Deck 35: The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost Generation and a New Imagination

Question 1

In The Battleship Potemkin's Odessa Steps scene,Sergei Eisenstein heightened tension and emotional impact by

A) alternating between traveling and fixed shots.
B) using different rhythms of music.
C) speeding up the rate of the sequence.
D) shooting the film from behind the soldiers

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Archetypes are central to the thinking of the

A) thinking of Carl Jung.
B) thinking of Sigmund Freud.
C) writing of James Joyce.
D) writing of Virginia Woolf.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Mustard gas killed its victims by

A) burning them.
B) choking them.
C) causing failures in blood circulation.
D) causing failures of the nervous system.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

When Marcel Duchamp submitted Fountain to the exhibition of the New York Society of Independent Artists,the exhibition committee

A) hid the work behind a curtain.
B) rejected the work from the exhibition.
C) gave the work prominent placement in the show.
D) exhibited the work but refused to label it as being by Duchamp.

Question 5

Sergei Eisenstein made agitkas,the most famous of which is The Battleship Potemkin,to

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

Question 6

According to its founders,the term "Dada"

A) meant "newness."
B) meant "nonconformity."
C) was meaningless.
D) had numerous meanings.

Question 7

In World War I,there were approximately

A) 1 million casualties.
B) 5 million casualties.
C) 10 million casualties.
D) 20 million casualties.

Question 8

The Nazi government banned Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front for being too

A) antimilitaristic.
B) violent.
C) crass.
D) nationalistic.

Question 9

Cubo-Futurism was the invention of

A) Kazimir Malevich.
B) El Lissitzky.
C) Vladimir Lenin.
D) Sergei Eisenstein.

Question 10

The Dada poets composed nonsensical sound poems to

A) recite in pubic protests.
B) imitate the sounds of modern warfare.
C) protest nationalism's empty rhetoric.
D) accompany their art in galleries.

Question 11

Who declared of the survivors of World War I,"You are all a lost generation"?

A) Erich Maria Remarque
B) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
C) John Singer Sargent
D) Gertrude Stein

Question 12

According to Sigmund Freud,sublimation is the

A) return to a child-like state.
B) desire for pleasure.
C) compromise reached between the ego and the superego.
D) redirection of the id's primal impulses.

Question 13

Irish poet William Butler Yeats compared the postwar era to the

A) Reign of Terror.
B) apocalypse.
C) Spanish Inquisition.
D) Dark Ages.

Question 14

Marcel Duchamp regarded bourgeois taste to be most embodied in

A) film.
B) photomontage.
C) ready-made sculpture.
D) painting.

Question 15

In The Waste Land,T.S.Eliot describes modern love as

A) spiritual and inspiring.
B) violent and physical.
C) hopeful and healing.
D) mechanical and tedious.

Question 16

According to Sigmund Freud,civilizations have failed by

A) repressing human sexuality.
B) not defining a social conscience.
C) not controlling aggression.
D) not establishing pleasure principles.

Question 17

Which artwork did one American critic describe as "an explosion in a shingle factory"?

A) El Lissitzsky's Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
B) Raoul Hausmann's The Art Critic
C) Hans Arp's Fleur Manteau (Flower Hammer)
D) Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase

Question 18

Much of Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist art depends on the square to

A) undermine the efforts of the Cubo-Futurists.
B) represent the world's four corners.
C) free art from objectivity's weight.
D) express deep emotion.

Question 19

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

A) No civilians were killed in the massacre.
B) No such steps exist in the city of Odessa.
C) No tsarist massacre occurred on the steps.
D) No tsar ruled Odessa.

Question 20

In the 1915 "0,10" exhibition,Kazimir Malevich replaced the area typically reserved for religious icons with his Black Square to

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

List and explain three ways in which World War I's trench warfare produced a sense of fragmentation,alienation,and futility.

Question 23

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

A) the subconscious self revealing itself
B) his own self-portrait
C) a monstrous figure of his wife
D) an animal licking its fur

Question 24

The final episode of James Joyce's Ulysses is considered revolutionary for its

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 25

In "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf claimed that in order to reach their full potential,women needed

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 26

In literature and art,the Surrealists attempted to capture

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 27

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

Question 28

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

A) Grasshoppers symbolize death.
B) Dalí was terrified of grasshoppers.
C) Grasshoppers symbolize famine.
D) Dalí found saw grasshoppers as phallic.

Question 29

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 30

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

Question 31

Some early twentieth-century writers embraced a stream-of-consciousness method to

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

Question 32

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 33

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 34

Salvador Dalí claims to have been inspired to paint such works as The Lugubrious Game and The Persistence of Memory by

A) staring at works by Picasso.
B) free-association sessions with Freud.
C) self-hypnosis that led to hallucinations.
D) keeping a journal of his dreams.

Question 35

Stream of consciousness enabled writers to

A) present their characters' nightmares as real events.
B) allow the subconscious self to become a character.
C) show how characters recur throughout history and across cultures.
D) emphasize the subjectivity of their characters' points of view.

Question 36

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 37

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

Question 38

In Remembrance of Things Past,Marcel Proust defies the constraints of linear time through

A) free association of memories.
B) multiple streams of consciousness.
C) dismissal of grammatical conventions.
D) exploration of subjective impulses.

Question 39

Virginia Woolf disapproved of James Joyce's Ulysses for its

A) use of obscenity.
B) absence of punctuation.
C) working-class focus.
D) excessive length.