Mid Century Quiz

Question 1

Who wrote Paean to Place?

Answer 1

Lorine Niedecker

Question 2

Who wrote Not Waving but Drowning

Answer 2

Stevie Smith

Question 3

Who wrote Thoughts about the Person from Porlock?

Answer 3

Stevie Smith

Question 4

Who wrote Casabianca?

Answer 4

Elizabeth Bishop

Question 5

Who wrote Chemin de Fir?

Answer 5

Elizabeth Bishop

Question 6

Who wrote First Death in Nova Scotia?

Answer 6

Elizabeth Bishop

Question 7

Who wrote One Art?

Answer 7

Elizabeth Bishop

Question 8

Who wrote We Real Cool?

Answer 8

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 9

Who wrote What Were They Like?

Answer 9

Denise Levertov

Question 10

Who wrote Sylvia’s Death?

Answer 10

Anne Sexton

Question 11

Who wrote The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator?

Answer 11

Anne Sexton

Question 12

Who wrote Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?

Answer 12

Adrienne Rich

Question 13

Who wrote A Valediction Forbidding Mourning?

Answer 13

Adrienne Rich

Question 14

Who wrote Ariel?

Answer 14

Sylvia Plath

Question 15

Who wrote Daddy?

Answer 15

Sylvia Plath

Question 16

Who wrote Lady Lazarus?

Answer 16

Sylvia Plath

Question 17

Who wrote Hanging Fire?

Answer 17

Audre Lorde

Question 18

Who wrote miss Rosie?

Answer 18

Lucille Clifton

Question 19

Who wrote the lost baby poem?

Answer 19

Lucille Clifton

Question 20

Who wrote wishes for sons?

Answer 20

Lucille Clifton

Question 21

What is Not Waving but Drowning about?

Answer 21

Gesture patters
Trying to be seen by others bug always misunderstood
Social isolation - dying inside kind of feel

Question 22

What is Paean to Place about?

Answer 22

Mix of nature and divorce
Nature is an escape
Nature and books helped her escape the life

Question 23

What is Casabianca about?

Answer 23

Boy who died with his father in the Battle of the Nile
You can’t be stubborn with love and understand when it is time to move on
Boy died because he didn’t want to leave his dad

Question 24

What is One Art about?

Answer 24

It isnt hard to master the hard of losing - disaster
Instructions to fake it till you make it
What all she has lost, cities, watch, keys - from minor to major things

Question 25

What is We Real Cool about?

Answer 25

Teenagers wanting to be cool Lifestyle will led to death or addiction Jazz June Die Soon

Question 26

What is What Were They Like about?

Answer 26

The Vietnam War Don’t know how the people are because they are all dead (Bombs - b, m, s, sounds)

Question 27

What is Sylvia’s Death about?

Answer 27

Death and talking about breakups How Sylvia left her after all their talk of suicide and dying together

Question 28

What is Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?

Answer 28

Tigers aren’t afraid of anything and women shouldn’t be either Burden of marriage

Question 29

What is A Valediction Forbidding Mourning about?

Answer 29

Ways to avoid mourning A lot of literary devices mentioned Dying in your own way and accepting death that everyone goes through it

Question 30

What is Ariel about?

Answer 30

Name given to horse Not able to hold onto horses neck The sunrise Flying down into hell

Question 31

What is Daddy about?

Answer 31

Plath wrote about her father Compare herself to a Jew and her dad to a Nazi A lot of you and I

Question 32

What is Lady Lazarus about?

Answer 32

Dying. Objective - powerful for her - each time of trying to die A lot of inhuman things happening in this one Simile to 9 lives of a cat

Question 33

What is Hanging Fire about?

Answer 33

How race has affected her life being African American Younger generations speak up about injustice “Mommas in the bedroom with the door closed”

Question 34

What is miss Rosie about?

Answer 34

Power behind the woman who is poor, watching a poor woman and her life from being a rich woman

Question 35

What is the lost baby poem about?

Answer 35

Mother apologizing to her unborn child They were a poor family Promise to never be a bad mom to the other children

Question 36

What is confessional poetry?

Answer 36

“We’re going to talk about everything” Difficult, taboo (need to confess) I = poet

Question 37

Who wrote the film Sweetie?

Answer 37

Campion

Question 38

Who wrote the film Nicky and Mikey?

Answer 38

May

Question 39

ID author: with two children, two meteors, wandering loose in a tiny playroom

Answer 39

Anne Sexton

Question 40

ID author: I was ten when they buried you, at twenty I tried to die, and get back back back to you

Answer 40

Sylvia Plath

Question 41

ID title: it was her tree. She wouldn’t let me up it

Answer 41

Sweetie

Question 42

At the end of Mickey and Nicky, Mikey dies

Answer 42

False

Question 43

ID title: I was much too far out all my life

Answer 43

Not Waving but Drowning

Question 44

ID author: and love’s the burning boy

Answer 44

Elizabeth Bishop

Question 45

The lines, “And love’s the burning boy” and “Love should be put into action appear in the same poem

Answer 45

False

Question 46

The lines, “And loves the burning boy” and “Love should be put into action” were written by the same author

Answer 46

True

Question 47

The art of losing is what?

Answer 47

Not hard to master and no disaster

Question 48

Which poets are called confessional?

Answer 48

Sexton and Plath

Question 49

What is an exaggeration to make a point?

Answer 49

Hyperbole

Question 50

What is Sweetie about?

Answer 50

Kay and her sister Sweetie’s life The tree reference Sweetie dies Kay is very by the book with her life - believes in fate

Question 51

What is Mikey and Nicky about?

Answer 51

Nicky needs help from Mikey who is like a voice of reason to him Mikey takes Nicky all over town to get him killed by the hit man Nell gets abused by the boys at her apartment Nicky goes to see his wife and his kid Nicky goes to Mikey’s house and he doesn’t let him in Nicky gets blown to shreds