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postmodernism

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following are not synonymous with Postmodernism?

a)

eclectic approach

b)

aleatory writing

c)

parody

d)

pastiche

e)

surrealism

2.

Select one personality in the list who was was not bracketed as literary 'high priest' of Modern Period ?

a)

T.S.Eliot

b)

James Joyce

c)

Matthew Arnold

d)

Ezra Pound

e)

Wyndham Lewis

3.

Which of the following best describe Modern Literature?

a)

impressionism, subjectivity, stream of consciousness

b)

omniscient external narration

c)

documentary and prose like poems

d)

fragmented forms, discontinuous narrative,collage of disparate materials

e)

All of the above

4.

The Wasteland is a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories or fragments of stories

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The Dadaists wrote flowery, elaborate verses

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Which movement promoted the practice of randomly inserting statements from newspapers and coffee table books to compose poems?

a)

Romantic Period

b)

Victorian Period

c)

surrealism

d)

Dadaism

7.

Modernists lament fragmentation while postmodernists celebrate it

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Pick out the phrase used by Ezra Pound to describe his poem The Cantos

a)

Duck-back

b)

Duck-bag

c)

rag-bag

d)

sack-bag

9.

Which modernist architect declared that 'decoration is a crime'

a)

Adolf Loo

b)

Mies van Rohe

c)

Le Corbusier

10.

Martian poetry was a minor movement in British poetry in

a)

1920s

b)

1930s

c)

1950s

d)

1970s

11.

Who delivered the influential Paper titled:'Modernity--an Incomplete Project'

a)

Derrida

b)

Jurgen Habermas

c)

T.S. Eliot

d)

Ezra Pound

12.
True or False: Postmodernism does not have a specific definition.
a)
True
b)
False
13.

Appropriation means...

a)

A lesson that can be derived from a story or experience.

b)

Borrowing and recontextualising artworks or imagery from artwork or popular culture.

c)

Creating a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour

d)

Changing the machinery or working parts of something

14.

Satire is...

a)

when your expectations are met

b)

the use of ridicule to challenge values

c)

the feeling of being foolish

d)

an Indonesian and Malaysian dish, containing peanuts

15.

Pastiche refers to...

a)

when an artist adds materials corrode or eat away the surface of (something)

b)

a unit of liquid or dry capacity using for ceramic materials

c)

an art movement from the 1800s

d)

the borrowing and combing of aspects from different styles and/or cultures

16.
Choose ALL elements of Postmodernism below: 
a)
Fragmentation
b)
Reference to the individual
c)
Intertextuality
d)
Social Evils
17.
True or False: Postmodernism and Modernism are not seen in poetry today.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
A slam poem is an example of...
a)
Modernism
b)
Romanticism
c)
Postmodernism
19.

Who, according to Habermas were the 'young conservatives'?

a)

Wordsworth- Coleridge

b)

Pope- Dryden

c)

Tennyson--Arnold

d)

Derrida--Foucauly

20.

Postmodernism rejects 'grand narratives and promotes 'mininarratives'

a)

True

b)

False