New American Poetry MCQs

Ezra Pound was born in ____.

(a) Boston, Massachusettes

(b) Philadephia, Pennsylvania

(d) Hailey, Idaho

Question’s Answer: Hailey, Idaho

Name the friends and literary associates of Ezra Pound

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Edwardo Arbington Robinson

(d) T.S. Eliot

Question’s Answer: William Carlos Williams,Marianne Moore and Hilda Doolittle

Who had an impact on Pound’s literary principles?

(a) American poets

(b) Greek poets and philosophers

(d) T.E. Hulme

Question’s Answer: T.E. Hulme

Pound moved to Europe for what reason after crossing the Atlantic?

(a) He was drawn by his roots and the literary tradition

(b) He was looking for his ancestory

(d) He felt comfortable in Europe

Question’s Answer: He was drawn by his roots and the literary tradition

Ezra Pound was well versed in

(a) Greek literature

(b) Ancient Indian scriptures

(d) Egyptian literature

Question’s Answer: Anglo-Saxon, Italian and Chinese literatures

What elements did Ezra Pound take seriously and incorporate into his poetry?

(a) Quality of sound and spoken quality of poetry

(b) Learned and ancient

(d) Freshness and vitality

Question’s Answer: Quality of sound and spoken quality of poetry

Pound has translated extensively from

(a) Italian

(b) French

(d) Chinese

Question’s Answer: French

What elements make Ezra Pounds’s “Cantos” complex?

(a) The allusions

(b) The far-reaching allusions, and use of the pattern of associations

(d) Complexity in structure

Question’s Answer: The far-reaching allusions, and use of the pattern of associations

Who made the remark that it is preferable to present an image once in a lifetime than to create numerous works?

(a) Archibald Macleish

(b) W.B. Yeats

(d) Ezra Pound

Question’s Answer: Ezra Pound

What is the first poem that made Ezra Pound famous?

(a) “A Virginal”

(b) “Ballad of the Goodly Fere?

(d) “A Pact”

Question’s Answer: “Ballad of the Goodly Fere?

Who is the good companion in this ballad?

(a) Simon, the disciple

(b) The poet of Christ

(d) The Americans

Question’s Answer: Jesus Christ

The “goodly Fere” was whose friend?

(a) Of man in desperation

(b) Of man,wind and sea

(d) The whole world

Question’s Answer: Of man,wind and sea

Which of the following best describes the “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” by Pound?

(a) Richness of imagery

(b) Extensive sources and references

(d) Variety and profundity, sustained perfection and powerful execution

Question’s Answer: Variety and profundity, sustained perfection and powerful execution

What secures Edgar Lee Master’s position in American poetry?

(a) Simplicity

(b) Dramatic monologue

(d) Short poems

Question’s Answer: Dramatic monologue

Edgar Lee Masters, became famous because of

(a) Across Spoon River

(b) The Tide of Time

(d) Spoon River Anthology

Question’s Answer: Spoon River Anthology

Spoon River Anthology is a significant work of Masters in he writes about

(a) Lives of the dead

(b) Free-verse epitaphs revealing the secret lives of the persons buried in Midwestern cemetry

(d) direct and revealing

Question’s Answer: Free-verse epitaphs revealing the secret lives of the persons buried in Midwestern cemetry

Who is author of these lines?

“But through a long sickness/Coughing myself to death! I read the Upanishads and the poetry of Jesus”

(a) E.A. Robinson

(b) Robert Frost

(d) Edgar Lee Masters

Question’s Answer: Edgar Lee Masters

When Carl Sandburg was born?

(a) 1991

(b) 1878

(d) 1915

Question’s Answer: 1878

What is the ancestory of Carl Sandburg?

(a) Polish

(b) German

(d) Holland

Question’s Answer: Swedish immigrants

What is the language of Carl Sandburg?

(a) Swedish

(b) Swedish in childhood learnt English later

(d) Polish

Question’s Answer: Swedish in childhood learnt English later

“Chicago” is written by ______.

(a) “Edgar Lee Masters”

(b) “Wallace Stevens”

(d) Archibald Maclcish

Question’s Answer: “Carl Sandburg”

What made “Chicago” so well-known?

(a) An ode in the free verse to celebrate the spirit of the city

(b) A profane city

(d) The second largest city with its weakness and strength

Question’s Answer: An ode in the free verse to celebrate the spirit of the city

What are the new features in “Chicago”?

(a) New verse pattern

(b) Close to the mind and heart of the Americans

(d) Language of the people and rhythm of the Midwest speech

Question’s Answer: Language of the people and rhythm of the Midwest speech

What were the achievements of Carl Sandburg in his poetry, specially “Chicago”?

(a) A sense of immediacy, hopes and fears of the people

(b) People’s poem

(d) Voice of the people

Question’s Answer: A sense of immediacy, hopes and fears of the people

What qualities attracted Americans towards Sandburg’s poetry?

(a) Poetic insight

(b) Breaking from the tradition and evolving his own technique

(d) Phrasing

Question’s Answer: Breaking from the tradition and evolving his own technique

Which group of poets are called ‘Chicago poets?

(a) Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay,Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe

(b) Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Emerson

(d) Archibald Macleish, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Allan Poe

Question’s Answer: Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay,Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe

Which following features describes “Chicago poets’, best?

(a) Oral and bardic tradition

(b) Free Verse

(d) Cadence

Question’s Answer: Oral and bardic tradition

Which following poetic qualities describe Sandburg’s poetry best?

(a) Robust like Whitman’s poetry

(b) A rebel against the conventional poetry

(d) Love for the real resilience of the working class people

Question’s Answer: Genuine rhythm and Midwest ballad song

Whose monumental biography Sandburg wrote making him famous?

(a) George Washington

(b) Thomas Jefferson

(d) Abraham Lincoln

Question’s Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Where did Carl Sandburg find happiness?

(a) On the bank of Desplaines river

(b) Statue of Liberty

(d) Southern deserts

Question’s Answer: On the bank of Desplaines river

What is the main thrust in Sandburg’s “I am the People. The Mob”?

(a) Individuals are mortals but mankind or people are a continuity and their end never comes

(b) People make individuals great

(d) Napoleons and Hiders die,mankind lives on

Question’s Answer: Individuals are mortals but mankind or people are a continuity and their end never comes

How best can which lines from “Fog” be described?

(a) Illusory

(b) Idealistic

(d) Fake

Question’s Answer: Delicate and realistic

How does the “Fog,” according to Carl Sandburg, leave the city and harbour after sneakily arriving?

(a) As quickly as it comes

(b) Gradually

(d) Hastily

Question’s Answer: Lingeringly

When Robert Frost was born?

(a) 1884

(b) 1978

(d) 1871

Question’s Answer: 1874

What is Robert Frost’s ancestory?

(a) New Hampshire

(b) England

(d) New England

Question’s Answer: New England

What is Robert Frost’s truebackground?

(a) Poetry writing

(b) Teaching

(d) Shoemaking and farming

Question’s Answer: Shoemaking and farming

Robert Frost aspired to compose poetry that was ___.

(a) As simple and honest as an axe or a hoe

(b) Heartfelt

Question’s Answer: As simple and honest as an axe or a hoe

Robert Frost was known as the first American poet who ___ .

(a) achieved world recognition

(b) culogized shoemaking

(d) None of these

Question’s Answer: None of these

Robert Frost was a craftsman and farmer who enhanced American poetry by including

(a) Metaphor of farming Imagery of seasonal changes

(b) Using his experiences of a craftsman and husbandry

(d) Presenting forest and fauna

Question’s Answer: Using his experiences of a craftsman and husbandry

In his poetry, Robert Frost incorporated _____.

(a) Metre

(b) American expressions

(d) Imitation of Greek poetry

Question’s Answer: Free verse and colloquialism

The greatest explanations for Frost’s poetry is by

(a) Mask

(b) Ballad

(d) Monologues

Question’s Answer: Synecdoche

Who made these lines famous?

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.”

(a) Robert Graves

(b) John F. Kennedy

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question’s Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

Which Frost poem having the line,”Good fences make good neighbours”?

(a) “Reluctance”

(b) “The Pasture”

(d) “In Hardwood Groves”

Question’s Answer: “Mending Wall”

Why Frost did not believe in erecting walls to make good neighbours?

(a) Tresspassers can’t be kept away

(b) Walls merely mark territory

(d) Walls create a possibility of mischief

Question’s Answer: Neighbour’s pines and poet’s apple trees will never wrangle

For Frost no walls are needed between neighbours for he believed in

(a) Man’s ability to walk in light and darkness

(b) Mutual trust

(d) Universal brotherhood based on love and trust

Question’s Answer: Universal brotherhood based on love and trust

In “The Death of the Hired Man” Robert Frost talks of

(a) Human dignity

(b) Pride

(d) Loss of will to work

Question’s Answer: Human dignity

What does Frost see in the birches?

(a) Tenacity

(b) Life

(d) Strength

Question’s Answer: Suppleness and resilience

E.E. Cummings was born in the year

(a) 1858

(b) 1884

(d) 1809

Question’s Answer: 1894

Cummings pass away in the year

(a) 1930

(b) 1950

(d) 1962

Question’s Answer: 1962

Cummings was born and brought up in which area?

(a) Boston

(b) Texas

(d) Cambridge, Massachusettes

Question’s Answer: Texas

According to ____, “Life, for eternal us, is now”

(a) E.E. Cummings

(b) Hart Crane

(d) Wallace Stevens

Question’s Answer: E.E. Cummings

According to ____, “Always the beautiful answer who ask a question” more beautiful

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Ezra Pound

(d) William Carlos Williams

Question’s Answer: E.E. Cummings

Cummings was imprisoned because of _______.

(a) Conscientious objections to participation in war

(b) Bohemian way of life

(d) For his bold poetry

Question’s Answer: Conscientious objections to participation in war

What did Cummings write about the Cambridge ladies?

(a) Their belief in theory of best value

(b) Their superficialities

(d) Beauty,comfort,coyness,lavender are unrealistic

Question’s Answer: Their ‘coy’ appearance and a life of ‘bandy scandal’ are unrelated fragmented

In which poem of Cummings these lines occur?

“I sing of Olaf glad and big”

Whose warmest heart recoiled at war:

a conscientious objector.

(a) “The Cambridge Ladies”

(b) “Among Crumbling People”

(d) “I Sing of OLaf Glad And Big”

Question’s Answer: “I Sing of OLaf Glad And Big”

When was Hart Crane born?

(a) 1905

(b) 1900

(d) 1889

Question’s Answer: 1899

Hart Crane belongs to which part of America?

(a) Boston

(b) New York

(d) Ohio

Question’s Answer: Ohio

What is common in Hart Crane and Edgar Allan Poe?

(a) Americans

(b) Dark and troubled life, emotionally disturbed and disintegrated

(d) Great tradition of American poetry

Question’s Answer: Dark and troubled life, emotionally disturbed and disintegrated

What made Crane an outstanding poet of his period?

(a) Faith in the American principle of unity

(b) Voice of the different peoples into one nationality

(d) Unity and diversity

Question’s Answer: Voice of the different peoples into one nationality

What is the significance of Hart Crane’s “Ave Maria”?

(a) Hail Mary

(b) Christian significance in the poems a prayer, hail Mary

(d) Prayer for Mary, Christ’s mother

Question’s Answer: Christian significance in the poems a prayer, hail Mary

What unique element has been incorporated in Hart Crane’s “The Voyages”?

(a) Organic structure

(b) Music

(d) Directive and creative

Question’s Answer: Image of “adagios of islands” refers to the motion of a boat,the rhythm of motion

What other poetic features are achievements of Hart Crane?

(a) Combination of music of words

(b) Metaphor

(d) Music

Question’s Answer: Combination of music of words

In which poem Archibald Macleish presents his ideas about poetry?

(a) “Ars Poetica”

(b) “The End of the World”

(d) “Empire Builders”

Question’s Answer: “Ars Poetica”

In which poem Archibald Macleish declares? “A poem should not mean But be.”

(a) “Ars Poetica”

(b) “The End of the World” …

(d) “Landscape As A Nude”

Question’s Answer: “Ars Poetica”

When William Carlos Williams was born?

(a) 1880

(b) 190098

(d) 1883

Question’s Answer: 1883

Williams’ poetry can be best described as

(a) Imagism

(b) Metaphoric

(d) Astute workman in language with the rhythm of speech and the quality of sound

Question’s Answer: Astute workman in language with the rhythm of speech and the quality of sound

According to_____ , “an image is not a poem”?

(a) Archibald Macleish

(b) William Carlos Williams

(d) Robert Frost

Question’s Answer: William Carlos Williams

Williams comes close to an American poet in having confidence in man, he is

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Hart Crane

(d) Walt Whitman

Question’s Answer: Walt Whitman

Stevens was born in

(a) Massachusetts

(b) Reading, Pennsylvania

(d) Kentucky

Question’s Answer: Reading, Pennsylvania

Who believed that poetry lies in freedom of expression and not being bound by form?

(a) Wallace Stevens

(b) Robert Frost

(d) Walt Whitman

Question’s Answer: Wallace Stevens

Where Theodore Roethke was born?

(a) Kentucky

(b) Boston

(d) Michigan

Question’s Answer: Michigan

Roethke’s lyrics express

(a) Growth and decay in plants

(b) This imagery pervades his poetry

(d) Development

Question’s Answer: Growth and decay become imagery

Roethke is close to W.B. Yeats in what?

(a) Visionary strain

(b) Great sensitivity

(d) Vision of life

Question’s Answer: Visionary strain

The poem ___ having these lines,

“In moving slow he has no peer./You ask him something in his ear; / He thinks about it for a year”

(a) “The Sloth”

(b) “The Lost Son”

(d) “Elegy for Jane”

Question’s Answer: “The Sloth”

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