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1920s Test
1920s Test
1920s Test
Name: _______________________
English 11
Sauter Block 4B
Date: _____________
Answer the following multiple choice questions. Write the letter in the provided space.
1. ____ Which of the following is not a theme of modern literature?
a. The individual is alienated and alone
b. Hope and happiness can overcome all
c. The future is uncertain
d. Tensions underlying everyday life
2. ____ Which literary term describes the following: And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled
and rattled
a. Onomatopoeia
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Allusion
3. ____ Which literary term describes the following: At the word, the saw,/ As if to prove saws
knew what supper meant,/ Leaped out at the boys hand, or seemed to leap
a. Allusion
b. Simile
c. Synonym
d. Personification
4. Which of the following is not a characteristic of imagism:
a. Was often written in free verse
b. Allows the image to speak for itself without additional explanations
c. Uses words carefully to construct meaning
d. Is written with elaborate metaphors
5. ____ In H.D.s poem, Helen, why was it significant that the words wan and white were
repeated?
a. This emphasized that Helen was white and beautiful.
b. This emphasized that Helen was dying.
c. This emphasized that all of Greece hated Helen.
d. This emphasized that she looked like a statue.
6. ____ Why could the Greeks only love Helen if she were laid, white ash amid funeral
cypresses?
a. Because Helen had willingly left Greece to go to Troy, causing the Trojan War.
b. Because Helen was the daughter of Zeus and had amazing powers that could have
stopped the Trojan War.
c. Because, in the poem, Helen started to die right after she was rescued from Troy.
d. Because none of the Greeks could stop Helen from dying.
7. ____ How does Eudora Welty explain the action of creating a character?
a. By looking at living people and writing, point by point, everything about their lives.
b. By borrowing bits and pieces from mannerisms, personalities, appearances, and real
experiences.
c. By imagining a whole new world and randomly adding details about characters.
d. By reading about other characters and constructing a character based on that.
8. ____ In Flannery OConnors The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Daughter Lucynell
was not one of the following:
a. An innocent person
b. 16 to 17 years old
c. Learning to say bird
d. Called an angel
9. ____ Why did Mother Lucynell want Mr. Shiftlet to teach Daughter Lucnell how to say
sugarpie?
a. She wanted Mr. Shiftlet to be in a relationship with Daughter Lucynell
b. She wanted Daughter Lucynell to learn new words
c. She wanted Mr. Shiftlet to be Daughter Lucynells teacher
d. She wanted Lucynell to learn how to say sugarpie correctly
10. ____ What reason did Mr. Shiftlet have for asking Mother Lucynell to give him money?
a. To pay for all of the work he has done around the house
b. He needed help to pay for the marriage certificate
c. He said that he wanted to take Daughter Lucynell on a honeymoon
d. To pay for the lunch he had with Daughter Lucynell
11. ____ What type of irony is the following passage in which Mr. Shiftlet leaves Daughter
Lucynell at the diner Hotspot with the server:
Hitchhiker, Mr. Shiftlet explained. I cant wait. I got to make Tuscaloosa.
The boy bent over again and very carefully touched his finger to a strand of the
golden hair, and Mr. Shiftlet left.
a. Hyperbole
b. Situational Irony
c. Verbal Irony
d. Satire
12. ____ Why is it ironic that when Mr. Shiftlet asks God to break forth and wash the slime
from this earth it begins to rain, chasing him into town?
a. It is situational irony because Mr. Shiftlet just had his car painted and didnt want it to
get wet.
b. This is dramatic irony because we know that the hitchhiker had put a curse on Mr.
Shiftlet and he doesnt know it
c. This is dramatic irony because it is as if the rain is trying to wash Mr. Shiftlet from
the earth and we know that he is the slime but he doesnt know it
d. It is situational irony because we dont expect Mr. Shiftlet to call out to God because
he didnt believe in God
13. ____What did the speaker represent in Langston Hughess I, Too?
a. The African American community
b. Freedom to vote
c. Equal rights
d. Harlem
14. ____ What did the table represent in Langston Hughess I, Too?
a. The African American community
b. Freedom to vote
c. Equal rights
d. Harlem
15. ____What is deferred in Langston Hughess Harlem?
a. Dream for equality
b. Dream for new jobs
c. Dream for vengeance
32. What were Mr. Shiftlets views on life and people in The Life You Save May Be Your
Own?
33. Using aspects of imagism as evidence, how is the poem Helen an imagist poem?
34. Using the reaction of the doctor and nurse as an example, describe what is happening in
Zora Neale Hurstons My Worst Jim Crowe Experience and why it is happening.