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

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.

A. It was a religious movement intended to celebrate the values of Christianity.

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

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

A. Linda Hutcheon

B. Jean Baudrillard

C. Thomas Hobbes

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.

A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

C. Allejo Carpentier

D. Isabel Allende

A. James Joyces Dubliners

C. Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness

D. Friedrich Nietzsches Twilight of the Idols

A. All of the above

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

D. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime

A. Virginia Woolf

B. Y.B. Yeats

D. James Joyce

B. Homi Bhaba

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Arundhati Roy

A. William Butler Yeats

C. Charles Baudelaire

D. Napoleon III

A. Was it for this-

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

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.

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.

A. Symbolism

C. Surrealism

D. Dadaism

A. The Sun Also Rises

B. To the Lighthouse

C. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

A. Nature

B. Christianity

D. Pastoral landscapes

A. Produce works of art that were meaningless

B. Make art profitable above all else

C. Avoid all forms of prose

A. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.

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.

A. It ends with the famous line the horror, the horror.

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

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.

A. The novels radically unique narrative voice

B. The novels experimental structure

C. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters

B. Man Ray

C. Pablo Picasso

D. Juan Mir

A. It is an excellent example of Magical Realism.

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.

A. Joyces The Dead

C. Hemingways My Old Man

D. Woolfs A Haunted House

A. Stream of consciousness attempts to accurately capture the external dialogue of various characters in a realistic setting by an objective observer.

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.

B. Symbolist

C. Genteel

D. Decadent

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.

A. Aestheticism

B. Naturalism

C. Decadence

A. Veni, vidi, vici

B. Dux bellorum

C. Pax romana