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How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?

A. nothing happens-twice
B. political correctness gone mad
C. kitchen sink drama
D. angry young men

With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?

A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. anarchism

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C

Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?

A. Eminent Victorians
B. Jungle Books
C. The Way of All Flesh
D. both A and C

What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush ?

A. It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.
B. It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.
C. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.
D. It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.

In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more___ but less than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

A. popular; reverenced
B. brash; confident
C. radical; inventive
D. anxious; haunting

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C

What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B

Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

Which poet could be described as part of The Movementof the 1950s ?

A. Thom Gunn
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Philip Larkin
D. both A and C

What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?

July 18, 2021June 20, 2019 by QuizMaster

What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory ?

A. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
B. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
C. a popular thirst for the classics,
driving contemporary writers to the margins
D. none of the above