Question 1

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

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

Question 2

Archetypes are central to the thinking of the

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

Question 3

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

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Dadaism was an art movement that emerged during World War I, primarily in Zurich, Switzerland. It was characterized by its rejection of traditional artistic values and its embrace of chaos, irrationality, and absurdity. Dadaists sought to challenge the established norms of art and society, often using satire and nonsensical imagery to provoke a reaction.

The rise of Dadaism can be attributed to several factors. Firstly, the tumultuous political and social climate of the time, with the devastation of World War I and the disillusionment with traditional values, led many artists to seek new forms of expression. Dadaism provided a platform for these artists to rebel against the status quo and express their disillusionment with the world around them.

Additionally, the movement was a response to the perceived irrationality and absurdity of the war itself. Dadaists sought to reflect this chaos and absurdity in their art, often using found objects and nonsensical imagery to create works that defied traditional artistic conventions.

One specific Dada work that exemplifies these ideas is Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," created in 1917. This piece, which consisted of a urinal signed with the pseudonym "R. Mutt," was a direct challenge to the notion of what could be considered art. By presenting a mass-produced object as a work of art, Duchamp and the Dadaists sought to disrupt the traditional understanding of artistic value and meaning.

In conclusion, Dadaism rose as a response to the social and political upheaval of World War I, as well as a rejection of traditional artistic values. Through works like "Fountain," Dadaists sought to challenge the established norms of art and society, embracing chaos, irrationality, and absurdity as a means of expression.

Question 4

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

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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 5

According to Sigmund Freud,sublimation is the

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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 6

Marcel Duchamp regarded bourgeois taste to be most embodied in

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

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

According to Sigmund Freud,civilizations have failed by

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

Question 9

Virginia Woolf disapproved of James Joyce's Ulysses for its

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

Question 10

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

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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 11

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

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Question 12

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

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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

Question 13

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

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Question 14

Mustard gas killed its victims by

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

Question 15

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

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

Question 16

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

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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 17

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

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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 18

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.

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Question 19

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.

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Question 20

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

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