English Literature Mcqs — Test 19
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Question 1
Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
Question 2
Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?
Question 3
Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
Question 4
Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?
Question 5
Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
Question 6
According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
Question 7
Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pound’s poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” ?
Question 8
In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?
Question 9
What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro” ?
Question 10
Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?