modernism test

Question 1

percentage of all french men who were 20-32 at start of wwi and were dead when it was over

Answer 1

50%

Question 2

percentage of all german men btwn 19 and 22 who were killed

Answer 2

35%

Question 3

percentage of all english soldiers killed

Answer 3

12%

Question 4

total dead from britain and france

Answer 4

2 mil

Question 5

total wounded from all countries

Answer 5

21 mil

Question 6

mindset of the era

Answer 6

ppl lose faith in notion that world has coherent meaning bc of the tragedies of the war and the ptsd and how it massively affected people

Question 7

stream of consciousness

Answer 7

literary technique where character’s thoughts are rendered directly on the page as opposed to a narrator that explains stuff for reader

Question 8

ts eliot

Answer 8

american author from modernist era

Question 9

ezra pound works

Answer 9

the cantos

Question 10

william faulkner works

Answer 10

the sound and the fury, absalom! absalom!, light in august

Question 11

hemingway works

Answer 11

fwtbt, a farewell to arms, in our time, the sun also rises

Question 12

jean toomer works

Answer 12

cane

Question 13

zora neale hurston works

Answer 13

their eyes were watching god

Question 14

f scott fitzgerald works

Answer 14

the great gatsby