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CLEP American Lit - the Modernists
Who wrote "Mending Wall?"
The Modernist Period was in
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1
The Modernist Period was in
1830-1870
1870-1910
1910-1945
1945-present
2
Who wrote "Mending Wall?"
T.S. Eliot
Jack London
Robert Frost
Robert Service
3
"The Walls Do Not Fall" and "The Flowering of the Road" were written by H.D. These initials refer to:
Harriet Douglas
Hilda Doolittle
Hilda Dwight
Henry David
4
Who wrote "Mending Wall?"
Robert Frost
Jack London
Marianne Moore
T.S. Eliot
5
What is symbolized by “the valley of ashes” in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gastby?
The phoenix-like rebirth of a new America
The rich soil of the American imagination
The environmental conscience of American capitalism
The moral and social decay caused by the mindless pursuit of wealth
6
During this literary period, good literature became complex and preoccupied itself with its own meaning. Which era?
Realists
Romantics
Surrealist
Modernists
7
By knowing the poet (Sandburg) and the poem, the words "harbor and city" probably refers to:
Boston
Chicago
Los Angeles
New York City
8
Which Harlem Renaissance poet's "I, Too, Sing America" is a response to Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"?
Jean Toomer
Sterling Brown
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
9
Term refers to art that was bizarre, fantastic, or abnormal and symbolized being human in an inhumane world
absurd
surreal
imagist
grotesque
10
Which of these writers was not part of "The Lost Generation"?
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
Ezra Pound
11
Though best known for the play,
Trifles
, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer for this play about Emily Dickinson:
The Road Less Traveled
A Long Day's Journey Into Night
A Jury of Her Peers
Alison's House
12
All of the following are poets known for their work after World War II EXCEPT
Anne Sexton
Sylvia Plath
John Berryman
Carl Sandburg
13
all of the following writers are considered part of the Harlem Renaissance EXCEPT:
James Baldwin
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Sterling Brown
14
"I shall grow old...I shall grow old.../I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." Comes from this T.S. Eliot poem
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Ariel
The Waste Land
"The Journey of the Magi"
15
Which modernist poet is known for breaking poetic rules concerning: capitalization, line spacing, and punctuation?
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
E.E. Cummings
William Carlos Williams
16
Ezra Pound's "A Station of the Metro" is an example of what poetic form that used clear language and precise images?
Imagism
Objectivism
Surrealism
Realism
17
What is the name of the literary journal that was founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912 ?
The New Yorker
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
The Atlantic Monthly
The Dial
18
William Carlos Williams rejected imagism. This term means the object allows poet to see the world critically and clearl
Surrealism
Cubism
Objectivism
Realism
19
the Grapes of Wrath
is considered to be an American :
Allegory
Gothic
Fantasy
Epic
20
Which of these poets was NOT considered a modernist?
Amy Lowell
Julia Ward Howe
Edna St. Vincent Millay
H.D.
21
Eugene O’Nell's play,
BoundEast for Cardiff
was the first of his plays produced by this acting group started by Glaspell
The Blonde Redheads
The Actor's Guild
The Provincetown Players
The Broadway Collective
22
Writers and poets, such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot, who moved to Europe are referred to as
immigrants
traitors
emigrants
expatriates
23
One of the main themes this writer from Salinas Valley, California was social justice–specifically in regard to migrants
Wallace Stevens
Katherine Ann Porter
Susan Glaspell
John Steinbeck
24
What famous 20th Century poet titled his first poetry collection
A Boy's Will
after the Longfellow poem:
Carl Sandburg
Allen Ginsburg
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
25
The poem "Mending Wall" explores neighbor relations but not whether it is good or bad. This literary tension is called:
sarcasm
conflict
allegory
ambiguity
26
William Faulkner,like James Joyce, uses this literary device which is focused on the mental-emotional life of characters
extended similes
extended metaphors
stream of consciousness
double consciousness
27
Yoknapatawpha County appears in the works of
Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
Wallace Stevens
William Faulkner
28
Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Mrs. Mallard dying of heart disease-"of joy that kills" is an example of:
allusion
dramatic irony
cosmic irony
allegory
29
The poem "Disillusionment of Ten O'clock" was written by:
Wallace Stevens
Ezra Pound
Marianne Moore
Emily Dickinson
30
Writers & poets such as Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot who moved to Europe to live and write are referred to as..
traitors
immigrants
emigrants
expatriates
31
Novels such as
The Portrait of a Lady
and
Daisy Miller
were written by:
William Carlos Williams
William James
Henry James
William Dean Howells
32
William Carlos Williams was not only a poet, but also a(n):
patent officer
physician
lawyer
used car salesman
33
What New York neighborhood became the center of African-American culture during the 1920s?
The Bronx
Manhattan
Harlem
Brooklyn
34
What modernist commonly used traditional forms to explore contemporary issues such as love and relationships?
Elizabeth Bishop
Anne Bradstreet
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Marianne Moore
35
"The Fog" by Carl Sandburg is an example of:
similar
hyperbole
allusion
extended metaphor
36
Ernest Hemingway wrote the following novels except:
Moby DIck
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
The Old Man and the Sea
37
According to Archibald MacLeish's modernist poem "Ars Poetic," "A poem should not mean, /but ...."
live
rest
die
be
38
Carl Sandburg is famous for writing about Chicago as well as the biography of this president:
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Franklin Roosevelt
George Washington
39
"I, too dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it," What does "it" represent?
Proverbs
Poetry
Novels
the Bible
40
Which Eugene O’Neill play is an autobiographi- cal account of his Irish-American family?
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Strange Interlude
A Streetcar Named Desire
Beyond the Horizon