English MCQs — Test 34
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Question 1
H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?
Question 2
Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s poem “Black Woman” ?
Question 3
What was the primary significance of “The Book of American Negro Poetry” (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?
Question 4
In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
Question 5
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
Question 6
Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
Question 7
Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?
Question 8
Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 “Futurist Manifesto” ?
Question 9
Why was World War II a defining event in the history of the 20th century ?
Question 10
In T.S. Eliot’s essay called “Tradition and Individual Talent,” he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?