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Test 8

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1. During 1860-1914, the U.S.A was transformed into an _______nation and by 1914 became the
world’s wealthiest country.
a. industrial b. agricultural c. militant d. declining
2. _______, the greatest humorist and satirist of nineteenth century literature wrote The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
a. Mark Twain b. Walt Whitman c. Thoreau d. Hawthorne
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer reveals the American values of hero complex, and
American______.
a. dream b. life c. culture d. society
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the realization of American ______, an important theme of
American literature.
a. dream b. life c. culture d. society
5. ________(1871-19), known for realism and naturalism, believed in effects of environment,
heredity and chance on human fate.
a. Henry James b. Stephen Crane c. Hemingway d. Malamud
6. Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is considered the first ________novel in America.
a. naturalistic b. realistic c. adventurous d. science
fiction
7. ________ (1843-1916) is believed to be the greatest American novelist of second half of 19th
Century.
a. Henry James b. Stephen Crane c. Hemingway d. Malamud
8. Main themes of Henry James’ fiction are innocence and exuberance of _________contrasted
with corruption and wisdom of Europe.
a. France b. England c. America d. Australia
9. Major novels of __________are The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Turn of the
Screw.
a. Henry James b. Stephen Crane c. Hemingway d. Malamud
10. ‘International theme’ in ______ novels refer to the conflicts between New and Old world,
traditional, innocent, honest American and complex, sophisticated, snobbish, arrogant, vain
Europeans.
a. Henry James’ b. Crane’s c. Hemingway’s d. Malamud’s
11. Henry James wrote ________to his novels that formulated the theory of modern fiction.
a. prefaces b. introduction c. foreword d. commentary
12. ______, the centre of Puritans, consisted of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island.
a.Boston b. New York c. American South d. New England
13. Puritanism in New England made a great influence on ________culture.
a. English b. Irish c. American d. Spanish
14. The Puritans hoped to build "a city upon _____"—an ideal community.
a.sea b. water c. hill d. desert
15. New England established an American tradition: strain of often intolerant ________.
a. socialism b. communism c. capitalism d. moralism
16. The Puritans believed that government should enforce God's______.
a. morality b. vision c. aesthetics d. creation
17. In the 1950s, the _______ writers, in expression of disaffection with “official” American life,
were brutally and directly dominant.
a. Beat b. Jazz c. Lost d. Socialist
18. The so-called “_______ Generation,” though not expatriate like the Lost Generation, were
alienated—feeling like foreigners in their own country.
a. Beat b. Jazz c. Lost d. Socialist
19. Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is saturated with the pride of the persona himself and with the
vehemence of the audacity of________.
a. equality b. fraternity c. honesty d. freedom
20. The persona, the “I” in the poem, is Walt Whitman, is every _______and is every human being.
a. Indian b. African c. American d. European
21. The “Song of Myself”, is the song of________, in terms of the sense and the sound.
a. individuality b. success c. creation d. oneness
22. Walt Whitman and Gerald Manley Hopkins did more and better than anyone else to develop
_________ to maturity.
a. free verse b. novel c. blank verse d. elegy
23. Imagism grew out of the ________Movement in 1912 and was initially led by Ezra Pound, Amy
Lowell, and others.
a. Symbolist b. Dadaism c. Chartism d. Cynicism
24. The Imagist manifesto showed three Imagist poetic principles: direct treatment of the “thing”,
exclusion of _________ words, the rhythm of the musical phrase rather than the sequence of a
metronome.
a. superfluous b. superficial c. metrical d. technical
25. An anthology of modern poetry, Some Imagist Poets, was edited by______.
 a. Amy Lowell b. Ezra Pound c. T.S. Eliot d. Hilda Do little
26. T.E. Hulme’s group of ____________ poets experimented with poetry in the oriental manners.
a. imagists b. impressionist c. expressionist d. traditional
27. The themes of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), are wholly original, grew from her
_________experiences.
a. political b. social c. economic d. personal
28. The major themes of Emily Dickinson’s poetry besides_______ are love, nature, friendship,
immortality, war, god, religious belief, humor, literature, music and art.
a. marriage b. money c. psychology d. death
29. Dickinson thinks that it was the poet’s duty to express abstract ideas through concrete, vivid and
fresh______.
b. thought b. concepts c. words d. imagery
30. In her poem, ‘Because I Couldn’t Stop for Death’, Dickinson presents _______ as a gentleman
taking a lady for a drive.
c. marriage b. money c. psychology d. death
31. In her poem, ‘I Heard a Fly Buzz---when I died,’ the poetess made use of a very strange image of
a _______to symbolize her last touch with the human world and, moreover, the perspective of a
decaying corpse.
a.Soul b. society c. fly d. world
32. Robert Frost (1874-1963) was ______poet laureate in America as he read his poem at the
presidential inauguration of John Kennedy.
a. unofficial b. official c. first d. last
33. The major themes of________’s poetry include nature, man’s relation to the natural world,
men’s relations to each other.
a. Wilbur b. Pound c. Eliot d. Robert Frost
34. Frost used a carefully selected and reconstructed ________as a symbolic microcosm of the
natural world.
a.America b. England c. Italy d. New England
35. Frost believes that in ______every man must, sooner or later, learn to do with a diminished
thing.
a. nature b. universe c. home d. heaven
36. Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ is concerned with the important _____which one must make
in life.
a.points b. decisions c. wishes d. letters
37. ‘The Road Not Taken’ shows that one must give up one desirable thing in order to _________the
other.
a. possess b. desire c. give up d. lose
38. ‘After Apple Picking’ shows the conflict between the _____and desire of apple picking.
a. hope b. innocence c. childhood d. sleep
39. ‘Good fences make good neighbors’ are contradicted by the speaker of the poem, __________ .
a. Birches b. Mending Wall c. Road Not Taken d. Home Burial
40. The Ariel, The Colossus and Crystal Gazer are the poetic works of ______.
a. Adriene Rich b. Sylvia Plath c. Emily Bronte d. Emily Dickinson
41. The female speaker in the poem, ________, asserts herself after her failed suicidal attempt.
a. Lady Lazarus b. Stings c. Ariel d. The Bee Box
42. The speaker of The Lady Lazarus is reborn as a mythological creature capable of ____men.
a. mocking b. competing c. eating d. loving
43. The female speaker of Lady Lazarus represents the creative force or ________spirit.
a. inventive b. submissive c. liberating d. heroic
44. The myth of Lazarus is transformed in Lady Lazarus into the myth of the reincarnating______.
a. phoenix b. soul c. stone d. evil
45. Plath refers to “a ______lampshade” in her poem, Lady Lazarus.
a. Nazi b. German c. American d. British
46. One of the significant themes of Plath’s poems is __________the limits.
a. prescribing b. describing c. transcending d. confining
47. Lady Lazarus is a call of ________from the spiritless life, slavery of system and structure, and
ceaseless suffering.
a. resurrection b. romance c. challenge d. defeat
48. Lady Lazarus shows that the suffering woman is a great ______to men or their patriarchal
system.
a. blessing b. threat c, hope d. pleasure
49.The speaker of "Daddy" is obsessed with________, her father's ______, and her own.
a. happiness b. mortality c. immortality d. eternity
50. The father-daughter relationship in “Daddy” is a metaphor for _________relationships in
general.
a. husband-wife b. high-low c. male-female d. son-mother
51. Robert Lowell, W.D Snodgrass, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton are famous _____ poets.
a. confessional b. postmodern c. women d. romantic
52. Confessional poetry presents “a public and sometimes ______display of private and personal
matter.”
a. fantastic b. exaggerated c. painful d. critical
53. Plath’s poem, _______, is one of her bee-poems.
a. Stings b. Ariel c. Daddy d. Lady Lazarus
54. "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" provides a postmodern response to the 16th century painting of
the same name by the Italian artist_________.
a. Parmigianino b. Raphael c. Picasso d.Micahel Angeloue
55. Parmigianino decided to draw _______as he appeared in a barber's convex glass.
a. his mistress b. his soul c. himself d. none of these
56. Each verse paragraph of “Self-Portrait in the Convex Mirror” represents a break in the poet’s
attention as his thoughts move toward and away from the______.
a. concept b. painting c. culture d. image
57. Parmigianino, an Italian Renaissance painter, was associated with __________.
a. Imagism b. Mannerism c. Cubism d. Surrealism
58. Ashbery’s work is characterized by originality, _________elegance, and dark themes of death
and terror.
a.charismatic b. impressionistic c. perfect d. youthful
59. Some critics believe that Ashbery’s poems are like abstract ______in words.
a. paintings b. theories c. concepts d. none of these
60. In ‘Morning Song’ the mother is in the process of caring for her _____which requires a
significant amount of time and energy.
a. family b. husband c. brother d. baby
61. In ‘Morning Song’ the mother is undergoing post partum _________.
a.celebration b. joy c. happiness d. depression
62. Initially, the speaker of ‘Morning Song’ acts as if she is almost indifferent towards the newborn
child because he seems inhuman. Then, her indifference turns to _________at the child’s needs.
a.happiness b. joys c. celebration d. annoyance
63. The baby’s first words reinforce the mother’s ______for the child.
a. love b. hate c. indifference d. voice
64. On February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath killed ______with cooking gas at the age of 30.
a. herself b. her husband c. her baby d. her father
65. Adrienne Rich was born on May 16, 1929 in Baltimore Maryland to Dr. Arnold Rich, Professor
of________, and Helen Rich, pianist and composer.
a.English b. Philosophy c. Anthropology d. Pathology
66. Rich’s first book, A Change of World (1951), had been selected by _______for the Yale
Younger Poets Prize.
a.T.S.Eliot b. W.H. Auden c. Ezra Pound d. Wallace Stevens
67. In Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law, where Rich expressed her political activism towards
women’s ______and social roles.
a. domestic b. historical c. cultural d. political
68. Rich’s poem, “Aunt ______'s Tigers" offers an image of power revealed and restrained by
domestic arts.
a. Jennifer b. Merriam c. Rebecca d. Ruth
69. The tigers display in needlework the values that Aunt Jennifer must ______or displace in life:
strength, assertion, fearlessness, fluidity of motion.
a. share b. express c. repress d. present
70. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers", the poem's conclusion celebrates the animal images as a kind
of______, transcending the limited conditions of their maker's life.
a. triumph b. defeat c. loss d. harm
71. Informed more distinctly by a _______analysis of history and culture, Diving into the Wreck
(1973) marks a turning point in Rich's career.
a. capitalist b. Marxist c. feminist d. chauvinist
72. In Diving into the Wreck Rich expresses her anger regarding women's position in
_______culture more directly and alludes to problematic dualities or images of Otherness.
a Eastern b. Western c. Southern d. Northern
73. The book's title poem, Diving into the Wreck uses an androgynous ______to examine a culture
wrecked by its limited view of history and myth.
a. examiner b. explorer c. diver d. teacher
74. Rich advocates a woman-centered vision of ______energies.
a. creative b. critical c. instinctive d. intellectual
75. In 1974, Rich refused the acceptance of the National Book Award for________, claiming to
celebrate it in the name of all women.
a. Diving into the Wreck b. Snapshots c. Love Poems d. A Change of World
76. John Ashbery explores the relationship between _____ and reality in his poem, The Painter.
a.art b. poetry c. theatre d. fiction
77. The poem _______ presents a realistic image of painting a portrait at sea shore looking towards
sea and having a back from the buildings.
a. Melodic Train b. Self Portrait c. Mirror d. The Painter
78. The _____ stands for an iconoclast, a protest and may be Christ of his artistic profession.
a. Melodic Train b. Self Portrait c. Mirror d. Painter
79. Ashbery’s poem, ________, is realistic picture of a person sitting in a train watching the co-
passengers and the people engaged in different thoughts at the intervening stations before the
final destination.
a. Melodic Train b. Self Portrait c. Mirror d. Painter
80. Wilber’s style is a style in a direct line of ______from Wallace Stevens.
a. descent b. ascent c. style d. lineage
81. Wilbur’s style in poetry is unabashedly rich in its diction, _____in its metrical sophistication, and
remarkably light-hearted and playful.
a. devoid b. complex c. urbane d. outdated
82. Wilbur obsessively sees, and shows, the _______underside of every dark thing.
a. black b. nightmarish c. wrong d. bright
83. A Wilbur’s poem is written to resonate with _______experience.
a. personal b. universal c. subjective d. intense
84. Wilbur writes that "the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is
most_______, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men."
a. common b. perfect c. exact d. unique
85. Wilbur admires __________ in his poem, ‘Still Citizen Sparrow”.
a.sparrow b. vulture c. eagle d. pigeon
86. Vulture like _________’s ark purifies the environment.
a.Adam b. Noah c. David d. Abraham
87. ________studies the features of situationally distinctive uses (varieties) of language, and tries to
establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individual and
social groups in their use of language.”
a. Stylistics b. linguistics c. semantics d. phonology
88. Stylistics is the study of _______of language whose properties position that language in context.
a.Forms b. context c. varieties d. function
89. The features of _______ include the use of dialogue, including regional accents and people’s
dialects, descriptive language, the use of grammar, the distribution of sentence lengths, the use of
registers, etc.
a. Stylistics b. linguistics c. semantics d. phonology
90. Stylistics is a distinctive term that may be used to determine the ______between the form and
effects within a particular variety of language.
a. distinction b. difference c. change d. connections
91. The term ________ refers to new information, in contrast to elements in the sentence which form
the background against which the new elements are to be understood by the listener / reader.
a. schema b. lexicography c. morpheme d. ‘foregrounding
92. _______ is an imaginative work of prose, primarily the novel and the short story.
a. prose b. verse c. fiction d. novel
93. The purpose of fiction is to entertain as well as enlighten the reader by providing a deeper
understanding of the human _________.
a. moral b. values c. condition d. desires
94. _________is an extended work of fiction having a wider range of characters and a more complex
plot.
a. short story b. novel c. nonfiction d. tale
95. ______ is a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea or generalization about
life.
a. symbol b. allegory c. fantasy d. gothic
96. Fable is a short, simple story that teaches a lesson. A fable usually includes _____that talk and
act like people.
a. men b. women c. animals d. fairies
97. A fairy tale is a story written for, or told to, children that includes elements of ___and magical
folk such as fairies, elves, or goblins.
a. magic b. reality c. truth d. art
98. A hackneyed theme, plot, or situation in fiction or drama is referred as _________.
a. repetition b. cliché c. classical d. historical
99. In narration, the struggle between the opposing forces that moves the plot forward is
called_________.
a. conflict b. war c. contest d. exposition
100. The high point, or turning point, in a story, usually the most intense point near the end of
a story, is called _______.
a. peak b. climax c. height d. end