modernism

Question 1

1899-1902

Answer 1

the Boer war

Question 2

1914-1918

Answer 2

world war I

Question 3

1916

Answer 3

The Meryy-Go-Round, Easter Rising

Question 4

1918

Answer 4

Women’s suffrage for women over thirty

Question 5

1921-1922

Answer 5

Irish free state, Russian revolution

Question 6

1928

Answer 6

women’s suffrage for twenty-one and over

Question 7

1929

Answer 7

stock market clash -> great depression starts

Question 8

broadening of reading public after 1870 education act

Answer 8

elementary schooling became compulsory and universal

Question 9

highbrow, middlebrow, highbrow

Answer 9

distinction of literature audience

Question 10

modernist reaction against middle-class Victorian attidus

Answer 10

modernists viewed European culture as hypocritical and corrupt

Question 11

Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians

Answer 11

biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era

Question 12

radical reimagination of human identity

Answer 12

achja e

Question 13

Sigmund Freud’s the interpretation of dreams

Answer 13

psychoanalysis was changing how people saw rationality and the self

Question 14

James Frazer’s Golden Bough

Answer 14

work of anthropology that altered basic conceptions of culture, religion and myth

Question 15

scientific revolution

Answer 15

Plank (energy quanta) en Einstein (theory of relativity)

Question 16

technological innovation

Answer 16

first-wireless communication, first airplane, first mass-produced car

Question 17

Emmeline Pankhurst

Answer 17

leader of the suffragetes

Question 18

suffragette

Answer 18

members of an activist women’s organisation

Question 19

women’s suffrage

Answer 19

right of women to vote in election