Modern Literature Review

Robert Jordan

Wife struggled with mental health

What was Mr. Martin's drink of choice every night at home?

German term for "lightning war"

Start of WWII

Wrote On These I Stand

Man appreciates the true beauty of a woman

Man helps freedom fighters

How did Mr. Martin get rid of Mrs. Barrows?

Poem's message: Enjoy nature, then get back to work

Nickname for the Modern American literature era

Sylas returns "home"

Wrote The Harpweaver and Other Poems

Part of the ambulance corp during WWI

Man wastes his life wishing he had been born at a different time

Which author was NOT African-American?

Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God

What are authors who left America for Europe and did not return but wrote about American themes?

Mr. Fitweiler

Why did the old man say he had returned to the farm

Paritally blind from childhood accident but kept his sense of humor

Warren spoke to Sylas after Warren went into the house

Why did cults gain in following during this time?

Poet who was traveled extensively and was influenced by socialism

Edwin Martin plans to kill a coworker

Biographer of Abraham Lincoln

Writer and anthropologist

Wrote "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Busy-body woman wants to reorganize every department in the company

Disregarded the rules of grammar and punctuation in poetry

Only author to earn four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry

Date for the end of WWI

Wrote "In a Station on the Metro"

Which country was NOT part of the Allied powers in WWI?

Nickname for the 1920s

Lived with grandmother because his father abandoned the family and mother had to work

Lived a lavish lifestyle of parties and drinking

For whom does grandma buy a paper windmill?

Poem about the basics of farm life

Belief that man should give into his base desires

America's most popular modern poet

What does grandma steal from the hunter?

Which two Japanese cities were destroyed by atomic bombs?

One of the most influential experimentalist writers of modern American literature

Received honoary doctorates from Oxford, Cambridge, and 40 American colleges and university

Men found their once-exciting lives empty after a trip

Raised by a pastor and his wife- whose name he took as his own

Symbolized the liberated woman of the 1920s

Wrote "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Considered one of the modern masters of the short story

What does grandma get while in town?

What years was Modern American literature?

Date for when the stock market crashed, starting the Great Depression

Story with Ulgine Barrows

Ernest Hemingway earned a medal of valor from what country?

Wrote about the working man and made free verse popular

Wrote The Old Man and the Sea

Man who seems to have everything takes his own life

"America's foremost woman writer of fiction"

What was name of Grandma in "A Worn Path"?

Wrote Children of the Night

Harlem Renaissance was a rebirth in what group's writing about themes and culture?

FDR's plan to get America out of the Great Depression

Wrote A Curtain of Green

Date for the start of WWI

Ghosts are seen in a passing train

Wrote Grapes of Wrath

Wrote A Farewell to Arms

Wrote This Side of Paradise

Served in WWI and WWII