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Modernism often dealt with the disillusion and doubt in
The American Dream
Themselves
History
Neighbors
2
What major event was seen as the cause of America's loss of innocence?
The death of Queen Victoria.
The election of Teddy Roosevelt.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.
World War I
3
Which of the following writers is not considered a Modernist?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Stephen Crane
4
Which of the following statements are true regarding Postmodernists?
Nothing has meaning?
Everything has meaning?
5
Modernism is more concerned with the content of the art or piece of literature than the issues.
True
False
6
Modernism focuses on the irrational roots of what we perceive to be a rational society.
False
True
7
Elements of the Modernist and Postmodernist movements overlap.
True
False
8
What was a more important focus for Modernists?
The individual
Society as a whole
9
What part of Modernism created a new Black identity and saw new styles like swing dance and jazz?
Harlem Renaissance
American Renaissance
Reconstruction Renaissance
Brooklyn Renaissance
10
A story told from which of the following perspectives follows a Postmodernist tradition?
3rd person perspective
multiple perspectives
1st person perspective
3rd person omniscient perspective
