A. A group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller
B. A group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I
C. Any American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I
D. A and B only
Related Mcqs:
- What does Gertrude Stein’s term “the Lost Generation” designate ?
A. It refers to a group of talented American émigré writers who lived in Europe after World War I.
B. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.
C. It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.
D. Both A and B - Which of the following is a literary work of “The Lost Generation ?”
A. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
B. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
C. Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”
D. Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols” - Who coined the phrase ‘Lost Generation’ ?
A. Hemingway
B. Gertude Stein
C. F. Scott Fitzserald
D. Sherwood Anderson - “Paradise lost” was lost by ?
A. Eve
B. Adam
C. Both a and b
D. Satan - In ’Paradise Lost’, which angel is ordered by God to drive Adam and Eve out of Paradise? Before he does so, he shows Adam a number of visions about the future of the human race, beginning with Cain murdering Abel and ending with the redemption of mankind through Christ. Who is this angel that has a large role in the finishing chapters of ’Paradise Lost’ ?
A. Michael
B. Abdiel
C. Rafael
D. Gabriel - The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
A. Beat to his size
B. Beat to his stomach
C. Beat to his socks
D. Beat to his Shoe - Who applied the term “Romantic” to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien régime, especially satire
B. English historians half a century after the period ended
C. “The Satanic School” of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
- Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien r´gime, especially satire
B. English historians half a century after the period ended
C. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770) - Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics ?
A. Keats
B. Wordsworth
C. Shelley
D. Byron - In the early books of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Satan conspires with which of the following characters ?
A. Baal
B. Beelzebub
C. Michel
D. A and B
