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81. Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?
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A. around 1900.

B. in the 1920s.

C. in the late stages of World War I.

D. in the early stages of World War I.

82. Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism ?
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A. Stein was primarily a muse for modernist poets.

B. Stein was a proponent of low modernism.

C. Stein was a crucially important figure in the Paris migr community.

D. Stein was an opponent of vanguard trends.

83. Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?
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A. The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europes cultural and political norms and values into question.

B. The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.

C. World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.

D. Both A and B

84. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?
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A. The Italian Futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.

B. All of these answers

C. The Italian Futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.

D. Marinetti and other Italian Futurists supported Mussolinis fascism.

85. Ezra Pounds poem In a Station of the Metro reads: The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough. Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?
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A. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.

B. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.

C. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.

D. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.

86. What does Gertrude Steins term the Lost Generation designate ?
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A. It refers to a group of talented American migr writers who lived in Europe after World War I.

B. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.

C. It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.

D. Both A and B

87. Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies ?
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A. Libertarianism

B. Democracy

C. Marxism

D. Fascism

88. Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Cranes modernist poetry ?
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A. French Classicism

B. British Romanticism

C. American Romanticism

D. German Romanticism

89. In Wallace Stevenss poem The Man on the Dump, one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
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A. The broken dreams of the American migr community in Paris

B. Old poetry

C. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context

D. The failed attempt of modern poetry

90. In his essay The Roots of Modernism, Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?
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A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.

B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.

C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.

D. Both A and C

91. Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Steins poetry and Imagist poetry ?
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A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.

B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.

C. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.

D. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.

92. According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?
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A. Patriotic imagery

B. Apocalyptic imagery

C. Nihilism

D. Irony

93. One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevenss poem Sunday Morning consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
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A. The ideal of courtly love

B. The Renaissance concept of humanism

C. The alchemical concept of the philosophers stone

D. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation

94. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
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A. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with womens rights.

C. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.

D. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.

95. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a late-Victorian poet ?
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A. John Milton

B. Alfred Tennyson

C. Amy Lowell

D. Allen Ginsberg

96. According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, The Strivings of the Negro People, what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
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A. All of the above

B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive

C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment

D. Feeling like an outcast in your own house

97. Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrells 1945 poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner ?
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A. The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mothers womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.

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

C. The 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.

98. 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 ?
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A. Futurist poetry

B. Vorticist poetry

C. Objectivist poetry

D. Imagist poetry

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