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The 'Lost Generation' is a term popularized by Gertrude Stein to describe:

  1. Children orphaned and displaced by the social upheavals of the Victorian era
  2. Writers who came of age during WWI and felt disillusioned by the modern world
  3. Characters in Shakespeare's late romances who are separated from their families
  4. A circle of poets in Paris who collectively refused to publish or distribute their work
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Correct answer: Writers who came of age during WWI and felt disillusioned by the modern world

The term was notably used in the epigraph to Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises.' It describes the sense of aimlessness and loss of faith in traditional values experienced by those who lived through the Great War — a generation spiritually adrift in the modern world.

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