Category: Cultural and Literary in Modernity

A. Charles Baudelaire
B. William Butler Yeats
C. Rudyard Kipling
D. Napoleon III

A. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.
B. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.
C. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.
D. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.

A. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
B. “Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.”
C. “Lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.”
D. “Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.”

A. The Anglo-Irish war began with the resistance of the Irish Republican Army.
B. The Anglo-Irish war never involved a guerrilla campaign.
C. In the course of the Anglo-Irish War, only a few hundred members of the Irish Republican Army were actively resisting British rule.
D. All of the above

A. It begins with the famous line: “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…”?
B. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist.
C. It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.
D. All of the above

A. Conservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.
B. Conservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.
C. Conservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.
D. All of the above

A. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust
B. King George V
C. King Edward VII
D. King James II

A. A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images
B. An attempt to use the “exact word” instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry
C. A and B only
D. B and C only

A. As an interpretation of the Biblical Second Coming of Christ
B. As an attempt to support European colonialism in Africa
C. As a howl of despair concerning the current state of the world
D. Both A and C

A. Edward Said
B. Arundhati Roy
C. Salman Rushdie
D. Homi Bhaba