POST MODERNISM

1.What word describes texts that draw attention to themselves as texts?
1. Mimesis
2. Metafiction
3. Metamucil
4. Realism
2.Postmodernism is known for being skeptical of what kind of narratives?
1. Grand narratives
2. Complex narratives
3. Fragmented narratives
4. Oddball narratives
What term is given to a book that's lengthy and stuffed with ideas and references?
1. Maximalist
2. Minimalist
3. Bulktastic
4. Fat Fic
What characteristic is most often linked with the Cold War?
1. Guns
2. Carnage
3. Paranoia
4. Love and hugs
Postmodernism is often linked with which kind of society?
1. Marxist
2. Humanist
3. Dead Poets
4. Late Capitalist
What was the title of the collection of Joyce's short stories published in 1914?
1. Dubliners
2. Londoners
3. New Yorkers
4. Parisiennes
In which city was Joyce born in 1882?
1. Cork
2. Dublin
3. Galway
4. Limerick
Complete the title of Joyce's 1916 semi-autobiographical novel - A portrait of the Artist...?
1. As a Young Dog
2. As a Young Man
3. As a Young Poet
4. As a Young Writer
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism?
1. art for intellect's sake
2. art for God's sake
3. art for the masses
4. art for art's sake
With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?
1. eugenics
2. psychoanalysis
3. phrenology
4. anarchism
Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in post-modern literature?
1. automatic writing
2. confused daze
3. total recall
4. stream of consciousness
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers?
1. George Orwell
2. Virginia Woolf
3. Evelyn Waugh
4. Orson Wells
......has the ability to reveal the thoughts of several characters.
1. Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
2. First person
3. Theatre of the Absurd
4. Omni-scient third person
The idea that feminist goals cannot be realized without the destruction of economic inequalities is associated with...
1. liberal feminism
2. socialist feminism
3. radical feminism
4. postmodernism
Why is postmodernism attractive to some feminists?
1. Both positions tend to be supported with a large quantity of pretentious jargon
2. Postmodernists provide a vision for a more equal world
3. Postmodernists are useful allies in campaigns of civil disobedience
4. Postmodernism emphasizes difference and variety, as well as highlighting the importance of the private and the personal
All liberal feminists advocate...
1. the banning of sexually-explicit imagery
2. abortion on demand
3. equal treatment in the public sphere
4. he strict segregation of the sexes
Postmodernists typically argue that...
1. Universalist' narratives which attempt to explain the world are invariably false
2. The world is socially constructed in a variety of ways
3. Differences of viewpoint should be celebrated not deplored
4. All of the above
Postmodernism rejects which of the following metanarratives?
1. Science
2. Christian
3. Secularism
4. All metanarratives rejected
According to posmodernism, humans are....
1. Social Constracts
2. Body and Soul
3. Part of a higher consciousness
4. Centralized soulless personalities
Language,according to postmodernism is....
1. A means for describing objective reality
2. A method for communicating truth
3. A jumble of non-coherent sounds
4. A tool of power and manipulation

POST MODERNISM

N.Eser KARACA & M. REMZİ YILMAZ