Deck 34: The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost Generation and a New Imagination

Question 1

According to Freud,how have civilizations failed humans?

A)Repressing human sexuality
B)Not defining a social conscience
C)Not controlling aggression
D)Not establishing pleasure principles

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Why did the Nazi government ban Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front?

A)Too antimilitaristic
B)Too violent
C)Too realistic
D)Too nationalistic

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to Freud,which of the following is not one of the competing drives of human personality?

A)Ego
B)Superego
C)Id
D)Superid

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Why in the 1915 "0,10" exhibition did Malevich replace the area reserved for religious icons with his Black Square?

A)To support the forces looking for revolution
B)To represent the masses of Russian peasants
C)To show the difference between good and evil
D)To represent the void of religious feeling

Question 5

In The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene,how did Eisenstein heighten tension and emotional impact?

A)Alternating traveling and fixed shots
B)Using different rhythms of music
C)Speeding up the ate of the sequence
D)Shooting the film from behind the soldiers

Question 6

Why did the exhibition committee for a 1917 New York show hide Duchamp's "ready-made" entry,Fountain,behind a curtain?

A)It was a urinal
B)He used a pseudonym
C)It was a defaced Mona Lisa
D)He parodied an art critic

Question 7

Why did Gertrude Stein declare of the World War I survivors,"You are all a lost generation"?

A)They were expatriated
B)They were damned
C)They were optimistic
D)They were aimless

Question 8

Why did the World War I soldiers so fear mustard gas?

A)It had a noxious smell
B)It blinded and choked them
C)It turned their skin yellow
D)It provided cover for the enemy

Question 9

With what did poet William Butler Yeats compare the postwar era?

A)Reign of Terror
B)Apocalypse
C)Inquisition
D)Dark Ages

Question 10

What did one American critic call Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase?

A)"The work of a French lunatic"
B)"Tin cans descending a staircase"
C)"Naked girl falling down a staircase"
D)"An explosion in a shingle factory"

Question 11

Why did the Dada poets compose nonsensical sound poems?

A)To allow the reader to determine meaning
B)To imitate the sounds of modern warfare
C)To protest nationalism's empty rhetoric
D)To accompany the random relief art

Question 12

Why did so much of Kasimir Malevich's Suprematist art depend on the square?

A)To show the universality of the simple shape
B)To represent the four corners of the world
C)To free art from the weight of objectivity
D)To challenge the viewers' imaginations

Question 13

What did the Surrealists attempt to capture in literature and art?

A)The mind's innate,inherited contents
B)Thought not controlled by reason
C)The imprint of early sexual feeling
D)The moral base that forms conscience

Question 14

Why did Sergei Eisenstein make agitkas,the most famous of which is The Battleship Potemkin?

A)To gain support for the Bolshevik revolution
B)To frighten peasants into obeying the government
C)To portray the brutality of the Bolsheviks
D)To heighten the Russians' sense of nationalism

Question 15

Whose utopian views influenced Vladimir Lenin?

A)Thomas More
B)Karl Marx
C)William Morris
D)Voltaire

Question 16

Approximately how many casualties resulted from World War I?

A)One million
B)Five million
C)Ten million
D)Twenty million

Question 17

How does The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene qualify as Eisenstein's invention?

A)No civilians were killed in the massacre
B)No such steps exist in the city of Odessa
C)No massacre occurred on the steps
D)No baby carriage rolled down the steps

Question 18

According to its founders,what did Dada mean?

A)New
B)Nonconformity
C)Nothing
D)Notorious

Question 19

What was an implication of Freud's theory of infantile sexuality?

A)Dreams returned adults to childlike states
B)Sexuality was open to public discussion
C)Children had to be taught to control urges
D)Childhood was no longer innocent

Question 20

Why did Austria declare war on Serbia in 1914?

A)Dispute over the Serbian/Croatian border
B)Assassination of the Austrian archduke
C)Britain's naval blockade of Germany
D)Ottoman Empire's invasion of Russia

Question 21

How did Salvador Dali claim to have been inspired to paint such works as The Lugubrious Game and The Persistence of Memory?

A)Staring at a runny piece of cheese
B)Free-association sessions with Freud
C)Self-hypnosis that led to hallucinations
D)Keeping a journal of his dreams

Question 22

In "A Room of One's Own," what did Virginia Woolf claim women needed to reach their full potential?

A)The social position to bring about political change
B)Financial and psychological freedom from men
C)Relief from the constraints of motherhood
D)Mental stability to overcome life's stresses

Question 23

Why is the final episode in James Joyce's Ulysses considered revolutionary?

A)Uncensored exploration of a woman's sexuality
B)Vivid description of the main character's suicide
C)Frank exploration of a character's mental illness
D)Use of Homer's epic as its organization

Question 24

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes dislike Paris?

A)Too racist
B)Too money-oriented
C)Too avant-garde
D)Too elegant

Question 25

According to the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did so many Southern African-Americans make the Great Migration to the north between 1915 and 1918?

A)Plentiful jobs
B)Less racism
C)Better housing
D)More diversity

Question 26

The Russian Suprematists sought to discover what most minimally made a painting.Explain their response to that idea,and then provide your definition of what qualifies as a painting.

Question 27

Describe the effects Sergei Eisenstein achieved with montage in The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps sequence.Then show how a modern filmmaker has used this technique in a recent film.

Question 28

In The Lugubrious Game,why does Dali position a grasshopper under his self-portrait's nose?

A)Grasshoppers symbolize death
B)Dali was terrified of grasshoppers
C)Grasshoppers symbolize famine
D)Dali found their phallic shape amusing

Question 29

In Remembrance of Things Past,how did Marcel Proust defy the constraints of linear time?

A)Free association of memories
B)Multiple streams of consciousness
C)Dismissal of grammatical conventions
D)Exploration of subjective impulses

Question 30

Show and explain two ways Freud's theories about personality affected the Surrealist art of Picasso and Dali.

Question 31

Compare Alfred,Lord Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" to Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" within the context of World War I.

Question 32

Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.

Question 33

List and define Freud's three competing drives of human personality.

Question 34

Matching

Question 35

Analyze and illustrate the connection between Freud's theories about human personality and the development of stream of consciousness in the novels of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Question 36

Define Dadaism,and identify the reasons for its rise,supporting your ideas with at least one specific Dada work.

Question 37

Why did some early twentieth-century writers embrace stream of consciousness?

A)To pare down their writing styles to the most basic reflections
B)To expand their novels beyond a mere narrative of events
C)To focus more sharply on condensed episodes of time
D)To emphasize the subjectivity of their characters' points of view

Question 38

Why did Virginia Woolf disapprove of Joyce's Ulysses?

A)Use of obscenity
B)Absence of punctuation
C)Working-class focus
D)Excessive length

Question 39

In his Surrealist Girl Before a Mirror,what does Picasso portray in his mistress's reflected image?

A)The girl's unconscious self
B)His own self-portrait
C)A monstrous figure of his wife
D)An animal licking its fur