Modern World Lit: Modern World

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What two main events in the political climate affected this period of time?

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Western expansionism (England, Germany, France, America) and Asian imperialism (China and Japan)

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The upheaval caused by western expansionism and Asian imperialism resulted in which revolutions or wars?

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Boxer Rebellion, WWI, Bolshevik Revolution, WWII, Communist take-over in China, Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East

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What event happened that left a political void in Eastern Europe?

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the collapse of Western Communism-socialism

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What establishment caused the world to "shrink"? (the East and West were drawn together)

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The United Nations

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True or false: World social and economic problems increased during this time.

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True (the Great Depression, population explosion, ocean and air pollution, global hunger, epidemic health concerns, and energy crisis)

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What sector of the economy does the economy of this time flow from?

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Industrial, rather than agrarian

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True or False: 90% of the scientists that ever existed live today.

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True

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What three areas show the phenominal growth of the field of science?

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Rapid expansion of technology, medical advances, and atomic power

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What two worldviews replace secular optimism?

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Nihilism and Existentialism

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What worldview shows extreme skepticism with regard to value statements or moral judgements?

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Nihilism

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In what worldview does individual existence determine essence;man has absolute freedom of choice, but there are no rational criteria by which to make a choice; the general claim states that the universe is absurd with emphasis on alienation and anxiety?

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Existentialism

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What two people were part of the existentialist worldview?

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Jean-Paul Sarte, Albert Camus

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What percentage of the world is now Christian?

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32.8%

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What year did the percentage of Christians in the world peak?

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1900

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What are the eight tenets of postmodernism?

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Social constructivism, cultural determinism, rejection of individual identity, rejection of humanism, denial of the transcendent, power reductionism, rejection of reason, revolutionary critique of the existing order

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

Meaning, morality, and truth do not exist objectively, society constructs them.

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Social constructivism

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

Cultural forces, especially language, wholly shape individuals.

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Cultural determinism

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

People exist primarily as members of groups- collective identity

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Rejection of individual identity

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

Groups assert their own value by replacing traditional humanistic values of creativity, autonomy, and priority or human beings.

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Rejection of Humanism

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

Absolutes do not exist.

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Denial of the transcendent

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

Humanity's institutions, relationships, moral values, and creations result from the primal will to power.

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Power reductionism

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

Mankind used reason and the impulse to objectify truth as illusory masks for cultural power.

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Rejection of reason

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Which tenet of postmodernism does this statement describe?

A new world order must replace modern society with its rationalism, order, and unitary view truth.

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Revolutionary critique of the existing order

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Social constructivism goes against which two worldviews?

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Neoclassicism, naturalism

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Cultural determism combats what worldview?

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Naturalism

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Rejection of individual identity combats what worldview?

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Neoclassic

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Rejection of Humanism combats the thought of what period of time?

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Romanticism

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Revolutionary critique of the existing order combats what view?

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Romanticism

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Which poet was labeled by some critics as the most controversial and influential poet of the twentieth century?

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Thomas Sterns Eliot

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Which poet was born in St. Louis, went to Harvard, studied at the Sorbonne and Merton College, worked in Lloyd's Bank, and became a director for Faber and Faber publishing?

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Thomas Sterns Eliot

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Whose principle works were Prufrock and Other Observations, The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets?

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Thomas Sterns Eliot

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Who wrote the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

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Thomas Sterns Eliot

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What is the setting of The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

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"Polite society" and Prufrock's mind and heart

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What is topic of The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

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passion conflicted with timidity

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What two things marked Yeats' early works?

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Sentimentality and mysticism

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True or false: Eliot wrote his criticism from a Christian point of view.

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True- he overturned the secular, humanistic attitude of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Yeats studied French symbolists and what famous poet?

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William Blake

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What images filled Yeats' early works?

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Shadowy images from the lost world of pagan Ireland

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What poet was part of the Irish nationalist cause?

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Yeats

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What social class did Yeats hate?

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Merchant, middle class

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What theater did Yeats help develop?

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Abby Theatre

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What poet was elected as a senator to the Irish senate?

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Yeats

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In Yeats' work, what did a tower symbolize?

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Spiritual security

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In Yeats' work, what did a swan symbolize?

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Strength, purity, immortality, loneliness, ecstasy of death

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Who wrote Crossways and The Tower?

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Yeats

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What was the theme of Easter 1916 and who wrote it?

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Self-sacrifice to a cause elevtes the individual from mundane existence to herioc status; but such sacrifice can dehumanize a person as well. Yeats.

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What was the theme of The Second Coming and who wrote it?

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Political and social changes follow cyclic patterns; violent upheaval often accompanies these changes. Yeats.

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What are the four major works of James Joyce?

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Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake

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What is a bildungsroman and what does it detail?

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A novel of education; details the development of youth through education

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What is a kunstlerroman and what does it detail?

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A novel of the artist; details the struggles of an artist agaisnt his environment and himself until he comes to an undertanding of himself and his creative mission.

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What are the three major themes in all of Joyce's literature?

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1. Ireland suffers moral paralysis and decay.
2. The "lost" engage in a search for a father figure.
3. The "lost" engage in a quest for self-identity.

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In Joyce's narrative development, what two things does he eliminate and what technique does he employ?

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Eliminates the omniscient narrator, explicit moralizing; employs a stream of consciousness technique

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What are the six major motifs in The Dead?

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art, identification, guilt and confession, escape, politics and religion, identity

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Who wrote Waiting for Godot and Endgame?

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Beckett

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The theater of the absurd was a drama that presented a view of the absurdity of the human condition by doing what two things?

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Abandoning rational, dramatic convention and using non-realistic form

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Does the theater of the absurd portray a pattern of images or a series of connected incidents?

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A pattern of images

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True or false: The theater of the absurd presents people as bewildered beings in an incomprehensible universe.

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True

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What does the chess imagery in Endgame suggest?

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The end of things- escatology
an agnostic holocaust echoing the crucifixion and judgment but lacking a sense of completion found in those biblical events

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Which author did not recieve a formal education and grew up in extreme poverty?

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Camus

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Who wrote The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Plague?

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Camus

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What worldview is Camus associated with?

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Existentialism

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What are the central themes in Camus' work?

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Exile, revolt, happiness, responsibility in a meaningless world

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In The Guest, what does the landscape symbolize?

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Isolation- total physical and suggested moral isolation

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Who wrote The Trial, the Castle, and Amerika?

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Kafka

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What technique emphasizes the expression of imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control?

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Surrealism

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In modern literature, what two techniques replace realism and naturalism in much of modern literature?

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Surrealism and symbolism

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What are the five major ideas in Metamorphosis?

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powerlessness, cultural estrangment, alienation, meaninglessness, and social isolation

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What are the two categories of Black American writers?

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Accommodationists and protest writers

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What did accommodationalist Black American writers try to do?

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Advance the black cause withing the guidelines set up by white society (Booker T. Washington)

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What did Black American protest writers try to do?

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Protested against the white expections of Black citizens (Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison)

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What three attributes did writings from the Harlem Renaissance share?

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1. Roots in black folk culture.
2. Used characters from real life experience and black stereotypes.
3. Used street language and dialect rather than white, middle class language.

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What book did Ralph Ellison recieve the National Book Award for?

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The Invisible Man

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What is the theme of the Invisible Man?

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Individuals can discover their self-identity and freedom via a journey from spiritual (internal) darkness to spiritual light.

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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Children and Native Son?

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Wright

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What worldview influenced Wright?

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Naturalism

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True or false: In The Man Who Was Almost a Man, Wright focuses on racial issues.

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False- He focuses on the difficult passage from adolescence to maturity, the vulnerability of fragile personalities, self-identity as defined from without

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Which author offers a picture of Igbo society?

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Achebe

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What Igbo concept expresses the fundamental image of the balance in a person's life?

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Chi

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Who wrote Requiem?

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Akhmatova

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What were the major works of Solzhenitsyn?

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One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, August,1914, Cancer Ward, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

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Who wrote Matryona's Home?

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Solzhenitsyn

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What is a hagiography?

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A saint's life

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What is the theme of Matryona's Home?

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Greed, indifference, misunderstanding and the desire for unnecessary luxury provide a universal backdrop for manipulation of others.