cultural and literary in modernity MCQs

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.

B. Claude Monet and douard Manet

C. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet

D. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis

B. A way of questioning Victorian moral conceptions

C. An example of subjective artistic expression

D. A musical invention of the modern age that allows for experimentation of form

A. Raymond Williams

C. Fredric Jameson

D. Both A and B

A. Darwin

C. Freud

D. Aristotle

B. An attempt to use the exact word instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry

C. B and C only

D. A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images

B. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that explores cultural identity in nineteenth-century Ireland.

C. It is a Romantic novel that explores the decline of a Russian family.

D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the decline of a Caribbean family.

A. Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys

B. And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands

D. Mother died today

A. We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.

C. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.

D. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.

A. Sexual mores

B. Bourgeois sensibility

D. The importance of the irrational

A. Naturalism depicts the more animalistic tendencies of humans.

B. Naturalism considers the author or artist to be like a scientist.

D. Naturalism is a search for scientific certainty.

A. The shift from agriculturally-based to industrial societies in the West

B. The decline of traditional religious beliefs in Europe

C. The rise of traditional social identities and the decline of personal identity

A. Lyme disease

C. Staph infections

D. A and C only

A. Vorticism

B. A and B only

C. Futurism

B. Eliots poem takes great pains to illustrate the breakdown of stable meaning in the modern world.

C. Some academic scholars suggest that TheWasteland is an extrapolation of the search for the Holy Grail.

D. The Wasteland is an excellent example of modernist symbolism.

A. It was originally written in English.

C. It suggests that poetry is demonic in nature.

D. Both A and B

B. The Anglo-Irish war never involved a guerrilla campaign.

C. All of the above

D. In the course of the Anglo-Irish War, only a few hundred members of the Irish Republican Army were actively resisting British rule.

B. William Butler Yeats

C. James Joyce

D. Seamus Heaney

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

A. World War II

C. The American Civil War

D. The Franco-Prussian War

A. Realism depicts the tension between harsh reality and ideals.

B. Realism strives to depict humans within a certain social context.

D. Realism explores ethical quandaries within a social context.

A. Magical realism often accepts both a materialist and a supernatural view of the real.

B. Magical realism differs from fantasy and science fiction in that it considers the impossible as normal.

C. The term magical realism was first coined by Franz Roh, a German art critic.

A. As an omniscient narrative of love and loss

C. A and B only

D. As a third-person narrative of the Great Depression

B. Conservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.

C. Conservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.

D. Conservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.

A. Man Ray

C. Hans Bellmer

D. Maurice Tabard

A. The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.

C. A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.

D. Both A and B

B. The British East India Company first entered South Asia as importers of British Tea.

C. The British East India Company was essentially a covert British army.

D. Both A and B

A. A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact

B. A basic affirmation of everyday reality

D. An exact imitation of the material world

B. A group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller

C. A group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I

D. Any American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I

A. A confession and a complaint

C. The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever

D. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user

A. A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form

C. The use of irony and parody

D. Both A and B

A. Hybridity

C. Mimicry

D. Ambivalence

A. Arundhati Roy

B. Seamus Heaney

D. Salman Rushdie

A. Rummana Hussain

B. Ravinder Reddy

C. Dadabhai Naoroji

A. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.

B. Talk therapy will not help cure ones psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.

D. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with ones own mortality.

A. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production

B. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture

D. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity

A. Russian

C. Irish

D. Indian

A. Salvador Dal

B. Marcel Duchamp

D. Giorgio de Chirico

B. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust

C. King James II

D. King Edward VII

A. Marxism

C. Feminism

D. Deconstruction

A. The Heart of Darkness

B. To the Lighthouse

D. The Surrealist Manifesto

A. Because of the advent of arcade projects

C. Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape

D. Because they were threatened by police with jail

A. Linda Hutcheon

C. Jacques Derrida

D. Fredric Jameson

A. Daniel Deronda

B. Pale Fire

D. On the Road

A. Edward Said

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Arundhati Roy

A. His death and escape from suffering.

B. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

D. The defeat of the Germans

B. Charles Baudelaire

C. Jorge Luis Borges

D. Mario Vargas Llosa

A. Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

B. The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before ones own image in the mirror.

C. All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.

A. It is a philosophical term which means imitation or mimicry.

C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.

D. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning otherness.

B. The poem speaks of the necessity of seeking human approval and communal acceptance.

C. It begins with the lines: I kissed the dawn of summer.

D. It suggests that the quest for knowledge and enlightenment is deeply satisfying.