English Literature MCQs

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Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?


a “The Sun Also Rises”


b“Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”


c“The Cantos”


d“To the Lighthouse”


View Answer “The Cantos”

According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?


a“Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family”


b“A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action”


c “Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity”


d“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”



Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” ?


aIt 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…”?


bIt is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist.


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


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?


aBeckett’s work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.


b Beckett’s play explores how language helps to form one’s notion of self.


cBeckett’s work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human desires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Modernism” ?


aA radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form


b A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth


cThe use of irony and parody


dBoth A and B



What are the differences between conservative modernism and progressive modernism ?


aConservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.


bConservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.


cConservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso’s periods of artistic production ?


aDadaist period


bBlue period


c Synthetic cubism


dRose period


View Answer Dadaist period

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 ?


aGenteel


bSymbolist


cImpressionist


dDecadent


View Answer Impressionist

Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?


a Linda Hutcheon


bHomi Bhabha


c Jacques Derrida


dFredric Jameson


View Answer Homi Bhabha

The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?


aPablo Picasso and Claude Monet


bT.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis


cClaude Monet and édouard Manet


dGeorge Braque and Pablo Picasso



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