1. Which poet is associated with sprung rhythm, which is the constant number of strong stresses in a line but a variable number of unstressed syllables?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Gerard Hopkins
c. William Yeats
d. Emily Dickinson
Answer: b. Gerard Hopkins
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2. Which poet is known for his/her writings on political Ireland?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Wilfred Owen
d. William Yeats
Answer: d. William Yeats
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3. Gertrude Stein is most well-known for her poem:
a. Tender Buttons
b. The Idea of Order at Key West
c. Easter 1916
d. Susie Asado
Answer: a. Tender Buttons
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4. Where did Gertrude Stein attend college, where she studied the unconscious mind with William James?
a. Harvard
b. Princeton
c. Radcliffe College
d. Lombard College
Answer: c. Radcliffe College
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5. Which poet had a scholarship to Dartmouth College, then dropped out and went to Harvard, and then dropped out again?
a. Robert Frost
b. William Yeats
c. William Carlos Williams
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: a. Robert Frost
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6. Carl Sandburg was arrested and spent how long in Pittsburgh jail?
a. 1 month
b. 1 year
c. 10 days
d. 30 days
Answer: c. 10 days
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7. Which poet was focused on business, never presented himself as a literary figure, and was not on a first name basis with basically anyone?
a. William Yeats
b. Robert Frost
c. Carl Sandburg
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: d. Wallace Stevens
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8. Where did Wallace Stevens attend college?
a. Harvard
b. Princeton
c. Yale
d. Radcliffe College
Answer: a. Harvard
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9. How old was Edna Saint Vincent Millay when she wrote “Renascence”
a. 36
b. 19
c. 24
d. 50
Answer: b. 19
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10. Mina Loy’s husband’s death had a significant impact on her remaining life. How did he die?
a. He disappeared mysteriously
b. A heart attack
c. Old age
d. He was murdered
Answer: a. He disappeared mysteriously
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11. Mina Loy pays tribute to another famous female poet we have studied. Who is she?
a. H.D.
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Gertrude Stein
d. Marianne Moore
Answer: c. Gertrude Stein
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12. Which poet tried to discover how few words were needed to make a poem?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Wilfred Owen
c. Mina Loy
d. H.D.
Answer: d. H.D.
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13. Which poet focused on the natural world and animals?
a. Wilfred Owen
b. Marianne Moore
c. Emily Dickinson
d. William Yeats
Answer: b. Marianne Moore
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14. Which poem is T.S. Eliot most well-known for?
a. The Waste Land
b. [Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink]
c. The Widow’s Jazz
d. The Emperor of Ice Cream
Answer: a. The Waste Land
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15. Wilfred Owen was only 25 when he died. Most of his poems were written in the span of ______.
a. 1 month
b. 1 year
c. 13 months
d. 20 months
Answer: c. 13 months
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1. What was one of Gertrude Stein’s goals when writing poetry?
a. Spread religion
b. Rediscover the noun
c. Find a spouse
d. Describe the wars
Answer: B
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2. Who did Gertrude Stein have a life-long relationship with?
a. Mina Loy
b. No one
c. Alice B. Toklas
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: C
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3. Who does Hopkins say he carries in his pocket?
a. Whitman
b. Picasso
c. Williams Carlos Williams
d. God
Answer: A
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4. Who is Yeats compared to in regards to his political views?
a. Eliot and Pound
b. Whitman and Pound
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Stevens and Williams
Answer: A
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5. What tense does Robert Frost choose to write most of his poems in?
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. He writes in them all evenly
Answer: A
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6. What award for poetry did Frost never win?
a. Pulitzer Prize
b. Levinson Prize
c. Nobel Prize
d. Bollingen prize
Answer: C
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7. What awards did Carl Sandburg win in his lifetime?
a. Medal of Freedom
b. Nobel Prize
c. Pulitzer Prize
d. A and B
Answer: D
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8. Like Frost, what University did Stevens attend as a special student?
a. Yale
b. Harvard
c. Brown
d. Duke
Answer: B
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9. How did Frost feel towards Sandburg and his poetry?
a. He admired him and wished to emulate it
b. He was indifferent towards him and his poetry
c. He thought he was a fraud
d. He was his mentor and helped him write his poetry
Answer: C
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10. As a modern poet who sees himself as transforming and extending romantic tradition, who is Stevens most comparable to?
a. Millay and Loy
b. Yeats and Frost
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Eliot and Pound
Answer: B
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11. Ezra Pound said Williams Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore and who else were the only people in America who wrote anything of interest?
a. Loy
b. Millay
c. Dickenson
d. Owens
Answer: A
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12. What type of poetry is Loy associated with?
a. Futurism
b. Cubism
c. Dada
d. All the above
Answer: D
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13. What was one of H.D.’s main goals when writing poetry?
a. To spread the idea of love
b. To escape the imagination
c. To discover how few words are required to make a poem
d. To share her childhood experiences
Answer: C
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14. What was Marianne Moore’s favorite topic to write her poetry about?
a. Religion
b. Animals
c. War
d. Family
Answer: B
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15. Which of the following modernists admired Moore?
a. Stevens
b. Pound
c. Williams
d. H.D.
e. All the above
Answer: E
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1. Who did Gerard Manley Hopkins carry in his pocket?
a. Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”
b. Walt Whitman “Song of Myself”
c. Gertrude Stein “Tender Buttons”
d. Emily Dickinson “712”
answer: a
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2. What was the change The Modern Movement was moving to?
a. Showing more then telling
b. Keeping things traditional
c. Avoiding science and rationality
d. Keeping Victorian gender roles
answer: a
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3. What were Gerard Manley Hopkins two theories?
a. Love and romantics
b. Inscape and in stress
c. Death and torture
d. Happiness and sadness
answer: b
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4. What was a major reoccurring theme in Emily Dickinson’s work?
a. Love
b. Torture
c. Death
d. Loneliness
e. Nature
answer: c
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5. Gertrude Stein was greatly influenced by and friends with?
a. Picasso
b. Walt Whitman
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Robert Frost
answer: a
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6. William Butler Yeats often hints at allusions in his work where?
a. The title
b. The last line
c. The entire poem
d. Footnotes only
answer: a
As discussed in class
7. Whose work focuses on the industrial scenery as a common theme and setting?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Robert Frost
d. H.D.
answer: b
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8. Who wrote the essay of Tradition and the Individual Talent?
a. Ezra Pound
b. T.S. Elliot
c. Carl Sandburg
d. William Carlos Williams
e. Mina Loy
answer: b
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9. Marianne Moore was admired by?
a. Wallace Stevens
b. Ezra Pound
c. William Carlos Williams
d. H.D
e. all of the above
answer: e
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10. What two poets often convey war in their work?
a. Mina Loy and Carl Sandburg
b. Robert Frost and Marianne Moore
c. Wilfred Owen and Walt Whitman
d. Gertrude Stein and Gerard Manley Hopkins
answer: c
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11. Out of the following, who associated themself with Communism during the Harlem Renaissance?
a. Langston Hughes
b. Carl Van Vechten
c. Zora Neale Hurston
d. Walt Whitman
answer: a
“Harlem Renaissance: Music, Poets, Entertainment, Politics, and Culture (2001).” YouTube. YouTube. Web. 11 Feb. 2016. .
12. What major institution did most letters written by the poets during the Harlem Renaissance go to?
a. Yale
b. Harvard
c. Florida State
e. UCLA
answer: a
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13. What was the name of the hotel that Langston Hughes wrote about in a poem and drove a wedge between the friendship with Carl Van Vechten?
a. The Plaza
b. The Ritz Carlton
c. The Waldorf Astoria
d. The Roosevelt
answer: c
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14. What was the name of the book Emily Bernard wrote?
a. Remember Me to Harlem
b. Harlem Renaissance
c. The Great Migration
d. The Movement
answer: a
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15. Who did Langston Hughes form a friendship with?
a. Carl Van Vechten
b. Alfred Knopf
c. Mina Loy
d. James Weldon Johnson
answer: a
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1. What was one of Gertrude Stein’s goals when writing poetry?
a. Spread religion
b. Rediscover the noun
c. Find a spouse
d. Describe the wars
Answer: B
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2. Who did Gertrude Stein have a life-long relationship with?
a. Mina Loy
b. No one
c. Alice B. Toklas
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: C
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3. Who does Hopkins say he carries in his pocket?
a. Whitman
b. Picasso
c. Williams Carlos Williams
d. God
Answer: A
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4. Who is Yeats compared to in regards to his political views?
a. Eliot and Pound
b. Whitman and Pound
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Stevens and Williams
Answer: A
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5. What tense does Robert Frost choose to write most of his poems in?
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. He writes in them all evenly
Answer: A
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6. What award for poetry did Frost never win?
a. Pulitzer Prize
b. Levinson Prize
c. Nobel Prize
d. Bollingen prize
Answer: C
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7. What awards did Carl Sandburg win in his lifetime?
a. Medal of Freedom
b. Nobel Prize
c. Pulitzer Prize
d. A and B
Answer: D
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8. Like Frost, what University did Stevens attend as a special student?
a. Yale
b. Harvard
c. Brown
d. Duke
Answer: B
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9. How did Frost feel towards Sandburg and his poetry?
a. He admired him and wished to emulate it
b. He was indifferent towards him and his poetry
c. He thought he was a fraud
d. He was his mentor and helped him write his poetry
Answer: C
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10. As a modern poet who sees himself as transforming and extending romantic tradition, who is Stevens most comparable to?
a. Millay and Loy
b. Yeats and Frost
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Eliot and Pound
Answer: B
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11. Ezra Pound said Williams Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore and who else were the only people in America who wrote anything of interest?
a. Loy
b. Millay
c. Dickenson
d. Owens
Answer: A
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12. What type of poetry is Loy associated with?
a. Futurism
b. Cubism
c. Dada
d. All the above
Answer: D
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13. What was one of H.D.’s main goals when writing poetry?
a. To spread the idea of love
b. To escape the imagination
c. To discover how few words are required to make a poem
d. To share her childhood experiences
Answer: C
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14. What was Marianne Moore’s favorite topic to write her poetry about?
a. Religion
b. Animals
c. War
d. Family
Answer: B
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15. Which of the following modernists admired Moore?
a. Stevens
b. Pound
c. Williams
d. H.D.
e. All the above
Answer: E
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1) Although the exact date of when Modern Poetry came to be is elusive, according to the anthology, what is the supposed time frame of its emergence? (A)
a) The first half of the 20th century
b) The first half of the 19th century
c) During the renaissance period
d) Beginning in the 2000’s
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2) Who is considered to be at the threshold or beginning of modern poetry? (B)
a) Gertrude Stein
b) Walt Whitman
c) William Shakespeare
d) Robert Frost
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3) What form of poetry did Whitman create when “rescues for poetry the unpoetic, the vulgar, and the profane. He realised thatpoems need no longer look like poems–with neat couplets and quatrains…” (1). (C)
a) Sonnets
b) Haiku
c) Free-verse
d) Epics
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4) What was the title of Whitman’s famed, and only, book of poems? (D)
a) “Song of Myself”
b) “A Hand Mirror”
d) “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
d) “Leaves of Grass”
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5) What major theme is common throughout the majority of Dickinson’s poems? (A)
a) Death
b) Nature
c) Love
d) Animals
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6) What major ideas made up Modern Poetry? (D)
a) Showing v telling with image building
b) Emphasis on the emotional experience from the author’s perspective
c) Influence of science and rationality
d) All of the above
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7) What is peculiar about Dickinson’s poem’s titles? (B)
a) They are allusions to Greco-Roman myths
b) They are numbered, due to being left unnamed
c) They are all the same title
d) They are biblical passages
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8) Which poet, like Dickinson had the majority of their poems released after their death? (C)
a) Whitman
b) Yeats
c) Hopkins
d) Stein
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9) What was Hopkins’s most important innovation to poetry? (D)
a) Rhyming structure
b) Ekphrasis
c) Political drive
d) Sprung Rhythm
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10) How was Hopkins related to religion? (A)
a) He was a Jesuit priest
b) He was excommunicated for sacrilegious writing
c) He found God after he had experienced the Wreck of the Deutschland
d) His parents pushed him to it
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11) What was Yeats main idea or goal in life? How did this show up during his time in the Senate, and in his personal life? (A)
a) He wanted a nation of people free to cultivate their imaginative capacities.
b) He drove for a New World Order
c) Communism
d) The take down of religion
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12) Which poet wrote the first politically engaged poem that we have read in this class? (D)
a) Whitman
b) Dickinson
c) Owens
d) Yeats
Class
13) What was title of Stein’s poetics that we read in class? (B)
a) “My poetry errs on the side of oddness”
b) “A Transatlantic Interview”
c) “Tradition and the Individual talent”
d) “Feminist Manifesto”
Syllabus
13) Gertrude Stein studied psychology with/under William James where? (D)
a) Florida State University
b) Cambridge
c) Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
d) Harvard Annex
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14) Stein was influenced by which type of art? (A)
a) Cubism/Abstract Art
b) Realism
c) Surrealism
d) None
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15) What is Ekphrasis? (A)
a) The interaction between literary and visual art and their relationship
b) The process of writing poetry
c) The loss of art
d) A Café in Paris
CLASS
1. What is the book “Remember Me to Harlem” about?
a. The societal changes that occurred in Harlem in the late 70s
b. The cultural movement called the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s
c. The secret lives of businessmen in Harlem during the 1930s.
d. A story about two women who formed a strong friendship and bond that lasted a lifetime.
Answer: b
“Harlem Renaissance: Music, Poets, Entertainment, Politics, and Culture (2001).” YouTube. YouTube. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.
2. Who was Carl Van Vechten married to?
a. Emily Bernard
b. Langston Hughes
c. Zora Neale Hurston
d. Fania Marinoff
Answer: d
“Harlem Renaissance: Music, Poets, Entertainment, Politics, and Culture (2001).” YouTube. YouTube. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.
3. Which poet did Zora Neale Hurston have a disagreement with?
a. Charlotte Mason
b. Harold Jackman
c. Langston Hughes
d. Carl Van Vechten
Answer: c
“Harlem Renaissance: Music, Poets, Entertainment, Politics, and Culture (2001).” YouTube. YouTube. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.
4. Which of these works written by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston was the reason behind the end of their friendship?
a. “Mule Bone”
b. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
c. “The Weary Blues”
d. “From Sun to Sun”
Answer: a
“Harlem Renaissance: Music, Poets, Entertainment, Politics, and Culture (2001).” YouTube. YouTube. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.
5. Which one of the female poets we have studied so far had a heterosexual sexual orientation?
a. Mina Loy
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Gertrude Stein
d. Erza Pound
Answer: b
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6. Who was the first out of poets we have discussed to win a Pulitzer Prize for a piece of work?
a. Robert Frost
b. Walt Whitman
c. Mina Loy
d. Carl Sandberg
Answer:d
The Pulitzer Prizes. N.p., n.d. Web
7. Which of the following poems won Carl Sandburg a Pulitzer Prize in 1919?
a. “The Harbor”
b. “Cool tombs”
c. “Corn Huskers”
d. “Subway”
Answer: C
The Pulitzer Prizes. N.p., n.d. Web
8. Which of the following terms refers to poems that are about poetry?
a. Ethnopoetics
b. Ars Poetica
c. Imagism
d. Epitaph
Answer: b
“Glossary Terms.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web.
9. Which of these poets was known for their embrace of using Imagism in their poetry style?
a. T.S Eliot
b. Walt Whitman
c. Carl Sandberg
d. Erza Pound
Answer: d
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10. Mina Loy highly respected this poet , and even wrote a poem in their name. What was the name of this poet?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Edna Millay
d. William Yeats
Answer: a
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11. What is the most commonly used rhythmic pattern in English language poetry?
a. Anapest
b. Spondee
c. Iambic
d. Dactyl
Answer: c
(Poetry Meter and Scansion Powerpoint)
12. What is a Dactly Falling Meter?
a. unstressed, unstressed, stressed
b. unstressed, unstressed, unstressed
c. unstressed, unstressed
d. stressed, unstressed, unstressed
Answer: d
(Poetry Meter and Scansion Powerpoint)
13. . What University did both poets Frost and Stevens attend to?
a. Harvard
b. Princeton
c. Duke
d. Upenn
Answer: a
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14. There were two poets that we have covered who were most known to write war poems. Which were they?
a. Walt Whitman and Gerard Hopkins
b. Yeats and Sandburg
c. Williams Carlos Williams and Erza Pound
d. Wilfred Owen and Walt Whitman
Answer: C
(Class discussion)
15. Who did Williams Carlos Williams call out in his 1919 prologue to “Kora in Hell”?
a. Whitman and Yeats
b. T.S Eliot and Erza Pound
c. H.D an T.S Eliot
d. Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost
Answer: B
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1. Who said, “ We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry”?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins
c. Gertrude Stein
d. William Butler Yeats
e. Mina Loy
Answer: D
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2. Which poet was not born in the United States?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Robert Frost
c. Carl Sandburg
d. Gertrude Stein
e. Mina Loy
Answer: E
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3. Which pair of poets died before they were 50 years old?
a. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfred Owen
b. Mina Loy and Carl Sandburg
c. Walt Whitman and Wilfred Owen
d. Gerard Manley Hopkins and T.S. Eliot
e. Wilfred Owen and Carl Sandburg
Answer: A
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4. Which famous poem begins “April is the cruellest month…”?
a. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
b. Robert Frost’s
c. Gerard Manley Hopkins’ The Wreck of the Deutschland
d. Wallace Steven’s The Idea Of Order At Key West
e. Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself
Answer: A
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5. In “The Widow’s Jazz,” whose death is Mina Loy referring to?
a. Futurist movement leader (and lover), F.T. Marinetti
b. Her First Husband, the English painter
c. Ezra Pound
d. Her second husband Arthur Cravan
e. Her lover Giovanni Papini (a.k.a. Joannes)
Answer: D
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6. Which poet wrote the feminist manifesto?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Mina Loy
c. H.D.
d. Marianne Moore
e. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Answe: B
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7. What phenomenon brought millions of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities in search of economic opportunity and racial tolerance?
a. The Harlem Renaissance
b. The Civil Rights Movement
c. The Great Migration
d. The Futurist movement
e. The Dust Bowl
Answer: C
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8. What does the term logopoeia translate to? [Phrase was coined by Ezra Pound]
a. Poetry that “is used to indirectly display intellect”
b. Poetry that “is a logical form of intelligent expression”
c. Poetry that “is ironic”
d. Poetry that “is purely rhetoric”
e. Poetry that “is a dance of the intellect among words”
Answer: E
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9. Who had a romantic relationship with Alice B. Toklas?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Wallace Stevens
c. H.D.
d. Robert Frost
e. Marianne Moore
Answer: A
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10. When did Langston Hughes admit to being a communist?
a. During his time in the Soviet Union
b. During his testimony before the U.S. Senate
c. During his testimony before the House of Representatives
d. During his time with his father
e. He never admitted to being a communist
Answer: E
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11. What other field influenced Gertrude Stein’s work most?
a. Sociology
b. Anthropology
c. Psychology
d. Biology
e. Politics
Answer: C
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12. Who was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Mina Loy
c. H.D.
d. Marianne Moore
e. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Answer: E
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13. Which two poets also aspired to be painters?
a. Marianne Moore and Gerard Manley Hopkins
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfred Owen
c. Mina Loy and Carl Sandburg
d. Mina Loy and Wilfred Owen
e. Wilfred Owen and Carl Sandburg
Answer: A
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14. What was Wallace Steven’s connection to the island of Key West?
a. He was born there
b. He lived there early on in his life
c. He moved there to work with his friend Ernest Hemmingway
d. He vacationed there
e. He only wrote about it in “The Idea of Order at Key West”
Answer: D
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15. What three qualities of art does Marianne Moore admire most?
a. Freedom, Passion, Flexibility
b. Expression, Illustration, Eccentricity
c. Humility, Concentration, Gusto
d. Quietness, Observation, Reflection
e. Individuality, Intensity, Humility
Answer: C
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1. Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” was included in his popular poetry collection _________. (Page 2)
A. “A Hand-Mirror”
B. “Tender Buttons”
C. “Leaves of Grass” ~
D. “Songs to Joannes”
2. Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be described as all of the following except (30, 32)
A. Questions and riddles
B. Having a fascination with death
C. Romanticized imagery of war ~
D. In some cases being embedded in letters
3. Which famous painter did Gertrude Stein write about who painted her as well? (177)
A. Pablo Picasso ~
B. Henri Matisse
C. Andy Warhol
D. Georges Braque
4. The technique of making a piece of art or literature about another piece of art or literature is known as… (Class notes on Stein)
A. Allusion
B. Didactic
C. Imagery
D. Ekphrastic ~
5. This Irish poet wrote many political poems including “Easter, 1916.” (91)
A. William Butler Yeats ~
B. Robert Frost
C. William Carlos Williams
D. Wallace Stevens
6. _________ was a poet whose humble youth inspired sympathy for industrial workers as shown in his various poems set in Chicago. (226)
A. T.S. Eliot
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Carl Sandburg ~
D. Ezra Pound
7. This poet wrote the “Feminist Manifesto” in response to Eliot and Pound’s “Blast.” (895, 921)
A. Gertrude Stein
B. H.D.
C. Edna St. Vincent Millay
D. Mina Loy ~
8. _________ studied under Sigmund Freud as his pupil, even undergoing psychoanalysis. (394)
A. Edna St. Vincent Millay
B. Marianne Moore
C. H.D. ~
D. Mina Loy
9. This famous war poet died in battle during World War I, having written the bulk of his poems in thirteen months shortly before his death. (524)
A. William Butler Yeats
B. Wilfred Owen ~
C. Carl Sandburg
D. Wallace Stevens
10. ____________ played with the idea of escapism versus realism in his poems such as “Sunday Morning” and “The Snowman.” (236)
A. Wallace Stevens ~
B. Ezra Pound
C. Wilfred Owen
D. Walt Whitman
11. “The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of the earth remains to be written.” Is a quote from…(235)
A. Mina Loy
B. Wallace Stevens ~
C. Emily Dickenson
D. Carl Sandburg
12. T. S. Eliot wrote this document as a reflection on poetry is, as well as how it relates to individual poems and poets. (941)
A. “Blast”
B. “Tradition and the Individual Talent” ~
C. “The Waste Land”
D. “Feminist Manifesto”
13. Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten were influential writers of what artistic era beginning in the 1920s? (Harlem Ren. Interview)
A. Romantic Era
B. Harlem Renaissance ~
C. Victorian Era
14. Gertrude Stein’s poetry is best described as…(177)
A. Having a strong narrative
B. Romantic
C. A riddle
D. Stream of consciousness
15. The poem “Oread” is a good example of __________ constant allusions to mythology. (395)
A. H.D.
B. Wilfred Owen
C. Ezra Pound
D. Mina Loy
1) This poet was the only heterosexual female we have read.
a. Dickenson<<
b. Mina Loy
c. HD
d. Millay
e. Moore
2) Which example best describes the term Ekphrastic
a. Writing a poem about a painting.
b. Choreographing a dance to a piece of music
c. Designing a costume for a performer in a play based on a story.
d. All the above.<<
e. None of the above
3) How Many lines does a sonnet contain
a. 14<<
b. 8
c. 4
d. 16
e. 10
4) This socialist poet was rejected as a poet by Frost and William Carlos Williams because they beloved that did not pay attention to the demands of the craft and felt he was “Artless.” p.227
a. Carl Sandburg.<<<
b. Wallace Stevens
c. Ezra Pound
d. Marianne Moore.
e. Wilfred Owen
5) Which poem that was discussed in class is specifically written using the phonetic sounds of the words to mimic the sounds they describe?
a. The Windhover.<<
b. An Octopus
c. No Second Troy
d. Gertrude Stine
e. Oread
6) Antithesis is…
a. Writing poetry about poetry
b. Including two opposite but contrasting ideas in one statement.<<
c. A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters and events.
d. Art that is inspired by art of a different medium.
7) In the Term TPCASTT what do the “T’s” stand for? Options are: I. Tempo; II. Title; III. Tone; IV. Tension
a. II, I and IV
b. II and III.<<
c. II and I
d. I, II and III
e. I, III and IV
8) These Two Poets Served in the military. (p524) (p226)
a. Wilfred Owen and Carl Sandburg.<<
b. Wilfred Owen and Yates
c. Wallace Stevens and Carl Sandburg
d. Yates and Elliot
e. Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams
9) This Poet’s “Manifesto” is a response to the journal “Blast” and demands female empowerment.
a. HD
b. Millay
c. Loy<<
d. Stine
e. Dickenson
10) This poet, who spent much of her time in the New york And Bronx Zoo, aims to writes about “Quite objectiveness” and incorporates what she calls “Gusto” which is an “imaginative flair that seems exactly right.” P. 431
a. Moore<<
b. Loy
c. Millay
d. Dickenson
e. Stine
11) This poet writes politically charged poems about his homeland of Ireland.
a. Yates<<<
b. Sandburg
c. Williams
d. Eliot
e. Pound
12) This poet has a poem about a painter who as a painting about this poet.
a. Stine<<<
b. Dickenson
c. Loy
d. Elliot
e. Stevens
13) This poet Believed that poetry is “Supreme Fiction” and was fascinated with the purpose of poetry p.236
a. Stevens<<<
b. Sandburg
c. Millay
d. Loy
e. Stine
14) Which two poets were Jesuit priests
a. Yeats and Hopkins<<
b. Yeats and Williams
c. Elliot and Hopkins
d. Elliot and Williams
e. Frost and Williams
15) This female Challenged gender rolls by writing about powerful feminine archetypes and also had a physical relationship with Ezra Pound.p394
a. H.D <<
b. Millay
c. Loy
d. Stine
e. Dickinson
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1. Which poet is associated with sprung rhythm, which is the constant number of strong stresses in a line but a variable number of unstressed syllables?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Gerard Hopkins
c. William Yeats
d. Emily Dickinson
Answer: b. Gerard Hopkins
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2. Which poet is known for his/her writings on political Ireland?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Wilfred Owen
d. William Yeats
Answer: d. William Yeats
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3. Gertrude Stein is most well-known for her poem:
a. Tender Buttons
b. The Idea of Order at Key West
c. Easter 1916
d. Susie Asado
Answer: a. Tender Buttons
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4. Where did Gertrude Stein attend college, where she studied the unconscious mind with William James?
a. Harvard
b. Princeton
c. Radcliffe College
d. Lombard College
Answer: c. Radcliffe College
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5. Which poet had a scholarship to Dartmouth College, then dropped out and went to Harvard, and then dropped out again?
a. Robert Frost
b. William Yeats
c. William Carlos Williams
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: a. Robert Frost
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6. Carl Sandburg was arrested and spent how long in Pittsburgh jail?
a. 1 month
b. 1 year
c. 10 days
d. 30 days
Answer: c. 10 days
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7. Which poet was focused on business, never presented himself as a literary figure, and was not on a first name basis with basically anyone?
a. William Yeats
b. Robert Frost
c. Carl Sandburg
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: d. Wallace Stevens
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8. Where did Wallace Stevens attend college?
a. Harvard
b. Princeton
c. Yale
d. Radcliffe College
Answer: a. Harvard
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9. How old was Edna Saint Vincent Millay when she wrote “Renascence”
a. 36
b. 19
c. 24
d. 50
Answer: b. 19
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10. Mina Loy’s husband’s death had a significant impact on her remaining life. How did he die?
a. He disappeared mysteriously
b. A heart attack
c. Old age
d. He was murdered
Answer: a. He disappeared mysteriously
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11. Mina Loy pays tribute to another famous female poet we have studied. Who is she?
a. H.D.
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Gertrude Stein
d. Marianne Moore
Answer: c. Gertrude Stein
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12. Which poet tried to discover how few words were needed to make a poem?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Wilfred Owen
c. Mina Loy
d. H.D.
Answer: d. H.D.
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13. Which poet focused on the natural world and animals?
a. Wilfred Owen
b. Marianne Moore
c. Emily Dickinson
d. William Yeats
Answer: b. Marianne Moore
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14. Which poem is T.S. Eliot most well-known for?
a. The Waste Land
b. [Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink]
c. The Widow’s Jazz
d. The Emperor of Ice Cream
Answer: a. The Waste Land
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15. Wilfred Owen was only 25 when he died. Most of his poems were written in the span of ______.
a. 1 month
b. 1 year
c. 13 months
d. 20 months
Answer: c. 13 months
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1. What was one of Gertrude Stein’s goals when writing poetry?
a. Spread religion
b. Rediscover the noun
c. Find a spouse
d. Describe the wars
Answer: B
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2. Who did Gertrude Stein have a life-long relationship with?
a. Mina Loy
b. No one
c. Alice B. Toklas
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: C
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3. Who does Hopkins say he carries in his pocket?
a. Whitman
b. Picasso
c. Williams Carlos Williams
d. God
Answer: A
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4. Who is Yeats compared to in regards to his political views?
a. Eliot and Pound
b. Whitman and Pound
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Stevens and Williams
Answer: A
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5. What tense does Robert Frost choose to write most of his poems in?
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. He writes in them all evenly
Answer: A
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6. What award for poetry did Frost never win?
a. Pulitzer Prize
b. Levinson Prize
c. Nobel Prize
d. Bollingen prize
Answer: C
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7. What awards did Carl Sandburg win in his lifetime?
a. Medal of Freedom
b. Nobel Prize
c. Pulitzer Prize
d. A and B
Answer: D
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8. Like Frost, what University did Stevens attend as a special student?
a. Yale
b. Harvard
c. Brown
d. Duke
Answer: B
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9. How did Frost feel towards Sandburg and his poetry?
a. He admired him and wished to emulate it
b. He was indifferent towards him and his poetry
c. He thought he was a fraud
d. He was his mentor and helped him write his poetry
Answer: C
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10. As a modern poet who sees himself as transforming and extending romantic tradition, who is Stevens most comparable to?
a. Millay and Loy
b. Yeats and Frost
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Eliot and Pound
Answer: B
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11. Ezra Pound said Williams Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore and who else were the only people in America who wrote anything of interest?
a. Loy
b. Millay
c. Dickenson
d. Owens
Answer: A
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12. What type of poetry is Loy associated with?
a. Futurism
b. Cubism
c. Dada
d. All the above
Answer: D
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13. What was one of H.D.’s main goals when writing poetry?
a. To spread the idea of love
b. To escape the imagination
c. To discover how few words are required to make a poem
d. To share her childhood experiences
Answer: C
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14. What was Marianne Moore’s favorite topic to write her poetry about?
a. Religion
b. Animals
c. War
d. Family
Answer: B
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15. Which of the following modernists admired Moore?
a. Stevens
b. Pound
c. Williams
d. H.D.
e. All the above
Answer: E
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EXAM QUESTIONS
1. Who did Gerard Manley Hopkins carry in his pocket?
a. Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”
b. Walt Whitman “Song of Myself”
c. Gertrude Stein “Tender Buttons”
d. Emily Dickinson “712”
answer: a
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2. What was the change The Modern Movement was moving to?
a. Showing more then telling
b. Keeping things traditional
c. Avoiding science and rationality
d. Keeping Victorian gender roles
answer: a
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3. What were Gerard Manley Hopkins two theories?
a. Love and romantics
b. Inscape and in stress
c. Death and torture
d. Happiness and sadness
answer: b
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4. What was a major reoccurring theme in Emily Dickinson’s work?
a. Love
b. Torture
c. Death
d. Loneliness
e. Nature
answer: c
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5. Gertrude Stein was greatly influenced by and friends with?
a. Picasso
b. Walt Whitman
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Robert Frost
answer: a
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6. William Butler Yeats often hints at allusions in his work where?
a. The title
b. The last line
c. The entire poem
d. Footnotes only
answer: a
As discussed in class
7. Whose work focuses on the industrial scenery as a common theme and setting?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Robert Frost
d. H.D.
answer: b
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8. Who wrote the essay of Tradition and the Individual Talent?
a. Ezra Pound
b. T.S. Elliot
c. Carl Sandburg
d. William Carlos Williams
e. Mina Loy
answer: b
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9. Marianne Moore was admired by?
a. Wallace Stevens
b. Ezra Pound
c. William Carlos Williams
d. H.D
e. all of the above
answer: e
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10. What two poets often convey war in their work?
a. Mina Loy and Carl Sandburg
b. Robert Frost and Marianne Moore
c. Wilfred Owen and Walt Whitman
d. Gertrude Stein and Gerard Manley Hopkins
answer: c
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11. Out of the following, who associated themself with Communism during the Harlem Renaissance?
a. Langston Hughes
b. Carl Van Vechten
c. Zora Neale Hurston
d. Walt Whitman
answer: a
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12. What major institution did most letters written by the poets during the Harlem Renaissance go to?
a. Yale
b. Harvard
c. Florida State
e. UCLA
answer: a
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13. What was the name of the hotel that Langston Hughes wrote about in a poem and drove a wedge between the friendship with Carl Van Vechten?
a. The Plaza
b. The Ritz Carlton
c. The Waldorf Astoria
d. The Roosevelt
answer: c
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14. What was the name of the book Emily Bernard wrote?
a. Remember Me to Harlem
b. Harlem Renaissance
c. The Great Migration
d. The Movement
answer: a
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15. Who did Langston Hughes form a friendship with?
a. Carl Van Vechten
b. Alfred Knopf
c. Mina Loy
d. James Weldon Johnson
answer: a
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1. What was one of Gertrude Stein’s goals when writing poetry?
a. Spread religion
b. Rediscover the noun
c. Find a spouse
d. Describe the wars
Answer: B
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2. Who did Gertrude Stein have a life-long relationship with?
a. Mina Loy
b. No one
c. Alice B. Toklas
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer: C
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3. Who does Hopkins say he carries in his pocket?
a. Whitman
b. Picasso
c. Williams Carlos Williams
d. God
Answer: A
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4. Who is Yeats compared to in regards to his political views?
a. Eliot and Pound
b. Whitman and Pound
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Stevens and Williams
Answer: A
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5. What tense does Robert Frost choose to write most of his poems in?
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. He writes in them all evenly
Answer: A
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6. What award for poetry did Frost never win?
a. Pulitzer Prize
b. Levinson Prize
c. Nobel Prize
d. Bollingen prize
Answer: C
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7. What awards did Carl Sandburg win in his lifetime?
a. Medal of Freedom
b. Nobel Prize
c. Pulitzer Prize
d. A and B
Answer: D
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8. Like Frost, what University did Stevens attend as a special student?
a. Yale
b. Harvard
c. Brown
d. Duke
Answer: B
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9. How did Frost feel towards Sandburg and his poetry?
a. He admired him and wished to emulate it
b. He was indifferent towards him and his poetry
c. He thought he was a fraud
d. He was his mentor and helped him write his poetry
Answer: C
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10. As a modern poet who sees himself as transforming and extending romantic tradition, who is Stevens most comparable to?
a. Millay and Loy
b. Yeats and Frost
c. Hopkins and Whitman
d. Eliot and Pound
Answer: B
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11. Ezra Pound said Williams Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore and who else were the only people in America who wrote anything of interest?
a. Loy
b. Millay
c. Dickenson
d. Owens
Answer: A
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12. What type of poetry is Loy associated with?
a. Futurism
b. Cubism
c. Dada
d. All the above
Answer: D
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13. What was one of H.D.’s main goals when writing poetry?
a. To spread the idea of love
b. To escape the imagination
c. To discover how few words are required to make a poem
d. To share her childhood experiences
Answer: C
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14. What was Marianne Moore’s favorite topic to write her poetry about?
a. Religion
b. Animals
c. War
d. Family
Answer: B
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15. Which of the following modernists admired Moore?
a. Stevens
b. Pound
c. Williams
d. H.D.
e. All the above
Answer: E
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1) Although the exact date of when Modern Poetry came to be is elusive, according to the anthology, what is the supposed time frame of its emergence? (A)
a) The first half of the 20th century
b) The first half of the 19th century
c) During the renaissance period
d) Beginning in the 2000’s
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2) Who is considered to be at the threshold or beginning of modern poetry? (B)
a) Gertrude Stein
b) Walt Whitman
c) William Shakespeare
d) Robert Frost
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3) What form of poetry did Whitman create when “rescues for poetry the unpoetic, the vulgar, and the profane. He realised thatpoems need no longer look like poems–with neat couplets and quatrains…” (1). (C)
a) Sonnets
b) Haiku
c) Free-verse
d) Epics
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4) What was the title of Whitman’s famed, and only, book of poems? (D)
a) “Song of Myself”
b) “A Hand Mirror”
d) “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
d) “Leaves of Grass”
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5) What major theme is common throughout the majority of Dickinson’s poems? (A)
a) Death
b) Nature
c) Love
d) Animals
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6) What major ideas made up Modern Poetry? (D)
a) Showing v telling with image building
b) Emphasis on the emotional experience from the author’s perspective
c) Influence of science and rationality
d) All of the above
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7) What is peculiar about Dickinson’s poem’s titles? (B)
a) They are allusions to Greco-Roman myths
b) They are numbered, due to being left unnamed
c) They are all the same title
d) They are biblical passages
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8) Which poet, like Dickinson had the majority of their poems released after their death? (C)
a) Whitman
b) Yeats
c) Hopkins
d) Stein
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9) What was Hopkins’s most important innovation to poetry? (D)
a) Rhyming structure
b) Ekphrasis
c) Political drive
d) Sprung Rhythm
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10) How was Hopkins related to religion? (A)
a) He was a Jesuit priest
b) He was excommunicated for sacrilegious writing
c) He found God after he had experienced the Wreck of the Deutschland
d) His parents pushed him to it
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11) What was Yeats main idea or goal in life? How did this show up during his time in the Senate, and in his personal life? (A)
a) He wanted a nation of people free to cultivate their imaginative capacities.
b) He drove for a New World Order
c) Communism
d) The take down of religion
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12) Which poet wrote the first politically engaged poem that we have read in this class? (D)
a) Whitman
b) Dickinson
c) Owens
d) Yeats
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13) What was title of Stein’s poetics that we read in class? (B)
a) “My poetry errs on the side of oddness”
b) “A Transatlantic Interview”
c) “Tradition and the Individual talent”
d) “Feminist Manifesto”
Syllabus
13) Gertrude Stein studied psychology with/under William James where? (D)
a) Florida State University
b) Cambridge
c) Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
d) Harvard Annex
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14) Stein was influenced by which type of art? (A)
a) Cubism/Abstract Art
b) Realism
c) Surrealism
d) None
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15) What is Ekphrasis? (A)
a) The interaction between literary and visual art and their relationship
b) The process of writing poetry
c) The loss of art
d) A Café in Paris
CLASS
Heidi Batista
1. What is the book “Remember Me to Harlem” about?
a. The societal changes that occurred in Harlem in the late 70s
b. The cultural movement called the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s
c. The secret lives of businessmen in Harlem during the 1930s.
d. A story about two women who formed a strong friendship and bond that lasted a lifetime.
Answer: b
“Harlem Renaissance: Music, Poets, Entertainment, Politics, and Culture (2001).” YouTube. YouTube. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.
2. Who was Carl Van Vechten married to?
a. Emily Bernard
b. Langston Hughes
c. Zora Neale Hurston
d. Fania Marinoff
Answer: d
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3. Which poet did Zora Neale Hurston have a disagreement with?
a. Charlotte Mason
b. Harold Jackman
c. Langston Hughes
d. Carl Van Vechten
Answer: c
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4. Which of these works written by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston was the reason behind the end of their friendship?
a. “Mule Bone”
b. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
c. “The Weary Blues”
d. “From Sun to Sun”
Answer: a
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5. Which one of the female poets we have studied so far had a heterosexual sexual orientation?
a. Mina Loy
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Gertrude Stein
d. Erza Pound
Answer: b
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6. Who was the first out of poets we have discussed to win a Pulitzer Prize for a piece of work?
a. Robert Frost
b. Walt Whitman
c. Mina Loy
d. Carl Sandberg
Answer:d
The Pulitzer Prizes. N.p., n.d. Web
7. Which of the following poems won Carl Sandburg a Pulitzer Prize in 1919?
a. “The Harbor”
b. “Cool tombs”
c. “Corn Huskers”
d. “Subway”
Answer: C
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8. Which of the following terms refers to poems that are about poetry?
a. Ethnopoetics
b. Ars Poetica
c. Imagism
d. Epitaph
Answer: b
“Glossary Terms.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web.
9. Which of these poets was known for their embrace of using Imagism in their poetry style?
a. T.S Eliot
b. Walt Whitman
c. Carl Sandberg
d. Erza Pound
Answer: d
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10. Mina Loy highly respected this poet , and even wrote a poem in their name. What was the name of this poet?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Edna Millay
d. William Yeats
Answer: a
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11. What is the most commonly used rhythmic pattern in English language poetry?
a. Anapest
b. Spondee
c. Iambic
d. Dactyl
Answer: c
(Poetry Meter and Scansion Powerpoint)
12. What is a Dactly Falling Meter?
a. unstressed, unstressed, stressed
b. unstressed, unstressed, unstressed
c. unstressed, unstressed
d. stressed, unstressed, unstressed
Answer: d
(Poetry Meter and Scansion Powerpoint)
13. . What University did both poets Frost and Stevens attend to?
a. Harvard
b. Princeton
c. Duke
d. Upenn
Answer: a
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14. There were two poets that we have covered who were most known to write war poems. Which were they?
a. Walt Whitman and Gerard Hopkins
b. Yeats and Sandburg
c. Williams Carlos Williams and Erza Pound
d. Wilfred Owen and Walt Whitman
Answer: C
(Class discussion)
15. Who did Williams Carlos Williams call out in his 1919 prologue to “Kora in Hell”?
a. Whitman and Yeats
b. T.S Eliot and Erza Pound
c. H.D an T.S Eliot
d. Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost
Answer: B
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1. Who said, “ We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry”?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins
c. Gertrude Stein
d. William Butler Yeats
e. Mina Loy
Answer: D
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2. Which poet was not born in the United States?
a. Walt Whitman
b. Robert Frost
c. Carl Sandburg
d. Gertrude Stein
e. Mina Loy
Answer: E
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3. Which pair of poets died before they were 50 years old?
a. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfred Owen
b. Mina Loy and Carl Sandburg
c. Walt Whitman and Wilfred Owen
d. Gerard Manley Hopkins and T.S. Eliot
e. Wilfred Owen and Carl Sandburg
Answer: A
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4. Which famous poem begins “April is the cruellest month…”?
a. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
b. Robert Frost’s
c. Gerard Manley Hopkins’ The Wreck of the Deutschland
d. Wallace Steven’s The Idea Of Order At Key West
e. Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself
Answer: A
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5. In “The Widow’s Jazz,” whose death is Mina Loy referring to?
a. Futurist movement leader (and lover), F.T. Marinetti
b. Her First Husband, the English painter
c. Ezra Pound
d. Her second husband Arthur Cravan
e. Her lover Giovanni Papini (a.k.a. Joannes)
Answer: D
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6. Which poet wrote the feminist manifesto?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Mina Loy
c. H.D.
d. Marianne Moore
e. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Answe: B
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7. What phenomenon brought millions of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities in search of economic opportunity and racial tolerance?
a. The Harlem Renaissance
b. The Civil Rights Movement
c. The Great Migration
d. The Futurist movement
e. The Dust Bowl
Answer: C
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8. What does the term logopoeia translate to? [Phrase was coined by Ezra Pound]
a. Poetry that “is used to indirectly display intellect”
b. Poetry that “is a logical form of intelligent expression”
c. Poetry that “is ironic”
d. Poetry that “is purely rhetoric”
e. Poetry that “is a dance of the intellect among words”
Answer: E
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9. Who had a romantic relationship with Alice B. Toklas?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Wallace Stevens
c. H.D.
d. Robert Frost
e. Marianne Moore
Answer: A
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10. When did Langston Hughes admit to being a communist?
a. During his time in the Soviet Union
b. During his testimony before the U.S. Senate
c. During his testimony before the House of Representatives
d. During his time with his father
e. He never admitted to being a communist
Answer: E
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11. What other field influenced Gertrude Stein’s work most?
a. Sociology
b. Anthropology
c. Psychology
d. Biology
e. Politics
Answer: C
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12. Who was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry?
a. Gertrude Stein
b. Mina Loy
c. H.D.
d. Marianne Moore
e. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Answer: E
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13. Which two poets also aspired to be painters?
a. Marianne Moore and Gerard Manley Hopkins
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfred Owen
c. Mina Loy and Carl Sandburg
d. Mina Loy and Wilfred Owen
e. Wilfred Owen and Carl Sandburg
Answer: A
Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. p. 64, 431. Third ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. Print.
14. What was Wallace Steven’s connection to the island of Key West?
a. He was born there
b. He lived there early on in his life
c. He moved there to work with his friend Ernest Hemmingway
d. He vacationed there
e. He only wrote about it in “The Idea of Order at Key West”
Answer: D
Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. p. 249. Third ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. Print.
15. What three qualities of art does Marianne Moore admire most?
a. Freedom, Passion, Flexibility
b. Expression, Illustration, Eccentricity
c. Humility, Concentration, Gusto
d. Quietness, Observation, Reflection
e. Individuality, Intensity, Humility
Answer: C
Ramazani, Jahan, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. p. 431. Third ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. Print.
1. Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” was included in his popular poetry collection _________. (Page 2)
A. “A Hand-Mirror”
B. “Tender Buttons”
C. “Leaves of Grass” ~
D. “Songs to Joannes”
2. Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be described as all of the following except (30, 32)
A. Questions and riddles
B. Having a fascination with death
C. Romanticized imagery of war ~
D. In some cases being embedded in letters
3. Which famous painter did Gertrude Stein write about who painted her as well? (177)
A. Pablo Picasso ~
B. Henri Matisse
C. Andy Warhol
D. Georges Braque
4. The technique of making a piece of art or literature about another piece of art or literature is known as… (Class notes on Stein)
A. Allusion
B. Didactic
C. Imagery
D. Ekphrastic ~
5. This Irish poet wrote many political poems including “Easter, 1916.” (91)
A. William Butler Yeats ~
B. Robert Frost
C. William Carlos Williams
D. Wallace Stevens
6. _________ was a poet whose humble youth inspired sympathy for industrial workers as shown in his various poems set in Chicago. (226)
A. T.S. Eliot
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Carl Sandburg ~
D. Ezra Pound
7. This poet wrote the “Feminist Manifesto” in response to Eliot and Pound’s “Blast.” (895, 921)
A. Gertrude Stein
B. H.D.
C. Edna St. Vincent Millay
D. Mina Loy ~
8. _________ studied under Sigmund Freud as his pupil, even undergoing psychoanalysis. (394)
A. Edna St. Vincent Millay
B. Marianne Moore
C. H.D. ~
D. Mina Loy
9. This famous war poet died in battle during World War I, having written the bulk of his poems in thirteen months shortly before his death. (524)
A. William Butler Yeats
B. Wilfred Owen ~
C. Carl Sandburg
D. Wallace Stevens
10. ____________ played with the idea of escapism versus realism in his poems such as “Sunday Morning” and “The Snowman.” (236)
A. Wallace Stevens ~
B. Ezra Pound
C. Wilfred Owen
D. Walt Whitman
11. “The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of the earth remains to be written.” Is a quote from…(235)
A. Mina Loy
B. Wallace Stevens ~
C. Emily Dickenson
D. Carl Sandburg
12. T. S. Eliot wrote this document as a reflection on poetry is, as well as how it relates to individual poems and poets. (941)
A. “Blast”
B. “Tradition and the Individual Talent” ~
C. “The Waste Land”
D. “Feminist Manifesto”
13. Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten were influential writers of what artistic era beginning in the 1920s? (Harlem Ren. Interview)
A. Romantic Era
B. Harlem Renaissance ~
C. Victorian Era
14. Gertrude Stein’s poetry is best described as…(177)
A. Having a strong narrative
B. Romantic
C. A riddle
D. Stream of consciousness
15. The poem “Oread” is a good example of __________ constant allusions to mythology. (395)
A. H.D.
B. Wilfred Owen
C. Ezra Pound
D. Mina Loy
1) This poet was the only heterosexual female we have read.
a. Dickenson<<
b. Mina Loy
c. HD
d. Millay
e. Moore
2) Which example best describes the term Ekphrastic
a. Writing a poem about a painting.
b. Choreographing a dance to a piece of music
c. Designing a costume for a performer in a play based on a story.
d. All the above.<<
e. None of the above
3) How Many lines does a sonnet contain
a. 14<<
b. 8
c. 4
d. 16
e. 10
4) This socialist poet was rejected as a poet by Frost and William Carlos Williams because they beloved that did not pay attention to the demands of the craft and felt he was “Artless.” p.227
a. Carl Sandburg.<<<
b. Wallace Stevens
c. Ezra Pound
d. Marianne Moore.
e. Wilfred Owen
5) Which poem that was discussed in class is specifically written using the phonetic sounds of the words to mimic the sounds they describe?
a. The Windhover.<<
b. An Octopus
c. No Second Troy
d. Gertrude Stine
e. Oread
6) Antithesis is…
a. Writing poetry about poetry
b. Including two opposite but contrasting ideas in one statement.<<
c. A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters and events.
d. Art that is inspired by art of a different medium.
7) In the Term TPCASTT what do the “T’s” stand for? Options are: I. Tempo; II. Title; III. Tone; IV. Tension
a. II, I and IV
b. II and III.<<
c. II and I
d. I, II and III
e. I, III and IV
8) These Two Poets Served in the military. (p524) (p226)
a. Wilfred Owen and Carl Sandburg.<<
b. Wilfred Owen and Yates
c. Wallace Stevens and Carl Sandburg
d. Yates and Elliot
e. Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams
9) This Poet’s “Manifesto” is a response to the journal “Blast” and demands female empowerment.
a. HD
b. Millay
c. Loy<<
d. Stine
e. Dickenson
10) This poet, who spent much of her time in the New york And Bronx Zoo, aims to writes about “Quite objectiveness” and incorporates what she calls “Gusto” which is an “imaginative flair that seems exactly right.” P. 431
a. Moore<<
b. Loy
c. Millay
d. Dickenson
e. Stine
11) This poet writes politically charged poems about his homeland of Ireland.
a. Yates<<<
b. Sandburg
c. Williams
d. Eliot
e. Pound
12) This poet has a poem about a painter who as a painting about this poet.
a. Stine<<<
b. Dickenson
c. Loy
d. Elliot
e. Stevens
13) This poet Believed that poetry is “Supreme Fiction” and was fascinated with the purpose of poetry p.236
a. Stevens<<<
b. Sandburg
c. Millay
d. Loy
e. Stine
14) Which two poets were Jesuit priests
a. Yeats and Hopkins<<
b. Yeats and Williams
c. Elliot and Hopkins
d. Elliot and Williams
e. Frost and Williams
15) This female Challenged gender rolls by writing about powerful feminine archetypes and also had a physical relationship with Ezra Pound.p394
a. H.D <<
b. Millay
c. Loy
d. Stine
e. Dickinson