This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Periods > Modernity > Cultural And Literary In Modernity – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cultural And Literary In Modernity Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of "Magical Realism" ? A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. B) Isabel Allende. C) James Joyce. D) Allejo Carpentier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Joyce. 2. Who wrote the following statement: "When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant" ? A) Amy Lowell. B) Gertrude Stein. C) Virginia Woolf. D) Alice Walker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Virginia Woolf. 3. "In Parenthesis" is David Jones's modernist adaptation of which traditional literary form? A) The romance. B) The epic. C) The sonnet. D) The haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The epic. 4. Who wrote the collection of poems entitled "The Wind Among the Reeds? " A) W.B. Yeats. B) Jorge Luis Borges. C) Mario Vargas Llosa. D) Charles Baudelaire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) W.B. Yeats. 5. Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement? A) Surrealism. B) Dadaism. C) Symbolism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 6. "Post-Modernism" is often characterized by which of the following attitudes? A) A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche. B) A reinforcement of master narratives. C) A rejection of master narratives. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 7. E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels? A) "Pale Fire". B) "A Passage to India". C) "Daniel Deronda". D) "On the Road". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "A Passage to India". 8. Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott's poem "Becune Point" A) Nature. B) Christianity. C) Pastoral landscapes. D) World War II. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) World War II. 9. Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso's periods of artistic production? A) Dadaist period. B) Blue period. C) Synthetic cubism. D) Rose period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dadaist period. 10. What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries? A) Joyce's "The Dead". B) Hemingway's "My Old Man". C) Woolf's "A Haunted House". D) Borges' "The Library of Babel". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Borges' "The Library of Babel". 11. Which of the following is a literary work of "The Lost Generation? " A) Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". B) James Joyce's "Dubliners". C) Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". D) Friedrich Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises". 12. Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country? A) Argentina. B) Brazil. C) Mexico. D) Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Argentina. 13. Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire's "B\'en\'ediction" ? A) It was originally written in English. B) It celebrates the almost divine power of the poet. C) It suggests that poetry is demonic in nature. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It celebrates the almost divine power of the poet. 14. Siegfried Sassoon's poem "To Victory" is concerned primarily with which of the following themes? A) His safe return home. B) The defeat of the Germans. C) His death and escape from suffering. D) His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His safe return home. 15. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological "transference" helps to understand the nature of ..... A) Incest. B) Trauma. C) Taboo. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trauma. 16. "Fl\^aneur, " according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay "The Fl\^aneur, " is a term the French understand to mean which of the following? A) Stroller, idler, walker. B) An inhabitant of a rural village. C) A religious believer. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stroller, idler, walker. 17. Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians? A) Linda Hutcheon. B) Jean Baudrillard. C) Thomas Hobbes. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 18. Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work? A) Arundhati Roy. B) Salman Rushdie. C) Seamus Heaney. D) Vladimir Nabokov. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vladimir Nabokov. 19. Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term "Orientalism" ? A) Edward Said. B) Arundhati Roy. C) Salman Rushdie. D) Homi Bhaba. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward Said. 20. Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics? A) A way of questioning Victorian moral conceptions. B) A musical invention of the modern age that allows for experimentation of form. C) An example of subjective artistic expression. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesCultural And Literary In Modernity Quiz 1Cultural And Literary In Modernity Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books