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

• 1. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet
• 2. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis
• 3. Claude Monet and édouard Manet
• 4. George Braque and Pablo Picasso

Question: 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” ?

• 1. Linda Hutcheon
• 2. Homi Bhabha
• 3. Jacques Derrida
• 4. Fredric Jameson

Question: 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 ?

• 1. Genteel
• 2. Symbolist
• 3. Impressionist
• 4. Decadent

Question: Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso’s periods of artistic production ?

• 1. Dadaist period
• 2. Blue period
• 3. Synthetic cubism
• 4. Rose period

Question: What are the differences between conservative modernism and progressive modernism ?

• 1. Conservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.
• 2. Conservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.
• 3. Conservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.
• 4. All of the above

Question: Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Modernism” ?

• 1. A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form
• 2. A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth
• 3. The use of irony and parody
• 4. Both A and B

Question: Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” ?

• 1. It begins with the famous line: “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…”?
• 2. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist.
• 3. It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.
• 4. All of the above

Question: According to Tristan Tzara’s “Manifesto on Dadaism,” which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?

• 1. “Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family”
• 2. “A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action”
• 3. “Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity”
• 4. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

Question: Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

• 1. “The Sun Also Rises”
• 2. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
• 3. “The Cantos”
• 4. “To the Lighthouse”

Question: What is “Imagism” ?

• 1. A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images
• 2. An attempt to use the “exact word” instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry
• 3. A and B only
• 4. B and C only