Category: Cultural and Literary in Modernity

A. A group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller
B. A group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I
C. Any American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I
D. A and B only

A. Arundhati Roy
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Seamus Heaney
D. Vladimir Nabokov

A. Joyce’s “The Dead”
B. Hemingway’s “My Old Man”
C. Woolf’s “A Haunted House”
D. Borges’ “The Library of Babel”

A. Sal Paradise
B. Humbert Humbert
C. Dean Moriarty
D. Jake Barnes

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