English MCQs — Test 33
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Question 1
Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?
Question 2
Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology “May Sky” ?
Question 3
In his essay “The Symbolism of Poetry,” William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?
Question 4
Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?
Question 5
Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?
Question 6
In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?
Question 7
Which of the following events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939 ?
Question 8
Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire’s symbolist poem “Correspondences” ?
Question 9
Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
Question 10
Complete the following sentence. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?