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1
In "Blue Hotel" how is the Swede killed?
Scully stabs him for beating up Johnnie
the cowby shoots him
the gambler stabs him
Johnnie kills him in the fight
2
In "A Rose for Emily" what did the reader see Emily buy at the drugstore?
perfume
Man's hair brush
Arsenic
face powder
3
Which of the following is
not
true of Sandburg?
He felt poetry should be written for educated people
He celebrated the working class
He idolized Lincoln
He won the Pulitzer Prize for history
4
When Prufrock says, "I'm not Prince Hamlet..." Eliot is using
understatement
paradox
synecdoche
allusion
5
Literary theme using a darker side of the self-- a double, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
paradox
allusion
synecdoche
doppellganger
6
Master's poem "Hamilton Greene" shows
a doctor who died in disgrace
a locally famous politician unaware of his birth
speculation about the world as a "hive"
a woman who lived a fulfilling life, disgusted with the new generation
7
What is the rhyme scheme here? Roses are red/Violets are blue/Sugar is sweet/And so are you.
a, b, c ,b
a, b, a, b
a, b, b, a
a, b, c, a
8
This poet was first discovered in England with his book "A Boy's Will"
E. E. Cummings
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
9
Which of the following poetic characters commits suicide?
Doctor Myers
Richard Cory
J. Alfred Prufrock
Eben Flood
10
Whose Nobel prize speech is considered to be one of the best speeches in the English language?
Earnest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Robert Frost
Carl Sanburg
11
What author spent time in a French POW camp?
Cummings
Faulkner
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
12
Literary device--Using a part to stand for a whole–ie “Crown” refers to a “King”
allusion
synecdoche
paradox
doppelganger
13
How many syllables would be in an Iambic Trimeter poem?
9
3
6
10
14
In "In Another Country" what did the Major pride himself on before his injury?
football
fencing
cooking
bull fighting
15
Going "gladly beyond" places "never traveled" and being powerful, yet fragile are examples of
paradox
synecdoche
allusion
personification
16
In "Mr. Flood's Party" Eben flood...
is drinking alone
has been to a New Year's Eve party with friends
is contemplating suicide
is having his 100th birthday
17
Wrote "Spoon River Anthology"
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Langston Hughes
ee cummings
Edgar Lee Masters
18
Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called
heroic couplet
paradox
free verse
blank verse
19
What poet was discovered while he was a bus boy in a New York restaurant?
Langston Hughes
E. E. Cummings
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
20
In "The Story of an Hour" what makes Louise Mallard feel her husband is dead?
There's news of a train wreck
He was hanged
She heard he died in the war
She heard he had drowned
21
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the narrator ...
is locked in a bedroom
all of these
writes in secret
sees a woman/women in the paper
22
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the narrator...
writes in secret
is locked in a bedroom
sees a woman/women in the paper
all of these
23
Which best describes the theme of "Richard Cory"?
money doesn't buy happiness
no one loves anyone
nature is cruel
overthinking can lead to inaction
24
Which of the following is NOT a prominent theme in Modernism
alienation
non-communication
isolation
determinism
25
In "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" why is Farquar being hanged?
for stealing a horse
impersonating an officer
deserting the army
trying to burn the bridge
26
This poet became a British subject
T. S Eliot
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Robert Frost
E. E. Cummings
27
In "A Rose for Emily" what did she do with her father's body?
Buried it in her backyard
Put it in front of her house
Put it in an upstairs bedroom
Kept it three days in her house
28
What theme best describes cummings "my sweet old etcetera" and "next to of course god america I" ?
carpe diem
doppelganger
automatic patriotism
initiation
29
Leader of the Harlem Renaissance
T. S. Eliot
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Carl Sandburg
30
Which writer created Yoknapatawpha County?
Frost
Faulkner
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
31
Which Frost poem is about a boy cutting his hand off?
"After Apple Picking"
"Design"
"Out, Out--"
"Mending Wall"
32
This writer was also a lawyer
Edgar Masters
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
ee cummings
33
In "Out,Out--" the description of the saw "“the buzz saw snarled and rattled” is a good example of
symbol
synecdoche
allusion
personification
34
This poet took pride in writing poetry that "the average truck driver could understand"
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
T. Eliot
E. E. Cummings
35
JFK's favorite poet
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Edwin Arlington Robinson
ee cummings
36
This writer took shrapnel to the leg in WWI
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Cummings
Faulkner
37
Teddy Roosevelt's favorite poet
Edwin Arlington Robinson
ee cummings
Langston Hughes
Edgar Masters
38
This poet's book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" led to a Broadway musical
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
E. E. Cummings
39
This poet got rid of all conventions--punctuation, capitalization
T. S. Eliot
Langston Hughes
E. E. Cummings
Robert Frost
40
In "The Open Boat" what two men row the most?
cook and correspondent
oiler and cook
oiler and correspondent
captain and cook
