Lesson 3.3.1

3.3.1 The Modernist Period (The Great Modern Poets) Quiz: Pearson Edexcel English Literature, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. Which Robert Frost poem contains the line 'Good fences make good neighbours'?

    • Birches
    • Design
    • Fire and Ice
    • Mending Wall

  2. Which William Carlos Williams poem begins with the line 'so much depends'?

    • Spring and All
    • The Dance
    • Paterson
    • The Red Wheelbarrow

  3. Which Auden poem responds directly to Brueghel's painting of Icarus?

    • Funeral Blues
    • The Shield of Achilles
    • September 1 1939
    • Musée des Beaux Arts

  4. Which W H Auden poem features prominently in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral?

    • Funeral Blues
    • Night Mail
    • September 1 1939
    • On This Island

  5. What is a defining stylistic feature of e e cummings' poetry?

    • Unconventional typography
    • Strict pentameter
    • Archaic diction
    • Rhyming couplets

  6. Which poem by Robert Frost ends with 'And miles to go before I sleep'?

    • After Apple-Picking
    • Stopping by Woods
    • Birches
    • Fire and Ice

  7. Which modernist is associated with the 'mythic method'?

    • T S Eliot
    • D H Lawrence
    • Robert Frost
    • W H Auden

  8. Which Modernist poet wrote the poem 'Snake'?

    • Ezra Pound
    • T S Eliot
    • D H Lawrence
    • Wallace Stevens

  9. Who composed the Modernist poem titled 'What Are Years'?

    • Hilda Doolittle
    • Elizabeth Bishop
    • Marianne Moore
    • Amy Lowell

  10. According to T S Eliot's 1919 essay, what must a poet possess to engage with literary history?

    • The historical sense
    • Divine inspiration
    • Objective correlative
    • The romantic imagination

  11. Which modernist technique presents a character's continuous flow of thoughts?

    • Stream of consciousness
    • Dramatic monologue
    • Free indirect discourse
    • Objective correlative

  12. What does the speaker in Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' question the need for?

    • Building walls
    • Paying taxes
    • Farming land
    • Trimming trees

  13. In William Carlos Williams' 'This Is Just To Say', what fruit does the speaker eat?

    • Apples
    • Pears
    • Plums
    • Peaches

  14. Which literary movement is most strongly associated with William Carlos Williams' 'The Red Wheelbarrow'?

    • Imagism
    • Surrealism
    • Symbolism
    • Vorticism

  15. In Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts', how does the surrounding world react to Icarus falling?

    • With deep sorrow
    • With indifference
    • With celebration
    • With horror

  16. What event does the speaker in Auden's 'Stop all the Clocks' mourn?

    • A nation's defeat
    • The outbreak of war
    • The loss of faith
    • A beloved's death

  17. In Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', why can the speaker not stay?

    • A broken sleigh
    • Unfulfilled promises
    • Fear of darkness
    • Approaching storms

  18. Which concept describes the Modernist practice of separating the poet's self from the poem's speaker?

    • Subjectivism
    • Biographical criticism
    • Impersonality
    • Confessionalism

  19. What visual element did poet e. e. cummings famously manipulate in his poetry?

    • Page sizing
    • Typography
    • Illustrations
    • Coloured inks

  20. Between which approximate dates is the literary Modernist movement generally recognised?

    • 1780 to 1830s
    • 1900 to 1930s
    • 1850 to 1880s
    • 1960 to 1990s

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