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Category: American Literature
Who wrote “The waste land” ?
A. Langston Hues
B. William Faulkner
C. Wallace Stevens
D. T.S. Elliot
The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon_____________?
A. A European fairy tale
B. A local ghost story
C. An Indian legend
D. A European ghost story
His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants
Who wrote “Emperor Ice cream” ?
A. Langston Hughes
B. William Faulkner
C. Wallace stevens
D. Countee cullen
Who is the representative figure of the “Jazz Age” ?
A. Sherwood Anderson
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Saul Bellow
D. Wallace Stevens
The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection” ?
A. An act or instance of beginning
B. An of revolting against civil authority
C. The state of one risen from the dead
D. The condition of being stopped
Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include___________?
A. Transcendentalism, Symbolism, and Dark Romanticism.
B. The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry.
C. There were no movements during the modernist time period.
D. Symbolism, Naturalism, and Postmodernism.
Native Son (1940) is written by_____________?
A. Jean Toomer
B. Richard Wright
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Stephen Crane
The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?
A. Panic
B. Pain
C. Calmness
D. content
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