1809 groups Student Abdurahmanova Munisa

1809 groups Student Abdurahmanova Munisa

1.Representation of different cultures in the literature that are free from stereotypes……

1. 
   Cultural response
   
2. 
   Multiculturalism
   
3. 
   Cross-culture literature
   
4. 
   Postmodern literature
   

2. Identify the genre of the novel “In Cold Blood”.

1. 
   Gothic
   
2. 
   Thriller
   
3. 
   Nonfiction
   
4. 
   Detective
   

3. The Nonfiction novel genre blurs the distinction between….

1. 
   High literature and journalism
   
2. 
   Journalism and realism
   
3. 
   Fiction and film
   
4. 
   Film and theatre
   

4. Which work reflects the childhood friend in Kabul separated by the rule of the Taliban?

1. 
   “Reading Lolita in Teheran”
   
2. 
   “Memoirs of a Geisha”
   
3. 
   “In Cold Blood”
   
4. 
   “The Kite Runner”
   

5. Who is the author of “Memoirs of Geisha”?

1. 
   Kazuo Ishiguro
   
2. 
   Arthur Golden
   
3. 
   Holed Hosseini
   
4. 
   Truman Capote
   

6.Choose the work by the American author Dan Brown which is based on a Christian theme.

1. 
   Bridget Jones’s Diary
   
2. 
   The Mommy Myth
   
3. 
   The Atlantic
   
4. 
   The DaVinci Code
   

7. What do postmodern writers suggest?

1. 
   Political context
   
2. 
   Modernist thought
   
3. 
   Fragmentation
   
4. 
   Multinarrator
   

8. From which postmodern novel this extract is taken: “Were people this dumb before television?”

1. 
   Galatea 2.2
   
2. 
   White Noise
   
3. 
   Infinite Jest
   
4. 
   Hand to mouth
   

9. Fill in the gaps: …… short story writer’s middle-class characters often lead aimless lives.

1. 
   Ann Beattie
   
2. 
   Raymond Caver
   
3. 
   John Cheever
   
4. 
   Andre Dubus
   

10. The short short is a very brief story, often only one or two pages long is called……

1. 
   Memoir
   
2. 
   Flash fiction
   
3. 
   Nonfiction
   
4. 
   Vignette
   

11. Choose the right answer.
A warm play by Beth Henley (1952- ) about three eccentric sisters whose affection helps them survive disappointment and despair.

1. 
   Crimes of the Heart
   
2. 
   The Miss Firecracker Contest
   
3. 
   The Wake of Jamey Foster
   
4. 
   The Debutante Ball
   

12. “The America play” (1991) by dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks is about….

1. 
   The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
   
2. 
   The discovery of America
   
3. 
   The civil war in America
   
4. 
   The election of first Afro-American president
   

13. Which novel has the narrator scorns people who have “gone to Florida, Arizona, and California, bought a trailer or a condo, turned their skin to leather playing shuffleboard all day and waited to die.”?

1. 
   “The good mother” by Sue Miller
   
2. 
   “Affliction” by Russel Banks
   
3. 
   “The Ice Storm” by Rick Moody
   
4. 
   “The Broom of the system” by D.F Wallace
   

14. Who is the author of Faulknerian Homewood Trilogy — Hiding Place (1981), Damballah (1981), and Sent for You Yesterday (1983).

1. 
   J.E. Wideman
   
2. 
   Don DeLillo
   
3. 
   Ch. Buckley
   
4. 
   M. Chabon
   

15. Find the author of the novel “The Joy Luck Club” which interlinks story-like chapters delineate the different fates of four mother-and-daughter pairs.

1. 
   Ishmael Reed
   
2. 
   Norman Rush
   
3. 
   Amy Tan
   
4. 
   Denise Chavez
   

16. Which of Amy Tan’s novel spans historical China and today’s United States.

1. 
   The Hundred Secret Senses
   
2. 
   The Joy Luck club
   
3. 
   The Bonesetter’s daughter
   
4. 
   Gish Jen
   

17. Find odd one among Philippine-born writers

1. 
   Jessica Hagedorn
   
2. 
   Carlos Bulosan
   
3. 
   Bienvenido Santos
   
4. 
   Elmaz Abinader
   

18. XX century might be divided into the following _____ periods.

1. 
   three: structuralism, post-structuralism, formalism
   
2. 
   two: modernism, postmodernism
   
3. 
   several
   
4. 
   two: pre-war and postwar
   

19. How can generally modernism and postmodernism be characterized?

1. 
   They are considered as the two aspects of the same movement
   
2. 
   They are categorized as having the same elements of the two separate literary movements
   
3. 
   They are totally different in their features
   
4. 
   They don’t have their general features but specific ones.
   

20. How modernism came about?

1. 
   because the modernists had a wide variety of ideas observing human degradation
   
2. 
   owing to the fact that the world needed a new movement
   
3. 
   due to its similar perspective towards the social life
   
4. 
   because of a basic difference in the way of looking at society and progress
   

21. What is the first approach of the two approaches towards life that can be considered as the major difference between modernism and postmodernism?

1. 
   literary progress in most European territories which never had Renaissance
   
2. 
   their reaction to enlightenment which fueled their inception
   
3. 
   public dissatisfaction
   
4. 
   both approaches had nothing to do with Enlightenment
   

22. Which period is considered the beginning of modern period in human history?

1. 
   Postmodernism
   
2. 
   Modernism
   
3. 
   Enlightenment
   
4. 
   Realism
   

23. Which element of Enlightenment was jettisoned by both modernists and postmodernists?

1. 
   uncertainty
   
2. 
   perfectibility of human nature
   
3. 
   superiority of nature
   
4. 
   certainty
   

24. How 20^th century seriously undermined the possibility of a deterministic model of the world?

1. 
   by scientific findings
   
2. 
   by the manifestation of the human resources
   
3. 
   via the internet
   
4. 
   through the chemical investigations in rural areas specifically
   

25. Fill in the gap. __________ encroached into all aspects of life in the period of Enlightenment.

1. 
   Internet
   
2. 
   Cybernetics
   
3. 
   Technology
   
4. 
   Social dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie
   

30. What was the project of modernism?

1. 
   to examine the impediment still holding the society back.
   
2. 
   to investigate the power of technology
   
3. 
   to realize the results of the war
   
4. 
   to give everyone some chances to understand each other socially
   

31. Whose artistic works can be exemplified as the rejection of realism

1. 
   Da Vinci’s
   
2. 
   Picasso’s
   
3. 
   Van Gogh’s
   
4. 
   Both Picasso’s and van Gogh’s
   

32. How did the modernist composers make a break from past conventions in music?

1. 
   By experimenting
   
2. 
   By altering
   
3. 
   By approaching harmonic, melodic and rhythmic aspects of music
   
4. 
   By implementing all of the above
   

33. Which literary genre dominated the modernistic literature?

1. 
   Sonnets
   
2. 
   Tragedies
   
3. 
   Novels
   
4. 
   Short stories
   

34. Who became less popular in the postmodern era while were appreciated in modernism?

1. 
   Mozart and Beethoven
   
2. 
   DJs and remixes
   
3. 
   Monet and Postimpressionists
   
4. 
   All of the above
   

35. How modernist architectural forms were replaced in the period of postmodernism.

1. 
   By a post mix of different styles
   
2. 
   By the inspiration of surrealist paintings
   
3. 
   By the surging of cubism
   
4. 
   They were not replaced but fulfilled
   

36. Find the most liable definition of modernism.

1. 
   Modernism is a late 19^th and early 20^th century movement describing a collection of cultural movements
   
2. 
   Modernism had the main idea that traditional values and institutions were oppressive, divisive and inefficient and should therefore be replaced by rational values and institutions
   
3. 
   A movement characterized by a dramatic change of thought.
   
4. 
   All of the above
   

37. Fill in the gap. Modernists tried to produce timeless products that were not tied to tradition but instead relied on formal _________rule sets.

1. 
   geographical
   
2. 
   conventional
   
3. 
   mathematical
   
4. 
   global
   

38. What is postmodernism?

1. 
   Postmodernism was not a reaction to modernism and therefore was not influenced by disenchantment brought on by the Second World War
   
2. 
   Postmodernism refers to the state that lacks a central hierarchy and one that is complex, ambiguous, and diverse
   
3. 
   Postmodernism cannot be a thought of as a nihilistic response to modernism which was a positive and constructive ideology.
   
4. 
   All of the above.
   

39. How did the postmodern ideologists attacked the modernist belief?

1. 
   in rationality
   
2. 
   in objectivity
   
3. 
   in universalism
   
4. 
   All of the above
   

40. Fill in the blank. Postmodernists claim that the ____________ was enabled by modernism.

1. 
   liberalism
   
2. 
   unity
   
3. 
   monstrosity of the two world wars
   
4. 
   failure of Stalinism
   

41. After the second World War, why was returning to the modernism no longer a viable option?

1. 
   due to the horrors of societal breakdown after the wars
   
2. 
   because wars brought humans into another progress
   
3. 
   since it was not as shocking as expected for the modernists
   
4. 
   None of the above
   

42. Postmodernism represented a loss in faith in human reason.

1. 
   True
   
2. 
   False
   

43. Postmodernism provides a diversely strong prognosis of the human condition and offers lots of real solutions.

1. 
   True
   
2. 
   False
   

44. Postmodernism developed into an ideology of unified world and unified humanity with the shared visions and with the shared goals.

1. 
   True
   
2. 
   False
   

45. Postmodernists argue that humankind may never reach its goal of a unified humanity.

1. 
   True
   
2. 
   False