1. In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet - black bough. Which poetic form does the above poem most closely match in subject and rhythm?

2. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth - and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills - resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green - the army awakened - and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads - which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river - amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks - purled at the army’s feet; and at night - when the stream had become of a sorrowful blackness - one could see across it the red - eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of distant hills. The passage above opens

3. How was the envelope in the story 'The Purloined Letter' hidden?

4. Well - it was touching to see the queen blush and smile - and look embarrassed and happy - and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas - to a dead certainty. The above quotation is from the work of

5. 'So far as Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice - North and South - does not rightly value the privilege and duty of voting - belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions and opposes the higher training and ambition of our brighter minds . . . we must unceasingly and firmly oppose [him].' Who is the author of the above passage critiquing Booker T. Washington’s position on African- American rights?

6. Which of the following novels traces the development of a young Jewish boy growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression?

7. Which of the following is NOT a literary device typical of Native American literature?

8. The increased regional nature of American fiction in the 1800s was caused by all of the following EXCEPT

9. In which of the following novels does the protagonist Tyrone Slothrop undergo physiological conditioning to be able to detect things others cannot?

10. The main characters in the poems and short stories of Edgar Allen Poe can best be described as

11. The main character of Chopin’s The Awakening is

12. May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: 'Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean - and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord - and he heard their voice - and looked on their adversity - etc. Let them therefore praise the Lord - because he is good - and his mercies endure forever. Yea - let them which have been redeemed of the Lord - show how he hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way - and found no city to dwell in - both hungry - and thirsty - their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord his loving kindness - and his wonderful works before the sons of men.' - This was written by

13. Which American author created detective fiction?

14. Which author is known as 'the Chekhov of the Suburbs' for his writings about the social mores and emotional yearnings of upper-middle class suburban families?

15. Which writer who described his poetic style as objectivist aimed to bring an almost photographic clarity to his work with concrete images?

16. In his work Fire Next Time - James Baldwin argues for

17. Conflicts between characters with traditional Southern values and the aggressive - rapidlychanging world of modern America forms one of the major themes in

18. Who has earned the nickname 'The Father of the American Novel'?

19. Which poem describes the narrator’s 'sorrow for the lost Lenore'?

20. Who wrote the first American slave autobiography after obtaining his freedom?

21. All of the following wrote of heroes wandering the open roads of America EXCEPT

22. What is the setting for the protagonist’s walk with the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?

23. Yoknapatawpha County appears in the works of

24. Which of the following authors is NOT classified as a member of the Romantic period in American fiction?

25. Ichabod Crane is the main character in which of the following works?