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Category: Cultural and Literary in Modernity
What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
A. Joyce’s “The Dead”
B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man”
C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House”
D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel”
Fill in the blank. “Lolita” is infamous for its controversial subject as it depicts a middle-aged protagonist, _____________, who becomes sexually obsessed with a twelveyear- old girl, Dolores Haze ?
A. Sal Paradise
B. Humbert Humbert
C. Dean Moriarty
D. Jake Barnes
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”
Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is an example of which of the following literary trends ?
A. Aestheticism
B. Naturalism
C. Decadence
D. Both A and C
Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
A. Mimicry
B. Ambivalence
C. Hybridity
D. Serendipity
Which of the following statements concerning “Vorticism” is false ?
A. The term “Vorticism” was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.
B. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.
C. The periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticism’s principal tenets.
D. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic and literary movement ?
A. Naturalism is a search for scientific certainty.
B. Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable and objective.
C. Naturalism depicts the more “animalistic” tendencies of humans.
D. Naturalism considers the author or artist to be like a scientist.
Who was Le Corbusier ?
A. He was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.
B. He was an architect who designed The Chandigarh Legislative Assembly building in Punjab, India.
C. He was the architect who designed The Robie House in Chicago, Illinois.
D. Both A and B
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