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.

A. The avant-garde, a military term meaning advanced guard, was founded in France in the mid-19th century.

B. The term avant-garde itself means advanced guard, and the military role of the advanced guard and the role of the avantgarde art movement are much of the same.

D. Both A and B

B. Joseph Conrad

C. T.S. Eliot

D. James Joyce

B. An inhabitant of a rural village

C. A religious believer

D. Both A and B

B. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.

C. The Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.

D. The Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.

A. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.

B. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.

C. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.

A. Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family

B. Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity

C. A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action

A. Rose period

B. Synthetic cubism

D. Blue period

A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.

B. The library is analogous to the universe.

D. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.

A. Becketts work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human

B. Becketts work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.

C. Becketts play explores how language helps to form ones notion of self.

D. ires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.

A. Amy Lowell

C. Alice Walker

D. Gertrude Stein

A. Taboo

C. Incest

D. Love

B. Britain

C. Brazil

D. Mexico

A. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.

C. All of the above

D. In English literature, we cannot refer to the tradition or to a tradition; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is traditional or even too traditional.

A. T.S. Eliots The Wasteland

C. Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises

D. James Joyces Ulysses

A. Symbolism began as a French literary movement in the late 19th century.

B. Paul Gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting.

C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world.

A. It deeply identifies with Dantes Inferno in terms of tone and thick description.

C. It contains almost hellish imagery, such as: Melting like dirty wax,/decayed candles, the bums sinking lower,/faces submerged under hams.

D. It explores the theme of the perversion of language.

A. It is a dramatization of the relationship between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

B. It speaks of the authors illicit relationship with a young girl.

C. It is an analysis of Exodus from The Holy Bible.

A. The end of the novella depicts Marlows conversation with the Kurtzs Intended.

B. The work considers the dark side of European colonialism.

C. Marlow comes to understand the necessity of European leadership in Africa.

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