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TRUE/FALSEA 1) Emily Dickinsons poems betray a keen interest in transcendental questions.

F2) Modernism first emerged in Britain and then spread all over Europe.

F3) Ezra Pound was one of the most important female poets of her time.

A4) Imagism was spearheaded by a group of American poets who emigrated to Europe.

A5) Modernism was, generally speaking, a cosmopolitan movement.

F6) Modernism was, generally speaking, a regionalist movement (e.g., in the American grain).

A7) Modernism was a movement without a single home.

A8) Modernism arose as a reaction to Victorianism.

A9) Modernism arose as a reaction to Romanticism.

F10) Defamiliarization is a central concept in modern sociology.

A11) Modernist poetry was heavily experimentalist.

F12) Modernist poets prized conventionalism in verse.

A13) Victorian poetry aimed at communicational harmony.

F14) One of the purposes of defamiliarization is to underlie recognizable rational discourse.

A 15) The work of art was regarded by modernist artists as a self-enclosed entity.

F16) The thing is to be able to look at ones life as if it were somebody elses is the credo of confessionalism.

F17) Virginia Woolf wrote in the mid-1960s that We are sharply cut off from our predecessors.

A18) W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney were united, among others, by an interest in Irish identity.

F19) Late W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden were united, among others, by a keen interest in the left-wing.

A20) Late W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot were united, among others, by an interest in Christianity.

A21.In Sailing to Byzantium Yeats contrasts the imperfect world of nature with the changeless world of intellect andspirit."

A22.Pound distinguishes the image from the mimetic or representational part of a poets work.

A 23. "Spring and All" establishes William Carlos Williams as the leader of a new American avant-garde."

A24.In A Station of the Metro" is not so much the figurative rendering of the faces the poet saw emerging from thestation but is the translation of the sensuous into the non-sensuous or inward thing.

A25.The town in Skunk Hour serves as an analogue for the state in which the poet fears his own poetry has fallen

A26.The symbol of the "Reindeer" in Audens "The Fall of Rome" could suggest the purity of uncorrupted nature.

A27. "In "The Waste Land" April is interpreted as cruel because it breeds life from death."

A28. "Madame Sosostris in "The Waste Land" plays the role of a modern sybil."

F 29."The "dust" referred to in "The Waste Land" is not a conventional metaphor for human physicality."

A30. "William Carlos Williams deeply influenced Charles Olson and his notion of "projective verse".

A 31"The absence of the "Hanged Man" card in the tarot pack in "The Burial of the Dead" signifies the irrelevance ofsalvation through the death of a savior type."

A 32. "Modernism emerged in the European metropolises of London and Paris, as well as in peripheral cities such as St.Petersburg and Rome."

F 33. One of the purposes of defamiliarization is to emphasize the rational nature of poetic discourse.

F 34."Elizabeth Bishop was known for her unrestrained, explosive verse."

A35. Adrienne Rich is one of America's most appreciated feminist poets.


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A36. "So-called "Thirties poets" dispensed with the modernist credo of aloofness from politics."

F37. "Dylan Thomas was one of the most important representatives of "Thirties poetry".

F38.. Dylan Thomas was a central influence on Adrienne Rich.

A39. Dylan Thomas was a central influence on Sylvia Plath.

F40. "In a Station of the Metro" was inspired by a photograph of the London subway."

F41. "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" was addressed to Auden's father."

F42."Musee des Beaux Arts" was inspired by a photograph Auden saw in the Brussels metro."

A43. "The term "confessionalism"was coined in conjunction with American poet Robert Lowell."

F44. "The term "defamiliarization" was coined by American poet Ezra Pound. "

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1) Confessionalism is associated to which of the following poets?

a Lawrence Ferlinghettib Robert Frost

c Sylvia Plath

2) One of the main techniques employed by Sylvia Plath isa the mythologizing of the self

b self-abnegationc selfless altruism

3) One of the main themes in the work of John Ashbery is

a consistencyb indeterminacy

c convergence

4) Plaths Lady Lazarus is a poem abouta suicideb genocide (against the Jews)

c infanticide

5) By whom is Allen Ginsberg accompanied in A Supermarket in California?a Walt Whitmanb Ezra Poundc Edgar Allan Poe

6) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness are the opening words ofa Song of Myselfb Howlc Paterson

7) Allen Ginsberg was an inspiration for thea Power movement

b Solar Power movementc Flower Power movement

8) Imagism was a movement ina American verseb American prosec American fine arts

9)In a Station of the Metrou is closer toa English metaphysical verseb a cantoc a Japanese haiku

10) Which of the following modernist authors wrote poetry in the American grain?a Robert Frostb Ezra Poundc T.S. Eliot

11) Portrait dune femme is aa novel by Henry Jamesb poem by Ezra Poundc short story by E.A. Poe


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12) The likely significance (so much depends) of the red wheelbarrow in the poem of the same title resides in its

beinga a primitive instrument

b a wonder of modern technologyc accompanied by a group of white chicken

13) The opening lines I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume belong to a famous

poem bya Allen Ginsberg

b Walt Whitmanc William Carlos Williams

14) The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. These words belong to the Preface of a volume of

poetryauthored by

a Walt Whitmanb Ezra Pound

c T.S. Eliot

15) Which of the following thinkers first recognized Walt Whitman as the great poet of the democratic spirit of America?a Nathaniel Hawthorne

b Ralph Waldo Emersonc Henry David Thoreau

16) In Ashberys Paradoxes and Oxymorons

a a reader directly engages the authorb a poem directly engages its reader

c a narrator directly engages the reader

17) After great pain a formal feeling comes opens a poem bya Sylvia Plath

b Emily Dickinsonc E.A. Poe

18) In Daddy, the speaker associates her father with

a an elfb a Nazic an old lady who lives in a shoe

19) A Supermarket in California deals in images ofa consumptionb political corruptionc self-denial

20) Emily Dickinsons I felt a funeral is a poem about:a deathb mourningc mental breakdown

21) Dickinsons After great pain contains metaphorical images describing:a lifelessnessb excitement

c irreverence

22) Much of the imagery in Dickisons I never lost as much is taken from the domain ofa physical scienceb economicsc ethics

23) Walt Whitmans poetry follows the rhythms ofa life before the Fallb everyday lifec after-life

24) Modernism as a movement emerged arounda the beginning of the 19th centuryb the beginning of the 20th centuryc the mid 1940s

25) According to one definition of modernism, the movement representsa a reaction to modernizationb a reaction to slaveryc a reaction to affluence


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26) According to one definition of modernism, the movement representsa a highbrow culture

b a lower-class culturec a bohemian culture

27) According to one definition of modernism, the movement represents

a a Weltanschauung (or worldview)b a Weltschmerz (or sadness)

c a Weltstadt (or global city)

28) According to one definition of modernism, the movement is associated with the social changes produced bya industrialization

b agrarianisma informatization

29) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism?

a elitistb populist

c liberal

30) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism?a tame

b rebelliousc traditionalist


a respectfulb diffident

c iconoclastic

32) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism?a subversive

b liberalc bourgeois


a conventionalb decadentc sententious

34) Which of the following movements belonged to the wider modernist movement?a avant-gardeb Victorianismc the Georgian

35) Which of the following movements belonged to the wider modernist movement?a fallibilismb decadentismc positivism

36) According to one definition of modernism, the movement eventually experienced a(n) ___ phase.a superlativeb relative

c integrative

37) Modernists regarded the modern age as experiencing a process ofa resolutionb dissolutionc salvation

38) Modernists regarded the modern age as experiencing a process ofa decayb rebirthc regeneration

39) Modernist poetry was influenced bya photographic artb baseballc bull-fighting

40) Modernist poetry was influenced bya safarib game huntingc music


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41) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement?a futurism

b confessionalismc professionalism

42) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement?

a cannibalismb surrealism

c bimetallism

43) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement?a physicalism

b metaphysicalismc vorticism

44) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement?

a dadaismb scientism

c colonialism

45) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement?a chauvinism

b cubismc criticism

46) Who declared that "on or about December 1910 human character changed"?

a Ezra Poundb Virginia Woolf

c Hilda Doolittle

47) Which female poet was among the founders of imagism?a Hilda Doolittle

b Ezra Poundc Sylvia Plath

48) What event was credited as a catalyst for the British modernist scene?

a a painting exhibitionb a music concertc a technological exhibition

49) What event was credited as a catalyst for the American modernist scene?a a jazz concertb an exhibition of cubist artc a technological exhibition

50) Modernism was chiefly a(n) ___ movement.a Anglo-Saxonb Frenchc international

51) Modernism developed chiefly ina the countrysideb small towns

c the metropolises

52) Victorian poetry cultivateda formal rules of compositionb unconventional rhythmsc free verse

53) Victorian artists were engaged in a quest fora gloryb eternal beautyc the Holy Grail

54) ___ played a crucial part in the changes in outlook that characterized the modern era.a Anthropologyb Anthologyc Numerology

55) ___ played a crucial part in the changes in outlook that characterized the modern era.a Anthropomorphismb Freudianismc Futurology


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56) Moralism was rather typical in ___ literature.a postmodern

b modernistc Victorian

57) The iconic objects of the modern age were appropriated by

a modernistsb Victorians

c Romantics

58) Prosaic language was used in poetry bya Emily Dickinson

b Sylvia Plathc Carl Sandburg

59) Which 20th century female writer was closely associated to the feminist movement?

a Emily Dickinsonb Sylvia Plath

c Adrienne Rich

60) Free association was a technique common ina modernist poetry

b Georgian poetryc the metaphysical poets

61) Defamiliarization was concept coined by

a Vladimir Shklovskyb Vladimir Nabokov

c Vladimir Lenin

62) One of the purposes of defamiliarization is toa decrease the length of perception

b make plots easier to understandc undermine recognizable rational discourse

63) Which American poet urged fellow authors to become ignorant men?

a William Carlos Williamsb Wallace Stevensc Wallace William Wallace

64) Which initials are associated with the birth of imagism?a LSDb WCWc HD

65) Modernist preferred an attitude of self-conscious ___ in / from the rest of community?a isolationb embeddednessc integration

66) To modernists, the work of art inhabits a space free from narrowa reflexivityb subjectivity

c objectivity

67) The famous statement that poetry relies on a language of absence rather than presence belonged toa Baudelaireb Appolinairec Mallarme

68) The vortex-image was a ___ concept.a modernistb postmodernistc premodern

69) Self-referentiality was central to ___ literature.a premodernb postmodernc abstract

70) The poem must be difficult is a notion common amonga postmodernsb confessional poetsc modernist poets


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71) Symbolism had an important influence upona imagism

b confessionalismc Victorian poetry

72) Oriental verse was frequently used by

a Ezra Poundb John Ashbery

c T.S. Eliot

73) Who defined the image as intellectual and emotional complex in an instance of time?a Eliot

b Williamsc Pound

74) In a Station of the Metrou resembles

a Javanese songsb Japanese haikus

c Chinese pictograms

75) A "poetry of fancy" was envisaged by which critic and poet?a Hulme

b Humec Eliot

76) At the heart of In a Station of the Metrou there lies a(n)

a metaphorb enjambment

c synecdoche

77) "The Red Wheelbarrow" is similar to In a Station of the Metrou in terms ofa setting

b themec size

78) "The Red Wheelbarrow" is similar to In a Station of the Metrou in terms of

a verse structureb techniquec setting

79) The objects in "The Red Wheelbarrow" area anti-poeticb poeticc abstract

80)"No ideas but in things" was a motto ofa Eliotb Ashberyc Williams

81) Spring and All is a rather ___ poem.a visualb oral

c aural

82) Spring and All was considered a sort of response toa The Waste Landb Winterc The Cantos

83) "The Burial of the Dead" isa Part III of The Waste Landb Part I of The Waste Landc a distinct, separate poem by T.S. Eliot

84) "The Burial of the Dead" stands the ___ on its head.a the winter-poem traditionb the elegiac traditionc the spring-poem tradition

85) ___ are among the characters introduced in Part I of Eliot's The Waste Land.a pilgrimsb soothsayersc workingmen


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86) The Waste Land is built on a series ofa ironic parallelisms

b parallel ironiesc parallels

87) In The Waste Land Eliot quotes original lines from

a The Canterbury Talesb Howl

c Tristan and Isolde

88) The Waste Land is generally regarded as a piece on thea dissolution of Western civilization

b The Canterbury Talesc Dantean Divine Comedy

89) The opening lines of The Waste Land contain a reference to

a The Tempestb The Book of Thunder

c The Canterbury Tales

90) T.S. Eliot's Gerontion is a poem abouta old age

b the Golden Agec the underaged

91) Portrait dune femme is the title of a

a poem by Ezra Poundb poem by W.B. Yeats

c novel by Henry James

92) Carl Sandburg's Cool Tombs is a poem abouta small-town America

b Parisc metropolitan America

93) William Carlos Williams's Pastoral is a poem about

a small-town Americab Parisc metropolitan America

94) Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" bears a certain resemblance toa Ezra Pound's Cantosb Walt Whitman's Song of Myselfc T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

95) W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming refers toa the decline of Western civilizationb the decline of Byzantine civilizationc the decline of Russian civilization

96) W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming was apparently inspired by the ___ Revolution.a Americanb Glorious

c Russian

97) In "The Fall of Rome" the modern bureaucrat is represented by means of aa manilla envelopeb pink slipc man named Stetson

98) of Ever-Ever Land i speak is a poem abouta anarchism in generalb the Russian Revolution specificallyc totalitarianism in general

99) The reindeers in "The Fall of Rome suggesta retributionb impending doomc the second coming of Christ

100) The title The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower obviously relies on ___ symbolism.a phallicb faunalc pharaonic


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101) The hawk in Ted Hughes's Hawk Roosting looks upon the world witha detached empathy

b warm sympathyc cold assurance

102) Elizabeth Bishop's In the Waiting Room tells a story about becoming a

a girlb woman

c prostitute

103) Adrienne Rich's Solfeggietto is a ___ poem.a feminist

b minimalistc modernist

104) The correct title of one of Frank OHara's best known poems is Why I Am Not a ___

a Poetb Plagiarist

c Painter

105) The two games in Philip Larkin's Continuing to Live area chess and poker

b poker and bridgec bridge and chess

106) Much of the imagery in Continuing to Live suggest a ___ existence.

a hectic and passionateb dispassionate and boring

c poker-addicted

107) W.B. Yeats's Easter 1916 is a poem abouta the dissolution of Western civilization

b the celebration of an important day for Christiansc a nationalist revolt

108) Heaney's Act of Union is ostensibly concerned with

a sexb marriagec the unity of all things

109) Act of Union is a rather transparent reference toa the dissolution of Western civilizationb the relationship between city and countrysidec the relationship of Ireland and England

110) W.H. Auden's Spain 1937 is a poem about aa World Warb Civil Warc War of Words

111) "The Fall of Rome" is built on a series of ___ of / between ancient and modern states.a juxtapositionsb contrasts

c wars

112) Stevie Smith's Major Macroo mimicsa doggerel verseb Japanese haikusc free verse

113) The short sentences of "We Real Cool" suggesta fast talkb smooth talkc a firm sense of identity

114) Grace Nichols's The Body Reclining is an ode toa idlenessb hard workc the female body

115. Modernism as a movement emerged aroundthe beginning of the 19th centurythe beginning of the 21st centurythe mid 1940snone of the above


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116. What event was credited as a catalyst for the British modernist scene?

a photo exhibitiona music concert

a technological exhibitionnone of the above

118. "The Burial of the Dead" isPart III of The Waste Land

Part II of The Waste Land"a distinct, separate poem by T.S. Eliot"

none of the above

119. "Essential to Yeats's "Easter, 1916" is a sense of ___ about violent politics."conviction

commitmentambiguity

none of the above

120. "In "Easter, 1916" Yeats mixes ___ with political mythmaking."personal views

hagiographygender issues

none of the above

121. "An Ulster Twilight" is fashioned as a (autor Seamus Heaney)rememberance

dramatic monologuedialogue

none of the above

122. "An Ulster Twilight" is a poem about ___ politics."London

IrishScottish

none of the above

123. "The speaker in "An Ulster Twilight" is a(n)"

angry boyreminiscing adultold ladynone of the above

124. ___ was one of Ireland's postwar Nobel Prize winners.YeatsAudenHeaneynone of the above

125. "The speaker in "In The Waiting Room" is a(n)"dentistaunt

National Geographic editornone of the above

126. "Christ in Alabama" was written in the context of a"racially-tinged trial in the Southracially-tinged riot in L.A.racially-tinged riot in the Harlemnone of the above

127. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement inCaucasian-American arts and thoughtAsian-American arts and thoughtNative American arts and thoughtnone of the above

128. Langston Hughes was one of the chief representatives of theAmerican folk songHarlem RenaissanceBeat Generationnone of the above

129. Langston Hughes was one of the pioneers of


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Black modernismBlack Panthers

Black Magicnone of the above

130. The poetry of Langston Hughes was inspired by

jazz & charlestonr&b

jazz & bluesnone of the above

131. The call-and-response pattern was typical of

African-American spiritualsAmerican spirits

African magicnone of the above

132. "Traditionally, African-American blues was regarded as"

Christ's songdevil's music

politically incorrect musicnone of the above

133. "Christ in Alabama"was written according to a ___ pattern."

name-callingcaller-identification

calling-cardnone of the above

134. "Christ in Alabama" was an ___ poem."

initially neglectedinstantly appreciated

intentionally censurednone of the above

135. "Christ in Alabama" contains ___ imagery."

beneficentbeatificblasphemous

none of the above

136. "Christ in Alabama" explicitly likens"(consider or describe)the slave owner to GodAmerican blacks to Godthe slave owner to Christnone of the above

137. "Christ in Alabama" explicitly likens"the nigger to Godthe nigger to Christthe nigger to the slave ownernone of the above

138. "The "Musee des Beaux Arts" is a poem about"the futility of artPieter Bruegellife going onnone of the above

139. "Solfeggietto" is a poem about a ___ relationship."father-daughtermother-daughtermother-fathernone of the above

140. "___ offers the key to a belated reconciliation between the two protagonists of"Solfeggietto".FeminismModernismConfessionalismnone of the above

141. "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem about, among other things,"rare birdstranscending historicity


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hawksnone of the above

142 . Which of the following poems deals in end-of-the-world scenarios?

Christ in AlabamaAn Ulster Twilight

"Easter, 1916"none of the above

143. Which of the following poems deals in end-of-the-world scenarios?

In the Waiting RoomDo Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Solfeggiettonone of the above

144. Which of the following poems deals in end-of-the-world scenarios?

In the Waiting RoomAn Ulster Twilight

The Second Comingnone of the above

145. Which of the following poems deals with autobiographical experiences?

Christ in AlabamaSailing to Byzantium

Solfeggiettonone of the above

146. Which of the following poems deals with autobiographical experiences?

The Second ComingMusee des Beaux Arts

The Burial of the Deadnone of the above

147. "In "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" the speaker urges the addressee to:

passively accept death as unavoidablecontinue living because death can be avoided

go on living because he is a passionate mannone of the above

148 "At the climactic moment of "Skunk Hour" Lowell contrasts a popular song playing on the car radio with a quotefrom"Pound's "Cantos"Ovid's "Metamorphoses"Milton's "Paradise Lost"King James BIBLE

149.The____ embraced the musical forms of jazz and blues.Modernist expatriatesBeatsConfessionalsImagists

150.The dark night of the soul"" in "Skunk Hour" refers to"

the sinful human naturethe poet's personal ordealthe overarching sense of alienation in Cold War America

151. "Portrait dune femme" is written in "blank versehexameters

152.The feeling of alienation from American life during the Cold War is best captured in"Song of Myself""The Waste Land""Howl""Gerontion"

153.In a Station of the Metrou isa surrealist poema neoplatonist poema Dadaist poeman Imagist poem

154.William Carlos Williams portrayed objects, scenes and human figures that traditionally would be viewed assymbolic


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anti-poeticextravagant

exotic

158."It Is the _______of the emotion expressed in "The Waste Land" that makes the poem significant."immediacy

Impersonalityintensity

159. In "Skunk Hour" the poet is saved from his personal ordeal by

a revelation of personal valuethe inhabitants of the town

the appearance of a family of skunksthe towns's "fairy decorator"

"the summer's millionaire

160. The first four stanzas of Skunk Hour addressthe decay of the town

the poets personal dilemmasthe issue of the skunks habitat

161.is built upon the concise esthetic structure of haiku.

The Red WheelbarrowIn a Station of the Metrou

Skunk HourThe Fall of Rome

162."The first section of "The Waste Land" is characterised by "

unity of narrative voicelinear chronology

oscillation of perspectives

163.The association of the speaker or protagonist with an image of debasement is a strategy adopted by

the Beat poetsthe Confessional poets

the Dadaist poets-NUthe Imagist poets -NU

164.The Red Wheelbarrow presents_____discrete images making up a single image cluster.ThreeTwoFour

165. The fragmented, elliptical style of recalls the influence of cubism:A Supermarket in CaliforniaSpring and AllThe Waste LandGerontion (T.S. ELIOT)

166.The contrast between art and life is the underlying theme of"Daddy""Continuing to Live"

"Sailing to Byzantium"

167.Pound insists upon the presentational as opposed to the representational quality of thea.image

168."Pound defines the image as "that which presents an intellectual and emotional ______ in an instant of time"complex

169.In "The Red Wheelbarrow" the word______glazed____________is the only word in the poem with an ostensiblyaesthetic connotation.

170. "Byzantium" in Yeat's poetry is a symbol of "vanity and corruptionunity and perfectionhuman fading glory

171.The speaker in Skunk Hour finds value only incivic responsibilityorganized religionan animal in search of food

172."In a poem of this sort one is trying to record the precise instant when a thing outward and objective transforms


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intself into a thing inward and subjective". This statement refers to :"In A Station of the Metro"

"Sailing to Byzantium""Portrait d'une Femme"

173.The drama of the hyacinth girl and her lover in "The Waste Land" is enclosed by two passages from the opera"

The Magic FluteFidelio

Tristan and Isolda

174. In "Continuing to Live" life is compared to:an arcade game

a chess gamea war game

a poker game

175.The theoretical imperative no ideas but in things was formulated by :-

-William Carlos Williams

176. William Carlos Williams portrayed objects, scenes and human figures that traditionaly would be viewed as :-

-antipoetic

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