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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
A. Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.
B. Futurism was a politically-inclined movement, whereas Vorticism was free of all political entanglements.
C. Futurism lasted for several decades, whereas Vorticism was short-lived.
D. Vorticists celebrated technology and industrialization, whereas Futurists explored impending cultural challenges regarding technology and industrialization.
Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?
A. employs free verse.
B. has an undertow of nihilism.
C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”
D. was composed between WW I and WW II.
Which of the following best describes theidea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets ?
A. A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states.
B. A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings.
C. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.
D. A symbol is a description of past realities.
Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.
Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?
A. John Milton
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. Allen Ginsberg
D. Amy Lowell
The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?
A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.
C. These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.
D. Both A and B
Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 “Futurist Manifesto” ?
A. Umberto Boccioni
B. Filippo Marinetti
C. Vladimir Mayakovsky
D. Aleksander Wat
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 events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939 ?
A. The Great Depression
B. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939
C. The Russian Civil War
D. World War I
Which of the following writers authored the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est?”
A. Wilfred Owen
B. Siegfried Sassoon
C. Rupert Brooke
D. Rudyard Kipling
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