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Georges Braque’s “Woman with a Guitar” is an example of which of the following artistic movements ?
A. Cubism
B. Vorticism
C. Futurism
D. A and B only
Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Araby” ?
A. It begins with the famous line: “North Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free.”
B. It speaks of the author’s illicit relationship with a young girl.
C. It is a dramatization of the relationship between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
D. It is an analysis of “Exodus” from “The Holy Bible.”
Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” ?
A. “Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys”
B. “And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands”
C. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
D. “Mother died today”
Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?
A. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters
B. The novel’s experimental structure
C. The novel’s radically unique narrative voice
D. All of the above
Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?
A. Incest
B. Trauma
C. Taboo
D. Love
According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s module on Freud, Sigmund Freud’s work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?
A. There is an undeniable “tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.”
B. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with one’s own mortality.
C. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit “the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.”
D. Talk therapy will not help cure one’s psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.
E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
A. “Pale Fire”
B. “A Passage to India”
C. “Daniel Deronda”
D. “On the Road”
The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations ?
A. The shift from agriculturally-based to industrial societies in the West
B. The decline of traditional religious beliefs in Europe
C. The rise of traditional social identities and the decline of personal identity
D. Both A and B
T.S. Eliot’s “TheWaste Land” begins with which of the following well-known opening lines ?
A. “Was it for this-”
B. “Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
C. “And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
D. “April is the cruellest month”
Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?
A. Beckett’s work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.
B. Beckett’s play explores how language helps to form one’s notion of self.
C. Beckett’s work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human
desires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.
D. All of the above
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