Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?

A. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters
B. The novel’s experimental structure
C. The novel’s radically unique narrative voice
D. All of the above

The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations ?

A. The shift from agriculturally-based to industrial societies in the west
B. The decline of traditional religious beliefs in europe
C. The rise of traditional social identities and the decline of personal identity
D. Both a and b

What is the “Post-Modern” practice of “Deconstructionism” ?

A. An assault on the notion that there is any knowable truth
B. An assault on the sexual mores of the victorian age
C. A reaffirmation of romantic notions of the sublime
D. All of the above

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

A. The end of the novella depicts marlow’s conversation with the kurtz’s intended.
B. The work considers the dark side of european colonialism.
C. Marlow comes to understand the necessity of european leadership in africa.
D. Both a and b

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

A. The anglo-irish war began with the resistance of the irish republican army.
B. The anglo-irish war never involved a guerrilla campaign.
C. In the course of the anglo-irish war, only a few hundred members of the irish republican army were actively resisting british rule.
D. All of the above

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

A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
C. Avoid all forms of prose
D. Make art profitable above all else

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

A. Marx
B. Freud
C. Darwin
D. Aristotle

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

A. Marxism
B. Post-colonial theory
C. Deconstruction
D. Feminism

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

A. It begins with the famous line: “north richmond street being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers’ school set the boys free.”
B. It speaks of the author’s illicit relationship with a young girl.
C. It is a dramatization of the relationship between adam and eve in the garden of eden.
D. It is an analysis of “exodus” from “the holy bible.”

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

A. Cubism
B. Vorticism
C. Futurism
D. A and b only