English MCQs — Test 47

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Question 1

Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” ?

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true of the Anglo-Irish War ?

Question 3

The motto “art for art’s sake” means that artists began to do which of the following ?

Question 4

Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________’s work?

Question 5

Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which “Post-Modern” school of criticism ?

Question 6

Which of the following best describes James Joyce’s “Araby” ?

Question 7

Georges Braque’s “Woman with a Guitar” is an example of which of the following artistic movements ?

Question 8

Why does the “Flâneur” begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?

Question 9

Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work ?

Question 10

Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature ?