In his essay “The Roots of Modernism,” Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined? Choose one answer.
. . In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism? Choose one answer.
. . What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following features of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” make it classifiable as a Victorian poem? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry? Choose one answer.
. . Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it: Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following best describes the idea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire’s symbolist poem “Correspondences”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry? Choose one answer.
. . According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions? Choose one answer.
. . Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem? Choose one answer.
. . Ezra Pound’s “Canto I” opens with the following lines: “And then went down to the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and(…).” Which of the following statements best characterizes these lines and the poem as a whole? Choose one answer.
. . Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems? Choose one answer.
. . H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea—/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us—/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong? Choose one answer.
. . In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not? Choose one answer.
. . In his essay “The Symbolism of Poetry,” William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm? Choose one answer.
. . In his first lecture on William Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this? Choose one answer.
. . In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following? Choose one answer.
. . One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens’s poem “Sunday Morning” consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols? Choose one answer.
. . Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean? Choose one answer.
. . Professor Hammer argues that Marianne Moore’s poem “England” suggests which of the following? Choose one answer.
. . What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro”? Choose one answer.
. . What is the principal subject of Marianne Moore’s poem “An Octopus”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moore’s poem “A Grave?” Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement? Choose one answer.
. . Yeats’s “Song of Wandering Aengus” ends with the lines: “And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun.” Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples? Choose one answer.
. . Which one of the following was not a “little magazine” that primarily published and championed modernist poetry in the first half of the 20th century? Choose one answer.
. . According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War? Choose one answer.
. . Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written: Choose one answer.
. . Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole? Choose one answer.
. . Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like storm-bewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect? Choose one answer.
. . The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Rear Guard”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following writers authored the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est?” Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War? Choose one answer.
. . Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines? Choose one answer.
. . World War I drastically changed the political and cultural climate in Europe. Which of the following was NOT among the changes brought about by World War I? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky’s poem, “A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 “Futurist Manifesto”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following traditions was an important influence on Louis Zukofsky’s poetry? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following was an important influence on Charles Reznikoff’s shift away from romantic rhetoric? Choose one answer.
. . Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies? Choose one answer.
. . According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land”? Choose one answer.
. . Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pound’s interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his: Choose one answer.
. . Complete the following sentence. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is a good example of High Modernism, because it: Choose one answer.
. . Ezra Pound’s “Canto XIV” opens with the line “Io venni in luogo d'ogni luce muto” [I came to a place devoid of light]. This creates a connection between the Canto and which of the following works? Choose one answer.
. . In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following? Choose one answer.
. . In T.S. Eliot’s essay called “Tradition and Individual Talent,” he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following? Choose one answer.
. . Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works? Choose one answer.
. . Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/Realities plunge in silence by .../I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following? Choose one answer.
. . Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic technique? Choose one answer.
. . Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot’s concept of the “objective correlative”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein’s poem “New”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following natural forces “speaks” in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pound’s poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and the futurist aesthetic project? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following traditions was particularly important in Hart Crane’s modernist poetry? Choose one answer.
. . What does Gertrude Stein’s term “the Lost Generation” designate? Choose one answer.
. . According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America”? Choose one answer.
. . According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost? Choose one answer.
. . According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African-American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century? Choose one answer.
. . Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems? Choose one answer.
. . Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book? Choose one answer.
. . The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines? Choose one answer.
. . What is the “double-bind” that African-American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay? Choose one answer.
. . What was the primary significance of “The Book of American Negro Poetry” (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following literary devices are present in Langston Hughes’s poem “Ku Klux”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKay’s poem “The Harlem Dancer”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s poem “Black Woman”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the Harlem Renaissance? Choose one answer.
. . Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology “May Sky”? Choose one answer.
. . What is the central theme of Keith Douglas’s “How to Kill”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following poets did NOT write about his experiences in World War II? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following poets wrote about World War II? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell’s 1945 poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry? Choose one answer.
. . “How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another.” Choose one answer.
. . Why was World War II a defining event in the history of the 20th century? Choose one answer.
. . Which of the following events that preceded the outbreak of the First World War best?The event that sparked the conflagration was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in 1914. But historians say that World War I actually was the culmination of a long series of events, stretching back to the late 1800s.
Which of the following aspects of the immediate historical situation in China in 1958 best explains?Which of the following aspects of the immediate historical situation in China in 1958 best explains the author's perspective in the passage? Chinese leaders had made it clear that meeting the goals of the Great Leap Forward was the highest priority facing the country.
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