Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________’s work?

Related Mcqs:

1. According to Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” which of the following is true ?

   A. “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”
   B. “The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror.”
   C. “All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.”
   D. Both A and B

2. Fill in the blank. The novel “Things Fall Apart” explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?

   A. Ibo
   B. Russian
   C. Irish
   D. Indian

3. Fill in the blank. A ____________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat?

   A. Masque
   B. Satire
   C. Tragedy
   D. Comedy

4. Fill in the blank. ____________ is remembered as the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”

   A. John Donne
   B. John Dryden
   C. John Wycliffe
   D. Johan Gutenberg

5. Fill in the blank. Renaissance thinkers strongly associated themselves with the values of ____________?

   A. Catholicism
   B. Medieval Europe
   C. Classical antiquity
   D. Protestantism

6. Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

   A. “The Sun Also Rises”
   B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
   C. “The Cantos”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

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

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

8. Choose the BEST answer to fill in the blank. John Milton is best described as a strong who emphasized the freedom of the individual ?

   A. Anglican
   B. Methodist
   C. Protestant
   D. Buddhist

9. Fill in the blank. The economic analysis of poverty was advanced by______________ in the fourteenth century?

   A. Petrarch
   B. Dante
   C. Langland
   D. Machiavelli

10. Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?

    A. “Acts and Monuments”
    B. “Utopia”
    C. “Euphues”
    D. “Paradise Regained”