English Literature MCQs

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Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKay’s poem “The Harlem Dancer” ?


aIt is an English sonnet.

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bIt is an Italian sonnet.

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cIt is a Spenserian sonnet.

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dIt is a free verse poem.

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View Answer It is an English sonnet.

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” ?


a It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

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bIt is the racial segregation in the South.

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cIt is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.

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dIt is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.

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View Answer It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.

Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pound’s poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” ?


aIt is primarily a narrative poem.

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bIt uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.

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c It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.

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d Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.

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View Answer It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.

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 ?


aMost modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.

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bMany languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.

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cIndividuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.

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dAll of these answers

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View Answer Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.

Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?


aSiegfried Sassoon

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bIsaac Rosenberg

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c Wilfred Owen

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dAll of these answers

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View Answer All of these answers

Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?


aStevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.

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b Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.

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cStevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.

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dStevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.

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View Answer Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.

Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?


aThe image of a sentinel

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bThe image of the sun reflected on the sea

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c The image of a quest for knowledge

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dThe image of satiny embers

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View Answer The image of the sun reflected on the sea

Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?


aaround 1900.

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bin the early stages of World War I.

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cin the late stages of World War I.

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din the 1920s.

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View Answer in the late stages of World War I.

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 ?


a H.D.

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bHart Crane

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cWilliam Carlos Williams

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dT.S. Eliot

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View Answer Hart Crane

Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?


aThe diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic.

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bThe use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality.

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cIt is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers.

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d This poem is structured like a villanelle.

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View Answer The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality.

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