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1. � Modernism came as a reaction against Romanticism. 
2. � Modernism is divided into 3 different periods and encompasses the 
whole 20th Century. 
3. � Modernist writers were worried in imprinting their own views of 
reality. 
4. � Modernists had a tendency to reject history, social systems, and 
emphasize alienation in modern urban and industrial societies. 
5. � One of the concerns of Modernist writers was the rejection of 
religion and anger against the effects of the World Wars. 
6. � The plot, characters and themes of Modernist texts are always 
presented in a linear way. 
7. � Virginia Woolf tended to conform to the rules of her times. 
8. � One of the features of Woolf’s novels was the stream of 
consciousness. 
9. � By using the stream of consciousness, Woolf introduced her reader 
into interior life of a character by a reproduction of what society was like in 
the beginning of the 20th century. 
10. � As a woman of her time she had hardly any scope to have any 
knowledge of the sordid and brutal aspects of life. 
11. � Mrs Dalloway is consistent with other modernist works as the events 
of the story fall within the category of the everyday life. 
12. � In his novels and essays Aldous Huxley played the role of a critical 
observer of accepted traditions, customs, social norms and ideals. 
13. � Huxley conformed to the potentially harmful applications of the so-
called scientific progress to mankind in his writings. 
14. � Brave New World is a novel of ideas, where the characters and plot 
are secondary, not to say simplistic. 
15. � Brave New World is an ironic commentary on contemporary values. 
 
 
 
 
KEY: Items 1/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 8/ 10/ 11/ 12/ 14/ 15 are true.