Unit 3 Exercises-answer.doc

Unit 3 Exercises Multiple-Choice Questions The ______ stands as a great dividing line between the Realist Period and the Modernist Period in American literature. First World War Second World War Civil War War of Independence Some American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “______”, devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. Beat Generation Lost Generation Greatest Generation Silent Generation The two best known writers among “The Lost Generation” are ______ and Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert Frost William Faulkner E. E. Cummings The American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than he earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and travelling. It was the life style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______. “The Roaring Twenties” “The Jazz Age” “The Dollar Decade” All of the above Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s in his masterpiece novel ______. The Grapes of Wrath Tender is the Night The Great Gatsby The Crucible In 1926, Hemingway published his first novel, ______, which epitomized the post-war expatriate generation, or the so-called “Lost Generation”, who were broken by the war, and turned toward escape through all possible violent divergence. The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea The American “Thirties” lasted from the Crash in Wall Street through the ensuing Great Depression until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. This was a period of ______. Poverty and bleakness Important social movements A new social consciousness All of the above The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the ______. First World War Second World War Civil War War of Independence Three important poets opened the way to Modernist poetry in American literatur