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Which of the following did World War I and the US Civil War NOT do for the US? correct answers Stifle the economy's growth What was the purpose of immigration legislation that the US Congress passed in 1924? correct answers To prohibit immigration from Asian countries and set quotas for other ...

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Volume D "American Literature 1914-
1945" Exam

Which of the following did World War I and the US Civil War NOT do for the US?
correct answers Stifle the economy's growth

What was the purpose of immigration legislation that the US Congress passed in 1924?
correct answers To prohibit immigration from Asian countries and set quotas for other
countries

How did WWII help end the Great Depression in the US? correct answers The war
mobilized industry and employed more workers

Which of the following descriptions most closely characterizes the literary and cultural
movement known as modernism? correct answers A loosely collection of international
movements that challenged traditional authority

Which of the following WAS NOT an issue dividing schools of modernist writers?
correct answers Belief in Judeo-Christian values

How did Freudian psychology influence modernist literature in the US? correct answers
Literary characters become individuals trapped in repressive cultures

Which of the following events was a catalyst for the Great Migration in the modernist
era? correct answers The start of WWI

Which of the following phrases best characterizes Marxist theory of society correct
answers Society is divided into two classes which are antagonistic to each other
because one class controls the means of production and the other class provides the
labor necessary to maintain industry

What was the importance of the Scottsboro case of the 1930s for American literature
and intellectual thought? correct answers It revealed the racial bias extant in the
American judicial system

Why did many intellectuals fear the rise of mass popular culture in the modernist era?
correct answers They were concerned that mass culture would create a robotic, passive
population

What was the effects of new scientific discoveries on literature in the modernist era?
correct answers Scientists and writers were less able to communicate with one another
as their views diverged

, Which of the following WAS NOT an influence on the development of modernism?
correct answers Nineteenth-century melodramas

Which of the following is a principal writing convention of modernist literature? correct
answers Textual construction from fragments

Which of the following was NOT an effect of Modernist aesthetics on literature? correct
answers Prose and poetry became indistinguishable forms

Why did most high-minded American modernists become expatriates? correct answers
They believed that the US lacked tradition of high culture and was antagonist to cultural
expression

From what other poem does Eliot take the epigraph to "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock"? correct answers Dante's Inferno

In the opening lines of the poem, to what does the speaker compare the evening, which
is "spread out against the sky" (NAAL9D p. 355)? correct answers A patient etherized
upon a table

Of whom are the women who come and go talking? correct answers Michelangelo

What color is the fog that Prufrock sees rubbing its back and muzzle upon the
windowpanes? correct answers Yellow

Which of the following is not a question that Prufrock asks of his listener during the
poem? correct answers Are my arms and legs too thin?

What item has Prufrock used to measure his life? correct answers Coffee spoons

Which of the following is a decision that Prufrock makes within the poem? correct
answers I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk along the beach

Which character does Prufrock envision that he is? correct answers Fool

What does Prufrock hope to hear while walking along the beach correct answers
Mermaids singing to themselves

Why do the two neighbors meet in the poem? correct answers To mend a wall

How do the speaker and his neighbor proceed along the wall? correct answers They
walk evenly with the wall between them

What is the speaker's neighbor's favorite saying? correct answers Good fences make
good neighbors

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