Who painted “The Accommodations of Desire” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following statements best represents Lacan’s view of Ophelia in his essay, “Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in ’Hamlet’” ?

   A. Hamlet desires his mother, not Ophelia.
   B. Hamlet desires revenge, not Ophelia.
   C. Hamlet desires Ophelia, but only when she is unattainable.
   D. Hamlet desires attaining the throne of Denmark, of which Ophelia is a symbol.

2. In which work do you read: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive.” ?

   A. Porphyria’s Lover
   B. My Last Duchess
   C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
   D. Fra Lippo Lippi

3. Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive.” ?

   A. Lord Byron
   B. Oscar Wilde
   C. Robert Browning
   D. William Wordsworth

4. 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”

5. Which of the following best describes Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” ?

   A. Beckett’s work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.
   B. Beckett’s play explores how language helps to form one’s notion of self.
   C. Beckett’s work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human
   desires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.
   D. All of the above

6. Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?

   A. James Joyce
   B. Vladimir Nabokov
   C. T.S. Eliot
   D. Joseph Conrad

7. Why does the “Flâneur” begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?

   A. Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris
   B. Because of the advent of arcade projects
   C. Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape
   D. Because they were threatened by police with jail

8. Which of the following was one of the major health consequences for soldiers who survived the traumas of trench warfare in World War One ?

   A. Lyme disease
   B. Staph infections
   C. Shell shock
   D. A and C only

9. Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?

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

10. Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire’s “Bénédiction” ?

    A. It was originally written in English.
    B. It celebrates the almost divine power of the poet.
    C. It suggests that poetry is demonic in nature.
    D. Both A and B