Category: Cultural and Literary in Modernity

A. “Pax romana”
B. “Veni, vidi, vici”
C. “Dux bellorum”
D. “Pro patria mori”

A. Aestheticism
B. Naturalism
C. Decadence
D. Both A and C

A. Mimicry
B. Ambivalence
C. Hybridity
D. Serendipity

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.

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.

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

A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”
B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user
C. “A confession and a complaint”
D. All of the above

A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.
B. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.
C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
D. The library is analogous to the universe.