In 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers,' by Adrienne Rich, we find ...



1. A poem by Robert Herrick begins with these lines:

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Old time is still a-flying

And this same flower that smiles today,

Tomorrow will be dying.

The poem expresses a theme that can be described by one of the following phrases:

a. initiation into evil b. carpe diem c. loss of innocence

d. ubi sunt

2. Thomas Gray wrote a famous poem, the setting of which is a cemetery in a country churchyard. The title of the poem is " in a Country Churchyard."

a. Ode b. Ballad c. Elegy d. Epistle

3. In "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," by Adrienne Rich, we find these lines:

The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.

In these lines, the wedding ring is a "part" that stands for the "whole"– that is, for their marriage. What figure of speech does this represent, when a part stands for the whole?

a. simile b. synecdoche c. alliteration d. metaphor

4. In the poem above, what kind of rhyme is represented in the rhyming of "band" and "hand?"

a. internal rhyme b. end rhyme c. slant rhyme d. alliteration

5. What playwright's works can be accurately described by the following statement?:

His characters never seem to achieve very much. They sit around dreaming

of the past or other places, talking of their dreams and bolstering their present-day ennui with illusions of the future.

a. William Shakespeare b. Anton Chekhov c. George Bernard Shaw

d. Oscar Wilde

6. What poet wrote The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience?

a. Lord Byron b. Percy Shelley c. John Keats d. William Blake

7. What 19th century American poet was an active abolitionist?

a. Edgar Allan Poe b. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow c. John Greenleaf Whittier

d. Herman Melville

8. When Polonius says that "…there is method in his madness," he is speaking of

a. Claudius b. Julius Caesar c. Hamlet d. Shylock

9. In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the title character sells his soul to the devil in order to attain an excessive amount of

a. money b. love c. knowledge d. power

Questions 10-12 refer to this stanza from the poem "Dover Beach"

The Sea of Faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world.

10. Which of the following best describes the situation presented in the stanza:

a. Faith was once watered-down but now it has become something vital.

b. Because of the lack of faith in the land, God sent a great flood.

c. Faith was once a guiding principle in life, giving strength and beauty, but

it has diminished, leaving the world sad and dreary.

d. The sea has reached the high-water mark, threatening to rise to the rooftops

of all the houses in the land.

11. Line 1 contains

a. a metaphor b. a simile c. an oxymoron d. assonance

12. The author of the poem is

a. Ralph Waldo Emerson b. Matthew Arnold c. William Shakespeare

a. d. Algernon Swinburne

13. In Kafka's "Metamorphosis," Gregor Samsa wakes up and finds he has been changed into . . .

a. a lawyer b. a huge bug c. a woodchuck d. a swan

14. Who is the subject of Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Churchyard Bloomed?

a. Ralph Waldo Emerson b. Abraham Lincoln c. Robert E. Lee

e. Adam

15. Anne Bradstreet is renowned for which of the following distinctions?:

a. She was the first published poet in the American colonies

b. She wrote the longest poem of the 17th century

c. She edited all of her husband’s novels

d. She wrote the first play to be performed in New England

16. What Shakespeare character wishes to exact a pound of flesh from Antonio?

a. Richard III b. Shylock c. Iago d. Prospero

17. What novel begins with the following sentence?: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

a. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice b. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

c. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre d. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter

18. Who made a list in his Autobiography of 13 resolutions, the last of which is “Imitate Jesus and Socrates”?

a. Henry James b. Ben Franklin c. Phillip Freneau d. Thomas Paine

19. Who wrote Invisible Man?

a. Algernon Swinburne b. Ralph Ellison c. Richard Wright

b. Herman Melville

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20. What Victorian poem features the efforts of a woman to save her sister from the snares of weird fruit merchants?

a. Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner

b. Keats’ “The Eve of St. Agnes”

c. Browning’s “My Last Duchess”

d. Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

21. Who was a member of the Bloomsbury Group?

a. Nathaniel Hawthorne b. Herman Melville c. Virginia Woolf

d. Lord Tennyson

22. Which of the following often employed the stream of consciousness technique in his or her fiction?

a. Jane Austen b. William Faulkner c. Joseph Conrad

d. John Steinbeck

23. What American poet wrote the famous poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "The Mending Wall" and "The Road Less Traveled”?

a. Robert Frost b. Walt Whitman c. Carl Sandburg

d. Margaret Atwood

24. In what play do we find the line "Beware the ides of March"?

a. Oedipus Rex b. Othello c. Julius Caesar d. Macbeth

25-30 The following writers are often thought of as regionalists. Link each writer with the area that he or she often wrote about:

25. Mississippi ( d )

26. The Mississippi River ( c )

27. Dublin, Ireland ( b )

28. Winesburg, Ohio ( e )

29. Salinas Valley, California ( a )

a. John Steinbeck b. James Joyce

c. Mark Twain d. William Faulkner

e. Sherwood Anderson

30. Who wrote a series of more than 150 sonnets, featuring—among other aspects—

a "Dark Lady" of the sonnets?

a. Thomas Campion b. William Shakespeare c. Edmund Spenser

d. Alexander Pope

31. What Neoclassic poet wrote "An Essay on Man" and "An Essay on Criticism,"

which celebrate the "middle way" and the importance of moderation?

a. John Dryden b. Samuel Johnson c. Alexander Pope

d. William Wordsworth

32. In what language was Beowulf composed?

a. Old Norse b. Latin c. Old English d. Middle English

33. Whose grandfather was a judge in the Salem Witch Trial?

a. Robert Frost’s b. Walt Whitman’s c. Ernest Hemingway’s

d. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s

34. What gothic novel features the turbulent relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff on the moors of Yorkshire?

a. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice b. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

c. William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair d. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

35. Who wrote a famous speech only 269 words long?

a. Carl Sandburg b. Abraham Lincoln c. Cotton Mather

d. William Carlos Williams

36. Who said that there is simply no such thing as a long poem?

a. Robert Frost b. W.H. Auden c. Edgar Allan Poe

d. e.e. cummings

37. The terms "flat" and "round," to describe fictional characters, were introduced by the author of Passage to India and Room with a View. The writer's name is

a. Virginia Woolf b. James Joyce c. E.M. Forster d. D.H. Lawrence

38.What was the name of the jester in Hamlet's household when he was a boy?

a. Osrick b. Yorick c. Rosencrantz d. Iago

39. This British writer wrote of the need for a female writer to have

a "room of one's own." The writer's name is

a. Kate Chopin b. Virginia Woolf c. Toni Morrison d. Emily Bronte

40. Who is the diabolical villain in Shakespeare's Othello?

a. Iago b. Claudius b. Richard III c. Shylock

41. In what writer's work would you find the lines "In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michaelangelo" and "I have measured out my life in coffeespoons”?

a. Wallace Stevens b. T.S. Eliot c. Dante

d. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

42.What British writer compiled a famous dictionary in 1755?

a. William Hazlitt c. Samuel Johnson c. Edmund Burke d. Noah Webster

43. What is the point of departure and the destination in The Canterbury Tales?

a. Oxford University and the shrine of Thomas More

b. The Tabard Inn and the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket

c. Victoria Station and the Canterbury Cathedral

d. Dover Beach and Calais

44. What tragic hero sets out to discover the identity of his father's murderer, and learns that he himself is to blame for the death?

a. Sisyphus

b. Hamlet

c. Doctor Faustus

d. Oedipus

45. The Norman Invasion in 1066 brought more than 10,000 words into English from what language?

a. Dutch b. German c. Latin d. French

46. What kind of criticism is often identified with Carl Jung?

a. psychological b. archetypal c. Marxist d. formalist

47. What play was based on the Salem Witch Trials, but was inspired by the activities of the House Un-American Affairs Committee during the McCarthy era?

a. Arthur Miller's The Crucible b. Ibsen's The Doll House

c. Eugene O'Neill's Morning Becomes Electra d. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

48. What British poet is regarded as a national hero in Greece?

a. T.S. Eliot b. Lord Byron c. Percy Shelley W.H. Auden

49. What novel features Edna Pontellier’s sexual awakening, critique of marriage, and quest for independence.

a. Thomas Hardy’s Return of the Native b. Charles Dickens’ Hard Times

c. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening d. Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man

50. What British writer was the subject of a famous biography written by James Boswell?

a. Alexander Pope b. Samuel Johnson c. William Shakespeare

d. John Keats

51. What American author is frequently regarded as the father of the detective story?

a. Wilkie Collins b. Nathaniel Hawthorne c. Edgar Allan Poe

d. Edward Arlington Robinson

52. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech is an example of a(n)

a. aside b. soliloquy c. heroic couplet d. retronym

53. What American writer is famous for Gothic short stories which include "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?"

a. Nathaniel Hawthorne b. Herman Melville c. Wilkie Collins

d. Washington Irving

54. What British dramatist was the proponent of "Art for Art's Sake" and the author of The Importance of Being Earnest?

a. Oscar Wilde b. George Bernard Shaw c. Tennessee Williams

d. Eugene O’Neil

55. What writer created Victor Frankenstein and his famous monster?

a. Lord Byron b. Mary Shelley c. Percy Shelley d. John Keats

56. What famous twentieth-century British dramatist wrote several "thesis plays" such as Major Barbara and Saint Joan?

a. Eugene Ionesco b. Bertrand Russell c. George Bernard Shaw

d. Christopher Frye

57. What are the names of two of Katrina van Tassel's suitors in "Legend of Sleepy Hollow?"

a. Hoss and Little Joe b. Ichabod and Brom Bones c. Eloisa and Abelard

e. Nickleby and Pickwick

58. Don Quixote's companion in the novel by Michael Cervantes is . . .

a. Pancho b. Lefty c. Sancho d. Falstaff

59. The nickname of the captain of the warship Bellipotent in Melville's Billy Budd

is . . .

a. Starry b. Turkey c. Nippers d. Beauty

60. Prince Hal's comical and corpulent companion in Shakespeare's Henry IV is

a. Oliver b. Falstaff c. Jacques d. Pistol

61. In what play would we find the words "Double double toil and trouble?"

a. Macbeth b. She Stoops to Conquer c. Hedda Gabler d. Hamlet

62. Which of the following wrote plays such as Endgame and Waiting for Godot, which are often identified with the Theater of the Absurd?

a. George Bernard Shaw b. Eugene O'Neill c. Samuel Becket

d. Tennessee Williams

63. Who wrote an epic poem that aimed "to justify God's ways to man"?

a. John Dryden b. John Milton c. Geoffrey Chaucer

f. Jonathan Swift

64. Who wrote a series of books in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s about "Rabbit," Harry Angstrom, including Rabbit Run, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest?

a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner b. John Updike

d. Kurt Vonnegut

65. A distinctive kind of fiction is the epistolary novel, which includes books such as The Adventures of Humphrey Clinker and The Color Purple.

An epistolary novel is made up of many . . .

a. episodes

b. letters

c. flat characters

d. climaxes

66. Who was the wearer of the famous scarlet letter?:

a. Annabel Lee b. Hester Prynne c. Ethan Brand d. Gregor Samsa

67. Who worked for a while as Ralph Waldo Emerson’s handyman?

a. Herman Melville b. Emily Dickinson c. Henry David Thoreau

d. Mark Twain

68. Who founded Providence, Rhode Island–which became a haven for dissenters of all kinds–after being banished from Plymouth Colony?

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Roger Williams c. Nathaniel Hawthorne

d. William Bradford

69. What two British Romantic poets are famous for their interest in the British "Lake Country”?

a. Shelley and Keats b. Byron and Shelley c. Hazlitt and Lamb

d. Wordsworth and Coleridge

70. What Romantic poet studied to be an apothecary and died of consumption (tuberculosis) before the age of 26?

a. Percy Shelley b. William Wordsworth c. John Keats

d. Emily Bronte

71. What Romantic poet frequently used the Scottish dialect and was hailed as a "Heaven-taught plowman"?

a. Lord Byron b. Robert Burns c. Percy Shelley

d. William Wordsworth

72. What did the mariner have stuck around his neck in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?"

a. a tire iron b. an albatross c. a handkerchief d. a rope

73. Who was the author of Poor Richard’s Almanack?

a. Ben Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Samuel Johnson

d. Richard Wright

74. Which of the following was not a writer of the Federalist Papers?:

a. John Jay b. Alexander Hamilton c. Benjamin Franklin d. James Madison

75. Who or what is hailed as a "still unravish'd bride of quietness"?

a. Hawthorne's Hester Prynne b. Marvell's coy mistress

c. Keats' Grecian Urn d. Faulkner's Emily Grierson

76. Roderick Usher is a character in a fictional work by

a. John Steinbeck b. Edgar Allan Poe c. Herman Melville

d.Cotton Mather

77. What 19th century American novel begins with the words "Call me Ishmael”?

a. Pride and Prejudice b. Moby-Dick

c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn d. The Golden Bowl

78. What two “practical necessities” should the founders of a new colony include in their community, according to the author of The Scarlet Letter?

a. a tavern and a brothel b. a hardware store and a haberdashery

c. a jail and a cemetery d. a church and a courthouse

79. In Moliere's Tartuffe, the gullible main characters are rescued from almost certain destruction by the sudden intervention of King Louis XIV, a figure hitherto absent from the plot. Such an improbable resolution is called

a. a denouement b. deux ex machina c. a cheap thrill d. in medias res

80. In "Meeting at Night," Robert Browning uses quite a few expressions that appeal to the senses. For instance, "a tap at the pane" appeals to the ear, and the "blue spurt of a lighted match" appeals to the eye. What do we call expressions such as these that appeal to the various senses?

a. imagery b. oxymorons c. apostrophes d. allegories

The following questions refer to the poem "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (poem will be supplied to you):

81. What sound technique is used in the first and second lines? (Briefly explain your answer.) alliteration—repetition of the same initial consonant sounds

82. What kind of rhyme occurs in line 8 (where stirred rhymes with bird) and in line 14 (where fall rhymes with gall)?

a. end rhyme b. approximate rhyme c. internal rhyme

d. eye rhyme

83. Is line 10 an end-stopped line or an enjambed (run-on) line?

84. Would this poem be a closed-form or an open-form poem?

85. What does the number of lines in the poem tell us about what specific kind of poem it represents? It’s a sonnet

86. In line 5-6, the animal's movement is compared to the motion of a skate, in the phrase "off forth on a swing,/As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend." What figure of speech is used in that phrase? simile

87. Who wrote that “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”?

a. Thomas Jefferson b. William Dean Howells c. Allen Ginsberg

e. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

88. What Pulitzer-prize-winning novel features letters from Celie, a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in the American South?

a. Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby

b. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind

c. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

d. Jean Toomer’s Cane

89. In the poem "Constantly Risking Absurdity," Lawrence Ferlinghetti indicates that the poet "climbs on rime" and that the poet "paces his way." In these lines, the vowel sounds in the respective phrases (boldfaced) are the same. What sound technique is used in these phrases?

a. assonance b. onomatapoeia c. allegory d. eponym

Later in the Ferlinghetti poem, we encounter these lines:

where Beauty stands and waits

with gravity

to start her death-defying leap.

90. What figure of speech is used in the phrase that indicates that an abstract concept (beauty) can make a "death-defying leap"?

a. simile b. allegory c. personification d. apostrophe

91. Would you call "Constantly Risking Absurdity" an open-form or a closed-form poem? open

92. Are the lines in Ferlinghetti's poem end-stopped?

Yes No

93. The title of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun is a reference to a poem written by one of the main poets in the Harlem Renaissance. The name of the poet is

a. Claude McKay b. Zora Neale Hurston c. Langston Hughes

d. Alice Walker

94. The beginning of "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Shelley is this:

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being

What is being addressed and "spoken to" in all 70 lines of the poem? The wind

95. What do we call such a figure of speech, in which something inanimate is directly addressed as though it could hear and speak back?

a. personification b. allegory c. apostrophe d. metonymy

96. What sound technique is evident in words 2, 3, 4 of the first line of "Ode to the West Wind?" alliteration

97. What is significant about the fact that there are 70 lines in the poem, and that they are divided into five sections of equal length? They’re sonnets

98. What novel, written by a Novel prize-winning novelist, includes the exploits of Sethe, an escaped slave who kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured.

a. Toni Morrison’s Beloved

b. Alice Walker’s Meridian

c. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

d. Susan Glaspel’s Trifles

99. The name of the monster in Beowulf is

a. Everyman b. Grendel c. Hrothgar d. Despair

100. In "A Woman Mourned by Daughters," the poet indicates that the mother is "swollen till you strain/this house and the whole sky."

What figure of speech is represented in these lines?

a. irony b. synecdoche c. hyperbole d. parabola

101. In "To His Coy Mistress," the poet writes that "The grave's a fine and private place/But none, I think, do there embrace."

What technique is evident in those lines?

a. allegory b. understatement c. hyperbole d. apostrophe

102. It would be difficult to get the full meaning of Louise Gluck's poem "Gretel in Darkness" if a person were unaware of the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel." What do we call such a reference that an author expects a reader to recognize?

a. oxymoron b. allusion c. personification d. understatement

103. In "My Last Duchess," Robert Browning "invents" a character, the Duke, who does all of the "speaking" in the poem. What do we call such an invented "character?"

a persona b. omniscient c. a dramatic monologue d. an allegory

104. What do we call such a poem (as in the previous question)?

a. a soliloquy b. an ode c. a dramatic monologue d. an aubade

105. In "A Rose for Emily," the narrator presents incidents that occurred many years before Emily Grierson's death. When such a story “moves out of sequence to examine an event or situation that occurred before the time in which the story's action takes place” the author is said to be using a

a. epiphany b. denouement c. flashback d. foreshadowing

106. In Ernest Hemingway's “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” the author for the most part remains “entirely outside the characters’ minds, recording the action as a camera would.” What is the name for the kind of point of view used in such stories?

a. unreliable narrator b. omniscient c. ironic

d. objective, dramatic

107. Although the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” claims to be sane and reasonable, the reader realizes that he is not. Similarly, the narrator of “Yellow Wall-Paper” claims to be regaining her health, but the reader realizes that this is not the case. Such narrators are called

a. omniscient b. unreliable c. ironic d. foils

108. Who wrote Common Sense and the Age of Reason?

a. John Locke b. Thomas Paine c. Thomas Jefferson

d. Abraham Lincoln

109. In Shirley Jackson's “The Lottery,” Mrs. Hutchinson arrives late because she “clean forgot what day it was.” However, she ends up being the target of the stoning. Because “what happens is at odds with what the story leads readers to expect,” the story is said to contain .

a. farce b. tragedy c. situational irony d. a scapegoat

110. In a story’s the writer presents the basic information readers need to understand the events that follow.

a. exposition b. denouement c. climax

d. epiphany

111. A poem by Dudley Randall is based on the killing of children by an explosion in Birmingham, Alabama. The poem contains several elements that are characteristic of a certain kind of poetry: a narrative pattern, repetitive lines, 4-line stanzas, a sketchily described violent incident, and a certain amount of vagueness about cause and effect. What is the name of a kind of poem that contains these elements?

a. an ode b. a sonnet c. a romance d. a ballad

112. What eighteenth-century American poet was “snatched from Afric[a]’s fancy’d happy seat?”

a. Frederick Douglass b. Langston Hughes c. Phillis Wheatley

d. Philip Freneau

113. Who promoted the policy that “he who does not work shall not eat?”

a. Karl Marx b. Sir Walter Raleigh c. Captain John Smith

d. William Bradford

114. What writer came over on the Mayflower and chronicled the early experiences of Plymouth Colony?

a. Anne Bradstreet b. John Smith c. William Bradford

b. d. Sir Walter Raleigh

c.

d.

115. In what poem would you find the line "the best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men?"

a. Burns' "To a Louse" b. Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

c. Reginald Owens' "Rodent Schemes" d. Burns' "To a Mouse”

116. What do we call a poem celebrating a marriage?

a. An elegy b. an epithalamion c. a lament d. a kenning

117. Who writes that “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to [con]front only the essential facts of life . . . .”?

a. William Butler Yeats b. Henry David Thoreau c. William Muir

d. Ralph Waldo Emerson

118. What dramatist wrote the play Trifles and was a founder of the Provincetown Players?

a. Zora Neale Hurston

b. Susan Glaspell

c. Eugene O’Neil

d. Lorraine Hansberry

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