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Imagism and Modernism
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1
Whose wife was supposedly used as a model for the Mercury Dime?
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
T.S. Eliot
2
"In a Station of the Metro" began as a very short poem and then grew longer over the years.
True
False
3
Which poet got in a fistfight with Hemingway?
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
ee cummings
4
"The Road Not Taken" is essentially about what?
Pride
Self-deception
Self-Reliance
Confidence
5
With what Italian renaissance poet was Dante obsessed?
Petrarch
Virgil
Dante
Bounasera
6
Which Frost poem features the threat of violence from a neighbor?
World War Next Door
Neighbor Violence
Desert Places
Mending Wall
7
Who wrote "The Locust Tree in Flower?"
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
T.S. Eliot
8
Speech directed to an imaginary person or abstract quality. As seen in "Oread"
Personification
Parataxis
Apostrophe
Anaphora
9
Whom did Harold Bloom say was the best and most representative poet of our time?"
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
Wallace Stevens
10
What is significant about the layout of the poem "The Locust Tree in Flower?"
It is in an inverted iambic pentamen
It is a stilted slant meter
It is shaped like a wall
It is grouped like buds
11
Why is the jar used as a symbol in the "Jar" poem?
Both of these
It is empty
It is manmade
Neither of these
12
What is something there is that doesn't love a wall?
Nature
Man
Both
Neither
13
What did Pound call Imagism after Amy Lowell became famous for it?
Awfulism
Imagisn't
Imageawful
Amyism
14
Who "explored the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of ... imagination and ... reality?
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
ee cummings
Wallace Stevens
15
Which poet was also an executive at a major insurance company?
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
ee cummings
16
What Arthurian legend does Eliot reference with sea references and impotence metaphors?
Lancelot
The Fisher King
Perceval
The knight of cups
17
Which character from Shakespeare does Prufrock compare himself to?
Falstaff
Hamlet
Richard III
Polonius
18
Which of the following schools did T.S. Eliot not attend?
Harvard
Oxford
Princeton
Sorbonne
19
What is the image being used to describe the forest in "Oread?"
The sea
The Forest is describing the sea
A bigger forest
A Japanese woodcut
20
Which of the following was not an allusion in "Prufrock?"
Lazarus
John the Baptist
Hamlet
King David
21
Who had an open disdain for poets who relied on free verse?
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
Robert Frost
22
Who wrote "Oread?"
Amy Lowell
Ezra Pound
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Wallace Stevens
23
Which of the following is one of Prufrock's insecurities?
He's pale
He's balding
He's fat
He's too young
24
Which poet won four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry?
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost
ee cummings
25
What is essentially the theme of "Prufrock" as discussed in class?
Impotence
Disillusionment
Failure
All of the above
26
The epigraph from "Prufrock" is taken from what book?
Inferno
The Aeneid
Purgatorio
Hamlet
27
What is an Oread?
Small goat
Magical Starfish
Mountain nymph
Mermaid
28
About whom did Carl Sandburg write a multi-volume biography?
Ezra Pound
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Thoreau
29
Who are white nightgowns in "The Disillusionment of 10 o'Clock?"
Tall bold sluggers
Poetry critics
Unimaginative people
Contestants in the game show of life
30
What religion played a crucially important part in informing Eliot's poetry?
Anglicanism
Judaism
Catholicism
Methodism
31
What is one explanation considered in class for the Jar in "The Anecdote of a Jar?"
A bridge
A skyscraper
A dream
A poem
32
"Desert Places" is thematically linked to what Wallace Stevens poem?
"Nature"
"Snow Man"
"Disillusionment"
"Jar"
33
What is the setting for "In A Station of the Metro?"
The London Tube
The Louvre
The Paris Underground
The Eiffel Tower
34
Who wrote The Red Wheelbarrow?
HD
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
35
Outside of poetry, Sandburg was known for what?
Folk songs
Acting
Painting
Architecture
36
In "The Snow Man," what transcendentalist idea is alluded to?
Self-reliance
The drummer
The transparent eye
The nonconformist
37
What fact about Amy Lowell might help us understand the poem "A Lover?"
She had poor vision
She was a lesbian
She loved Pound
She hated bugs
38
According to our notes, what did flowers often represent to authors like Virgil and Homer?
Poetry
Beauty
Death
Children
39
Who dreams "of tigers in red weather?"
A man with a neon nightgown
A Drunken old Sailor
Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
40
Which poet was also a medical doctor?
ee cummings
Williams Carlos Williams
T.S. Eliot
Wallace Stevens