English Literature MCQs

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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.


bIt is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.


cIt 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


dBoth A and B


View Answer Both A and B

What is “Post-Modernism” ?


aA term used to describe contemporary cultural production


bA literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity


cAn attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

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”


View Answer “Pro patria mori”

Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ?


aSeamus Heaney


bJames Joyce


cWilliam Butler Yeats


dE.M. Forster


View Answer E.M. Forster

Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Depression” ?


aThe Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.


bThe Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.


cThe Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.


dB and C only


View Answer B and C only

Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?


aArgentina


bBrazil


cMexico


dBritain


View Answer Argentina

Who painted “The Accommodations of Desire” ?


aSalvador Dalí


bPablo Picasso


cJuan Miró


dMan Ray


View Answer Salvador Dalí

In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?


aThe short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.


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


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


dThe library is analogous to the universe.



The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel “To the Lighthouse” is best described in which of the following ways ?


aAs an omniscient narrative of love and loss


bAs a third-person narrative of the Great Depression


cAs a domestic stream of consciousness narrative


dA and B only



The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?


aThe work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.


bIt ends with the famous line “the horror, the horror.”


cIt explores Jean’s decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.


dAll of the above



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