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Modern Poetry of the 30s and After Quiz

Authored by Alaa Adel

English

9th - 12th Grade

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Modern Poetry of the 30s and After Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were the key poets to emerge during the 1930s modernism?

John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen

T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which group of poets was known for their hostility towards modernism and internationalism in the 1950s?

The New Romantics

The Movement

The Apocalyptic Movement

The Objectivists

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the leading light of the Performance Poetry movement in the 1970s?

Mahmood Jamal

Malcolm Peltu

Michael Brereton

Seamus Heaney

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which poet was known for his dense, taut, and almost inchoate style in the 1960s?

Charles Tomlinson

Dylan Thomas

Philip Larkin

Geoffrey Hill

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which poet was an important figure in the New Apocalyptic movement of the 1940s?

Henry Treece

Ted Hughes

Dylan Thomas

W.H. Auden

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the editor of the Poetry Review in 1977?

Bob Cobbing

Eric Mottram

Lee Harwood

Roy Fisher

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which poet is known for his work 'The Unconditional'?

Lee Harwood

Tom Raworth

Simon Jarvis

Roy Fisher

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