Question: Professor Hammer argues that Marianne Moore’s poem “England” suggests which of the following ?

• 1. Moore’s emotional and aesthetic attachment to England
• 2. Moore’s harsh critique of the carnage of World War I
• 3. Moore’s particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism
• 4. Moore’s interest in England’s civilizing mission in the world

Question: What does Gertrude Stein’s term “the Lost Generation” designate ?

• 1. It refers to a group of talented American émigré writers who lived in Europe after World War I.
• 2. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.
• 3. It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.
• 4. Both A and B

Question: Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?

• 1. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets
• 2. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion
• 3. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable
• 4. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture

Question: Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?

• 1. The diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic.
• 2. The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality.
• 3. It is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers.
• 4. This poem is structured like a villanelle.

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

• 1. around 1900.
• 2. in the early stages of World War I.
• 3. in the late stages of World War I.
• 4. in the 1920s.

Question: Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?

• 1. The image of a sentinel
• 2. The image of the sun reflected on the sea
• 3. The image of a quest for knowledge
• 4. The image of satiny embers

Question: Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?

• 1. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
• 2. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
• 3. Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
• 4. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.

Question: Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?

• 1. Siegfried Sassoon
• 2. Isaac Rosenberg
• 3. Wilfred Owen
• 4. All of these answers

Question: In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?

• 1. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
• 2. Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.
• 3. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.
• 4. All of these answers

Question: Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pound’s poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” ?

• 1. It is primarily a narrative poem.
• 2. It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.
• 3. It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.
• 4. Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.