Key Characteristics
Which way was humor used in Postmodernism?
A) To bring attention to or critique society about serious topics.
B) To attract attention to themselves
C) Cause conflicts and riots in different countries
D) To have all the world go to war with each other
A) To bring attention to or critique society about serious topics.
The Korean war was another main event that put a cause to the change of literature into postmodernism. What year was the Korean war?
A) 1950 B) 1952 C) 1980 D) 1946
A) 1950
Which of these is not one of the major authors during postmodernism?
A) William Gadd's B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) Thomas Pynchon D) James Johnson
D) James Johnson
What Novel was Kurt Vonnegut most famously known for?
A) Slaughterhouse-Five B) BlueBeard
C) I Survived D Animal Farm
A) Slaughterhouse-Five
What were the major events that influenced postmodernism?
A) World War II and the Holocaust
B) The passing of the neighbors dog
C) The release of the iphone
D) European Colonization
A) World War II and the Holocaust
World War ll was the first big push into a big time of disillusionment during these times. What is disillusionment?
A)The cause of fighting between people because of opposite or different beliefs
B) disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as it seems
B) disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as it seems
Which author wrote "Gravity Rainbow" in 1973?
A) Mark simmons B) W.E.B Du Bois
C) Thomas Pynchon D ) Mark Twain
C)Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon Wrote the novel Gravity Rainbow about the secret development and deployment of a rocket by the Nazis near the end of World War II.
Kurt Vonnegut was an American author known for his darkly humorous novels. What year do you think he was born?
A) 1922 B) 1980 C) 1945 D 1811
A) 1922
Kurt Vonnegut was born in 1922 and started to write novels around 1952 during the time of postmodernism.
What is postmodernism?
A) A technique used in math
B) A book written in the 1600s
C) A narrative technique that questions traditional literary.
D) An ancient war technique
C) A narrative technique that questions traditional literary.
Some of the major historical events during the start of postmodernism in 1945-1980 were The African American Civil Rights Movement, The Cold War, The Great Society , and The Vietnam War. Which of these do you think happened first
A) African American Civil Rights Movement.
B) The Cold War C)The Great Society
D) Vietnam War
B) The Cold War
The cold war occured in 1947 towards the early times of postmodernism
Which author wrote the novel "slaughterhouse-five" in 1969?
A) Anne Frank B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) George Orwell C ) John Steinbeck
B) Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut wrote slaughterhouse-five in 1969 about his own experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany, during the Allied firebombing of that city in early 1945.
Kurt vonnegut Dropped out of college to serve in World war ll and later became a prisoner of war in germany. What year do you think he became a prisoner?
A) 1944 B) 2011 C )1938, D) 1980
A) 1944