Who was Le Corbusier ?
Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
Which of the following statements best describes “Magical Realism” ?
Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott’s poem“Becune Point” ?
Who wrote “Take up the White Man’s burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-” in order to inspire Western Europeans to propagate benevolent, enlightened colonialism ?
“Post-Modernism” is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism ?
Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “To Victory” is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?
Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?
According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” Roland Barthes, in his work “The Death of the Author,” argues which of the following points ?
Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?
Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term “Orientalism” ?
How may W.B. Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming,” be interpreted ?
Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire’s “Bénédiction” ?
Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author ?
According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”
Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of “Magical Realism” ?
The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?
The literary style of Virginia Woolf’s novel “To the Lighthouse” is best described in which of the following ways ?
In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel,” which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?
Who painted “The Accommodations of Desire” ?
Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?
Which of the following statements best describes the “Great Depression” ?
Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ?
Wilfred Owen’s war poem “Dulce et Decorum est” ends with which of the following Latin phrases ?
What is “Post-Modernism” ?
Theodor Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” further examines the notion of the “culture industry” and suggests which of the following about the “culture industry ?”
Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” ?
Who wrote the collection of poems entitled “The Wind Among the Reeds ?”
Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
What is meant by the “Haussmannization” of Paris ?
Which of the following statements concerning “Vorticism” is false ?
“Flâneur,” according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay “The Flâneur,” is a term the French understand to mean which of the following ?
Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” is a novel characterized by which of the following descriptions ?
The poem “In Flanders Fields” was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
The term “Lost Generation” can be applied to which of the following groups ?
Which of the following is true of Ezra Pound’s “Canto XIV” ?
What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics ?
Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?
Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor ?
Which of the following is true of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” ?
According to Theodor Adorno’s and Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of the following is true of the culture industry ?
Which of the following was one of the major health consequences for soldiers who survived the traumas of trench warfare in World War One ?
Which of the following statements best describes the “British East India Company ?”
Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?
According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” what is the meaning of the term “simulacra” ?
Which of the following descriptions of the “Avant-Garde Movement” is false ?
The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

What is “Mimesis” ?

A. It is a philosophical term which means “imitation” or “mimicry.”
B. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning “otherness.”
C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.
D. A and C only

Correct Answer: A and C only ✔

Last Updated: August 21, 2020