World Lit II: Modernism & Postmodernism UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Postmodernism
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Postmodernism
World Lit II: Modernism &
Postmodernism UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Munroe - CORRECT ANSWER- A reporter who dies in "The Lurking Fear"
Institutions - CORRECT ANSWER- Modernists seek to make their readers aware of the
incoherence of modern life and the alienating influence of ...
World Lit II: Modernism &
Postmodernism UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Munroe - CORRECT ANSWER- A reporter who dies in "The Lurking Fear"
Institutions - CORRECT ANSWER- Modernists seek to make their readers aware of the
incoherence of modern life and the alienating influence of modern ____
Love - CORRECT ANSWER- The tramp in "A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud" develops what he
calls a "science of ____
Camus - CORRECT ANSWER- French Existentialist philosopher of the absurd who captures
the sense of being alienated from social conventions
Gothic - CORRECT ANSWER- Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear" is a modern adaptation of
the ____ literary tradition
Leo - CORRECT ANSWER- The only character in A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud that was given a
name
Utopian - CORRECT ANSWER- Initially modernism had a radical and ____spirit
Pastiche - CORRECT ANSWER- An imitation of a previous style in art or literature
Wisdom - CORRECT ANSWER- Frost saw a poem as providing an immediate experience
which "begins in delight, and ends in ____"
Grotesque - CORRECT ANSWER- McCullers exploited the ____ for dramatic or comic
effects in her fiction
, Anarchy - CORRECT ANSWER- Postmodernism celebrates _____ instead of attempting to
correct it
Absurd - CORRECT ANSWER- A pessimistic form of existentialism that maintains trying to
find order in the chaotic universe brings one into conflict with it
stream - CORRECT ANSWER- ____ of consciousness: point of view that merges memory
and present awareness, following an associative logic
school teacher - CORRECT ANSWER- In "the guest" Daru is a ____
knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER- The horror felt by Lovecraft's protagonists arises not out
of the fear of death or pain or loss; it is simply the fear of ____
Grete - CORRECT ANSWER- Gregor Samsa's sister
Jew - CORRECT ANSWER- Kafka was a german speaking ____ living in Prague,
Czechoslovakia
Oates - CORRECT ANSWER- she believes "a writer's job, ideally, is to act as the conscience
of his race"
Kafka - CORRECT ANSWER- He awakened his readers to the frightening isolation of
individuals in the modern, bureaucratic state
Minton - CORRECT ANSWER- The name of the house in "Haunted" in which the
protagonist has a macabre experience
Melissa - CORRECT ANSWER- She is the protagonist in "Haunted"
Moralist - CORRECT ANSWER- Camus is known as the great ____ of 20th century French
literature
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