This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How does the word haunted appear as a motif in John Updike's "The Brown Chest, " and how does it contribute to the meaning of the story? A) The word haunted describes the boy's ancestors. The word suggests their actions still affect him and influence his personality, even when he becomes an adult. B) The word haunted describes items of antiquity. As a boy and as an adult, the narrator peers anxiously at old, unused items that make him feel uneasy. C) The word haunted describes the house the boy lived in. Even after he and his family moved to a new home, the memories of his fear stay with him. D) The word haunted suggests that the boy is still haunted by memories of his childhood and his parents. The chest is a reminder of personal experiences he can't ignore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The word haunted describes items of antiquity. As a boy and as an adult, the narrator peers anxiously at old, unused items that make him feel uneasy. 2. The animal associated with death in the story is the hyena. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Johnson Wax Administration Building A) Mies Van Der Rohe. B) Frank Lloyd Wright. C) Le Corbusier. D) Louis Sullivan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frank Lloyd Wright. 4. Which famous artists influenced a new type of visual art in the Harlem Renaissance? A) Charles Burchfield, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove. B) Aaron Douglas, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence. C) Georgia O'Keefe, Lois Maliou Jones, Langston Hughes. D) Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aaron Douglas, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence. 5. Nonlinearity of history A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 6. Helen does not want Harry to drink scotch and soda, but eventually she decides to have cocktails with him in the evening. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Who, according to Habermas were the 'young conservatives'? A) Wordsworth-Coleridge. B) Pope-Dryden. C) Tennyson Arnold. D) Derrida Foucault. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Derrida Foucault. 8. Referred to edgework in which he claims people commit crime for the thrill of it. Risk taking behaviour is pleasurable for young males. This risk taking is seen as 'edgework'. There is a thrill gained by acting on the edge of security/danger. A) Maffesoli. B) Katz. C) Foucault. D) Heather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heather. 9. Which two sentences in this excerpt from John Updike's "The Brown Chest" reflect the main character's uneasiness with his family history?The smell seemed also to belong to the contents ..... lace tablecloths and wool blankets on top, but much more underneath. A. The full contents of the chest never came quite clear, perhaps because he didn't want to know. B. His parents' college diplomas seemed to be under the blankets, and other documents going back still farther, having to do with his grandparents, their marriage, or the marriage of someone beyond even them. There was a folded old piece of paper with drawn-on hearts and designs and words in German. C. His mother had once tried to explain the paper to him, but he hadn't wanted to listen. A) A & b. B) B & c. C) A & c. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B & c. 10. What is modern art? A) Art that turns to work to serve religion and institutions. B) Art that reuses past technology To be prosperous again. C) An artistic direction that began in the early 20th century. D) Art in which artists change their approaches and ideas in their work. Completely different from the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Art in which artists change their approaches and ideas in their work. Completely different from the past. 11. This excerpt from the story, "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka is an example of what characteristic of Modernism in literature? "Gregor's serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month-the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it-seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more." A) Fantastic elements. B) Feelings of disconnect. C) A break from tradition. D) Unexplained elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feelings of disconnect. 12. Postmodernism is characterized by scepticism and ..... A) Rationality. B) Criticism. C) Progression. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Criticism. 13. Do formal properties of a literary work include author's moral, religious, or political values? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. Please fulfill the blanks to complete the sentence meaning:The air in the balloon ..... when heated. A) Interrupts. B) Expands. C) Constracts. D) Breakthroughs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expands. 15. The aim of education in postmodernism is A) Emphasize the logical analysis of concepts. B) Thing that exist in the real world. C) The essence of the individual. D) Emancipation from oppression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emancipation from oppression. 16. The breakdown of the Grand Narrative A) British. B) American. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 17. Type in https://tinyurl.com/slampoem8 and watch the video. Then answer this question:What does Tom Hanks do in his slam poem to emphasize his points? A) Speaks in a dramatic tone. B) Body movements. C) Asking questions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. Which were the main reasons why postmodern literature included a Paranoic theme? A) For the belief that there's an ordering system, the cold war, and technology. B) For the belief that there's an ordering system, II world war, and technology. C) For the belief of the existence of war, ordering systems, and robots. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For the belief that there's an ordering system, the cold war, and technology. 19. Which of the following terms best describes the style present during the time of Modernism? A) Traditional. B) Conservative. C) Positive. D) Bold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bold. 20. A tenement housing in France. Modulor a design made from the combination of anthropometrics and Golden Proportion A) Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier. B) Unite d Habitation (1950) by Le Corbusier. C) Barcelona Pavilion (1929) by Mies Van Der Rohe. D) Usonian Houses Wright House by Frank Lloyd Wright. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unite d Habitation (1950) by Le Corbusier. ← 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