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Use this Quiz! to review for the unit test on "The Modern Era (1900-1945)."
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Which selection is written in STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS style?
"The Snowman"
"A Wagner Matinee"
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
2
What is the point-of-view in "A Wagner Matinee"?
Doughnuts Rule!
Third-person omniscient
First-person omniscient
First-person limited
3
What does the old man do when he has had too much to drink?
leave without paying
Sing Lady Gaga songs at karaoke
fight with the other customers
fall asleep at the table
4
Which theme would be LEAST likely to find in literature of the Modern Era?
alienation
love conquers all
disappointment
money can't buy character
5
Gertrude Stein coached this writer who later derided her work and belittled her help.
Ernest Hemingway
T. S. Eliot
Lumiere Candelabra
ee cummings
6
Gertrude Stein called Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, and Eliot this.
Fugitives
Rugrats
A Lost Generation
Expatriates
7
The poet avoids the use of...
...spelling rules.
...ketchup.
...capitalization.
...punctuation.
8
Which cafe worker best understands the old man's needs?
the chef
the bartender
the old waiter
the young waiter
9
character in a fictional work pitted against the main character
antagonist
foil
hero
protagonist
10
Granny's deceased child is...
...Jimmy.
...Hapsy.
...Simba.
...Cornelia.
11
What is the purpose of "This is Just to Say"?
to apologize
to reflect
to warn
to describe
12
What is the metrical pattern in "Home Burial"?
trachaic dimeter
iambic pentameter
tyrannosaurus rex
hexameter
13
Jonquil will not marry George after their first meeting because...
...her parents do not approve.
...it's not the sensible thing to do.
...she plans to marry another man.
...she does not love him anymore.
14
Which line best represents the central insights of the SPEAKER in "Mending Wall"?
"Lowes is the cheapest place to buy fences."
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
"Good Fences make good neighbors."
"The work of hunters is another thing."
15
The Volstead Act is better known by this name.
Alfred
Prohibition
Emancipation
Banishment
16
This Fugitive won the Nobel Prize & 2 Pulitzer prizes for his stories set in Yoknapatawpha, Co.
William Faulkner
William Carlos Williams
T. S. Eliot
King T'Challa
17
This renders the flow of feelings, thoughts, and impressions withing the minds of characters.
abstract speaker
limited-omniscient narrator
stream-of-consciousness
first-person narrator
18
What does the blackbird represent?
death
the pathetic fallacy of the poem
varying perceptions of nature
a Lockheed SR-71
19
When George returns from Peru, he realizes that...
...Jonquil no longer loves him.
...Jonquil will never like New York City.
...he and Jonquil must marry.
...he left his cell phone in Lima.
20
In this poem, the snowman has feelings. What is this technique called?
Pathetic Fallacy
He was a jolly, happy soul.
Logical Fallacy
Perceptive Regression
21
In the poem, the speaker is reassured and confident.
TRUE
FALSE
22
Whom do the prosecuting attorney, the judge, and the mine superintendent support?
the law
mine workers
Socialists
foreigners
23
What do the "Socialist fakers" practice, according to the song?
Socialism
The Piano
Fascism
Capitalism
24
a dramatic change in the direction of events in a story
parallelism
twisty-turny-plot-thingies
inversion
reversal
25
Whose success was eventually undermined by alcoholism?
Ernest Hemingway's
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's
John Dos Passos'
Wallace Stevens'
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the voice or narrator in a poem
poet
speaker
abstract monologue
lyrical narrator
27
After his father died, he moved to New England, the region most-associated with his poetry.
Bruce Wayne
T. S. Eliot
ee cummings
Robert Frost
28
a thing that stands for both itself and something else
antagonist
logical fallacy
symbol
pathetic fallacy
29
Which literary selection in this unit is the best example of "collage"?
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"Newsreel LXVIII"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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the private sensations, thoughts, or emotions of a character
reversal
internal monologue
dialogue
antithesis
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This movement was led by writers who rejected urban, commercial values.
Fugitive Movement
The Lost Generation
Expatriate Movement
The Jazz Age
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Granny was jilted by...
...Father Connolly.
...George.
...Doctor Harry.
...John.
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a poetic technique in which the customary order of the subject and verb is altered
inversion
reversal
imagery
parallelism
34
What idea of Benjamin Franklin was challenged by Modern Era writers?
Bacon Makes Everything Better
Democracy
Industrialism
The American Dream
35
The references to Michelangelo, Lazarus and Hamlet are...
...allusion.
...metaphor.
...name dropping.
...illusion.
36
What technique is used when the grass becomes the speaker in the poem?
lawnification
repetition
personification
irony
37
Which poet is a native of Reading, Pennsylvania?
Wallace Stevens
John Dos Passos
William Carlos Williams
ee cummings
38
She began writing at the Univ. of Nebraska and is famous for works about life on the prairies.
Jordan Baker
Emily Dickinson
Katherine Anne Porter
Willa Cather
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It is language that creates a concrete representation of an object or experience.
Effect
Imagery
Free Verse
Masonry
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This artistic movement was a response to the breakdown of American culture.
Transcendentalism
Fugitive Movement
Modernism
The Enlightenment
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It presents single moments of sense perception without reference to emotions or opinions.
Regionalism
Imagist Poetry
Rabbit
Stream-of-Consciousness
42
Who wrote "The Grass" by Carl Sandburg?
Andy Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Karl Sandburg
Carla Sandburg
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Which selection has the most significant example of REVERSAL OF FORTUNE?
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at an SR-71 Blackbird"
"This is Just to Say"
"The Sensible Thing"
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
