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Which of the following best describes “stream of consciousness” narrative in the modern period ?


a Stream of consciousness often relies upon “free association” of ideas.


bStream of consciousness is the capturing of the interior monologue of the narrator.


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


d A and B only


View Answer A and B only

Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ?


a “We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.”


b “The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.”


c “We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.”


d“We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”



Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?


aThe “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London.


bThe group consisted of survivors of World War II.


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


dA and C only


View Answer A and C only

According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ?


a “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”


bA term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user


c “A confession and a complaint”


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?


aIncest


bTrauma


cTaboo


dLove


View Answer Trauma

E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?


a“Pale Fire”


b “A Passage to India”


c“Daniel Deronda”


d “On the Road”



Which of the following is true of symbolism ?


aSymbolism began as a French literary movement in the late 19th century.


bPaul Gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting.


cSymbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world.


dBoth A and B


View Answer Both A and B

Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?


aJames Joyce


bVladimir Nabokov


cT.S. Eliot


d Joseph Conrad


View Answer Vladimir Nabokov

According to Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” which of the following is true ?


a“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”


b “The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror.”


c“All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.”


dBoth A and B


View Answer Both A and B

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” ?


a Amy Lowell


bGertrude Stein


cVirginia Woolf


dAlice Walker


View Answer Virginia Woolf

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