Bog'liq Seminar 11 test American literature at the turn of the century 20 - для слияния
1809 groups Student Abdurahmanova Munisa
1.Representation of different cultures in the literature that are free from stereotypes……
Cultural response
Multiculturalism
Cross-culture literature
Postmodern literature
2. Identify the genre of the novel “In Cold Blood”.
Gothic
Thriller
Nonfiction
Detective
3. The Nonfiction novel genre blurs the distinction between….
High literature and journalism
Journalism and realism
Fiction and film
Film and theatre
4. Which work reflects the childhood friend in Kabul separated by the rule of the Taliban?
“Reading Lolita in Teheran”
“Memoirs of a Geisha”
“In Cold Blood”
“The Kite Runner”
5. Who is the author of “Memoirs of Geisha”?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Arthur Golden
Holed Hosseini
Truman Capote
6.Choose the work by the American author Dan Brown which is based on a Christian theme.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
The Mommy Myth
The Atlantic
The DaVinci Code
7. What do postmodern writers suggest?
Political context
Modernist thought
Fragmentation
Multinarrator
8. From which postmodern novel this extract is taken: “Were people this dumb before television?”
Galatea 2.2
White Noise
Infinite Jest
Hand to mouth
9. Fill in the gaps: …… short story writer’s middle-class characters often lead aimless lives.
Ann Beattie
Raymond Caver
John Cheever
Andre Dubus
10. The short short is a very brief story, often only one or two pages long is called……
Memoir
Flash fiction
Nonfiction
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.
Crimes of the Heart
The Miss Firecracker Contest
The Wake of Jamey Foster
The Debutante Ball
12. “The America play” (1991) by dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks is about….
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
The discovery of America
The civil war in America
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.”? “The good mother” by Sue Miller
“Affliction” by Russel Banks
“The Ice Storm” by Rick Moody
“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). J.E. Wideman
Don DeLillo
Ch. Buckley
M. Chabon
15. Find the author of the novel “The Joy Luck Club” which interlinksstory-like chaptersdelineate the different fates of four mother-and-daughter pairs. Ishmael Reed
Norman Rush
Amy Tan
Denise Chavez
16. Which of Amy Tan’s novel spans historical China and today’s United States.
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Joy Luck club
The Bonesetter’s daughter
Gish Jen
17. Find odd one among Philippine-born writers Jessica Hagedorn
Carlos Bulosan
Bienvenido Santos
Elmaz Abinader
18. XX century might be divided into the following _____ periods.
three: structuralism, post-structuralism, formalism
two: modernism, postmodernism
several
two: pre-war and postwar
19. How can generally modernism and postmodernism be characterized?
They are considered as the two aspects of the same movement
They are categorized as having the same elements of the two separate literary movements
They are totally different in their features
They don’t have their general features but specific ones.
20. How modernism came about?
because the modernists had a wide variety of ideas observing human degradation
owing to the fact that the world needed a new movement
due to its similar perspective towards the social life
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?
literary progress in most European territories which never had Renaissance
their reaction to enlightenment which fueled their inception
public dissatisfaction
both approaches had nothing to do with Enlightenment
22. Which period is considered the beginning of modern period in human history?
Postmodernism
Modernism
Enlightenment
Realism
23. Which element of Enlightenment was jettisoned by both modernists and postmodernists?
uncertainty
perfectibility of human nature
superiority of nature
certainty
24. How 20th century seriously undermined the possibility of a deterministic model of the world?
by scientific findings
by the manifestation of the human resources
via the internet
through the chemical investigations in rural areas specifically
25. Fill in the gap. __________ encroached into all aspects of life in the period of Enlightenment.
Internet
Cybernetics
Technology
Social dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie
30. What was the project of modernism?
to examine the impediment still holding the society back.
to investigate the power of technology
to realize the results of the war
to give everyone some chances to understand each other socially
31. Whose artistic works can be exemplified as the rejection of realism
Da Vinci’s
Picasso’s
Van Gogh’s
Both Picasso’s and van Gogh’s
32. How did the modernist composers make a break from past conventions in music?
By experimenting
By altering
By approaching harmonic, melodic and rhythmic aspects of music
By implementing all of the above
33. Which literary genre dominated the modernistic literature?
Sonnets
Tragedies
Novels
Short stories
34. Who became less popular in the postmodern era while were appreciated in modernism?
Mozart and Beethoven
DJs and remixes
Monet and Postimpressionists
All of the above
35. How modernist architectural forms were replaced in the period of postmodernism.
By a post mix of different styles
By the inspiration of surrealist paintings
By the surging of cubism
They were not replaced but fulfilled
36. Find the most liable definition of modernism.
Modernism is a late 19th and early 20th century movement describing a collection of cultural movements
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
A movement characterized by a dramatic change of thought.
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.
geographical
conventional
mathematical
global
38. What is postmodernism?
Postmodernism was not a reaction to modernism and therefore was not influenced by disenchantment brought on by the Second World War
Postmodernism refers to the state that lacks a central hierarchy and one that is complex, ambiguous, and diverse
Postmodernism cannot be a thought of as a nihilistic response to modernism which was a positive and constructive ideology.
All of the above.
39. How did the postmodern ideologists attacked the modernist belief?
in rationality
in objectivity
in universalism
All of the above
40. Fill in the blank. Postmodernists claim that the ____________ was enabled by modernism.
liberalism
unity
monstrosity of the two world wars
failure of Stalinism
41. After the second World War, why was returning to the modernism no longer a viable option?
due to the horrors of societal breakdown after the wars
because wars brought humans into another progress
since it was not as shocking as expected for the modernists
None of the above
42. Postmodernism represented a loss in faith in human reason.
True
False
43. Postmodernism provides a diversely strong prognosis of the human condition and offers lots of real solutions.
True
False
44. Postmodernism developed into an ideology of unified world and unified humanity with the shared visions and with the shared goals.
True
False
45. Postmodernists argue that humankind may never reach its goal of a unified humanity.
True