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

F 2) Modernism first emerged in Britain and then spread all over Europe. F 3) Ezra Pound was one of the most important female poets of her time. A 4) Imagism was spearheaded by a group of American poets who emigrated to Europe. A 5) Modernism was, generally speaking, a cosmopolitan movement. F 6) Modernism was, generally speaking, a regionalist movement (e.g., in the American grain). A 7) Modernism was a movement without a single home. A 8) Modernism arose as a reaction to Victorianism. A 9) Modernism arose as a reaction to Romanticism. F 10) Defamiliarization is a central concept in modern sociology. A 11) Modernist poetry was heavily experimentalist. F 12) Modernist poets prized conventionalism in verse. A 13) Victorian poetry aimed at communicational harmony. F 14) 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. F 16) The thing is to be able to look at ones life as if it were somebody elses is the credo of confessionalism. F 17) Virginia Woolf wrote in the mid-1960s that We are sharply cut off from our predecessors. A 18) W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney were united, among others, by an interest in Irish identity. F 19) Late W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden were united, among others, by a keen interest in the left-wing. A 20) Late W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot were united, among others, by an interest in Christianity. A 21.In Sailing to Byzantium Yeats contrasts the imperfect world of nature with the changeless world of intellect and spirit." A 22.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." A 24.In A Station of the Metro" is not so much the figurative rendering of the faces the poet saw emerging from the station but is the translation of the sensuous into the non-sensuous or inward thing. A 25.The town in Skunk Hour serves as an analogue for the state in which the poet fears his own poetry has fallen A 26.The symbol of the "Reindeer" in Audens "The Fall of Rome" could suggest the purity of uncorrupted nature. A 27. "In "The Waste Land" April is interpreted as cruel because it breeds life from death." A 28. "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." A 30. "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 of salvation 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." A 35. Adrienne Rich is one of America's most appreciated feminist poets.

A 36. "So-called "Thirties poets" dispensed with the modernist credo of aloofness from politics." F 37. "Dylan Thomas was one of the most important representatives of "Thirties poetry". F 38.. Dylan Thomas was a central influence on Adrienne Rich. A 39. Dylan Thomas was a central influence on Sylvia Plath. F 40. "In a Station of the Metro" was inspired by a photograph of the London subway." F 41. "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" was addressed to Auden's father." F 42."Musee des Beaux Arts" was inspired by a photograph Auden saw in the Brussels metro." A 43. "The term "confessionalism"was coined in conjunction with American poet Robert Lowell." F 44. "The term "defamiliarization" was coined by American poet Ezra Pound. " MULTIPLE CHOICE 1) Confessionalism is associated to which of the following poets? a Lawrence Ferlinghetti b Robert Frost c Sylvia Plath 2) One of the main techniques employed by Sylvia Plath is a the mythologizing of the self b self-abnegation c selfless altruism 3) One of the main themes in the work of John Ashbery is a consistency b indeterminacy c convergence 4) Plaths Lady Lazarus is a poem about a suicide b genocide (against the Jews) c infanticide 5) By whom is Allen Ginsberg accompanied in A Supermarket in California? a Walt Whitman b Ezra Pound c Edgar Allan Poe 6) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness are the opening words of a Song of Myself b Howl c Paterson 7) Allen Ginsberg was an inspiration for the a Power movement b Solar Power movement c Flower Power movement 8) Imagism was a movement in a American verse b American prose c American fine arts 9)In a Station of the Metrou is closer to a English metaphysical verse b a canto c a Japanese haiku 10) Which of the following modernist authors wrote poetry in the American grain? a Robert Frost b Ezra Pound c T.S. Eliot 11) Portrait dune femme is a a novel by Henry James b poem by Ezra Pound c short story by E.A. Poe

12) The likely significance (so much depends) of the red wheelbarrow in the poem of the same title resides in its being a a primitive instrument b a wonder of modern technology c 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 by a Allen Ginsberg b Walt Whitman c William Carlos Williams 14) The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. These words belong to the Preface of a volume of poetry authored by a Walt Whitman b 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 Emerson c Henry David Thoreau 16) In Ashberys Paradoxes and Oxymorons a a reader directly engages the author b a poem directly engages its reader c a narrator directly engages the reader 17) After great pain a formal feeling comes opens a poem by a Sylvia Plath b Emily Dickinson c E.A. Poe 18) In Daddy, the speaker associates her father with a an elf b a Nazi c an old lady who lives in a shoe 19) A Supermarket in California deals in images of a consumption b political corruption c self-denial 20) Emily Dickinsons I felt a funeral is a poem about: a death b mourning c mental breakdown 21) Dickinsons After great pain contains metaphorical images describing: a lifelessness b excitement c irreverence 22) Much of the imagery in Dickisons I never lost as much is taken from the domain of a physical science b economics c ethics 23) Walt Whitmans poetry follows the rhythms of a life before the Fall b everyday life c after-life 24) Modernism as a movement emerged around a the beginning of the 19th century b the beginning of the 20th century c the mid 1940s 25) According to one definition of modernism, the movement represents a a reaction to modernization b a reaction to slavery c a reaction to affluence

26) According to one definition of modernism, the movement represents a a highbrow culture b a lower-class culture c 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 by a industrialization b agrarianism a informatization 29) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism? a elitist b populist c liberal 30) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism? a tame b rebellious c traditionalist 31) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism? a respectful b diffident c iconoclastic 32) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism? a subversive b liberal c bourgeois 33) Which of the following attributes best describes modernism? a conventional b decadent c sententious 34) Which of the following movements belonged to the wider modernist movement? a avant-garde b Victorianism c the Georgian 35) Which of the following movements belonged to the wider modernist movement? a fallibilism b decadentism c positivism 36) According to one definition of modernism, the movement eventually experienced a(n) ___ phase. a superlative b relative c integrative 37) Modernists regarded the modern age as experiencing a process of a resolution b dissolution c salvation 38) Modernists regarded the modern age as experiencing a process of a decay b rebirth c regeneration 39) Modernist poetry was influenced by a photographic art b baseball c bull-fighting 40) Modernist poetry was influenced by a safari b game hunting c music

41) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement? a futurism b confessionalism c professionalism 42) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement? a cannibalism b surrealism c bimetallism 43) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement? a physicalism b metaphysicalism c vorticism 44) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement? a dadaism b scientism c colonialism 45) Which of the following schools belonged to the wider modernist movement? a chauvinism b cubism c criticism 46) Who declared that "on or about December 1910 human character changed"? a Ezra Pound b Virginia Woolf c Hilda Doolittle 47) Which female poet was among the founders of imagism? a Hilda Doolittle b Ezra Pound c Sylvia Plath 48) What event was credited as a catalyst for the British modernist scene? a a painting exhibition b a music concert c a technological exhibition 49) What event was credited as a catalyst for the American modernist scene? a a jazz concert b an exhibition of cubist art c a technological exhibition 50) Modernism was chiefly a(n) ___ movement. a Anglo-Saxon b French c international 51) Modernism developed chiefly in a the countryside b small towns c the metropolises 52) Victorian poetry cultivated a formal rules of composition b unconventional rhythms c free verse 53) Victorian artists were engaged in a quest for a glory b eternal beauty c the Holy Grail 54) ___ played a crucial part in the changes in outlook that characterized the modern era. a Anthropology b Anthology c Numerology 55) ___ played a crucial part in the changes in outlook that characterized the modern era. a Anthropomorphism b Freudianism c Futurology

56) Moralism was rather typical in ___ literature. a postmodern b modernist c Victorian 57) The iconic objects of the modern age were appropriated by a modernists b Victorians c Romantics 58) Prosaic language was used in poetry by a Emily Dickinson b Sylvia Plath c Carl Sandburg 59) Which 20th century female writer was closely associated to the feminist movement? a Emily Dickinson b Sylvia Plath c Adrienne Rich 60) Free association was a technique common in a modernist poetry b Georgian poetry c the metaphysical poets 61) Defamiliarization was concept coined by a Vladimir Shklovsky b Vladimir Nabokov c Vladimir Lenin 62) One of the purposes of defamiliarization is to a decrease the length of perception b make plots easier to understand c undermine recognizable rational discourse 63) Which American poet urged fellow authors to become ignorant men? a William Carlos Williams b Wallace Stevens c Wallace William Wallace 64) Which initials are associated with the birth of imagism? a LSD b WCW c HD 65) Modernist preferred an attitude of self-conscious ___ in / from the rest of community? a isolation b embeddedness c integration 66) To modernists, the work of art inhabits a space free from narrow a reflexivity b subjectivity c objectivity 67) The famous statement that poetry relies on a language of absence rather than presence belonged to a Baudelaire b Appolinaire c Mallarme 68) The vortex-image was a ___ concept. a modernist b postmodernist c premodern 69) Self-referentiality was central to ___ literature. a premodern b postmodern c abstract 70) The poem must be difficult is a notion common among a postmoderns b confessional poets c modernist poets

71) Symbolism had an important influence upon a imagism b confessionalism c Victorian poetry 72) Oriental verse was frequently used by a Ezra Pound b John Ashbery c T.S. Eliot 73) Who defined the image as intellectual and emotional complex in an instance of time? a Eliot b Williams c Pound 74) In a Station of the Metrou resembles a Javanese songs b Japanese haikus c Chinese pictograms 75) A "poetry of fancy" was envisaged by which critic and poet? a Hulme b Hume c Eliot 76) At the heart of In a Station of the Metrou there lies a(n) a metaphor b enjambment c synecdoche 77) "The Red Wheelbarrow" is similar to In a Station of the Metrou in terms of a setting b theme c size 78) "The Red Wheelbarrow" is similar to In a Station of the Metrou in terms of a verse structure b technique c setting 79) The objects in "The Red Wheelbarrow" are a anti-poetic b poetic c abstract 80)"No ideas but in things" was a motto of a Eliot b Ashbery c Williams 81) Spring and All is a rather ___ poem. a visual b oral c aural 82) Spring and All was considered a sort of response to a The Waste Land b Winter c The Cantos 83) "The Burial of the Dead" is a Part III of The Waste Land b Part I of The Waste Land c a distinct, separate poem by T.S. Eliot 84) "The Burial of the Dead" stands the ___ on its head. a the winter-poem tradition b the elegiac tradition c the spring-poem tradition 85) ___ are among the characters introduced in Part I of Eliot's The Waste Land. a pilgrims b soothsayers c workingmen

86) The Waste Land is built on a series of a ironic parallelisms b parallel ironies c parallels 87) In The Waste Land Eliot quotes original lines from a The Canterbury Tales b Howl c Tristan and Isolde 88) The Waste Land is generally regarded as a piece on the a dissolution of Western civilization b The Canterbury Tales c Dantean Divine Comedy 89) The opening lines of The Waste Land contain a reference to a The Tempest b The Book of Thunder c The Canterbury Tales 90) T.S. Eliot's Gerontion is a poem about a old age b the Golden Age c the underaged 91) Portrait dune femme is the title of a a poem by Ezra Pound b poem by W.B. Yeats c novel by Henry James 92) Carl Sandburg's Cool Tombs is a poem about a small-town America b Paris c metropolitan America 93) William Carlos Williams's Pastoral is a poem about a small-town America b Paris c metropolitan America 94) Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" bears a certain resemblance to a Ezra Pound's Cantos b Walt Whitman's Song of Myself c T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land 95) W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming refers to a the decline of Western civilization b the decline of Byzantine civilization c the decline of Russian civilization 96) W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming was apparently inspired by the ___ Revolution. a American b Glorious c Russian 97) In "The Fall of Rome" the modern bureaucrat is represented by means of a a manilla envelope b pink slip c man named Stetson 98) of Ever-Ever Land i speak is a poem about a anarchism in general b the Russian Revolution specifically c totalitarianism in general 99) The reindeers in "The Fall of Rome suggest a retribution b impending doom c the second coming of Christ 100) The title The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower obviously relies on ___ symbolism. a phallic b faunal c pharaonic

101) The hawk in Ted Hughes's Hawk Roosting looks upon the world with a detached empathy b warm sympathy c cold assurance 102) Elizabeth Bishop's In the Waiting Room tells a story about becoming a a girl b woman c prostitute 103) Adrienne Rich's Solfeggietto is a ___ poem. a feminist b minimalist c modernist 104) The correct title of one of Frank OHara's best known poems is Why I Am Not a ___ a Poet b Plagiarist c Painter 105) The two games in Philip Larkin's Continuing to Live are a chess and poker b poker and bridge c bridge and chess 106) Much of the imagery in Continuing to Live suggest a ___ existence. a hectic and passionate b dispassionate and boring c poker-addicted 107) W.B. Yeats's Easter 1916 is a poem about a the dissolution of Western civilization b the celebration of an important day for Christians c a nationalist revolt 108) Heaney's Act of Union is ostensibly concerned with a sex b marriage c the unity of all things 109) Act of Union is a rather transparent reference to a the dissolution of Western civilization b the relationship between city and countryside c the relationship of Ireland and England 110) W.H. Auden's Spain 1937 is a poem about a a World War b Civil War c War of Words 111) "The Fall of Rome" is built on a series of ___ of / between ancient and modern states. a juxtapositions b contrasts c wars 112) Stevie Smith's Major Macroo mimics a doggerel verse b Japanese haikus c free verse 113) The short sentences of "We Real Cool" suggest a fast talk b smooth talk c a firm sense of identity 114) Grace Nichols's The Body Reclining is an ode to a idleness b hard work c the female body 115. Modernism as a movement emerged around the beginning of the 19th century the beginning of the 21st century the mid 1940s none of the above

116. What event was credited as a catalyst for the British modernist scene? a photo exhibition a music concert a technological exhibition none of the above 118. "The Burial of the Dead" is Part 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 commitment ambiguity none of the above 120. "In "Easter, 1916" Yeats mixes ___ with political mythmaking." personal views hagiography gender issues none of the above 121. "An Ulster Twilight" is fashioned as a (autor Seamus Heaney) rememberance dramatic monologue dialogue none of the above 122. "An Ulster Twilight" is a poem about ___ politics." London Irish Scottish none of the above 123. "The speaker in "An Ulster Twilight" is a(n)" angry boy reminiscing adult old lady none of the above 124. ___ was one of Ireland's postwar Nobel Prize winners. Yeats Auden Heaney none of the above 125. "The speaker in "In The Waiting Room" is a(n)" dentist aunt National Geographic editor none of the above 126. "Christ in Alabama" was written in the context of a" racially-tinged trial in the South racially-tinged riot in L.A. racially-tinged riot in the Harlem none of the above 127. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement in Caucasian-American arts and thought Asian-American arts and thought Native American arts and thought none of the above 128. Langston Hughes was one of the chief representatives of the American folk song Harlem Renaissance Beat Generation none of the above 129. Langston Hughes was one of the pioneers of

Black modernism Black Panthers Black Magic none of the above 130. The poetry of Langston Hughes was inspired by jazz & charleston r&b jazz & blues none of the above 131. The call-and-response pattern was typical of African-American spirituals American spirits African magic none of the above 132. "Traditionally, African-American blues was regarded as" Christ's song devil's music politically incorrect music none of the above 133. "Christ in Alabama"was written according to a ___ pattern." name-calling caller-identification calling-card none of the above 134. "Christ in Alabama" was an ___ poem." initially neglected instantly appreciated intentionally censured none of the above 135. "Christ in Alabama" contains ___ imagery." beneficent beatific blasphemous none of the above 136. "Christ in Alabama" explicitly likens"(consider or describe) the slave owner to God American blacks to God the slave owner to Christ none of the above 137. "Christ in Alabama" explicitly likens" the nigger to God the nigger to Christ the nigger to the slave owner none of the above 138. "The "Musee des Beaux Arts" is a poem about" the futility of art Pieter Bruegel life going on none of the above 139. "Solfeggietto" is a poem about a ___ relationship." father-daughter mother-daughter mother-father none of the above 140. "___ offers the key to a belated reconciliation between the two protagonists of "Solfeggietto". Feminism Modernism Confessionalism none of the above 141. "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem about, among other things," rare birds transcending historicity

hawks none of the above 142 . Which of the following poems deals in end-of-the-world scenarios? Christ in Alabama An Ulster Twilight "Easter, 1916" none of the above 143. Which of the following poems deals in end-of-the-world scenarios? In the Waiting Room Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night Solfeggietto none of the above 144. Which of the following poems deals in end-of-the-world scenarios? In the Waiting Room An Ulster Twilight The Second Coming none of the above 145. Which of the following poems deals with autobiographical experiences? Christ in Alabama Sailing to Byzantium Solfeggietto none of the above 146. Which of the following poems deals with autobiographical experiences? The Second Coming Musee des Beaux Arts The Burial of the Dead none of the above 147. "In "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" the speaker urges the addressee to: passively accept death as unavoidable continue living because death can be avoided go on living because he is a passionate man none of the above 148 "At the climactic moment of "Skunk Hour" Lowell contrasts a popular song playing on the car radio with a quote from" Pound's "Cantos" Ovid's "Metamorphoses" Milton's "Paradise Lost" King James BIBLE 149.The____ embraced the musical forms of jazz and blues. Modernist expatriates Beats Confessionals Imagists 150.The dark night of the soul"" in "Skunk Hour" refers to" the sinful human nature the poet's personal ordeal the overarching sense of alienation in Cold War America 151. "Portrait dune femme" is written in " blank verse hexameters 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 is a surrealist poem a neoplatonist poem a Dadaist poem an Imagist poem 154.William Carlos Williams portrayed objects, scenes and human figures that traditionally would be viewed as symbolic

anti-poetic extravagant exotic 158."It Is the _______of the emotion expressed in "The Waste Land" that makes the poem significant." immediacy Impersonality intensity 159. In "Skunk Hour" the poet is saved from his personal ordeal by a revelation of personal value the inhabitants of the town the appearance of a family of skunks the towns's "fairy decorator" "the summer's millionaire 160. The first four stanzas of Skunk Hour address the decay of the town the poets personal dilemmas the issue of the skunks habitat 161.is built upon the concise esthetic structure of haiku. The Red Wheelbarrow In a Station of the Metrou Skunk Hour The Fall of Rome 162."The first section of "The Waste Land" is characterised by " unity of narrative voice linear chronology oscillation of perspectives 163.The association of the speaker or protagonist with an image of debasement is a strategy adopted by the Beat poets the Confessional poets the Dadaist poets-NU the Imagist poets -NU 164.The Red Wheelbarrow presents_____discrete images making up a single image cluster. Three Two Four 165. The fragmented, elliptical style of recalls the influence of cubism: A Supermarket in California Spring and All The Waste Land Gerontion (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 the a.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 ostensibly aesthetic connotation. 170. "Byzantium" in Yeat's poetry is a symbol of " vanity and corruption unity and perfection human fading glory 171.The speaker in Skunk Hour finds value only in civic responsibility organized religion an 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

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 Flute Fidelio Tristan and Isolda 174. In "Continuing to Live" life is compared to: an arcade game a chess game a 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