Que- Wilfred Owen's war poem "Dulce et Decorum est" ends with which of the following Latin phrases ?
a. Pax romana
b. Veni, vidi, vici
c. Dux bellorum
d. Pro patria mori
Answer- Pro patria mori
Que- What is "Post-Modernism" ?
a. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production
b. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity
c. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- Theodor Adorno's "Culture Industry Reconsidered" further examines the notion of the "culture industry" and suggests which of the following about the "culture industry ?"
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
Answer- Both A and B
Que- Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
a. Maurice Tabard
b. Ansel Adams
c. Hans Bellmer
d. Man Ray
Answer- Ansel Adams
Que- Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" ?
a. Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys
b. And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands
c. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
d. Mother died today
Answer- Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Que- Who wrote the collection of poems entitled "The Wind Among the Reeds ?"
a. W.B. Yeats
b. Jorge Luis Borges
c. Mario Vargas Llosa
d. Charles Baudelaire
Answer- W.B. Yeats
Que- Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
a. Mimicry
b. Ambivalence
c. Hybridity
d. Serendipity
Answer- Serendipity
Que- What is meant by the "Haussmannization" of Paris ?
a. It was an urban modernization project that reorganized Parisian city streets so that the bourgeoisie could flaunt their new wealth.
b. It was an urban renovation project which offered social services in city slums.
c. It was a political movement intended to overthrow Napoleon III.
d. It was a religious movement intended to celebrate the values of Christianity.
Answer- It was an urban modernization project that reorganized Parisian city streets so that the bourgeoisie could flaunt their new wealth.
Que- What is "Mimesis" ?
a. It is a philosophical term which means "imitation" or "mimicry."
b. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning "otherness."
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. A and C only
Answer- A and C only
Que- Which of the following statements concerning "Vorticism" is false ?
a. The term "Vorticism" was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.
b. 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 periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticism's principal tenets.
d. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.
Answer- The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.
Que- Fill in the blank. "Lolita" is infamous for its controversial subject as it depicts a middle-aged protagonist, _____________, who becomes sexually obsessed with a twelveyear- old girl, Dolores Haze ?
a. Sal Paradise
b. Humbert Humbert
c. Dean Moriarty
d. Jake Barnes
Answer- Humbert Humbert
Que- Flâneur, according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay "The Flâneur," is a term the French understand to mean which of the following ?
a. Stroller, idler, walker
b. An inhabitant of a rural village
c. A religious believer
d. Both A and B
Answer- Stroller, idler, walker
Que- Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is a novel characterized by which of the following descriptions ?
a. It is an excellent example of "Magical Realism."
b. It is concerned with the post-colonial situation of India before and after its partitioning into India and Pakistan.
c. It is a book that tells the story of the Sinai family.
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- The poem "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
a. The Franco-Prussian War
b. The American Civil War
c. World War I
d. World War II
Answer- World War I
Que- The term "Lost Generation" can be applied to which of the following groups ?
a. A group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller
b. A group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I
c. Any American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I
d. A and B only
Answer- A and B only
Que- Which of the following is true of Ezra Pound's "Canto XIV" ?
a. It contains almost hellish imagery, such as: "Melting like dirty wax,/decayed candles, the bums sinking lower,/faces submerged under hams."
b. It explores the theme of the perversion of language.
c. It deeply identifies with Dante's "Inferno" in terms of tone and thick description.
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
a. Joyce's "The Dead"
b. Hemingway's "My Old Man"
c. Woolf's "A Haunted House"
d. Borges' "The Library of Babel"
Answer- Borges' "The Library of Babel"
Que- Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics ?
a. A way of questioning Victorian moral conceptions
b. A musical invention of the modern age that allows for experimentation of form
c. An example of subjective artistic expression
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?
a. Chinua Achebe
b. Edward Said
c. Arundhati Roy
d. Salman Rushdie
Answer- Chinua Achebe
Que- Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
a. Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto"
b. James Joyce's "Ulysses"
c. Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
d. T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"
Answer- Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifesto"
Que- As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor ?
a. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust
b. King George V
c. King Edward VII
d. King James II
Answer- King George V
Que- Which of the following is true of Arthur Rimbaud's poem "Eternity" ?
a. It ends with the lines: "Eternity./It is the sea run off/ With the sun."
b. It suggests that the quest for knowledge and enlightenment is deeply satisfying.
c. The poem speaks of the necessity of seeking human approval and communal acceptance.
d. It begins with the lines: "I kissed the dawn of summer."
Answer- It ends with the lines: "Eternity./It is the sea run off/ With the sun."
Que- According to Theodor Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception," which of the following is true of the culture industry ?
a. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
b. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.
c. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.
d. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.
Answer- The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
Que- Which of the following was one of the major health consequences for soldiers who survived the traumas of trench warfare in World War One ?
a. Lyme disease
b. Staph infections
c. Shell shock
d. A and C only
Answer- Shell shock
Que- Which of the following statements best describes the "British East India Company ?"
a. The British East India Company was originally a group of London businessmen engaged in importing spices from South Asia.
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
Answer- The British East India Company was originally a group of London businessmen engaged in importing spices from South Asia.
Que- Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?
a. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters
b. The novel's experimental structure
c. The novel's radically unique narrative voice
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- According to Dr. Dino Felluga's "General Introduction to Postmodernism," what is the meaning of the term "simulacra" ?
a. Something that replaces reality with its representation
b. A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact
c. An exact imitation of the material world
d. A basic affirmation of everyday reality
Answer- Something that replaces reality with its representation
Que- Which of the following descriptions of the "Avant-Garde Movement" is false ?
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
Answer- The realist painter Gustave Courbet never considered himself a member of the avant-garde.
Que- The motto "art for art's sake" means that artists began to do which of the following ?
a. Produce works of art that were meaningless
b. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
c. Avoid all forms of prose
d. Make art profitable above all else
Answer- Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
Que- Which of the following statements is true of the Anglo-Irish War ?
a. The Anglo-Irish war began with the resistance of the Irish Republican Army.
b. The Anglo-Irish war never involved a guerrilla campaign.
c. In the course of the Anglo-Irish War, only a few hundred members of the Irish Republican Army were actively resisting British rule.
d. All of the above
Answer- The Anglo-Irish war began with the resistance of the Irish Republican Army.
Que- Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" ?
a. The end of the novella depicts Marlow's conversation with the Kurtz's 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
Answer- Both A and B
Que- What is the "Post-Modern" practice of "Deconstructionism" ?
a. An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth
b. An assault on the sexual mores of the Victorian Age
c. A reaffirmation of Romantic notions of the sublime
d. All of the above
Answer- An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth
Que- The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations ?
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
d. Both A and B
Answer- Both A and B
Que- Which of the following best describes James Joyce's "Araby" ?
a. 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."
b. It speaks of the author's illicit relationship with a young girl.
c. It is a dramatization of the relationship between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
d. It is an analysis of "Exodus" from "The Holy Bible."
Answer- 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."
Que- Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which "Post-Modern" school of criticism ?
a. Marxism
b. Post-Colonial Theory
c. Deconstruction
d. Feminism
Answer- Post-Colonial Theory
Que- Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________'s work?
a. Marx
b. Freud
c. Darwin
d. Aristotle
Answer- Marx
Que- Why does the "Flâneur" begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?
a. Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris
b. 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
Answer- Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris
Que- Georges Braque's "Woman with a Guitar" is an example of which of the following artistic movements ?
a. Cubism
b. Vorticism
c. Futurism
d. A and B only
Answer- Cubism
Que- Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature ?
a. Sexual mores
b. The importance of the irrational
c. Bourgeois sensibility
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work ?
a. Arundhati Roy
b. Salman Rushdie
c. Seamus Heaney
d. Vladimir Nabokov
Answer- Vladimir Nabokov
Que- According to Dr. Dino Felluga's module on Freud, Sigmund Freud's work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?
a. There is an undeniable "tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts."
b. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one's own mortality.
c. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit "the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again."
d. Talk therapy will not help cure one's psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.
Answer- There is an undeniable "tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts."
Que- T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?
a. The Dead
b. The Surrealist Manifesto
c. The Heart of Darkness
d. To the Lighthouse
Answer- The Dead
Que- Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?
a. His career ended when he was jailed for criminal "gross indecency."
b. He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.
c. Wilde was the author of such poems as "Bénédiction," "L'Albatros," and "élévation."
d. He was notorious for his use of paradox.
Answer- Wilde was the author of such poems as "Bénédiction," "L'Albatros," and "élévation."
Que- Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" ?
a. Some academic scholars suggest that "TheWasteland" is an extrapolation of the search for the Holy Grail.
b. The Wasteland is an excellent example of modernist symbolism.
c. Eliot's poem takes great pains to illustrate the breakdown of stable meaning in the modern world.
d. The Wasteland is often used as an excellent example of poetic realism.
Answer- The Wasteland is often used as an excellent example of poetic realism.
Que- Which of the following best describes the novel "The God of Small Things?"
a. It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural identity and decline of an Indian family.
b. It is a Romantic novel that explores the decline of a Russian family.
c. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that explores cultural identity in nineteenth-century Ireland.
d. It is a lyrical novel that explores the decline of a Caribbean family.
Answer- It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural identity and decline of an Indian family.
Que- T.S. Eliot's "TheWaste Land" begins with which of the following well-known opening lines ?
a. Was it for this-
b. Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
c. And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
d. April is the cruellest month
Answer- April is the cruellest month
Que- Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of "Realism" as an artistic and literary movement ?
a. Realism strives to depict humans within a certain social context.
b. Realism depicts the tension between harsh reality and ideals.
c. Realism gives up the search for truth and instead embraces moral relativism.
d. Realism explores ethical quandaries within a social context.
Answer- Realism gives up the search for truth and instead embraces moral relativism.
Que- Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is an example of which of the following literary trends ?
a. Aestheticism
b. Naturalism
c. Decadence
d. Both A and C
Answer- Both A and C
Que- Which of the following is a literary work of "The Lost Generation ?"
a. Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
b. James Joyce's "Dubliners"
c. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
d. Friedrich Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols"
Answer- Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
Que- Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of "Naturalism" as an artistic and literary movement ?
a. Naturalism is a search for scientific certainty.
b. Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable and objective.
c. Naturalism depicts the more "animalistic" tendencies of humans.
d. Naturalism considers the author or artist to be like a scientist.
Answer- Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable and objective.