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Cultural and Literary in Modernity

Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?

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Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?

A. Incest
B. Trauma
C. Taboo
D. Love

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According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ?

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According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ?

A. “The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”
B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user
C. “A confession and a complaint”
D. All of the above

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Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?

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Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?

A. The “Bloomsbury Group” consists of a group of English writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the Bloomsbury district of London.
B. The group consisted of survivors of World War II.
C. The Bloomsbury group included E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf.
D. A and C only

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Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ?

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Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ?

A. “We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.”
B. “The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.”
C. “We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.”
D. “We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”

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Which of the following best describes “stream of consciousness” narrative in the modern period ?

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Which of the following best describes “stream of consciousness” narrative in the modern period ?

A. Stream of consciousness often relies upon “free association” of ideas.
B. Stream of consciousness is the capturing of the interior monologue of the narrator.
C. Stream of consciousness attempts to accurately capture the external dialogue of various characters in a realistic setting by an objective observer.
D. A and B only

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The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?

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The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?

A. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet
B. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis
C. Claude Monet and édouard Manet
D. George Braque and Pablo Picasso

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Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?

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Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?

A. Linda Hutcheon
B. Homi Bhabha
C. Jacques Derrida
D. Fredric Jameson

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According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?

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According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?

A. Genteel
B. Symbolist
C. Impressionist
D. Decadent

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