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Modern Literature Final

Quiz by Kim Hillard

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  • Q1
    How else does "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" reflect the Modern idea of individualism?
    Prufrock cannot seem to relate to anyone else
    Prufrock Likes to go to parties and meet rich women
    Prufrock is rich and famous
    30s
  • Q2
    At the end of "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" there is a literary reference to "the mermaids" who call to him but do not sing to him. What do they symbolize?
    Death
    His desire to be famous
    The women with whom he cannot seem to form a relationship
    30s
  • Q3
    The peom entitled "Let America be America Again" talks mainly about
    Different marginalized groups in the United States
    Colonization of the Caribbean
    Slavery on the North American continent.
    30s
  • Q4
    The poem entitled "Let America Be America Again" is different from most of Hughes' other poems because he uses
    inventive language that doesn't exist in the dictionary
    multiple voices that talk to one another representing different groups of people in the US
    several dialects of English
    30s
  • Q5
    One of Hughes' poems that uses black American musical traditions in it is
    "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
    "The Backlash Blues"
    "The Dead of Night"
    30s
  • Q6
    In Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son", he writes "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair". In the context of the poem, what does this mean?
    Younger black people are dealing with more problems than older generations of black people did.
    Because older black people survived slavery and Jim Crow, younger black people can keep fighting inequality.
    America has become less racist, so younger black people don't have to worry as much as older people did.
    30s
  • Q7
    Wy does Toni Morrison's Tar Baby begin by focusing on slavery in the Carribean?
    She wants to show that white people have always been mean to black people
    She wants to focus on colonization, and how it has changed the world and the present.
    She wants to talk about how things used to be bad, but they have gotten much better for black people today.
    30s
  • Q8
    In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the main character keeps as many lights on in his place as possible because he
    Wants to steal as much electricity from the company that he sees as unfair.
    Is afraid of the dark because of all the crime in his neighborhood
    Wants to annoy his white neighbors by keeping them up all night
    30s
  • Q9
    When Martin Luther King, Jr. talks about the United States as having a "Schizophrenic personality" when it comes to the question of race, he means that
    the country talks about equality but it does not practice it
    too many black people suffer from mental health problems because of years of racism and discrimination
    the country only sees the violence done by black people and never sees it when it is done by white people
    30s
  • Q10
    The major themes of the Harlem Renaissance involve what?
    Economic Equality and the punishment of the KKK
    Racism and Genocide of Native peoples
    Black Identity and Racial Injustice
    30s
  • Q11
    In Langston Hughes' "The Ghosts of 1619" what two historical events does he make reference to?
    The rise of the KKK and the passage of the 14th Amendment
    Racially motivated lynchings and the Tulsa Race Massacre that destroyed the nearby suburb of Greenwood
    When the first slaves were sold in what would become the United States and the "sit-ins" that occurred in the early part of the Civil Rights Movement
    30s
  • Q12
    The sonnet, "Trees", by Angela Weld Grimke focuses on what?
    God's creation and the blues musical traditions
    God's creation and the lynching of a black man
    Racial injustice and the lynchings from a white person's perspective
    30s
  • Q13
    The Negro Spiritual, "Who is that A'Walking in the Corn?", focuses on what?
    Hopelessness
    Irony
    Triumph
    30s
  • Q14
    In James Baldwin's essay "A Stranger in the Village", he points out how white people in America are different than in Europe (and should know how to better treat black people) because
    They have developed a more advanced form of government
    They have lived alongside black people for much longer
    They have never themselves colonized other lands
    30s
  • Q15
    In Brooks' poem, "The Lovers of the Poor", she compares what to "the wreckage of the middle passage"?
    The women who want to give money to the poor
    The young people sitting in front of the apartment building
    The American Dream
    30s

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