This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Modernism > Modernism – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modernism Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and was awarded the order of Merit by Britain A) Bernard Show. B) Thomas Stearns Eliot. C) Joseph Conrad. D) George Orwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Stearns Eliot. 2. Is a characteristic of Formalism Literary Criticism A) Discontinuous narrative. B) Disregard to cultural or historical influences. C) Analysis of the background of the work. D) The symbolism of the work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disregard to cultural or historical influences. 3. All of the following are aim of education according to postmodernism except A) Teaching critical thinking. B) Production of knowledge. C) Education helps students to construct their identities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Education helps students to construct their identities. 4. Which philosophy is based on real-world experiences and John Dewey's work? A) Perennialism. B) Progressivism. C) Social Reconstructionism. D) Existentialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Progressivism. 5. Which of the following statements about modernist and postmodernist literature's similarities is best supported by the text? (paragraph 6) A) Both movements focus on the reader's experience reading the text. B) Modernism and postmodernism rely on coherent meaning and a linear narrative. C) The two movements are characterized by an unreliable narrator. D) Each movement expresses the complexity and changes of their time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Each movement expresses the complexity and changes of their time. 6. Disruption of traditional plot A) British Modernism. B) American Modernism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 7. Postmodernism rejects all metanarratives. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Who are the architects behind this creation? (shown in the image) A) Herzog & Meuron. B) Rogers & Piano. C) Foster & Koolhaas. D) Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rogers & Piano. 9. What does the narrator find on the pillow at the end of the short story about Miss Emily? A) A gray hair. B) A rose. C) A handkerchief. D) Her father's watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gray hair. 10. In "In a Station of the Metro, " to what does Ezra Pound compare the faces he sees? A) Trees. B) The sea. C) Flower petals. D) Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flower petals. 11. Which describes one of the conflicts in the story 'A Rose for Emily'? A) Man vs. Man:Miss Emily's Dad is a draft dodger. B) Man vs. Society:Emily refuses to pay the town's taxes. C) Man vs. Society:Emily isn't allowed to go to college because she is a woman. D) Man vs. Nature:Emily's house is very run down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man vs. Society:Emily refuses to pay the town's taxes. 12. All of these followings are Postmodern buildings inspired from Classical style, EXCEPT, A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 13. Ms. Swift emphasizes learning skills in the classroom. Ms. Swift probably subscribes to which philosophy? A) Perennialism. B) Essentialism. C) Progressivism. D) Social reconstructionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Essentialism. 14. True or False:Postmodernism asserts that all worldviews offer unbiased truth claims about reality. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. Modernism existed during A) Around 1940s. B) Around 1845. C) Around 1890-1950. D) From 1700-1740. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Around 1890-1950. 16. Postmodernism developed in the 20th century A) 1920ndatel. B) 1940ndatel. C) 1960ndatel. D) 1980ndatel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1960ndatel. 17. Is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way, in order to enhance perception of the familiar. A) Dramaric construction. B) Literary. C) Defamiliarization. D) Formalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Defamiliarization. 18. Before the concept of postmodernism there was a concept of A) Industrialization. B) Modernism. C) Capitalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. 19. Harry has several flashbacks of life experiences he could have written about as he is dying, which Hemingway describes using stream-of-consciousness style. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. The author wants to make a claim that modern art may ..... the religious and theological impulse in the art and art making. A) Drop. B) Overlook. C) Dominate. D) Forget. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overlook. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesModernism Quiz 1Modernism Quiz 2Modernism Quiz 4Modernism Quiz 5Modernism Quiz 6Modernism Quiz 7Modernism Quiz 8Modernism Quiz 9Modernism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books