Modernism

Question 1

Modernism (date)

Answer 1

1900-1950

Question 2

What are the three main historical events of this time period?

Answer 2

World Wars, dizzy economy and the Great Depression, race and gender relations

Question 3

The Jazz Age (date)

Answer 3

1918-1929 (aka the Roarin’ Twenties)

Question 4

Who said the term “the lost generation?”

Answer 4

Gertrude Stein

Question 5

Name three expatriates.

Answer 5

Ezra Pound, (Gertrude Stein), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 6

What was Modernism’s overarching theme?

Answer 6

emancipation

Question 7

Name three other themes of Modernism.

Answer 7

breakdown of cultural norms, alienation of the individual, and product of the metropolis

Question 8

Modernism themes were _______, not directly stated.

Answer 8

implied

Question 9

THe reader is forced to draw from _______________.

Answer 9

his/her own opinion

Question 10

Emphasis on the ____________.

Answer 10

experimental

Question 11

Who are the imagist poets?

Answer 11

Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H.D.

Question 12

Who are the Harlem Renaissance poets?

Answer 12

Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Arna Bontemps

Question 13

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 13

1924-1929

Question 14

Who were the people of the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 14

Black people whom were often part of the Great Migration

Question 15

Why did black people move to the north?

Answer 15

to avoid the racial segregation of the south

Question 16

What was the Immigration Act of 1924?

Answer 16

This prohibited European immigrants from entering America which opened up factory jobs for black people.

Question 17

Why was the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 significant?

Answer 17

this displaced thousands of African American farm workers

Question 18

What arose in the music industry?

Answer 18

jazz, big band, and swing music

Question 19

Who was a notable musician during the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 19

Duke Ellington

Question 20

A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste

Answer 20

Ezra Pound

Question 21

Portrait d’une Femme

Answer 21

Ezra Pound

Question 22

In a Station of the Metro

Answer 22

Ezra Pound

Question 23

The Red Wheelbarrow

Answer 23

William Carlos Williams

Question 24

This Is Just To Say

Answer 24

William Carlos Williams

Question 25

The Great Figure

Answer 25

William Carlos Williams

Question 26

The Hurricane

Answer 26

William Carlos Williams

Question 27

The Descent

Answer 27

William Carlos Williams

Question 28

The Heat

Answer 28

H.D.

Question 29

Moonrise

Answer 29

H.D.

Question 30

Stars Wheel in Purple

Answer 30

H.D.

Question 31

Chicago

Answer 31

Carl Sandburg

Question 32

The Fog

Answer 32

Carl Sandburg

Question 33

I am the People, the Mob

Answer 33

Carl Sandburg

Question 34

The Grass

Answer 34

Carl Sandburg

Question 35

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

Answer 35

Robert Frost

Question 36

“Out, Out-“

Answer 36

Robert Frost

Question 37

Mending Wall

Answer 37

Robert Frost

Question 38

The Road Not Taken

Answer 38

Robert Frost

Question 39

Acquainted with the Night

Answer 39

Robert Frost

Question 40

A Line-Storm Song

Answer 40

Robert Frost

Question 41

Fire and Ice

Answer 41

Robert Frost

Question 42

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Answer 42

Langston Hughes

Question 43

I, Too, Sing America

Answer 43

Langston Hughes

Question 44

Dream Variations

Answer 44

Langston Hughes

Question 45

Dreams

Answer 45

Langston Hughes

Question 46

Theme for English B

Answer 46

Langston Hughes

Question 47

From the Dark Tower

Answer 47

Countee Cullen

Question 48

A Black Man Talks of Reaping

Answer 48

Arna Bontemps

Question 49

The Far and the Near

Answer 49

Thomas Wolfe

Question 50

The Love Song of J. ALfred Prufrock

Answer 50

T. S. Eliot