Modernism: But is it Modernism? Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Modernism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which novel includes the line "In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June"?
Mrs. Dalloway
The Metamorphosis
Fifty Shades of Grey
Ulysses
Q. What author in what book writes, "On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains"?
William Faulkner, in the Sound and the Fury
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby
George Bernard Shaw, in Pygmalion
James Joyce, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Q. Which poem by what poet describes people as petals?
Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"
Coco Chanel's "Little Black Dress"
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Q. What semi-incoherent narrator in whose novel turns into a nasty insect?
Benjy, in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Gregor Samsa, in Franz Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis
Marlowe, in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness
Nick Carraway, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby
Q. Which poet reaaallly likes cold plums?
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
Betty Crocker
H.D.