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Please note, for the fill in the blank questions, you have to answer the question with the exact answer. For example if the answer is Frank Lloyd Wright, you cannot answer Wright; it will be marked incorrect. Good luck.

1
Name the writing method in which the narrative consists of the unedited thoughts of one of the characters, through whose mind readers experience the story.
2
Name the twentieth century Mexican artist known for unsettling self-portraits that turn private anguish and pain into art with universal resonance.
3
Name the Mexican muralist who was her husband. He was hired to create a mural for Rockefeller that was destroyed because of his insertion of a major Communist figure.
4
Who wrote A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse?
5
What early twentieth century novel was planned as a modern version of the Odyssey?
6
Who wrote The Sound and the Fury, won a Nobel Prize for Literature, and invented the fictional Yoknapatawpha County whose regional characters were transformed into universal symbols?
7
What great poet wrote the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" and used Irish history, the occult, and myths as source material?
8
What great poet wrote "The Waste Land," which contains references to Shakespeare, Dante, foreign language phrases, the spiritual texts of India, and medieval legends?
9
Name the 1920s cultural revival (literature, visual arts, etc.) in the predominantly black area of New York City.
10
Name the woman who was part of this cultural revival and the prolific writer of poetry, novels, essays, and collections of folklore.
11
What scientist discovered what is called the uncertainty principle?
12
Name the great protest painting (and its artist) that commemorates the horrors of a Spanish village that was bombed. It is painted with only black and white.
Name of painting:
Artist:
13
Name the early twentieth century anti-art art movement that chose a nonsense word for its name.
14
What American composer developed a distinctively American style for Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring?
15
What artistic form were these musical pieces composed to complement?
16
Name the two women who commissioned him to complement their own art form?
17
There is currently a popular television show, 24, that has all episodes take place within one twenty-four hour day. What novel did this almost one hundred years ago?
18
What great American artist is famous for her association with the Southwest and for painting bones and flowers?
19
"God does not play dice with the universe." Who said this?
20
"I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads." Who wrote this?







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