Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

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1. Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?

   A. women’s rights and suffrage
   B. child labor
   C. chartism
   D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians

2. Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”) is false ?

   A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.
   B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”
   C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.
   D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem.

3. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?

   A. the Behnites
   B. the bluestockings
   C. the coteries of plenty
   D. the Pre-Raphaelites

4. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?

   A. the bluestockings
   B. the coteries of plenty
   C. the Pre-Raphaelites
   D. the tattlers and spectators

5. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

6. Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “To Victory” is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?

   A. His safe return home
   B. The defeat of the Germans
   C. His death and escape from suffering.
   D. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

7. Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?

   A. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.
   B. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.
   C. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
   D. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.

8. What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?

   A. They both address the theme of death.
   B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
   C. They are both set in rural New England.
   D. All of these answers

9. Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?

   A. His political views
   B. His will to imaginative freedom
   C. His will to sexual freedom
   D. Both B and C

10. In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?

    A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
    B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
    C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
    D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this