Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “what happens to a dream deferred” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?

   A. They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.
   B. They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.
   C. They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.
   D. They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities.

4. Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women, Wine, and Snuff ?”

   A. John Milton
   B. John Keats
   C. P.B Shelley
   D. William Wordsworth

5. Who wrote the collection of poems entitled “The Wind Among the Reeds ?”

   A. W.B. Yeats
   B. Jorge Luis Borges
   C. Mario Vargas Llosa
   D. Charles Baudelaire

6. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Robert Herrick
   D. John Dryden

7. One of Marlowe’s most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?

   A. Anthony and Cleopatra
   B. Hero and Leander
   C. Troilus and Cressida
   D. Apollo and Hyacinth

8. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?

   A. Alexander Pope
   B. William Collins
   C. Thomas Gray
   D. Ben Jonson

9. All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?

   A. Toasting is oral
   B. Toasting is a male event
   C. Toasting glorifies women
   D. Toasting provides cultural identification

10. African American dialects grew out of_______________?

    A. The 1960s protest movements
    B. The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other
    C. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English
    D. Slaves’ attempts to keep their conversations secret