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Worksheets08-Quiz: The Jazz Age
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, which of the following choices best explains the contribution of E.E. Cummings to “New Poetics” and the Modern Age?
A. He wrote poetry that connected traditional themes of beauty in nature with a modern spin of focusing on solitude.
B. He wrote in all capital letters to symbolize America’s increased global dominance.
C. He wrote in the traditional American style.
D. He celebrated independence and nonconformity by pushing the boundaries of form.
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, what is the meaning of colloquial as it is used in Paragraph 16 of the text?
One major poet of this period, Robert Frost, did not follow Modernist poetics. He held firm to traditional New England settings for inspiration, and his lyric poetry is often traditional in form as well. Frost relied largely on rhyme and regular meter, and his language is frequently colloquial. Several of his poems are written as dialogue between two people. Frost often wrote of the loneliness and isolation of the individual, a typical theme in modern poetry.
A. noun | a speech delivered at a political rally
B. noun | an academic conference or seminar
C. adjective | words used in ordinary conversation
D. adjective | beautiful
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, how did the Harlem Renaissance add to the development of the Modern Age?
A. African-American artists focused on expressing culture despite decades of oppression, and contributed to modern ideas of individualism.
B. Its writing and music claimed civil rights was not a priority.
C. African-American poets sold more works than their white counterparts.
D. It focused on celebrating artists such as Da Vinci and Michelangelo.
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, which of these inferences about the Modern Age is best supported by the text?
A. The new waves of poetry, fiction and music had little to no connection to the current events and news of the time.
B. The Modernist tendency to “live for the moment” was inspired by the cynicism of traditional values and a desire to “Make it new!”
C. Writers and poets were deeply committed to a sense of traditionalism.
D. The influx of African-Americans into northern cities led a generation of writers to flee for Europe.
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, what is a central idea of writing during the Modern Age?
A. The heavy casualties and wreckage seen during World War I inspired writers to turn introspective in order to make sense of it all.
B. The era was marked by such an explosion of ideas that writers could only capture them all with elaborate Renaissance-style prose.
C. Unlike artistic movements that would come later in the twentieth century, writing evolved independently of the musical trends of the time.
D. Writers found deep satisfaction and joy in the newfound freedom that allowed them to live overseas and maintain active social lives.
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, which prominent figure from the Modern Age embodied the Jazz Age, yet challenged its devotion to materialism?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Gertrude Stein
Robert Frost
F. Scott Fitzgerald
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, which prominent figure from the Modern Age brought the Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance to life through poetry?
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, which prominent figure from the Modern Age expressed frustration over the existence of segregation in America
W.E.B. Du Bois
E.E. Cummings
Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, fill in the blank:
Modern poets' use of imagery and everyday speech inspired many ground breaking poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including (a) .
From the article Beginnings of the Modern Age, fill in the blank:
The leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance blazed a trail for later African American writers such as James Baldwin and Ralph Emerson and helped to push forward the battle for (a) in the 1960s.
From the poem I, Too, Sing America, what is the most likely reason the author uses the word “sing” in the title of the poem?
A. To show that the speaker views himself as an historian in America
B. To show that the speaker views himself as a legitimate voice in America
C. To show that the speaker views himself as a singer to be heard in America
D. To show that the speaker views himself as confessing to a misdeed in America
From the poem I, Too, Sing America, which of the following lines from the poem best shows a distinction the speaker makes about himself?
A. “I am the darker brother.”
B. “When company comes,”
C. “Nobody’ll dare”
D. “I, too, am America.”
From the poem I, Too, Sing America, which inference can be most likely made about the speaker of the poem?
A. He feels sympathy.
B. He is confident.
C. He feels generous.
D. He is fearful.
From the poem I, Too, Sing America, which line from the poem most strongly supports the answer to Question 3?
A. “They send me to eat in the kitchen”
B. “And eat well,”
C. “They’ll see how beautiful I am”
D. “And be ashamed”
From the poem I, Too, Sing America, which two lines from the following best show the change in the narrator that occurs between Stanza 1 and Stanza 2
“And eat well” AND “They send me to eat in the kitchen”
“Say to me” AND “I’ll be at the table”
“They send me to eat in the kitchen” AND “I’ll be at the table”
“And eat well” AND “Say to me”
