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Cultural and Literary in Modernity

Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is an example of which of the following literary trends ?

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Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is an example of which of the following literary trends ?

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

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Which of the following is a literary work of “The Lost Generation ?”

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Which of the following is a literary work of “The Lost Generation ?”

A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic and literary movement ?

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic and literary movement ?

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.

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Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?

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Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?

A. Ibo
B. Russian
C. Irish
D. Indian

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Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokov’s “Lolita” ?

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Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokov’s “Lolita” ?

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.”

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Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant” ?

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Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant” ?

A. Amy Lowell
B. Gertrude Stein
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Alice Walker

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According to Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” which of the following is true ?

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According to Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” which of the following is true ?

A. “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”
B. “The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror.”
C. “All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.”
D. Both A and B

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Which of the following is true of symbolism ?

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Which of the following is true of symbolism ?

A. Symbolism began as a French literary movement in the late 19th century.
B. Paul Gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting.
C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world.
D. Both A and B

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