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With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?
A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. anarchism
Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?
A. Thom Gunn
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Philip Larkin
D. both A and C
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
A. art for intellect’s sake
B. art for God’s sake
C. art for the masses
D. art for art’s sake
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
A. art for intellect’s sake
B. art for God’s sake
C. art for the masses
D. art for art’s sake
What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
A. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
B. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
C. a popular thirst for the classics,
driving contemporary writers to the margins
D. none of the above
In what decade did the angry young mencome to prominence on the theatrical scene ?
A. 1910s
B. 1930s
C. 1950s
D. 1970s
Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?
A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?
A. It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.
B. It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.
C. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.
D. It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.
What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?
A. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
B. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
C. a popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins
D. a, b and c
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