflect the new sense of instability in the world. 15. After Modernism came ..... A) Pure Modernism. B) Post-Modernism. C) Prior-Modernism. D) Pre-Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post-Modernism. 16. Which psychoanalyst coined the term "archetype" and developed the theory of the Collective Unconscious? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Carl Jung. C) William James. D) Friedrich Nietzsche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carl Jung. 17. True or False:Media representation is very limited to racial minorities. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. Postmodernism rehects the metanarrative inherent in which of the following worldviews? A) New Spirituality. B) Secularism. C) Marxism. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 19. Postmodernists agree on long-held beliefs. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 20. Hybridity is: A) Using digital and analogue elements in the artwork. B) Using multi-media and or mixed media. C) Using multiple elements to create a more immersive artistic experience. D) Both online and in the real world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using multiple elements to create a more immersive artistic experience. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesModernism Quiz 1Modernism Quiz 2Modernism Quiz 3Modernism Quiz 4Modernism Quiz 5Modernism Quiz 6Modernism Quiz 7Modernism Quiz 8Modernism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books