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The theory of natural selection that claims that those species that successfully adapt to their environments survive and those that do not become extinct.
What is Darwinism?
100
A temporary cease-fire or stop to warfare, usually preceding the signing of a treaty.
What is an armistice?
100
These 3 men had a profound influence on change in the 20th century due to their taboo theories that were introduced to society.
Who are Darwin, Marx and Freud?
100
Two of the major changes that occurred in Great Britain during the reigns of Victoria and Edward VII.
What are Independence was gained by several colonies, Britain experienced social reform, a rise in literacy, Labour party grew in power, and a widespread socialist ideology?
100
This is the reason literature, following World War II was so dark and pessimistic.
What is the type of governmental control acted to reflect people's moods. War left people to know that state of life so they wrote about what they knew?
200
The notion that in human society, as in nature, only the fittest should survive and flourish.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
Looking into one's own mind or feelings.
What is introspection?
200
These are the 3 ways Darwin, Marx, and Freud affected British society.
What are undermining the political, religious and psychological assumptions of society?
200
The two major causes of human behavior according to Sigmund Freud?
What are sexual drive and the unconscious and its mysteries?
200
This is the reason that Britain could NOT hold on to its colonies.
What is Britain was working toward recovering from war and rebuilding its own economy?
300
An experimentation with form and content that focused on sexuality, new conceptions of time and the workings of human consciousness.
What is modernism?
300
A type of government that is rigidly nationalistic and that relies on the rule of a single dictator whose power is absolute and backed by force.
What is fascism?
300
The most influential English-language writer of the early twentieth century?
Who is James Joyce?
300
The majority of enlisted members were slaughtered.
What is one devastating effect of Britain's entry into World War 1?
300
This is what the group The Angry Young Men criticized.
What is intellectuals and the boring lives of the middle class?
400
A response to colonial oppression of native cultures
What is negritude?
400
The form of literature that explored issues of personal identity and the effects of cultural domination and racism.
What is postcolonial literature?
400
Russia's totalitarian government was based on the political theories of this economist.
Who is Karl Marx?
400
This is how the art, literature and music of the early 20th century is described.
What is bold, colorful and primitive (sexual)?
400
This is how Achebe and Soyinka felt about the negritude movement.
What is the felt that it cloaked Africa's precolonial past in a nostalgia of innocence?
500
A literary style that combines realistic details with the incredible events recounted in a matter-of-fact tone.
What is magic realism?
500
Literature that deals with the issues of women's rights, multiculturalism, the environment, and nuclear destruction.
What is postmodern literature?
500
This man and his people capitalized on Germany's economic woes to convince many Germans that their problems were caused by Jews, Communists, and immigrants.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
500
These are the three reasons James Joyce was known as the most influential English-language writer of the early 20th century.
What are his use of myth, symbol and Freudian consciousness?
500
These are the two major issues that women dealt with during the Modern era.
What is a woman's lack of power and her secondary status is society?