Volume D Study Guide 2025
Multiple Choice (Zora Neale Hurston or Claude McKay)
This author is known for the works Mules and Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God. ZOra
This author quarreled regularly with Langston Hughes and other intellectual leaders of the Harlem community Clauce
This author was born in Notasulga, Alabama and moved to Eatonville, Florida in 1892. Zoru
This author's 1922 work Harlem Shadows is generally considered the book that initiated the Harlem
Renaissance Claude
A biographer later called this author a lifelong wanderer, or "sojourner" of the Harlem Renaissance.
Born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica, and did not become an American citizen until 1940.
Multiple Choice (Best Answer)
What is Miniver Cheevy's ironic dilemma?
He was rich and unhappy
He was born too late
He was poor and happy
He was born too early
"Harlem Shadows" focuses primarily on:
Prostitutes
Orphans
Beggars
• Musicians
"If We Must Die" references which two animals to prove a point?
Cats and Mice
Dogs and Hogs
Cats and Dogs
• Wolves and Sheep
From "The Enormous Room" and Hemingway's "Letter" are both accounts of which war?
• The Civil War
The Korean War
World War b
World War Il
From "The Enormous Room" records:
Months spent in French jails and prison camps
Months spent in a French military hospital
Months spent in a German concentration camp
Months spent in a German insane asylum
How does Miniver Cheevy deal with his problems?
Illegal Drugs
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Overeating
How many wounds did Hemingway receive?
277
227
257
•
200
In what city did Zora feel like she was 'everybody's Zora?'
Harlem
Eatonville
Jacksonville
• Orlando
In what city did Zora first realize she was 'colored?'
Harlem
Eatonville
Jacksonville
Orlando
Match the answer choice to the best description. (William Carlos Williams, F.T. Marinetti, Mina Loy, Manifesto)
Supported the rise of Mussolini's Italian fascism
Called for free sexual expression, and urged women to embrace maternity as a responsibility and aspect of their development
A public declaration of artistic convictions; means "to make public"
A modernist known for disagreeing with all other modernists.
Match the excerpt from the poem / manifesto it is from.
(Manifesto of Futurism, To Elsie, The Dead Baby, Feminist Manifesto)
as if the earth under our feet / were / an excrement of some sky TO ElSiE
Cease to place your confidence in economic legislation, vice-crusades and uniform educationfeminist mani
We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of
here is one who has gone up / (though problematically) / to heaven, blindly deac baby
To obtain results, you must make sacrifices & the first & greatest sacrifice you have to make is of your "virtue"
We will glorify war--the world's only hygiene
Match the modernist with their description. (Karl Marx;
C.P.Snow; T.S. Elliot, Eugine O'Neill; Sigmund Freud)
A British novelist and physicist who divided people into
"two cultures" --science versus letters. CP snow
German philosopher who divided industrial societies into two antagonistic classes, capital versus labor, and whose ideas formed the basis for Communist parties across Europe. Lar I m
Austrian psychiatrist and inventor of psychoanalysis, who claimed many modern neuroses could be traced to repression and inhibition. Simone
America's first 'world-class playwright,' who gained fame in 1920 for Beyond the Horizon. Experimented in new production methods available through technology or borrowed from German expressionism. Eugene
Wrote The Waste Land, identified as the great poem of high modernism, which represents the modern world as a scene of ruin.
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