Moderism Quiz

Question 1

Who wrote Sonnet 43?

Answer 1

Elizabeth Browning

Question 2

Who wrote Songs to Joannes?

Answer 2

Mina Loy

Question 3

Who wrote Oread?

Answer 3

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Question 4

Who wrote A Grave?

Answer 4

Marianne Moore

Question 5

Who wrote I, being born a woman and distressed?

Answer 5

Edna Millay

Question 6

Who wrote I Too Beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex?

Answer 6

Edna Millay

Question 7

Who wrote A Room of One’s Own?

Answer 7

Virginia Woolf

Question 8

Who wrote Mrs. Dalloway?

Answer 8

Virginia Woolf

Question 9

What are the values of modernists?

Answer 9

1. Direct treatment of the thing
2. No extra words
3. Musical instead of metronome rhythm

Question 10

What is theme?

Answer 10

A claim about what it means to be human or how the world works that the text implies

Question 11

What is modernist in reaction to?

Answer 11

WWI

Question 12

What is Songs to Joannes about?

Answer 12

Pregnancy
Two things becoming one
Making something new

Question 13

What is Oread about?

Answer 13

A mountain nymph
Comparison to a tree and the sea

Question 14

What is a grave about?

Answer 14

The sea
Immortality
Dashes - break to make a point before
Go on and on, makes sense to have long lines

Question 15

What is I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex about?

Answer 15

Italian Sonnet
Romantic low to dealing with sexuality
Sexuality liberated instead of stuck at home
Not covering it up, make it pretty - all natural
Tower = doesn’t want to be alone, has a lot of pride in it

Question 16

What is Mrs. Dalloway about?

Answer 16

Clarissa Dalloway’s life
Her relationship with Peter and Richard and Sally
Septimus - PTSD. Collected grief from the war - committed suicide
Clarissa throws a party - is talked lowly about by her loved ones
Sally and Peter talk at party about Clarissa and communicating your feelings
You cant always get what you want

Question 17

What is “passing”?

Answer 17

Notice a group to be very powerful

Question 18

What is stream of consciousness?

Answer 18

Reveals characters
We’re getting this information from Clarissa, may not be full story

Question 19

What is Traditional Literary Criticism?

Answer 19

Understand what the author intended
Look at other writing/historical content

Question 20

What is New Criticism?

Answer 20

Look at text and only text to understand
The story “the death of the author”
Tease out inherent ambiguities

Question 21

What is Feminist Theory?

Answer 21

It is important to think of gender as you read

Question 22

What are the feminist waves?

Answer 22

1. Getting the Vote (1920)
2. Equal Opportunity (1960-1970)
3. Intersectionality

Question 23

What are gender criticism assumptions?

Answer 23

The work doesn’t have an objective, status, etc.
in the production of literature and within stories themselves, men and women have not had equal rights
Men and women are different. They read, write, and write about their reading differently.

Question 24

What is reader response criticism?

Answer 24

Reading is a collaboration between text and reader
Pay attention to your experience as a reader

Question 25

What is an epic?

Answer 25

Really long poem - hero who stands in for the whole country

Question 26

What is the central question behind a room of one’s own?

Answer 26

Why haven’t more women written fiction? How do women write fiction? What does a women need to write fiction?

Question 27

What is the answer to Woolf’s answer to the questions?

Answer 27

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.