A. The Great Depression
B. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939
C. The Russian Civil War
D. World War I
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - Maria Steward believe that black woman are crucial to the uplift of black Americans. Why ?
A. They have the power to fix things themselves
B. Men are more powerful
C. Both are correct
D. None of the above - The turbulent years of the 14th century witnessed a blending of language and culture that led to the rise of Middle English. Which of the following events led to the nickname “the era of catastrophes” ?
A. The Hundred Years War
B. The Great Schism
C. The Black Plague
D. All of these answers - The American Renaissance overlapped the time period, in which American writers were trying to____________?
A. Postmodern; end slavery.
B. Colonial; end patriotism for England.
C. Modernism; end individualism.
D. Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England. - Expressed in Elizabethan poetry as well as court rituals and events, a cult of_________formed around Elizabeth and dictated the nature of relations between herself and her court ?
A. ignominy
B. unwarranted abuse
C. odium
D. love - Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language ?
A. Concord
B. Gerund
C. Phrase structure
D. None of the above - 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. - Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s poem “Black Woman” ?
A. This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.
B. This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.
C. This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.
D. The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors. - Which of the following events occur(s) at some point in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?
A. Satan contemplates his reflection in a pool of water.
B. Adam contemplates his reflection in a pool of water.
C. Eve contemplates her reflection in a pool of water.
D. All of these
