Poetry 4: Modern Life & Society Quiz Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase No

1). "In a Station of the Metro“ The apparition of these faces in the crowd; ____ on a wet, black bough. 1. Flowers 2. Petals 3. Shadows4. Pebbles

2). Which of the following is an action taken by anyone in “anyone lived in a pretty how town”? 1. laughed their cryings and did their dance 2. said their nevers they slept their dream 3. … more by more they dream their sleep 4. sowed their isn't they reaped their same

3). Mending Wall To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Which of the following interpretation is incorrect? 1. The act of mending wall is serious because the speaker uses magic spell. 2. The meter is iambic pentameter. 3. The regularity of the rhythm makes the action sound mechanical and meaningless. 4. The poem is a blank verse because there are no end rhymes.

4). "Harlem" 1951 What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a ___ in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it ___? 1.balloon, collapse 2.balloon, pop 3.raisin, fade 4.raisin, explode

5) The Terrorist, He Watches The terrorist has already crossed to the other side of the street. The distance protects him from any danger, And what a sight for ____: 1. kings 2. sore eyes 3. God4. the public