This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Postmodernism > Postmodernism – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Postmodernism Quiz 15 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Deconstructionism makes the reader's interpretation more important than the author's intent. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 2. What aspect of modern architecture does Postmodernism reject? A) Connectivity. B) Technology. C) Abstraction. D) Simplicity. E) Two answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Two answers are correct. 3. A farmer had 17 goats. All but six died. How many goats survived? A) 11. B) 17. C) 6. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 4. Choose the past form or past participle of each verb in parentheses(). If the verb is correct, choose no error as the answer: "Brandon sold most of his sculptures at the art show last weekend, but he (keep) his favorite one." A) Kept. B) Keeped. C) Have kept. D) No error. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kept. 5. During this time period, writers sought to capture the ..... of the American people during this era of a new postwar economy and society. A) Peace. B) Anger. C) Anxiety. D) Excitement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anxiety. 6. "About Russell"When Rita beats Russell at chess, she is amazed that he ..... A) Congratulates her. B) Puts the chess set away. C) Claims he won. D) Doesn't wreck the board. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doesn't wreck the board. 7. The use of irony, parody and recontextualisation A) Structural. B) Subjective. C) Cultural. D) Postmodern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Postmodern. 8. Read the poem. Which of these does the author do in each verse? A) Rhymes the second and fourth lines. B) Rhymes the first and last lines. C) Rhymes the first two lines. D) Rhymes every line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhymes the second and fourth lines. 9. A postmodernist novel A) Focuses on creating a literary world modeled after the ordinary world. B) Focuses on subjective experience. C) To the process of creating the world of the work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the process of creating the world of the work. 10. ..... is a new work or style that is formed by combining elements of other previous works A) Parody. B) Late capitalism. C) Fragmentation. D) Pastiche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pastiche. 11. In what year did you publish your story book "El Caballero Carmelo" ? A) 1987. B) 1918. C) 1880. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1918. 12. In "Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?" why can't Paul stop laughing at the thought of Billy Boy dying? A) He finds it ironic that Billy Boy died of a heart attack in a war. B) He believes that Billy Boy deserved to die a more heroic death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He finds it ironic that Billy Boy died of a heart attack in a war. 13. The aesthetic order within the artwork-the signs and symbols used to convey meaning A) Structural. B) Subjective. C) Cultural. D) Postmodern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Structural. 14. The poems "The Red Kings" and "Tristitia" correspond respectively to: A) Vallejo and Chocano. B) Eguren and Vallejo. C) Valdelomar and Chocano. D) Eguren and Valdelomar. E) Hidalgo and Gonzalo Rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eguren and Valdelomar. 15. Choose the correct verb tense for the following sentence:We had been listening to the radio when the lights went out. A) Past progressive. B) Present progressive. C) Past perfect progressive. D) Present perfect progressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past perfect progressive. 16. (Pg. 90) "Around the ..... let us say ..... shrine of the ruby-sequinned slippers, pools of saliva have been forming. There are those of us who lack restraint, who drool." This line best supports which of the following? A) The Postmodern truth in America that many believe material wealth is all that matters. B) The Postmodern truth in America that many believe salivating is cool. C) The Modern Truth in America that everyone needs to wear ruby-sequinned slippers they represent order. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Postmodern truth in America that many believe material wealth is all that matters. 17. In "Mortals" the narrator remembers the obituaries of A) Celebrities. B) People he knows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Celebrities. 18. Abraham Valdeloma wrote "El Caballero Carmelo" influenced by: A) A) desire to value the Andean culture. B) (b) interest in Peruvian history. C) (c) knowledge of the urban world. D) D) rural influence, linked to the sea. E) E) rejection of traditional feudalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D) rural influence, linked to the sea. 19. Select the correct verb tense used in the following sentence:" Kalman had been sleeping throughout that memorable day." A) Past progressive. B) Past perfect progressive. C) Present progressive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past perfect progressive. 20. Literary movement that was born in America A) Romance. B) Modernism. C) Realism. D) Avant-garde. E) Postmodernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modernism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesPostmodernism Quiz 1Postmodernism Quiz 2Postmodernism Quiz 3Postmodernism Quiz 4Postmodernism Quiz 5Postmodernism Quiz 6Postmodernism Quiz 7Postmodernism Quiz 8Postmodernism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books