Cultural and Literary in Modernity

A. Salvador Dalí
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Juan Miró
D. Man Ray

A. Argentina
B. Brazil
C. Mexico
D. Britain

A. The Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.
B. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.
C. The Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.
D. B and C only

A. Seamus Heaney
B. James Joyce
C. William Butler Yeats
D. E.M. Forster

A. “Pax romana”
B. “Veni, vidi, vici”
C. “Dux bellorum”
D. “Pro patria mori”

A. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production
B. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity
C. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture
D. All of the above

A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.
B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.
D. Both A and B

A. Maurice Tabard
B. Ansel Adams
C. Hans Bellmer
D. Man Ray

A. “Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys”
B. “And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands”
C. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
D. “Mother died today”

A. W.B. Yeats
B. Jorge Luis Borges
C. Mario Vargas Llosa
D. Charles Baudelaire