This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Modernity > Cultural And Literary In Modernity – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cultural And Literary In Modernity Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 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? A) Charles Baudelaire. B) William Butler Yeats. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) Napoleon III. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudyard Kipling. 2. Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is an example of which of the following literary trends? A) Aestheticism. B) Naturalism. C) Decadence. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 3. Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which "Post-Modern" school of criticism? A) Marxism. B) Post-Colonial Theory. C) Deconstruction. D) Feminism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post-Colonial Theory. 4. What is the "Post-Modern" practice of "Deconstructionism" ? A) An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth. B) An assault on the sexual mores of the Victorian Age. C) A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth. 5. Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer? A) Seamus Heaney. B) James Joyce. C) William Butler Yeats. D) E.M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E.M. Forster. 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? A) Genteel. B) Symbolist. C) Impressionist. D) Decadent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impressionist. 7. Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post-Colonial theory? A) Mimicry. B) Ambivalence. C) Hybridity. D) Serendipity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Serendipity. 8. The motto "art for art's sake" means that artists began to do which of the following? A) Produce works of art that were meaningless. B) Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character. C) Avoid all forms of prose. D) Make art profitable above all else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character. 9. Fill in the blank. The novel "Things Fall Apart" explores ..... society and its encounter with European colonialism. A) Ibo. B) Russian. C) Irish. D) Indian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ibo. 10. T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written? A) "The Dead". B) "The Surrealist Manifesto". C) "The Heart of Darkness". D) "To the Lighthouse". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The Dead". 11. Georges Braque's "Woman with a Guitar" is an example of which of the following artistic movements? A) Cubism. B) Vorticism. C) Futurism. D) A and B only. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cubism. 12. Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness, " accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa? A) Chinua Achebe. B) Edward Said. C) Arundhati Roy. D) Salman Rushdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chinua Achebe. 13. Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author? A) James Joyce. B) Voltaire. C) Virginia Woolf. D) Y.B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voltaire. 14. Wilfred Owen's war poem "Dulce et Decorum est" ends with which of the following Latin phrases? A) "Pax romana". B) "Veni, vidi, vici". C) "Dux bellorum". D) "Pro patria mori". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Pro patria mori". 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. A) Sal Paradise. B) Humbert Humbert. C) Dean Moriarty. D) Jake Barnes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humbert Humbert. 16. Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work? A) Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto". B) James Joyce's "Ulysses". C) Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". D) T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto". 17. Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction? A) Raymond Williams. B) Jacques Derrida. C) Fredric Jameson. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jacques Derrida. 18. Who was Le Corbusier? A) He was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. B) He was an architect who designed The Chandigarh Legislative Assembly building in Punjab, India. C) He was the architect who designed The Robie House in Chicago, Illinois. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 19. How may W.B. Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming, " be interpreted? A) As an interpretation of the Biblical Second Coming of Christ. B) As an attempt to support European colonialism in Africa. C) As a howl of despair concerning the current state of the world. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 20. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of "Modernism" ? A) A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form. B) A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth. C) The use of irony and parody. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth. Next →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesCultural And Literary In Modernity Quiz 2Cultural And Literary In Modernity Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books