This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Poetry > Modern Poetry And Poetics – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modern Poetry And Poetics Quiz 2 (12 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud's poem "Eternity" undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent? A) The image of a sentinel. B) The image of the sun reflected on the sea. C) The image of a quest for knowledge. D) The image of satiny embers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The image of the sun reflected on the sea. 2. Which of the following poets did NOT write about his experiences in World War II? A) Wilfred Owen. B) Keith Douglas. C) Randall Jarrell. D) Karl Shapiro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wilfred Owen. 3. Which of the following traditions was particularly important in Hart Crane's modernist poetry? A) French Classicism. B) British Romanticism. C) American Romanticism. D) German Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) American Romanticism. 4. Which of the following political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets? A) Slavery. B) American attitudes toward Jews and Israel. C) Capitalism and social inequalities. D) All of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these answers. 5. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Great Depression. 6. Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies? A) Marxism. B) Fascism. C) Democracy. D) Libertarianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fascism. 7. Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written: A) Around 1900. B) In the early stages of World War I. C) In the late stages of World War I. D) In the 1920s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the late stages of World War I. 8. Which of the following poets wrote about World War II? A) Rupert Brooke. B) Rudyard Kipling. C) Karl Shapiro. D) Hart Crane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karl Shapiro. 9. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alfred Tennyson. 10. "How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another." A) Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system. B) Fear of the AIDs crisis. C) Fear of global nuclear war. D) Fear of the economic Great Depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fear of global nuclear war. 11. Which of the following writers authored the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est? " A) Wilfred Owen. B) Siegfried Sassoon. C) Rupert Brooke. D) Rudyard Kipling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wilfred Owen. 12. Ezra Pound's "Cantos" may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound's poem alludes to which of the following epic poems? A) The Mahabharata. B) Paradise Lost. C) The Odyssey. D) The Aeneid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Odyssey. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesMovements QuizzesModern Poetry And Poetics Quiz 1 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books