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MCQs 1: Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
The privileging of image over sound
The privileging of rhythm over meaning
The privileging of individual detail over the larger pattern
The privileging of colors over textures
MCQs 2: Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focus
MCQs 3: Which of the following poets wrote about World War II ?
MCQs 4: Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?
Total freedom in choosing the subject
Striving for concentrated expression and imagery
Reliance on the language of common speech
Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms
MCQs 5: Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s poem “Black Woman” ?
This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.
This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.
This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.
The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.
MCQs 6: 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 ?
MCQs 7: Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
The Italian Futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.
The Italian Futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.
Marinetti and other Italian Futurists supported Mussolini’s fascism.
All of these answers
MCQs 8: In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context
The broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris
Old poetry
The failed attempt of modern poetry
MCQs 9: What was the primary significance of “The Book of American Negro Poetry” (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?
It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.
It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry.
It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.
It provided literary criticism on African American poetry.
MCQs 10: Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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