5251. Theodor Adornos Culture Industry Reconsidered further examines the notion of the culture industry and suggests which of the following about the culture industry ?
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A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.

B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.

C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.

D. Both A and B
5252. What is meant by the Haussmannization of Paris ?
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A. It was a religious movement intended to celebrate the values of Christianity.

B. It was a political movement intended to overthrow Napoleon III.

C. It was an urban modernization project that reorganized Parisian city streets so that the bourgeoisie could flaunt their new wealth.

D. It was an urban renovation project which offered social services in city slums.

5253. Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians ?
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A. Linda Hutcheon

B. Jean Baudrillard

C. Thomas Hobbes

D. Both A and B
5254. Which of the following statements best describes the Bloomsbury Group ?
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A. The Bloomsbury Group consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London.

B. The group consisted of survivors of World War II.

C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf.

D. A and C only
5255. Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of Magical Realism ?
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A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

B. James Joyce

C. Allejo Carpentier

D. Isabel Allende

5256. Which of the following is a literary work of The Lost Generation ?
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A. James Joyces Dubliners

B. Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises

C. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

D. Friedrich Nietzsches Twilight of the Idols

5257. What is the Post-Modern practice of Deconstructionism ?
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A. All of the above

B. An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth

C. An assault on the sexual mores of the Victorian Age

D. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime

5258. Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author ?
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A. Virginia Woolf

B. Y.B. Yeats

C. Voltaire

D. James Joyce

5261. T.S. Eliots TheWaste Land begins with which of the following well-known opening lines ?
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A. Was it for this-

B. And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

C. April is the cruellest month

D. Riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

5262. Which of the following best describes James Joyces Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ?
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A. It begins with the famous line: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo?

B. It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.

C. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyces coming of age as an artist.

D. All of the above
5263. Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
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A. Symbolism

B. Realism

C. Surrealism

D. Dadaism

5266. The motto art for arts sake means that artists began to do which of the following ?
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A. Produce works of art that were meaningless

B. Make art profitable above all else

C. Avoid all forms of prose

D. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
5267. Which of the following statements concerning Vorticism is false ?
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A. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.

B. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.

C. The term Vorticism was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.

D. The periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticisms principal tenets.

5268. The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work Against the Grain, is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?
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A. It ends with the famous line the horror, the horror.

B. It explores Jeans decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.

C. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.

D. All of the above

5269. Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokovs Lolita ?
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A. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

B. Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.

C. Lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.

D. Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.

5270. Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolfs To the Lighthouse tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?
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A. The novels radically unique narrative voice

B. The novels experimental structure

C. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters

D. All of the above
5271. Who painted The Accommodations of Desire ?
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A. Salvador Dal

B. Man Ray

C. Pablo Picasso

D. Juan Mir

5272. Salman Rushdies Midnights Children is a novel characterized by which of the following descriptions ?
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A. It is an excellent example of Magical Realism.

B. All of the above

C. It is concerned with the post-colonial situation of India before and after its partitioning into India and Pakistan.

D. It is a book that tells the story of the Sinai family.

5273. What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
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A. Joyces The Dead

B. Borges The Library of Babel

C. Hemingways My Old Man

D. Woolfs A Haunted House

5274. Which of the following best describes stream of consciousness narrative in the modern period ?
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A. Stream of consciousness attempts to accurately capture the external dialogue of various characters in a realistic setting by an objective observer.

B. A and B only

C. Stream of consciousness is the capturing of the interior monologue of the narrator.

D. Stream of consciousness often relies upon free association of ideas.

5276. Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?
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A. His career ended when he was jailed for criminal gross indecency.

B. He was notorious for his use of paradox.

C. He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.

D. Wilde was the author of such poems as Bndiction, LAlbatros, and lvation.
5279. The word Jacobean is derived from the ___________ name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James?
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A. Mishnaic Hebrew

B. Samaritan Hebrew language

C. Biblical Hebrew

D. Hebrew language
5281. The Charge of the Light Bridge is a poem by________________?
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A. Arnold

B. Tennyson

C. D.G Rossetti

D. Leigh Hunt

5282. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism ?
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A. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.

B. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools

C. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature

D. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
5283. Who is the author of Blessed Damozel ?
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A. Tennyson

B. Robert Browning

C. D.G Rossetti

D. Christina Rossetti

5285. What best describes the subject of most Victorian novels ?
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A. A and C

B. the attempt of a protagonist to define his or her place in society

C. a surrealist exploration of alternate states of consciousness

D. the representation of a large and comprehensive social world in realistic detail

5286. What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomews Day Massacre in 1572 ?
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A. The Massacre at Berlin

B. The Massacre at Rome

C. The Massacre at Copenhagen

D. The Massacre at Paris

5289. What was Elizabeths close circle of advisers called ?
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A. The Privy Council

B. The Cabinet

C. Parliament

D. The Star Chamber

5290. Who was appointed as Poet-Laureate after William Wordsworth ?
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A. Tennyson

B. D.G Rossetti

C. Robert Browning

D. George Eliot

5291. Who succeeded Elizabeth I ?
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A. Edward VI

B. James I

C. Charles I

D. Mary Queen of Scots

5292. Which of the following charges were commonly levelled at the novel by its detractors at the dawn of the Romantic era ?
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A. Too many of its readers were women.

B. all of the above

C. It lacked the classical pedigree of poetry and drama.

D. It required less skill than other genres.

5293. What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne ?
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A. They were all painters

B. They all belonged to the Oxford Movement

C. They were all Victorian Novelists

D. They all belonged to the Pre- Raphaelite School
5294. Which school did Milton attend ?
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A. Christs Hospital

B. St Pauls

C. Merchant Taylors

D. Westminster

5295. Who remained without the vote following the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
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A. about half of middle class men

B. all women

C. almost all working class men

D. A, B and C
5296. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary representation ?
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A. the working classes

B. women

C. the lower middle classes

D. slaves

5297. Which work did Edmund Spenser author ?
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A. The Faerie Queene

B. The Double

C. The Metamorphoses

D. The Castle of Perseverance

5298. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to \Peddlers, and Boats, and Wagons!\ ?
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A. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden

B. Wordsworths devotion to the ordinary and everyday

C. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge

D. the clumsiness of Shakespeares plots