Modern Period Review

Question 1

Who wrote poems in sonnet form?

Accepted Answer

McKay

Question 2

Which of the following is a trait of the writing during the Modern Period?

Accepted Answer

expressed disillusionment, questioned the American Dream, boldly experimental, rejected traditional themes and styles

Question 3

Who disliked being called a "modern" poet since he favored more traditional styles of writing?

Accepted Answer

Frost

Question 4

Who went to high school in Cleveland, Ohio?

Accepted Answer

Hughes

Question 5

What did Mrs. Rine do with Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury after she finished reading it?

Accepted Answer

threw it away

Question 6

Which of the following authors did NOT win the Pulitzer Prize for literature?

Accepted Answer

cummings

Question 7

The explosion of creativity in art, music, and literature among African Americans was called?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 8

Who was an alcoholic, although he never wrote while drunk?

Accepted Answer

Faulkner, Hemingway

Question 9

Who was born in Jamaica?

Accepted Answer

McKay

Question 10

Who is known for using the Iceberg Principle in his writing?

Accepted Answer

Hemingway

Question 11

Who wrote "The Lynching"?

Accepted Answer

McKay

Question 12

Who is known for being largely responsible for getting the 19th Amendment passed?

Accepted Answer

Alice Paul

Question 13

Who wrote "she being brand" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?

Accepted Answer

cummings

Question 14

Who experimented with capitalization, punctuation, and word placement in his poetry?

Accepted Answer

cummings

Question 15

Who wrote "Mending Wall" and "Home Burial"?

Accepted Answer

Frost

Question 16

Who lived in and wrote about the South?

Accepted Answer

Faulkner

Question 17

Where did American "ex-patriot" authors and musicians/artists go for part of the Modern Period?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 18

Who wrote "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Accepted Answer

Hemingway

Question 19

For which author is there a look-alike contest to honor his birthday?

Accepted Answer

Hemingway

Question 20

Who wrote "A Rose for Emily"?

Accepted Answer

Faulkner

Question 21

Who wrote "Morning After"?

Accepted Answer

Hughes

Question 22

Which suffragist died while on a speaking tour fighting to get women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Inez Millholland

Question 23

Which historical event did NOT occur during the modern literary period?

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 24

Which type of poem tells a story?

Accepted Answer

narrative poem

Question 25

Which author is your favorite?

Accepted Answer

Hughes, cummings, Hemingway, Faulkner

Question 26

Who lived in Chicago, Paris, Key West, and Idaho, among other places, during his lifetime?

Accepted Answer

Hemingway

Question 27

Who wrote "The End of Something"?

Accepted Answer

Hemingway

Question 28

What topics did Hughes and McKay both write about?

Accepted Answer

love, being black in America

Question 29

Who wrote poems in traditional blues form sometimes?

Accepted Answer

Hughes

Question 30

Who was the first poet to be asked to write and recite a poem at a Presidential inauguration?

Accepted Answer

Frost

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