A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living
Related Mcqs:
- According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house
B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive
C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment
D. All of the above - Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea behind Anthony DiMatteo’s essay, “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’” ?
A. Hamlet is a tragedy focusing on the plight of the early-modern self.
B. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects Shakespeare’s own political circumstances.
C. Hamlet is a tragedy that focuses on the Elizabethan era’s loss of faith in humanity’s ability to govern itself without violence.
D. Hamlet is a tragedy that reflects upon enlightened and progressive political systems that developed during Shakespeare’s time. - Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
A. H.D.
B. Hart Crane
C. William Carlos Williams
D. T.S. Eliot - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - John Milton deliberately distanced himself from the poets, a group of poets known for their light, elegant style and frivolous content ?
A. Romantic
B. Victorian
C. Cavalier
D. Enlightenment - The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the ?
A. Puritan movement
B. Romantic revival
C. Neo-classical age
D. Metaphysical school - How many poets were included in Jhonson’s ‘The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets’ ?
A. 48
B. 50
C. 52
D. 54 - ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by________________?
A. Arnold
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Shelley
D. None of these - The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
A. Identify the Mode of Development
B. Analysis of the Author
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
D. Identify External Factors Related to the Work - The statements below are steps on “How to Read and Understand an Expository Essay”. Which comes in as an initial thing to do before writing an expository essay ?
A. Identify the Mode of Development
B. Analysis of the Author
C. Subsequent Readings/Reviews
D. All of the above answers are correct.
