Unit 1: The Early Twentieth Century: Modern American
Literature (Post Test)
"He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a
little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met
every afternoon at the hospital."
"we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the
people who disliked us, did not understand"
Which sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" reflect
the theme of the psychological alienation caused by war?
"The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and
the wind turned their feathers"
Which sentence in this excerpt from Ernst Hemingway's "In Another Country" uses
parallelism?
It establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have left the war
front, the war continues to haunt them psychologically
What important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the
bolded sentences in the excerpts from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway?
Jostle
To push, elbow, or bump against
He is speaking about a common experience that the African American community
shares
African Americans used the "mask" to hide their suffering and gain a kind of
victory against society
What effect does the poet achieve by repeating the phrase,"We wear the mask"
throughout the poem?
Although they smile outwardly, African Americans pray for an end to their
community's struggles
What might Paul Laurence Dunbar mean in the following lines from his poem "We Wear
the Mask"
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
By employing an unusual rhyme scheme
How did Paul Laurence Dunbar depart from traditional poetry in "We Wear the Mask"?
Clean favored
Well-groomed
Myriad
Numerous
Derivative
Unoriginal
He had just lost something more, as surely as if he had married Judy Jones and
seen her fade away before his eyes.
Literature (Post Test)
"He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a
little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met
every afternoon at the hospital."
"we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the
people who disliked us, did not understand"
Which sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" reflect
the theme of the psychological alienation caused by war?
"The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and
the wind turned their feathers"
Which sentence in this excerpt from Ernst Hemingway's "In Another Country" uses
parallelism?
It establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have left the war
front, the war continues to haunt them psychologically
What important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the
bolded sentences in the excerpts from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway?
Jostle
To push, elbow, or bump against
He is speaking about a common experience that the African American community
shares
African Americans used the "mask" to hide their suffering and gain a kind of
victory against society
What effect does the poet achieve by repeating the phrase,"We wear the mask"
throughout the poem?
Although they smile outwardly, African Americans pray for an end to their
community's struggles
What might Paul Laurence Dunbar mean in the following lines from his poem "We Wear
the Mask"
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
By employing an unusual rhyme scheme
How did Paul Laurence Dunbar depart from traditional poetry in "We Wear the Mask"?
Clean favored
Well-groomed
Myriad
Numerous
Derivative
Unoriginal
He had just lost something more, as surely as if he had married Judy Jones and
seen her fade away before his eyes.
