English 11 Test
Beginnings of the Modern Age
Fill in the Blank (2pts):
1. _____________ was the 28th president of the United States. He was known for his leadership in
WWI and was president when women were given the right to vote.
2. ____________ was a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and
literature flourished.
3. A style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) working of a character’s mind is called
_______________.
4. Gertrude Stein was known as the “Godmother of the _________________ “.
5. What city did most writers migrate to in hopes to pursue their dream of writing?
_______________
Multiple Choice (2pts):
1. Who was the husband that passed away in “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” and left Granny as
a single mother:
a. William Carlos Williams
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Woodrow Wilson
d. John
2. He said "cut and cut again whatever you write while you leave by your art no trace of your
cutting and the final utterance will remain packed with what you have to say" when suggesting
how to write imagery poetry.
a. Ezra Pound
b. William Carlos Williams
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Woodrow Wilson
3. The man who jilted Granny at the altar in “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
a. George
b. William Williams
c. Ezra pound
d. Peter
4. “In a Station of the Metro” (the apparition of these faces in the crowd…) and “This is Just to Say”
(I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox….) are examples of what type of poetry:
a. Imagery
b. Haiku
c. Modernism
d. Sonnet
5. Who founded the literary movement known as “Imagism”
a. Walt Whitman
b. Ezra Pound
c. T.S. Eliot
d. Gertrude Stein
Matching (2pts):
*Match the excerpt to the poem title*
1. _____ “The apparition of these faces in the crowd…”
a. This Is Just to Say
2. _____ “I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman…”
Prufrock
b. The love Song of J. Alfred
3. _____ “In the room the women come and go Talking
of Michelangelo”
c. In a Station of the Metro
4. _____ “so much depends upon a red wheel barrow”
d. A Pact
5. _____ “Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and
so cold”
e. The Red Wheelbarrow
Essay (10 pts):
1. Why did the writers of the early 20th century get the nickname “The Lost Generation”:
2. Discuss some of the cultural changes we saw in the 1920s after WWI: