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WorldWar I drastically changed the political and cultural climate in Europe. Which of the following was NOT among the changes brought about by World War I ?


aGermany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.


bIn the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.


cSuccessful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.


dBy the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.



According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?


a Hughes was very conscious that he was an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing.


bHughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.


cHughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.


dBoth A and C


View Answer Both A and C

Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell’s 1945 poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” ?


a The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother’s womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.


bThe poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.


cThe poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.


d The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.



Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Crane’s modernist poetry ?


aFrench Classicism


bBritish Romanticism


cAmerican Romanticism


dGerman Romanticism


View Answer American Romanticism

Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism ?


aStein was a crucially important figure in the Paris émigré community.


bStein was primarily a muse for modernist poets


cStein was a proponent of low modernism.


dStein was an opponent of vanguard trends.



Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?


aemploys free verse.


b has an undertow of nihilism.


cis chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”


d was composed between WW I and WW II.



Which of the following features of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?


aIt has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd…), which is sustained throughout the poem.


b It is primarily a narrative poem.


cIt is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.


dAll of these answers


View Answer All of these answers

Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies ?


aMarxism


bFascism


cDemocracy


dLibertarianism


View Answer Fascism

Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets ?


a“Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images”


b“Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images”


c “Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images”


d “Inclusion of natural objects as symbols”



In which century was Piers Plowman written ?


a14th


b12th


c10th


d 11th


View Answer 14th

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