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1. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the
novel?
A. stream of consciousness
B. free indirect style
C. irresolute open endings
D. the “mythical method”
E. narrative realism
2. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new
“mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method”
and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think
about “making the modern world possible for art”?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
E. James Joyce’s Ulysses
3. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which
Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist
writers?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
E. Aldous Huxley
4. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past
imperial glory?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
E. c and d
5. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady
Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928.
A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000
E. The ban has not yet been formally lifted.
6. Which of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Independent Theatre
D. the Abbey Theatre
E. both a and d
7. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. “political correctness gone mad”
C. “kitchen sink drama”
D. “angry young men
E. “better than Cats”
8. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and
perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear
of censorship?
A. the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968
B. the illegal performance of work by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond
C. the collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s
D. the foundation of the Field Day Theater Company in 1980
E. the establishment of the Abbey Theater
9. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater
since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
A. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. the emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
C. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
D. the death of the musical
E. all but d
10. What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters”?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
E. his trousers