Final ENG 252

Question 1

This war created an excellent economy and reshaped American culture.

Accepted Answer

WWII

Question 2

T/F: Postmodernism is hard to define.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Identify: "So Everett C. Marm was destroyed, which was a loss"

Accepted Answer

Repent Harlequin!

Question 4

Identify: "The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages."

Accepted Answer

Personism: A Manefesto

Question 5

Identify: "You came to New Orleans ... I stayed at Belle Reve and tried to hold it together."

Accepted Answer

A Streetcar Named Desire

Question 6

The ushering of women to pursue their legal, ethical, and cultural interests.

Accepted Answer

Feminism

Question 7

This invention has created a contemporary literary culture that knows reality is hybrid.

Accepted Answer

Internet

Question 8

T/F: Pluralism was also a tenet of postmodernism.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

This work details an author's retelling of his father's life during and after the Holocaust.

Accepted Answer

Maus

Question 10

Identify: "They know that they, like the child, are not free."

Accepted Answer

The Ones Who Walk Away

Question 11

The simulacrum can best be describe as

Accepted Answer

Something that replaces reality with its representation

Question 12

Contemporary literature often is preoccupied with questions about:

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artificiality, authenticity

Question 13

A form of philosophical & literary analysis, which questioned the assumptions of any statement.

Accepted Answer

Deconstruction

Question 14

Identify: "Poetry is not only dream or vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives."

Accepted Answer

Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Question 15

Identify: "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal."

Accepted Answer

Harrison Bergeron

Question 16

The tenets of postmodernism include:

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Irony and parody, A breakdown between high and low culture forms

Question 17

Identify: "It isn't fair, it isn't right."

Accepted Answer

The Lottery

Question 18

What young, budding actor played Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire?

Accepted Answer

Marlon Brando

Question 19

Identify: "...fiction is not 'experimental' but...the... struggle of art to rescue the truth"

Accepted Answer

Innovative Fiction/Innovative Criteria

Question 20

Literature since 1945 was characterized by the conflict between:

Accepted Answer

stability and disruption, conformity and individuality, tradition and innovation

Questions 20