Final Exam Prep

Peyton Farquhar is a member of the Union army in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

What type of lifestyle does Whitman lead, according to the poem?

Who does Sykes cheat on Delia with?

What is the name of the voice in "Song of Myself"

In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," what does the poet claims "'Good friends make good neighbors."

Why does Sonny go to jail in "Sonny's Blues?"

Where did Emily Dickinson spend the majority of her life?

What are the names of The Misfit's accomplices?

In "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," Mr. McKinnon gets in a fight with a hologram of which famous figure?

Why did women's social clubs become popular in the late nineteenth century?

Two major developments dominate the media landscape of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. What are they?

In which poem does Sylvia Plath's speaker state: "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air."

At the end of "The Yellow Wallpaper," what has the narrator smuggled into her room?

Lucille Clifton describes this figure as a "wet brown bag of a woman."

From 1910s through the mid-1930s, this artistic, intellectual and cultural movement was based in New York City.

In what year was Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues published?

What does Blanche hear when the polka music stops playing?

Which of the following descriptions most closely characterizes the literary and cultural movement known as modernism?

What is the 19th c. literary and philosophical movement that boasts members such as H.D. Thoreau and R. W. Emerson?

W.E.B. DuBois is credited with this term:

Which poet is known for experimenting with capitalization, punctuation, and fragmentary lines?

What does Stanley do on he and Stella's wedding night?

Which president signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (The G.I. Bill) into law?

After Dickinson's death in 1886, who transcribed many of her poems?

T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" begins with a epigraph from Homer's The Odyssey.

This Modernist poet was also a physician.

What is the name of the narrator's wife in "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline?"

In Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums," Elisa leaves her husband to travel with The Tinker.

Langston Hughes is a prominent figure of which literary and cultural movement?

Why did many intellectuals fear the rise of mass popular culture in the modernist era?

In Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," what is the narrator's husband's profession?

In "Sonny's Blues," what is the name of the narrator's daughter who dies of polio?

In the beginning of Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," what does Sykes use to scare Delia?

Why has Blanche come to stay with her sister, Stella, in A Streetcar Named Desire?

This famous "media theorist" became famous for his dictum that "the medium is the message"

In "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," where are the family travelling for vacation?

Zitkala-Ša was a member of the Cherokee Nation.

What narrative voice does Faulkner employ in "A Rose for Emily?"

In "A Rose for Emily," how does Emily kill Homer Baron?

Which author is credited with coining the term "The Gilded Age"?