What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?

A. They both address the theme of death.
B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
C. They are both set in rural new england.
D. All of these answers

Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?

A. Total freedom in choosing the subject
B. Striving for concentrated expression and imagery
C. Reliance on the language of common speech
D. Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms

Which of the following poets wrote about World War II ?

A. Rupert brooke
B. Rudyard kipling
C. Karl shapiro
D. Hart crane

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 ?

A. Objectivist poetry
B. Futurist poetry
C. Imagist poetry
D. Vorticist poetry

Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s poem “Black Woman” ?

A. This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.
B. This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.
C. This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.
D. The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.

What was the primary significance of “The Book of American Negro Poetry” (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?

A. It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of african american poetry.
B. It inspired harlem renaissance writers to establish a tradition of african american poetry.
C. It presented african american writers to a previously indifferent white audience.
D. It provided literary criticism on african american poetry.

In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?

A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the american cultural context
B. The broken dreams of the american émigré community in paris
C. Old poetry
D. The failed attempt of modern poetry

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?

A. The italian futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.
B. The italian futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.
C. Marinetti and other italian futurists supported mussolini’s fascism.
D. All of these answers

Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?

A. Langston hughes’ “the negro speaks of rivers”
B. Ezra pound’s “cantos”
C. T.s. eliot’s “a love song of j. alfred prufrock”
D. T.s. eliot’s “the waste land

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 ?

A. Curiosity about the past
B. Deference to the past
C. Violation of the past
D. Paradoxically both b and c