20th Century MCQs

Option A: automatic writing

Option B: confused daze

Option C: total recall

Option D: stream of consciousness

Correct Answer: stream of consciousness ✔

Option A: art for intellect’s sake

Option B: art for God’s sake

Option C: art for the masses

Option D: art for art’s sake

Correct Answer: art for art’s sake ✔

Option A: automatic writing

Option B: confused daze

Option C: total recall

Option D: stream of consciousness

Correct Answer: stream of consciousness ✔

Option A: George Orwell

Option B: Virginia Woolf

Option C: Evelyn Waugh

Option D: Orson Wells

Correct Answer: George Orwell ✔

Option A: \nothing happens-twice\

Option B: \political correctness gone mad\

Option C: \kitchen sink drama\

Option D: \angry young men

Correct Answer: \nothing happens-twice\ ✔

Option A: eugenics

Option B: psychoanalysis

Option C: phrenology

Option D: anarchism

Correct Answer: psychoanalysis ✔

Option A: Sigmund Freud

Option B: Sir James Frazer

Option C: Immanuel Kant

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: George Orwell

Option B: Virginia Woolf

Option C: Evelyn Waugh

Option D: Orson Wells

Correct Answer: George Orwell ✔

Option A: Eminent Victorians

Option B: Jungle Books

Option C: The Way of All Flesh

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.

Option B: It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.

Option C: It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.

Option D: It delivered a small dog into space in 1959, and returned it to earth.

Correct Answer: It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948. ✔

Option A: popular; reverenced

Option B: brash; confident

Option C: radical; inventive

Option D: anxious; haunting

Correct Answer: radical; inventive ✔

Option A: Sigmund Freud

Option B: Sir James Frazer

Option C: Immanuel Kant

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: its intellectual complexity

Option B: its union of thought and passion

Option C: its uncompromising engagement with politics

Option D: A and B

Correct Answer: A and B ✔

Option A: Thom Gunn

Option B: Dylan Thomas

Option C: Philip Larkin

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

Option B: a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

Option C: a popular thirst for the \classics,\

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed ✔

Option A: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Option B: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option C: James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake

Option D: James Joyce’s Ulysses

Correct Answer: James Joyce’s Ulysses ✔

Option A: “nothing happens-twice”

Option B: “political correctness gone mad”

Option C: “kitchen sink drama”

Option D: “angry young men

Correct Answer: “nothing happens-twice” ✔

Option A: the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

Option B: the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

Option C: the death of the musical

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: 1930

Option B: 1945

Option C: 1960

Option D: 2000

Correct Answer: 1960 ✔

Option A: art for intellect’s sake

Option B: art for God’s sake

Option C: art for the masses

Option D: art for art’s sake

Correct Answer: art for art’s sake ✔

Option A: stream of consciousness

Option B: free indirect style

Option C: irresolute open endings

Option D: narrative realism

Correct Answer: narrative realism ✔

Option A: Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.

Option B: The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.

Option C: Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: W. B. Yeats

Option B: James Joyce

Option C: Seamus Heaney

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: none of the above ✔

Option A: the Irish National Theatre

Option B: the Independent Theatre

Option C: the Abbey Theatre

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: stream of consciousness

Option B: free indirect style

Option C: irresolute open endings

Option D: narrative realism

Correct Answer: narrative realism ✔

Option A: the southern counties of Ireland

Option B: Canada

Option C: Ulster

Option D: India

Correct Answer: the southern counties of Ireland ✔

Option A: 1930

Option B: 1945

Option C: 1960

Option D: 2000

Correct Answer: 1960 ✔

Option A: Salman Rushdie

Option B: Joseph Conrad

Option C: Rabindranath Tagore

Option D: John Ruskin

Correct Answer: Salman Rushdie ✔

Option A: novels

Option B: plays

Option C: the English

Option D: publishers

Correct Answer: novels ✔

Option A: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Option B: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Option C: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option D: Paul Scott’s Staying On

Correct Answer: Paul Scott’s Staying On ✔

Option A: a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

Option B: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

Option C: an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

Option D: the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

Correct Answer: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery ✔

Option A: a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page

Option B: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery

Option C: an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery

Option D: the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility

Correct Answer: an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery ✔

Option A: novels

Option B: plays

Option C: the English

Option D: publishers

Correct Answer: novels ✔

Option A: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Option B: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Option C: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option D: Paul Scott’s Staying On

Correct Answer: Paul Scott’s Staying On ✔

Option A: Eminent Victorians

Option B: Jungle Books

Option C: The Way of All Flesh

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: 1910s

Option B: 1930s

Option C: 1950s

Option D: 1970s

Correct Answer: 1950s ✔

Option A: regional dialect and political critique

Option B: religious symbolism and society comedy

Option C: iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo

Option D: witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

Correct Answer: religious symbolism and society comedy ✔

Option A: Thom Gunn

Option B: Dylan Thomas

Option C: Philip Larkin

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔

Option A: its intellectual complexity

Option B: its union of thought and passion

Option C: its uncompromising engagement with politics

Option D: A and B

Correct Answer: A and B ✔

Option A: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity

Option B: wireless communication across the Atlantic

Option C: the creation of the internet

Option D: the invention of the airplane

Correct Answer: the creation of the internet ✔

Option A: popular; reverenced

Option B: brash; confident

Option C: radical; inventive

Option D: anxious; haunting

Correct Answer: radical; inventive ✔

Option A: regional dialect and political critique

Option B: religious symbolism and society comedy

Option C: iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo

Option D: witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

Correct Answer: religious symbolism and society comedy ✔

Option A: the southern counties of Ireland

Option B: Canada

Option C: Ulster

Option D: India

Correct Answer: the southern counties of Ireland ✔

Option A: eugenics

Option B: psychoanalysis

Option C: phrenology

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: psychoanalysis ✔

Option A: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity

Option B: wireless communication across the Atlantic

Option C: the creation of the internet

Option D: the invention of the airplane

Correct Answer: the creation of the internet ✔

Option A: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed

Option B: a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays

Option C: a popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins

Option D: a, b and c

Correct Answer: the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed ✔

Option A: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Option B: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Option C: James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake

Option D: James Joyce’s Ulysses

Correct Answer: James Joyce’s Ulysses ✔

Option A: the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

Option B: the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

Option C: the death of the musical

Option D: all but C

Correct Answer: all but C ✔

Option A: the Irish National Theatre

Option B: the Globe Theatre

Option C: the Abbey Theatre

Option D: both A and C

Correct Answer: both A and C ✔