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The first totalitarian state of the twentieth century was established in

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A)   Russia.
B)   China.
C)   Germany.
D)   Japan.

Question 2

The most distinctive feature of Imagist poetry was its

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A)   lyricism.
B)   pared down, abstract style.
C)   revival of fixed meter and rhyme.
D)   attention to realistic detail.

Question 3

In his landmark poem The Rock, T. S. Eliot claimed that the knowledge accumulated by Western civilization brought twentiethcentury Westerners closer to

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A)   enlightenment.
B)   technological superiority.
C)   God.
D)   ignorance and death.

Question 4

Which landmarks of the era prior to 1950 illustrate most dramatically the idea of Modernism as an assault on tradition? How so?

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The Eiffel Tower in Paris, completed in ...

Question 5

The names Gropius and Le Corbusier are associated with the

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A)   birth of motion pictures.
B)   first efforts at abstract sculpture.
C)   International Style in architecture.
D)   twelve-tone system in music.

Question 6

Freud theorized that the libido was an important drive of

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A)   sublimation.
B)   the superego.
C)   the ego.
D)   the id.

Question 7

Discuss the landmarks of the early twentieth century from the point of view that despite the wide variety of styles, artists became more preoccupied with form than with content.

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