Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological “transference” helps to understand the nature of ________________?

A. Incest
B. Trauma
C. Taboo
D. Love

E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?

A. “pale fire”
B. “a passage to india”
C. “daniel deronda”
D. “on the road”

The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?

A. Pablo picasso and claude monet
B. T.s. eliot and wyndham lewis
C. Claude monet and édouard manet
D. George braque and pablo picasso

Which of the following best describes “stream of consciousness” narrative in the modern period ?

A. Stream of consciousness often relies upon “free association” of ideas.
B. Stream of consciousness is the capturing of the interior monologue of the narrator.
C. Stream of consciousness attempts to accurately capture the external dialogue of various characters in a realistic setting by an objective observer.
D. A and b only

Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” ?

A. “we want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.”
B. “the essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.”
C. “we want to sing the MAN who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.”
D. “we want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”

Which of the following statements best describes the “Bloomsbury Group” ?

A. The “bloomsbury group” consists of a group of english writers, thinkers, and artists who met in the bloomsbury district of london.
B. The group consisted of survivors of world war ii.
C. The bloomsbury group included e.m. forster, clive bell, john maynard keynes, and virginia woolf.
D. A and c only

Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picasso’s periods of artistic production ?

A. Dadaist period
B. Blue period
C. Synthetic cubism
D. Rose period

According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, “Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century,” which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?

A. Genteel
B. Symbolist
C. Impressionist
D. Decadent

Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized “other” in works such as “Nation and Narration” ?

A. Linda hutcheon
B. Homi bhabha
C. Jacques derrida
D. Fredric jameson

Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?

A. Beckett’s work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.
B. Beckett’s play explores how language helps to form one’s notion of self.
C. Beckett’s work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human
DesIres for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.