Search
.Management Sciences
Category: Cultural and Literary in Modernity
Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Depression” ?
A. The Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.
B. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.
C. The Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.
D. B and C only
Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott’s poem“Becune Point” ?
A. Nature
B. Christianity
C. Pastoral landscapes
D. World War II
Which of the following is a literary work of “The Lost Generation ?”
A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”
What is “Post-Modernism” ?
A. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production
B. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity
C. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture
D. All of the above
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.
B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
C. It 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.
D. Both A and B
Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?
A. His career ended when he was jailed for criminal “gross indecency.”
B. He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.
C. Wilde was the author of such poems as “Bénédiction,” “L’Albatros,” and “élévation.”
D. He was notorious for his use of paradox.
Which of the following is true of Ezra Pound’s “Canto XIV” ?
A. It contains almost hellish imagery, such as: “Melting like dirty wax,/decayed candles, the bums sinking lower,/faces submerged under hams.”
B. It explores the theme of the perversion of language.
C. It deeply identifies with Dante’s “Inferno” in terms of tone and thick description.
D. All of the above
The poem “In Flanders Fields” was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
A. The Franco-Prussian War
B. The American Civil War
C. World War I
D. World War II
Which of the following best describes the novel “The God of Small Things?”
A. It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural identity and decline of an Indian family.
B. It is a Romantic novel that explores the decline of a Russian family.
C. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that explores cultural identity in nineteenth-century Ireland.
D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the decline of a Caribbean family.
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
B. Gertrude Stein
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Alice Walker
Recent Comments