THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. John Hersey
2. James Joyce
3. Randall Jarrell
4. Dr.Suess
5. Sylvia Plath
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. Charlie Todd
2. Anne Sexton
3. Sylvia Plath
4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
5. Charles Dickens
Which one of these authors belong to contemporary period?
1. Dr.Suess
2. William Wordsworth
3. James Joyce
4. William Blake
5. Virginia Woolf
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. Robert Hayden
2. Elizabeth Bishop
3. Elizabeth Browning
4. James Baldwin
5. Toni Morrison
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. James Baldwin
2. Arthur Miller
3. Julia Alvarez
4. Alice Walker
5. Robert Browning
When did the Contemporary Period of American Literature start?
1. At the beginning of WWII
2. At the end of WWII
3. At the end of WWI
4. At the beginning of WWI
5. in 1900's
Which one of these novels are not John Hersey's ?
1. Pride and Prejude
2. A bell for Adano
3. The Children Buyer
4. A Single Pepple
5. The Wall
Which one of these books are not Sylvia Plath's?
1. The Bell Jar
2. Ariel
3. The Magic Mirror
4. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
5. Heart of Darkness
Which one of these books are not Alice Walker's?
1. Meridian
2. The Temple of my Familiar
3. You can't keep a good woman down
4. To Hell with Dying
5. Ariel
Which one of these books are not Margaret Atwood's?
1. A Handmaid's Tale
2. The Edible Woman
3. Penelopia
4. The Robber Bride
5. To the Light House
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. Alice Walker
2. Raymond Carver
3. William Stafford
4. Denise Levertov
5. William Blake
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. Li-Young Lee
2. Margaret Atwood
3. Sylvia Plath
4. Martín Espada
5. Elizabeth Gaskell
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. Naomi Shihab Nye
2. Judith Ortiz Cofer
3. Goethe
4. William Safire
5. Ian Frazier
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. Anna Quindlen
2. Sean Ramsay
3. William Harvey
4. Amy Tan
5. Robert Browning
Which one of these authors does not belong to contemporary period?
1. Rita Dove
2. Charles Dickens
3. Margaret Atwood
4. Maxine Hong Kingston
5. N. Scott Momaday
Which one of these are not one of Sylvia Plath's poems?
1. The Colossus
2. Ariel
3. Crossing the Water
4. Winter Trees
5. The Bell Jar
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism?
1. art for intellect's sake
2. art for God's sake
3. art for the masses
4. art for art's sake
5. art for sale
Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
1. Eminent Victorians
2. Jungle Books
3. Philistine Victorians
4. The Way of All Flesh
5. both a and d
With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?
1. eugenics
2. psychoanalysis
3. phrenology
4. anarchism
5. all of the above
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
1. Sigmund Freud
2. Sir James Frazer
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Friedrich Nietzsche
5. all but c
Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?
1. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
2. wireless communication across the Atlantic
3. the creation of the internet
4. the invention of the airplane
5. the mass production of cars
Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound?
1. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
2. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
3. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
4. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility
5. a neoplatonic poetics that stresses the importance of poetry aiming to achieve its ideal "form"
Which poet could be described as part of "The Movement" of the 1950s?
1. Thom Gunn
2. Dylan Thomas
3. Pablo Picasso
4. Philip Larkin
5. both a and d
Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?
1. automatic writing
2. confused daze
3. total recall
4. stream of consciousness
5. free association
Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?
1. stream of consciousness
2. free indirect style
3. irresolute open endings
4. the "mythical method"
5. narrative realism

THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

Multiple Choice