1. : Ezra Pound was born in ____.
(A) Boston, Massachusetts
(B) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(C) Davenport, Iowa
(D) Hailey, Idaho
2. : Name the friends and literary associates of Ezra Pound.
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Edwardo Arlington Robinson
(C) William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Hilda Doolittle
(D) T.S. Eliot
3. : Who had an impact on Pound’s literary principles?
(A) American poets
(B) Greek poets and philosophers
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) T.E. Hulme
4. : 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 ancestry
(C) The ancient nations with their heritage pulled him
(D) He felt comfortable in Europe
5. : Ezra Pound was well versed in
(A) Greek literature
(B) Ancient Indian scriptures
(C) Anglo-Saxon, Italian, and Chinese literatures
(D) Egyptian literature
6. : 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
(C) Metaphoric
(D) Freshness and vitality
7. : Pound has translated extensively from
(A) Italian
(B) French
(C) Greek
(D) Chinese
8. : What elements make Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” complex?
(A) The allusions
(B) The far-reaching allusions, and use of the pattern of associations
(C) A complex matter needs complex style
(D) Complexity in structure
9. : 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
(C) H.D. Thoreau
(D) Ezra Pound
10. : What is the first poem that made Ezra Pound famous?
(A) “A Virginal”
(B) “Ballad of the Goodly Fere”
(C) “Cantos”
(D) “A Pact”
11. : Who is the good companion in this ballad?
(A) Simon, the disciple
(B) The poet of Christ
(C) Jesus Christ
(D) The Americans
12. : The “goodly Fere” was whose friend?
(A) Of man in desperation
(B) Of man, wind and sea
(C) Mankind of man
(D) The whole world
13. : Which of the following best describes the “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” by Pound?
(A) Richness of imagery
(B) Extensive sources and references
(C) Combination of variety of elements into a great poem
(D) Variety and profundity, sustained perfection, and powerful execution
14. : What secures Edgar Lee Master’s position in American poetry?
(A) Simplicity
(B) Dramatic monologue
(C) A new diction
(D) Short poems
15. : Edgar Lee Masters became famous because of
(A) Across Spoon River
(B) The Tide of Time
(C) The New Spoon River
(D) Spoon River Anthology
16. : Spoon River Anthology is a significant work of Masters in which he writes about
(A) Lives of the dead
(B) Free-verse epitaphs revealing the secret lives of the persons buried in Midwestern cemetery
(C) Simplicity is the characteristic value of the poem
(D) Direct and revealing
17. : When was Carl Sandburg born?
(A) 1991
(B) 1878
(C) 1900
(D) 1915
18. : What is the ancestry of Carl Sandburg?
(A) Polish
(B) German
(C) Swedish immigrants
(D) Holland
19. : What is the language of Carl Sandburg?
(A) Swedish
(B) Swedish in childhood, learned English later
(C) German
(D) Polish
20. : “Chicago” is written by _____.
(A) Edgar Lee Masters
(B) Wallace Stevens
(C) Carl Sandburg
(D) Archibald Macleish
21. : What made “Chicago” so well-known?
(A) An ode in free verse to celebrate the spirit of the city
(B) A profane city
(C) An ode to a wicked and brutal city with lots of grit
(D) The second-largest city with its weakness and strength
22. : What are the new features in “Chicago”?
(A) New verse pattern
(B) Close to the mind and heart of the Americans
(C) A direct impact because of the theme
(D) Language of the people and rhythm of the Midwest speech
23. : What were the achievements of Carl Sandburg in his poetry, especially “Chicago”?
(A) A sense of immediacy, hopes, and fears of the people
(B) People’s poem
(C) Depicts the life and songs of the people
(D) Voice of the people
24. : What qualities attracted Americans towards Sandburg’s poetry?
(A) Poetic insight
(B) Breaking from tradition and evolving his own technique
(C) The new poetic technique
(D) Phrasing
25. : 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
(C) William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Archibald Macleish
(D) Archibald Macleish, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Allan Poe
26. : Which following features describes “Chicago poets” best?
(A) Oral and bardic tradition
(B) Free Verse
(C) Hymnal
(D) Cadence
27. : Which following poetic qualities describe Sandburg’s poetry best?
(A) Robust like Whitman’s poetry
(B) A rebel against conventional poetry
(C) Genuine rhythm and Midwest ballad song
(D) Love for the real resilience of the working-class people
28. : Whose monumental biography Sandburg wrote making him famous?
(A) George Washington
(B) Thomas Jefferson
(C) Andrew Jackson
(D) Abraham Lincoln
29. : Where did Carl Sandburg find happiness?
(A) On the bank of Desplaines River
(B) Statue of Liberty
(C) Niagara Falls
(D) Southern deserts
30. : 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
(C) Democracy
(D) Napoleons and Hitlers die, mankind lives on
31. : How best can these lines from “Fog” be described?
(A) Illusory
(B) Idealistic
(C) Delicate and realistic
(D) Fake
32. : How does the “Fog,” according to Carl Sandburg, leave the city and harbor after sneakily arriving?
(A) As quickly as it comes
(B) Gradually
(C) Lingeringly
(D) Hastily
33. : When was Robert Frost born?
(A) 1884
(B) 1978
(C) 1874
(D) 1871
34. : What is Robert Frost’s ancestry?
(A) New Hampshire
(B) England
(C) Wild West of America
(D) New England
35. : What is Robert Frost’s true background?
(A) Poetry writing
(B) Teaching
(C) Lecturing
(D) Shoemaking and farming
36. : Robert Frost aspired to compose poetry that was ___.
(A) As simple and honest as an axe or a hoe
(B) Heartfelt
(C) Truly representative of the American dream
Answer: (A) As simple and honest as an axe or a hoe
37. : 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
(C) Presenting forest and fauna
(D) None of the above
38. : In his poetry, Robert Frost incorporated _____.
(A) Metre
(B) American expressions
(C) Free verse and colloquialism
(D) Imitation of Greek poetry
39. : The greatest explanations for Frost’s poetry is by:
(A) Mask
(B) Ballad
(C) Synecdoche
(D) Monologues
40. : 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
41. : Which Frost poem has the line, “Good fences make good neighbours”?
(A) “Reluctance”
(B) “The Pasture”
(C) “Mending Wall”
(D) “In Hardwood Groves”
42. : Why Frost did not believe in erecting walls to make good neighbours?
(A) Trespassers can’t be kept away
(B) Walls merely mark territory
(C) Neighbour’s pines and poet’s apple trees will never wrangle
(D) Walls create a possibility of mischief
43. : 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
(C) Goodness of man
(D) Universal brotherhood based on love and trust
44. : In “The Death of the Hired Man” Robert Frost talks of:
(A) Human dignity
(B) Pride
(C) Love for farming
(D) Loss of will to work
45. : What does Frost see in the birches?
(A) Tenacity
(B) Life
(C) Suppleness and resilience
(D) Strength
46. : Cummings passed away in the year:
(A) 1930
(B) 1950
(C) 1972
(D) 1962
47. : Cummings was born and brought up in which area?
(A) Boston
(B) Texas
(C) California
(D) Cambridge, Massachusetts
48. : According to ____, “Life, for eternal us, is now.”
(A) E.E. Cummings
(B) Hart Crane
(C) Archibald MacLeish
(D) Wallace Stevens
49. : According to ____, “Always the beautiful answer who asks a question” more beautiful.
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) E.E. Cummings
(D) William Carlos Williams
50. : Cummings was imprisoned because of _______.
(A) Conscientious objections to participation in war
(B) Bohemian way of life
(C) Irresponsible activities
(D) For his bold poetry
51. : What did Cummings write about the Cambridge ladies?
(A) Their belief in theory of best value
(B) Their superficialities
(C) Their ‘coy’ appearance and a life of ‘bandy scandal’ are unrelated fragmented
(D) Beauty, comfort, coyness, lavender are unrealistic
52. : In which poem of Cummings do these lines occur?
“I sing of Olaf glad and big,
Whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
A conscientious objector.”
(A) “The Cambridge Ladies”
53. : When was Hart Crane born?
(A) 1905
(B) 1900
(C) 1899
(D) 1889
54. : Hart Crane belongs to which part of America?
(A) Boston
(B) New York
(C) Philadelphia
(D) Ohio
55. : What is common in Hart Crane and Edgar Allan Poe?
(A) Americans
(B) Dark and troubled life, emotionally disturbed and disintegrated
(C) Committed poets in an established tradition
(D) Great tradition of American poetry
56. : 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
(C) Combination of varied languages and customs
(D) Unity and diversity
57. : What is the significance of Hart Crane’s “Ave Maria”?
(A) Hail Mary
(B) Christian significance in the poem as a prayer, hail Mary
(C) Praise of Mary, the mother of Christ
(D) Prayer for Mary, Christ’s mother
58. : What unique element has been incorporated in Hart Crane’s “The Voyages”?
(A) Organic structure
(B) Music
(C) Image of “adagios of islands” refers to the motion of a boat, the rhythm of motion
(D) Directive and creative