The Modern Period

Question 1

What are the years of the Modern Period?

Answer 1

1914- Now

Question 2

What does Churchill’s statement that “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” refer to ?

Answer 2

the RAF’s heroic defense of England

Question 3

After World War II who did Great Britain grant independence to?

Answer 3

India, Burma and Pakistan

Question 4

What is Pluralism?

Answer 4

an attitude which favors a multiplicity of viewpoints and assumes that no single view is universally valid

Question 5

What is an attitude which favors a multiplicity of viewpoints and assumes that no single view is universally valid?

Answer 5

Pluralism

Question 6

What does the typical modern poem rely on?

Answer 6

rhythm

Question 7

Who is the founder of modern psychology who helped foster the existentialist philosophy?

Answer 7

Freud

Question 8

Who is Freud?

Answer 8

the founder of modern psychology who helped foster the existentialist philosophy

Question 9

What maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period?

Answer 9

Rationalism

Question 10

What is Existentialism?

Answer 10

the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period

Question 11

What is the intellectual position most characteristic of the modern period?

Answer 11

Existentialism

Question 12

What has Rationalism done?

Answer 12

maintains the strongest influence on writers of the modern period

Question 13

What is the absolute denial of all meaning and values including those of the self?

Answer 13

Nihilism

Question 14

What is Nihilism?

Answer 14

the absolute denial of all meaning and values including those of the self

Question 15

According to modern writers, what is didacticism fatal to?

Answer 15

art

Question 16

How do modern writers view complexity and obscurity?

Answer 16

as positive values

Question 17

Where did Yeats believe you could find the answers of life?

Answer 17

in art

Question 18

What was Yeats influenced by?

Answer 18

Nationalism, Aestheticism and occultism

Question 19

What is the theme of “Adams Curse”?

Answer 19

any beautiful, fine accomplishment requires diligent work

Question 20

What is the purpose of the moon imagery in “Adams Curse”?

Answer 20

foreshadowing the disillusionment at the end of the poem

Question 21

What is Joyce?

Answer 21

an atheist

Question 22

What type of life did Joyce adopt?

Answer 22

a life of a rootless exile

Question 23

Who was one of the giants of modern literature and known as a modern language scholar?

Answer 23

James Joyce

Question 24

In “Araby” why was the boy prevented from leaving for the bazaar?

Answer 24

because his uncle was late

Question 25

In "Araby" what two elements were fused?

Answer 25

symbolism and realism

Question 26

In "Ulysses" what method was used?

Answer 26

method of stream of consciousness

Question 27

What was Lawrence as well as William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley considered?

Answer 27

outstanding radicals of the romantic style

Question 28

What did Lawrence despise?

Answer 28

the bourgeois' love of sports

Question 29

What is a bourgeois?

Answer 29

a middle class businessman

Question 30

What did Lawrence oppose?

Answer 30

All artificial restraints of creativity

Question 31

How did Lawrence die?

Answer 31

of tuberculosis at the age of 45 in southern France

Question 32

What did The Bloomsbury group approve of?

Answer 32

refined culture

Question 33

What is the theme of "Three Pictures"?

Answer 33

that our lives are tragically absurd and our illusions give us only false comfort

Question 34

What does the "road" symbolize in "Three Pictures"?

Answer 34

life

Question 35

What did Woolf promote?

Answer 35

James Joyce's literary innovation of stream of consciousness

Question 36

Who is known as "the English Chekhov"?

Answer 36

Kathrine Mansfield

Question 37

What is Kathrine Mansfield known as?

Answer 37

"The English Chekhov"

Question 38

Why is Kathrine Mansfield known as "the English Chekhov"?

Answer 38

as a tribute to another master short story writer

Question 39

What does atmosphere do in Mansfield's stories?

Answer 39

takes precedence over plot

Question 40

In "Fueille D' Album" what does Ian do?

Answer 40

purchases an egg in his effort to meet the girl

Question 41

Why is the boy content to stay in the studio?

Answer 41

because his windows give him access to all the subject matter he needs for drawing

Question 42

What did Robert Graves write?

Answer 42

He wrote not only poetry but also historical novels

Question 43

In "Coronation Address," what does the father wish?

Answer 43

that his son might serve the queen

Question 44

Why cant the mother comfort her husband?

Answer 44

because she doesn't take into account his feelings toward matriarchy

Question 45

What does Louis MacNeice believe about life?

Answer 45

that it was characterized by tragic insignificance

Question 46

In "The Truisms" what does the "tall tree" symbolize?

Answer 46

the final maturing of the son

Question 47

In "The Truisms" what symbolizes the final maturing of the son ?

Answer 47

the "tall tree"

Question 48

What does MacNeice's poetry show?

Answer 48

a distrust of all firmly held beliefs

Question 49

Who are the 7 authors in this chapter?

Answer 49

``` Yeats Joyce Lawrence Woolf Mansfield Graves MacNeice ```

Question 50

How did the narrator react to the first picture?

Answer 50

Satisfaction