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Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C
What did Henry James describe as loose baggy monsters ?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?
A. nothing happens-twice
B. political correctness gone mad
C. kitchen sink drama
D. angry young men
Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Independent Theatre
C. the Abbey Theatre
D. both A and C
When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928?
A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000
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
Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?
A. Eminent Victorians
B. Jungle Books
C. The Way of All Flesh
D. both A and C
Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Abbey Theatre
D. both A and C
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