British/American Modernism Test (Per. 4)

What is the meaning of the phrase "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"?

"It is sweet and proper to die for one's country."

The poem below is an example of

So much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white

chickens

Imagism

In the short story "Miss Brill," what is ironic about the following observation that Miss Brill makes of others?

"Other people sat on the benches and green chairs, but they were nearly always the same, Sunday after Sunday, and--Miss Brill had often noticed--there was something funny about nearly all of them. They were odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as though they'd just come from dark little rooms or even--even cupboards!"

The passage describes Miss Brill herself

The speaker in the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" agrees with the statement "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

False

What is the climax of the short story "Miss Brill"?

Miss Brill overhears a young couple criticizing her

The passage below is taken from which poem?

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

"The Second Coming"

What is the central metaphor in the poem "In a Station of the Metro"?

The comparison of faces in the crowd to petals on a tree branch

The poems "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" are similar to William Dean Howells's short story "Editha" because they

critique the romantic idealization of war

The central thesis or claim of the poem "Ars Poetica" is that a poem should

not "mean" anything; it must simply "be"

A central topic in "Araby," "Miss Brill," and "Life on the Mississippi" is

Disillusionment

In the short story "Miss Brill," which item functions as an important symbol?

Her fur wrap

Which is NOT a metaphor in the poem below?

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Death is compared to a dream

The poem "Sea of Faith" references which famous work?

"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

The poems "The Hollow Men" and "The Second Coming" are representative of Modernism in that they

depict a state of societal breakdown and misery

Which poem title contains an allusion to Shakespeare's Macbeth?

"Out, Out--"

What event(s) contributed most to the Modernist sense of disenchantment and despair?

The First and Second World Wars

The effect of the second and fifth lines in the poem below is that the speaker is made to appear

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

non-human, as if his life held little to no value

In the "Second Coming," what does the speaker envision at the end of the poem?

The coming of a "rough beast" with "lion body and the head of man" that will inaugurate a new historical cycle.

Which word best describes the character Krebs in the short story "Soldier's Home"?

disconnected

Which of the following works describes the tragic death of a young boy?

"Out, Out--"

At the end of the poem "Sea of Faith," the speaker

wishes he were, like his student, "able to believe in everything, faithful / and unafraid to ask even the simplest of questions, / happy to have them simply answered."

In the short story "Miss Brill," what is the disappointment that Miss Brill experiences?

She discovers that others do not perceive her as she perceived herself

The lines below are an example of which poetic device?

His sister stood beside him in her apron
To tell them 'Supper.' At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap

Personification

A key theme in the short story "Araby" is that

To our great disappointment, reality is often not what we perceive it to be

The poem "The Hollow Men" depicts a society in which people are

spiritually empty and stagnant

In the short story "Araby," the narrator has a romantic and idealized view of

an Oriental bazaar

Which line best states the lesson we are supposed to learn from the poem "We Real Cool"?

Live fast, die young.

The speaker in "Sea of Faith"

is at first cynical, and then longs for a simpler and more innocent world

The bold words in each of the lines below is an example of which poetic device?

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

alliteration

On the whole, Modernist poetry is characterized by

experimentation

The following passage is from which work?

"There were a number of people out this afternoon, far more than last Sunday. And the band sounded louder and gayer. That was because the Season had begun. For although the band played all the year round on Sundays, out of season it was never the same. It was like some one playing with only the family to listen; it didn't care how it played if there weren't any strangers present. Wasn't the conductor wearing a new coat, too? She was sure it was new. He scraped with his foot and flapped his arms like a rooster about to crow, and the bandsmen sitting in the green rotunda blew out their cheeks and glared at the music. Now there came a little "flutey" bit--very pretty!--a little chain of bright drops. She was sure it would be repeated. It was; she lifted her head and smiled."

"Miss Brill"

The poem below is a ...

The bottoms of my shoes
are clean
From walking in the rain

haiku

Imagism was inspired by what form of poetry?

Haiku

The following lines are taken from which work?

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
He did a lazy sway. . . .
He did a lazy sway. . . .

"The Weary Blues"

Which of the following is NOT one of the "six rules" of Imagism?

"to communicate timeless and universal ideas"

it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

in just

The poem "Out, Out--" ends by commenting on what?

the apparent indifference of the onlookers to the boy's death

Which is NOT a common topic in the Modernist literature we've studied?

Utopianism

The poem "We Real Cool" can be considered an example of

jazz poetry

The lines below are from which work?

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

"The Hollow Men"

What argument does the author of "The Shocking Alternative" make concerning Jesus Christ?

Jesus Christ could not have been a mere "great teacher": he was either a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord.