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Salt American Lit3
Study help for American Lit Unit pages 458-476
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who wrote "When Serpents Bargain for the Right to Squirm"? | E.E. Cummings |
| Who wrote "Yet Do I Marvel"? | Countee Cullen |
| Who wrote "The Purist"? | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Who wrote "Velvet Shoes"? | Elinor Wylie |
| Who wrote a poem about fog? | Carl Sandburg |
| Who wrote "The Long Hill," "The Coin," and "The Look"? | Sara Teasdale |
| Who wrote "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"? | Alan Seeger |
| Whose book of Collected Poems won every major poetry prize: The National Book Award, the Bollinger Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize? | Marianne Moore |
| Who is the author of "Trees"? | Joyce Kilmer |
| Who wrote "Poetry" and "Silence"? | Marianne Moore |
| Who painted The White Parasol? | Robert Reid |
| Who painted Improvisation and Allies Day, Fifth Avenue, May 1917? | Childe Hassam |
| Which painting is by Willard Leroy Metcalf? | A Family of Birches |
| Which painting demonstrates a good balance between French impressionism and American realism? | Stepping Stones |
| Who painted Stepping Stones? | Theodore Robinson |
| Who wrote "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"? | Vachel Lindsay |
| What Carl Sandburg poem is about a big Midwestern city? | Chicago |
| QUOTATION - who wrote it? "Life must go on;/I forget just why." | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| QUOTATION - who wrote it? "anyone lived in a pretty how town/(with up so floating many bells down)" | E. E. Cummings |
| QUOTATION - who wrote it? "I have a rendezvous with Death/At some disputed barricade" | Alan Seeger |
| QUOTATION - who wrote it? "My father used to say,/'Superior people never make long visits," | Marianne Moore |
| QUOTATION - who wrote it? "Hog Butcher for the World,/. . . City of the Big Shoulders" | Carl Sandburg |
| Who is America's most popular writer of light verse? | Ogden Nash |
| Which poem is a metaphor about the weather? | "Fog" |
| Which city is proud to be a brawling, busy city? | Chicago |
| Who is consumed with thoughts of the fighting, sickness and slavery in the world? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What poem's theme is the idea that the memory of a lovely thing is more important than money? | "The Coin" |
| Which poem characterizes superior people? | "Silence" |
| What poem is about a young girl who can't decide whether to come in or stay out? | "From a Very Little Sphinx" |
| Which poem communicates the idea that everyday life must continue, even after someone dies? | "Lament" |
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