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    Modern Poetry MCQs

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    T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. His poem "The Wast Land" has five sections, with "A Game of Chess" being the second part. Modernism was associated with movements like Dadaism, Symbolism, and Vorticism that rejected traditional forms. Modernist poets accepted new subjects but held to traditional forms. A two-line stanza is called a couplet, while a five-line stanza is called a quatrain.

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    T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. His poem "The Wast Land" has five sections, with "A Game of Chess" being the second part. Modernism was associated with movements like Dadaism, Symbolism, and Vorticism that rejected traditional forms. Modernist poets accepted new subjects but held to traditional forms. A two-line stanza is called a couplet, while a five-line stanza is called a quatrain.

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    T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. His poem "The Wast Land" has five sections, with "A Game of Chess" being the second part. Modernism was associated with movements like Dadaism, Symbolism, and Vorticism that rejected traditional forms. Modernist poets accepted new subjects but held to traditional forms. A two-line stanza is called a couplet, while a five-line stanza is called a quatrain.

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    T.S ELIOT got the noble prize in ______.

     1913
     1948
     1925
     1923

    T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Wast Land’ has five sections. Among those ‘A Game of Chess’ is the ______ part.

     1st
     2nd
     3rd
     4th

    The movement associated with Modernism is _________.

    a) Dadaism
    b) Symbolism
    c) Vorticism
    d) All the above

    Modernist poets accepted new subject matter, but they held firm to traditional poetic forms.

     True
     False

    Frost is known as a Modern poet because of his _____________.

     Poetic form
     Subject matter
     Failures in life
     Love of nature

    A poetic stanza with two lines is called a _____________.

     Cinquain
     Quatrain
     Couplet
     Octave

    A poetic stanza with five lines is called _______________.

     Cinquain
     Quatrain
     Couplet
     Octave
    T.S.Eliot dedicated his The Waste Land to :

     Maria Pound
     J.M.Synge
     Arnold
     Ezra Pound

    What does modern poetry have to “think about” in the world?

     AESTHETICS
     GOVERNMENT
     WAR
     LANGUAGE

    Which of the following is NOT an accurate descriptor for the ideal modern poem, as described here?

     POTENT
     COSMOPOLITAN
     SLOW AND CAREFUL
     ARCHAIC

    What type of artist is modern poetry personified as?

     SINGER
     DANCER
     PAINTER
     ACTOR

    Of Modern Poetry” was published during which of the following events?

     WORLD WAR II
     THE GREAT DEPRESSION
     THE ROARING 20S
     WORLD WAR I

    Which of the following should modern poetry NOT do, according to this poem?

     BE MODERN IN ITS LANGUAGE


     MIRROR THE ACTIONS AND NEEDS OF THE MIND
     ADHERE TO CONVENTION
     PAY ATTENTION TO REAL PEOPLE AND EVENTS

    On a broad level, what does modern poetry need to help people find?

     A FAVORITE PASTIME
     LIFE PARTNERS
     SATISFACTION AND MEANING IN LIFE
     A SENSE OF NATIONAL IDENTITY.

    What should audiences express, as a result of modern poetry?


     APATHY
     THOUGHTS ABOUT WAR
     SHARED EMOTIONS
     NEW KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WRITING

    Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets ?

     “Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images”


     “Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images”
     “Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images”
     “Inclusion of natural objects as symbols”

    Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?

     Total freedom in choosing the subject


     Striving for concentrated expression and imagery
     Reliance on the language of common speech
     Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms

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

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

    What century did modernist poetry occur?

     19th century
     20th century
     17th century
     16th century

    Modernist poetry has……

     Open form and some free verse


     References to other cultures or languages
     Many allusions and unconventional metaphors
     All of the options listed

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