50 tests on a topic “The literature of Great Depression: John Steinbeck, E. Caldwell

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38.What is the point of view for “The Sensible Thing”?

1. 
   1st person limited
   
2. 
   1st person omniscient
   
3. 
   3rd person limited
   
4. 
   3rd person omniscient
   

39. What is the overall tone of “Lucinda Matlock”?

1. 
   Bitter
   
2. 
   Playful
   
3. 
   Sentimental
   
4. 
   Straightforward
   

40. The motifs found in “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” is

1. 
   Rich/poor
   
2. 
   Clean/dirty
   
3. 
   Loud/quiet
   
4. 
   Stormy/pleasant
   

41.The repetition in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” creates a mood, or atmosphere, that is 

1. 
   Strong and violent
   
2. 
   Resentful and angry
   
3. 
   Peaceful and serene
   
4. 
   Longing and sorrowful
   

42.Q. Langston Hughes was born in

1. 
   St. Louis, Missouri
   
2. 
   St. Joseph, Missouri
   
3. 
   Joplin, Missouri
   
4. 
   Hannibal, Missouri
   

43.Alienating, understated, ironic, impersonal, and lacking transitions between ideas are all characteristics of

1. 
   Realism
   
2. 
   Modernism
   
3. 
   Regionalism
   
4. 
   Naturalism
   

44.They saw the new society after war as chaotic, destructive, and meaningless because of their sense of dislocation and alienation from American culture.

1. 
   The Harlem Renaissance
   
2. 
   The 1920s
   
3. 
   The Lost Generation
   
4. 
   The Progressives
   

45.Toni Morrison is known as the Nobel Prize-winning author of ___.

1. 
   5 novels
   
2. 
   8 novels
   
3. 
   10 novels
   
4. 
   12 novels
   

46.Who wrote the famous poem The Waste Land?

1. 
   Allen Ginsberg
   
2. 
   Langston Hughes
   
3. 
   T. S. Eliot
   
4. 
   W. H. Auden
   

47. "As I Lay Dying" was written by

1. 
   Thomas Pynchon
   
2. 
   William Faulkner
   
3. 
   John Updike
   
4. 
   None of these
   

48. Which of these poems is written by Allen Ginsberg?

1. 
   Howl
   
2. 
   Lady Lazarus
   
3. 
   This Be The Verse
   
4. 
   None of these
   

,49.Who wrote the famous poem Warming Her Pearls?

1. 
   Carol Ann Duffy
   
2. 
   Toni Morrison
   
3. 
   Allen Ginsberg
   
4. 
   T. S. Eliot
   

50.Which of these American authors do not belong to the 20th century?

1. 
   Tom Wolfe
   
2. 
   Philip Roth
   
3. 
   William S. Burroughs
   
4. 
   William Hill Brown