ENGL 2220 TEST 3
True or False: Yeats, Eliot, and Gordimer all won the Nobel Prize
Answer: True
Upon entering the room where the dead man lies, what does Laura do Tells his wife she is sorry for her loss brings sprigs of lavender kisses him on the forehead none of the other responses
Answer: none of the other responses
Araby is the name of
Answer: the bazaar where Mangan's sister wants to go
"This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood." Who is the speaker in this passage
Answer: the narrator of "Araby," describing Mangan's sister
What is the deeper significance of the young black boy who is killed to Marais Van der Vyver
Answer: the young boy is Marais Van der Vyver's son
From which work is the following taken? "I strove / To love you in that old high way of love; / That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown / As weary-hearted as that hollow moon".
Answer: "Adam's Curse"
"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." This quote is from which of the following works
Answer: "Araby"
"I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom." From which work is this passage taken
Answer: "Araby"
James Connolly and Patrick Pearse led a group of Irish rebels in an uprising against the British. Over 1,000 Irish citizens joined in what Pearse called "an all but suicide mission," intending to establish an independent Irish Republic and overthrow British rule in Ireland. Which poem immortalizes this event
Answer: "Easter 1916"
This work ends with the main character beginning this question, but never finishing it: "Isn't life--?" Identify the work
Answer: "Garden Party"
How many lives were lost in WWI
Answer: 9 million
Which of the following is not true of William Butler Yeats He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 His father was a Pre-Raphaelite painter. He was a major force in Ireland's revival of the Gaelic language He purchased Thoor Ballylee, an abandoned stone tower that dates back to the Norman Age Actually, all of the other responses are true
Answer: Actually, all of the other responses are true
For Yeats, ______ represented the ultimate artistic and aesthetic culture. Of this place, Yeats has said that there is no other time or place in history where "history, religious, aesthetic, and practical were one." What is this place
Answer: Byzantium
"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea, / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown." In this poem, the poet suggests that, like the character portrayed in this poem, we linger in disillusionment until reality destroys us. Who is the poet
Answer: Eliot
True or False: At least three of Katherine Mansfield's books have been banned by the South African government-likely for her stark portrayal of the realities of apartheid.
Answer: False
True or False :In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," T.S. Eliot agrees with Wordsworth's definition of poetry as "emotion recollected in tranquility."
Answer: False:
Which of the following is not true of Yeats' poem "Prayer for My Daughter"
Answer: He expresses hope that his daughter will be grow up to be exactly like his lifelong unrequited love, Maud Gonne
Which of the following is NOT true of J. Alfred Prufrock
Answer: He is comfortable with his appearance and age
Which of the following is NOT true of T. S. Eliot
Answer: He was a British-born subject
This main character in a poem has seen the "eternal Footman" hold his coat (as though he is ready to make a departure) and snicker. Being middle-aged, presumably "past his prime," as he would probably say, he has seen the "moment of his greatness flicker"-his life seems to have slipped past. Who is this insecure individual
Answer: J. Alfred Prufrock
"If you're going to stop a band playing every time some one has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life. I'm every bit as sorry about it as you. I feel just as sympathetic." Who is the speaker in this quote
Answer: Jose in "Garden Party"
Which of the following is not true of James Joyce
Answer: Joyce is a Nobel Prize winner
Which character claims that he or she is immune to "absurd class distinctions" and takes a bite of her bread and butter "just to prove . . . how [he or she[ despised stupid conventions"
Answer: Laura Sheridan
Which of the following is NOT true of Katherine Mansfield
Answer: Mansfield was born in London
"I can see no excuse for deceiving you about these last 4 days. I have suffered seventh hell. I have not been at the front. I have been in front of it." The speaker in this passage is
Answer: Owen writing a letter to his mother
n which of the following poems does the speaker express his joy that even though he may die on a foreign battlefield, some "corner of a foreign field" will be "forever England" because of the "richer dust concealed" there-in essence, his remains
Answer: Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier"
In a poem written by _______ ________, the poet exclaims that women love soldiers only when they're heroes, home from war or "wounded in a mentionable place"
Answer: Siegfried Sassoon
Which of the following issues associated with apartheid is NOT true
Answer: The Immorality Act made interracial relationships legal
Which of the following is not true of "Garden Party"
Answer: The five Sheridan children are the only ones who are deeply concerned about the potential impact a loud and lavish garden party may have on the grieving neighbors
Which of the following is NOT true of "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Answer: The soldier who is killed (and of whom Owen says he constantly dreams) dies of a gunshot wound
True or False: It has been said that "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" depicts a character who is the prototype of the modern man in all his desires-but in all of his failings, as well
Answer: True
True or False: Yeats was a major force in Ireland's revival of the Gaelic language
Answer: True
This WWI poet, ironically, died one week before the war ended:
Answer: Wilfred Owen
"Poppies whose roots are in man's veins / Drop and are forever dropping; / But mine in my ear is safe--/ Just a little white with the dust." The speaker in this poem is
Answer: a soldier awaiting morning in the trenches
The old Lie in "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is being told to
Answer: children
