Modern Movement Test

Question 1

Most famous expatriate

Answer 1

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

Question 2

Attended Harvard but quit after 2 years

Answer 2

John Steinbeck

Question 3

First American to win the Nobel Prize

Answer 3

Sinclair Lewis

Question 4

Wrote “Birches”

Answer 4

Robert Frost

Question 5

Married Zelda

Answer 5

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 6

Decided to be a writer at 14

Answer 6

John Steinbeck

Question 7

Coined the term “The Jazz Age”

Answer 7

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 8

Wrote Of Mice and Men

Answer 8

John Steinbeck

Question 9

Believed poetry should be complex and difficult

Answer 9

T.S. Eliot

Question 10

Famous for writing about laborers and the depression

Answer 10

John Steinbeck

Question 11

The most important poem of the century and who wrote it?

Answer 11

T.S. Elliot, entitled “The Wasteland”

Question 12

Who was heavily influenced by the psychological field?

Answer 12

William Faulkner

Question 13

What lit term means the natural flow of the characters thoughts?

Answer 13

Stream of consciousness

Question 14

Harlem renaissance was a movement in ________ where _______ began to create their own literary renaissance in ________(date)

Answer 14

Harlem, New York where African American in 1921

Question 15

Poetry movement that is dominant

Answer 15

Dramatic Monologue-Imaginism

Question 16

What is Fitzgerald known for capturing?

Answer 16

The gaiety and emptiness of the roaring 20s in his writing

Question 17

What Fitzgerald’s masterpiece was?

Answer 17

The Great Gatsby

Question 18

T.S. Elliot won _____ in ______(year)

Answer 18

Nobel Prize in 1948

Question 19

The early 20th century is often referred to as _______.

Answer 19

Age of Elliot

Question 20

A movement in art and literature that began in Europe in the 1920s that wanted to replace realism

Answer 20

Surrealism

Question 21

major content concepts of the modern movement

Answer 21

Content of Modernism and Genre/style

Question 22

2 authors that earned awards during this movement

Answer 22

T.S. Eliot and John Steinbeck

Question 23

In Winter Dream, Judy says “I’m more beautiful than anyone else. Why can’t I be happy?” What is the significance of this quote?

Answer 23

Judy illustrates the jazz age here. She feels entitled and perfect,yet so empty

Question 24

What are the 4 types of conflicts?

Answer 24

Society
Man
Nature
Himself

Question 25

Divergence

Answer 25

Variance; difference

Question 26

Elation

Answer 26

Celebration

Question 27

Ludicrous

Answer 27

Laughable; absurd

Question 28

Malicious

Answer 28

Intentionally hurtful

Question 29

Mirth

Answer 29

Joyfulness

Question 30

Petulance

Answer 30

Irritability; impatience

Question 31

Perturbation

Answer 31

Feeling of alarm

Question 32

Plaintive

Answer 32

Expressing suffering

Question 33

Reserve

Answer 33

Self-restrain

Question 34

Turbulence

Answer 34

Irregular behavior