Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is an example of which of the following literary trends ?

A. Aestheticism
B. Naturalism
C. Decadence
D. Both a and c

Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?

A. Ibo
B. Russian
C. Irish
D. Indian

Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians ?

A. Linda hutcheon
B. Jean baudrillard
C. Thomas hobbes
D. Both a and b

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of “Naturalism” as an artistic and literary movement ?

A. Naturalism is a search for scientific certainty.
B. Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable and objective.
C. Naturalism depicts the more “animalistic” tendencies of humans.
D. Naturalism considers the author or artist to be like a scientist.

According to Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” which of the following is true ?

A. “even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”
B. “the feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror.”
C. “all art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.”
D. Both a and b

Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant” ?

A. Amy lowell
B. Gertrude stein
C. Virginia woolf
D. Alice walker

Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokov’s “Lolita” ?

A. “lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. my sin, my soul.”
B. “lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.”
C. “lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shameleSSLy, agonizingly in love with each other.”
D. “lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.”

Which of the following is true of symbolism ?

A. Symbolism began as a french literary movement in the late 19th century.
B. Paul gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting.
C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world.
D. Both a and b

Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?

A. James joyce
B. Vladimir nabokov
C. T.s. eliot
D. Joseph conrad

According to Max Simon Nordau in his work “Degeneration,” which of the following best describes the term “Fin de Siècle” ?

A. “the impotent despair of a sick MAN, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever”
B. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user
C. “a confession and a complaint”
D. All of the above