Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways?

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C

D. all but C

Which of the following novels display post-war nostalgia for past imperial glory?

A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On

D. Paul Scott’s Staying On

What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush?

A. It brought the last group of English convicts to Australia in 1901.
B. It was sunk by the German navy in 1914, bringing the United States into World War I.
C. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.
D. It delivered a small dog into space in 1959 and returned it to earth.

C. It brought the first group of immigrants from Jamaica to England in 1948.

Which thinker had a major impact on early- twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C

D. all but C

What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party?

A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

B. religious symbolism and society comedy

Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916?

A. the southern counties of Ireland
B. Canada
C. Ulster
D. India

A. the southern counties of Ireland

With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth- century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?

A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. all of the above

B. psychoanalysis

Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?

A. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
B. wireless communication across the At- Atlantic
C. the creation of the internet
D. the invention of the aeroplane

C. the creation of the internet

When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928.

A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000

C. 1960

7- Modern Period ( 1901-1945)

Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways?

Which of the following novels display post-war nostalgia for past imperial glory?

What was the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush?

Which thinker had a major impact on early- twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?

What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party?

Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916?

With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth- century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?

Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?

When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928.

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