English MCQs — Test 35
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Question 1
Yeats’s “Song of Wandering Aengus” ends with the lines: “And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun.” Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?
Question 2
Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?
Question 3
Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?
Question 4
Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?
Question 5
What is the central theme of Keith Douglas’s “How to Kill” ?
Question 6
Which of the following natural forces “speaks” in the culminating passage of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” ?
Question 7
“How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another.” ?
Question 8
Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot’s concept of the “objective correlative” ?
Question 9
Which of the following writers authored the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est?”
Question 10
Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic technique ?