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| Question | Answer |
| Two emblematic Modernist authors that put into practice in their literature the new theories of the instability of space and the subjective perception of time through the techniques known as “Moment of Being” and “Epiphany.” | Virginia Woolf and James Joyce |
| A French movement introduced in England by Walter Pater that influenced the Decadent movement to which Oscar Wilde belonged. | The Aesthetic Movement |
| A linguistic formula that takes the shape of a short sentence that mocks our own preconceived ideas about life, society or beliefs, used recurrently to create satire and parody in The Importance of Being Earnest. | aphorism or epigram |
| The title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s poems that euphemistically refers to the effects of imperialism on the British citizens and government. | The White Man's Burden |
| Name of the soldier who suffers from shell shock syndrome in Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway. | Septimus Warren Smith |
| The three sections in which Passage to India is divided that symbolize three spiritual and cultural approaches to the knowledge of India | Mosque, Caves, and Temple |
| A war poet that became the icon of the country’s enthusiastic confidence in the triumph of First World War due to the publication of his sonnet sequence “191 4” | Rupert Brooke |
| The names of the two women lovers that influence spiritually and physically Paul Morel in Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers. | Miriam Leivers and Clara Dawes |
| ESSAY: In ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ Wilfred Owen plainly addresses the idea of patriotism. Write an essay considering the idea of patriotism in Owen’s poem in the context of the poetry written in the First World War | ok |
| A memorable female character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest; she is the type of an aristocratic English lady | Lady Bracknell |
| The title of an immensely popular poem—by a famous AngloIndian author—which justified imperialism as a messianic cause; after its publication, the poem has been the object of controversy and parody. | The White Man's Burden |
| The title of one of the most popular autobiographies of World War I, written by a female author; it captured the collective mood of the members of a “lost generation” whose lives were truncated or determined by the conflict. | Testament of Youth |
| A “novel of formation”, i.e. one that traces the development and growth of the main character, often from childhood/adolescence to maturity; D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is an example of this narrative genre. | Bildungsroman |
| According to Virginia Woolf, the ideal state of mind in which to produce art: the perfect balance or combination of the masculine and the feminine. | Androgynous mind |
| In David Lodge’s words, a type of thought and speech presentation “in which the grammatical subject is an T, and we [the readers], as it were, overhear the character verbalising his or her thoughts as they occur” | Stream of consciousness or interior monologue |
| A phrase used to refer both to Britain during World War I, and to the support movement to the cause and the troops, both moral and logistic, from the people who did not fight the war | The Home Front |
| In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the name used to refer to the Congo headquarters of the trading company that employs Marlow and had previously employed Kurtz. | The Central Station |
| ESSAY: Read the final lines of Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and write an essay discussing Owen’s accusatory implications in relation to the theme of women, war, and literature in the First World War My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori. | ok |
| A main opposite the metaphor of “darkness” and “light” symbolize in Heart of Darkness. | Savage/civilised and mystery/knowledge |
| A sentence that represented the full-grown land seizure in Africa by the European powers, becoming a primary source of trade after 1880. | The Scramble for Africa |
| Two great thinkers, one scientist and one philosopher, from the nineteenth century whose work influenced enormously the new interpretations of the ever-changing world at the beginning of the twentieth-century. | Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche |
| The place where the main event of misunderstanding and mysticism takes place in Passage to India and from which the rest of the novel will evolve. | The Marabar Caves |
| Title of the poem by John McCrae about the Great War that originated the symbol of the red poppy for Remembrance Day. | "In Flanders Fields" |
| The literary genre in which Son and Lovers could be classified. | Bildungsroman, novel of formation |
| The printing press Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded and served as a publishing venue for experimental writing by Modernist authors. | Hogarth Press |
| When do the events in Mrs. Dalloway take place? | on a Wednesday in June 1923 (most importantly, in post-World War I London) |
| ESSAY: Towards the end of A Room Of One’s Own Virginia Woolf talks about androgyny in relation to women and literature. Write an essay discussing Woolf's androgynous ideal concluding by briefly arguing whether you think Mrs.Dalloway is an androgynous text. | ok |
| A sentence containing a wise or witty comment; Oscar Wilde’s style is identified with this type of sentences. For example: “In married life three is company and two none” (The Importance of Being Earnest). | aphorism or epigram |
| The city where the trading company that employs Marlow—and had previously employed Kurtz—is based; it is vividly described by the main narrator, who defines it as “a whited sepulchre”. | Brussels |
| An imaginary setting established by E. M. Forster as a prototypical Indian town in A Passage to India; the first chapter of the novel is a rich description of its historical past and social atmosphere. | Chandrapore |
| The title of any of the sonnets by Rupert Brooke that make up the sequence “1914”, and which convey the poet’s experience of and reflections on World War I. | War Sonnet I: Peace War Sonnet II: Safety War Sonnet III: The Dead War Sonnet IV: The Dead War Sonnet V: The Soldier |
| Either of the two theoretical concepts championed by T. S. Eliot in his early work as a critic; his ideal was for artists to avoid directly expressing individual feelings, emotions and experiences | the objective/correlative and the theory of impersonality |
| The title that Virginia Woolf had initially thought of for the novel that was eventually called Mrs Dalloway | The Hours |
| The setting of the crucial final scene/episode in Virginia Woolfs novel Mrs Dalloway (be as specific as possible). | Mrs Dalloway's party (London) |
| An illness that affected many World War I veterans, producing in them insistent, almost real-life memories of the war. In Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, the character of Septimus Warren Smith is affected by this psychological condition. | Shell Sock |
| ESSAY: Write an essay (200-250 words) discussing Mrs. and Mr. Morel's relationship contextualized in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers as a whole. | ok |
| In The Importance of Being Earnest, the name of Algernon’s imaginary friend used as an excuse by this young gentleman to occasionally escape from London and its strict codes of behaviour. | Bunbury |
| Kurtz’s famous last words heard and recalled by Marlow in Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart ofDarkness. | The Horror! The Horror! |
| Name at least one of the conventions of 19th century fiction that D. H. Lawrence challenged in his innovative work. | Material realism |
| An illness that affected many World War I veterans, producing in them insistent, almost real-life memories of the war. In Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, the character of Septimus Warren Smith is affected by this psychological condition. | Shell Sock |
| A cultural period and its values, which Oscar Wilde criticizes with great wit and irony in The Importance ofBeing Earnest. | Victorian Era / Period |
| The Berlin Conference, held in 1885, set up rules to control colonization in Africa, allowing free access to navigate two main rivers. One of them will be the main geographical context for Heart ofDarkness. Name these two rivers. | Congo and Niger |
| The complete name of the author of Heart of Darkness. | Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski Joseph Conrad |
| The followers of a movement with a particular vision of art and way of life based on aestheticism and art for art’s sake contextualized at the end of the nineteenth century, to which Oscar Wilde belonged | Aesthetes |
| ESSAY: “Until now we have heard only of the duty which society imposes in order to exist, which means that to be truthful is to use the customary, hence edifyingly expressed metaphors; we have heard only of the duty to lie in accordance with firm conventions, to lie herd-like in a style binding for all”. (Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense’.) Write an essayexploring the sense of alienation and isolation in Joseph Conrad’s The Heart ofDarkness. | ok |
| A writer of South-African origin, associated with socialist, feminist and anti-colonialist movements in Britain, in the second half of the twentieth century. The heroines in her novels and short stories can be identified with the type of the “New Woman”. | Olive Schereiner |
| Term used in Heart of Darkness, with reference to the city of Brussels, and by extension to civilised and developed cities, which Marlow perceives as dead places dominated by hypocrisy and materialism. | Whited sepulchre |
| A kind of poetry studied in the course which developed from 1914. It provided original writing techniques in form and themes trying to transform atrocity into art | War poetry |
| The title of an immensely popular poem—by a famous AngloIndian author—which justified imperialism as a messianic cause; after its publication, the poem has been the object of controversy and parody. | 'The White Man's Burden', by Rudyard Kipling |
| Title of Virginia Woolfs groundbreaking essay where she explores her opinion that the ideal state of mind in which to produce art is an androgynous one. | A Room of One's Own |
| The year of publication of two major and groundbreaking works of British Modernism: T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land and James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. | 1922 |
| In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, two linked characters that can be considered to embody a series of oppositions: middle class versus working class, intellect versus force, reflection versus instinct. | Gertrude and Walter Morel |
| The American poet from whose work E. M. Forster took the title of his last novel. | Walt Whitman |
| ESSAY: Read the quote below and write an essay (200-250 words) analysing the use of parody and satire in relation to marriage in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance ofBeing Earnest: CECILY: You must not laugh at me, darling, but it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love someone whose name was Ernest. | ok |
| The author and main British writer of colonial times that wrote the poem “The White Man’s Burden” | Rudyard Kipling |
| What is the original title Woolf was going to give to the novel and later changed to Mrs. Dalloway | The Hours |
| Who does Paul meet that introduces him to the family members and the life in the Leivers’ farm? | Miriam Leivers ¿? |
| What is the communal profession the main character in Sons and Lovers is surrounded by during his childhood? | mining industry |
| A cultural period and its values, which Oscar Wilde criticizes with great wit and irony in The Importance ofBeing Earnest. | Victorian Era / Period |
| Spatial opposites, places leading to different kinds of life and cultural attitudes, represented through the real and imaginary characters in The Importance ofBeing Earnest. | town / country |
| The complete name of the author of A Passage to India. | Edward Morgan Forster |
| Name two War poets who were critical to WWI nationalist enthusiasm and social support for soldiers. | John McCrae Rupert Brooke Jessie Pope |
| ESSAY: What was “new” about the “New Woman”? Please write an essay analyzing this figure and the literature written by women studied in this course. Refer your answer to some literary examples of the period. | ok |
| A writer of South-African origin, associated with socialist, feminist and anti-colonialist movements in Britain, in the second half of the twentieth century. The heroines in her novels and short stories can be identified with the type of the “New Woman”. | Olive Schreiner |
| A concept coined by Friedrich Nietzsche which presents experience as cyclical and endlessly repeated. It had a great influence on Modernist literature, as we can see in Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway or James Joyce’s Ulysses. | Eternal Recurrence |
| A kind of poetry studied in the course which developed from 1914. It provided original writing techniques in form and themes trying to transform atrocity into art. | War Poetry |
| A character in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India who comes to India to marry Mrs Moore’s son. | Adela Quested |
| Title of Virginia Woolfs groundbreaking essay where she explores her opinion that the ideal state of mind in which to produce art is an androgynous one. | 'A Room of One's Own' |
| The title of one of the most popular autobiographies of World War I, written by a female author; it captured the collective mood of the members of a “lost generation” whose lives were truncated or determined by the conflict. | Testament of Youth |
| In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, two linked characters that can be considered to embody a series of oppositions: middle class versus working class, intellect versus force, reflection versus instinct. | Gertrude and Walter Morel |
| In D. H. Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers, a character about whom the narrator (through Paul’s perspective) says: “She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him [Paul] and not being claimed by him.” | Miriam Leivers |
| ESSAY: Write an essay (200-250 words) discussing the topic “women writing the war” in relation to the literary production of the First World War. | ok |
| British woman Classicist and social anthropologist who contributed to the matriarchal discourse initiated by Johann Bachofen in the 1860s. | Jane Hellen Harrison |
| Aesthetic dictum which Oscar Wilde and some other British artists followed. It consisted of pursuing beauty and pleasure as an end in itself, subverting Victorian pragmatism. | Art for Art's Sake |
| Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild — | "The White Man's Burden", by Rudyard Kiplin |
| Name of the war poet who was never included in any of Marsh’s anthologies but he felt very closely related to the movement, he wrote the first stanza of unpublished The Ballad of Peace and War’ | Wilfred Owen |
| According to Virginia Woolf, the ideal state of mind in which to produce art: the perfect balance or combination of the masculine and the feminine. | Androgynous Mind |
| Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to: What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; | "Mrs Dalloway", by Virginia Woolf |
| Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to: To accommodate the regiments of miners, Carston, Waite and Co. built the Squares, great quadrangles of dwellings on the hillside of Bestwood, and then, in the brook valley, on the site of Hell Row, they erected the Bottoms. | "Sons and Lovers", by D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards Lawrence) |
| Author of Testament of Youth, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War | Vera Mary Brittain |
| ESSAY: “Heart of Darkness seems to blur the line between the so-called “advanced” society of Europe and the “primitive” society of Africa.” Write an essay discussing this statement in relation to the theme of empire in Conrad’s text. Please use some quotes from the literary text to support your argument. | ok |
| Philosopher who proclaimed that 'God is dead' and was the first to consider human responsibility in a universe without God author of Thus Spoke Zarathusta: A Book fo Everyone and No One. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Psychologist who proposes the “death drive”, the theoretical view that advocates for an instinctual want felt by organic organisms towards death, self-destruction and return to inorganic chemistry | Sigmund Freud |
| Identify the author and title of the poem these lines belong to Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. | "Dulce et Decorum Est", by Wilfred Owen |
| Name of the Woolfs female heroine who kills herself trapped by the confines of the expectations of women and unable to carry out her artistic genius. | Judith Shakespeare |
| Name of Paul’s parents in D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. | Gertrude and Walter Morel |
| Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to: The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. | "Heart of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad |
| Identify the author and title of the work this fragment belongs to: That is obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not lasted up to the present day. And you do not seem to realise, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. | "The Importance of Being Earnest", by Oscar Wilde |
| Author of ‘They’ a poem that transforms horror into satirical laughter through a masterful use of direct speech technique. | Siegfried Loraine Sassoon |
| A theme that runs through The Importance of being Earnest is "dishonesty" on several levels: society ("masks") individual (Algernon, Jack). Write an essay analyzing how dishonesty works in the play as a whole. Please provide some quotations to exemplify your argument. | ok |
| Two emblematic Modernist authors that put into practice in their literature the new theories of the instability of space and the subjective perception of time through the techniques known as “Moment of Being” and “Epiphany.” | Virginia Woolf and James Joyce |
| A French movement introduced in England by Walter Pater that influenced the Decadent movement to which Oscar Wilde belonged | Aestheticism |
| A linguistic formula that takes the shape of a short sentence that mocks our own preconceived ideas about life, society or beliefs, used recurrently to create satire and parody in The Importance of Being Earnest. | aphorism |
| The title of one of Rudyard Kipling’s poems that euphemistically refers to the effects of imperialism on the British citizens and g | "The White Man's Burden" |
| Name of the soldier who suffers from shell shock syndrome in Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway. | Septimus Warren Smith |
| The three sections in which Passage to India is divided that symbolize three spiritual and cultural approaches to the knowledge of India | Caves, Mosque, Temple |
| A war poet that became the icon of the country’s enthusiastic confidence in the triumph of First World War due to the publication of his sonnet sequence “1914” | Rupert Brooke |
| The names of the two women lovers that influence spiritually and physically Paul Morel in Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers. | Miriam Leivers and Clara Dawes |
| ESSAY: “A Passage to India is a literary point of view on the British Empire.” Write an essay analysing the literary text in relation to this statement. Make sure you do use at least one quote and examples from the literary text to support your argument. | ok |
| An intellectual and artistic group E. M. Forster belonged to. | Bloomsbury Group |
| A sentence that represented the full-grown land seizure in Africa by the European powers, becoming a primary source of trade after 1880. | the Scramble for Africa |
| Two great thinkers, one scientist and one philosopher, from the nineteenth century whose work influenced enormously the new interpretations of the ever-changing world at the beginning of the twentieth-century | Charles Darwin and Friedrick Nietzsche |
| The place where the main event of misunderstanding and mysticism takes place in Passage to India and from which the rest of the novel will evolve. | The Marabar Caves |
| Title of the poem by John McCrae about the Great War that originated the symbol of the red poppy for Remembrance Day. | "In Flanders Fields" |
| The literary genre in which Son and Lovers could be classified. | Bildungsroman |
| The printing press Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded and served as a publishing venue for experimental writing by Modernist authors. | Hogarth Press |
| When do the events in Mrs. Dalloway take place? | On a day in June, 1923 |
| Examen 2015 week1- pregunta 8.- in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the name used to refer to the Congo headquarters of the trading company that employs Marlow and had previously employed Kurtz | Central Station |
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