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51. Which of the following descriptions of the Avant-Garde Movement is false ?
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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.

C. The realist painter Gustave Courbet never considered himself a member of the avant-garde.

D. Both A and B

52. Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?
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A. Vladimir Nabokov

B. Joseph Conrad

C. T.S. Eliot

D. James Joyce

53. Flneur, according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay The Flneur, is a term the French understand to mean which of the following ?
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A. Stroller, idler, walker

B. An inhabitant of a rural village

C. A religious believer

D. Both A and B

54. Which of the following statements best describes the Great Depression ?
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A. B and C only

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.

55. According to Theodor Adornos and Max Horkheimers The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, which of the following is true of the culture industry ?
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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.

D. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.

56. According to Tristan Tzaras Manifesto on Dadaism, which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?
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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

D. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

57. Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picassos periods of artistic production ?
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A. Rose period

B. Synthetic cubism

C. Dadaist period

D. Blue period

58. In Jorge Luis Borges The Library of Babel, which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?
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A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.

B. The library is analogous to the universe.

C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.

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

59. Which of the following best describes Samuel Becketts play Waiting for Godot ?
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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.

E. All of the above

60. 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 ?
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A. Amy Lowell

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Alice Walker

D. Gertrude Stein

61. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological transference helps to understand the nature of ________________?
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A. Taboo

B. Trauma

C. Incest

D. Love

62. Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?
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A. Argentina

B. Britain

C. Brazil

D. Mexico

63. According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, which of the following is true of tradition ?
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A. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.

B. A and B only

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.

64. Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
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A. T.S. Eliots The Wasteland

B. Andre Bretons Surrealist Manifesto

C. Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises

D. James Joyces Ulysses

65. Which of the following is true of symbolism ?
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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.

D. Both A and B

66. Which of the following is true of Ezra Pounds Canto XIV ?
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A. It deeply identifies with Dantes Inferno in terms of tone and thick description.

B. All of the above

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.

67. Which of the following best describes James Joyces Araby ?
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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.

D. It begins with the famous line: North Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free.

68. Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness ?
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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.

D. Both A and B

69. How may W.B. Yeats poem, The Second Coming, be interpreted ?
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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

D. Both A and C

70. 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

71. 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.

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

76. 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

77. 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

78. Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term Orientalism ?
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A. Edward Said

B. Homi Bhaba

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Arundhati Roy

79. Who wrote Take up the White Mans burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed- in order to inspire Western Europeans to propagate benevolent, enlightened colonialism ?
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A. William Butler Yeats

B. Rudyard Kipling

C. Charles Baudelaire

D. Napoleon III

80. 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.

81. 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

82. Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
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A. Symbolism

B. Realism

C. Surrealism

D. Dadaism

83. Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pounds .. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?
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A. The Sun Also Rises

B. To the Lighthouse

C. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

D. The Cantos

84. Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcotts poemBecune Point ?
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A. Nature

B. Christianity

C. World War II

D. Pastoral landscapes

85. 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

86. 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.

87. 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

88. 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.

89. 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

90. Who painted The Accommodations of Desire ?
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A. Salvador Dal

B. Man Ray

C. Pablo Picasso

D. Juan Mir

91. 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.

92. 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

93. 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.

94. According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century, which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?
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A. Impressionist

B. Symbolist

C. Genteel

D. Decadent

95. 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.