Final

Question 1

1929

Answer 1

the Stock Market, artificially inflated by speculation, crashes on “Black Tuesday” October 25 and loses 69 billion dollars in value by 1933. REASONS: wages fell because Fordist production resulted in jammed warehouses overstocked with unsold products; Construction and Auto industries falter as consumer demand decreased; Spending for consumer goods in 1928-29 slowed to 1.5% Workers borrowed regularly; the middle and lower classes did not earn enough to keep the economy going—by 1929 1% of population owned 36 percent of all the personal wealth.

Question 2

1930

Answer 2

A decade long drought begins in the Dust Bowl. The drought turned fertile farm regions into virtual deserts from Texas to the Dakotas. Hundreds of thousands of families migrated to California where employment opportunities were poor. Many worked as agricultural migrants, picking crops for very low wages. –Sinclair Lewis first American to win Nobel Prize for literature\ Hart Crane publishes The Bridge.

Question 3

1933-1938

Answer 3

New Deal legislation began in the first 100 days of Roosevelt’s Presidency. Repealed prohibition (18th amendment). Increased the power of the federal gov’t allowing it to challenge powerful corporations and stabilize troubled areas of the economy like banking and stock market. Created support systems for most vulnerable part of population (social security and other relief programs) Good neighbor policy with Latin America, renounces Pratt Amendment of 1902, increases import export to Latin American 100%. Federal pension for the elderly freeing jobs for younger unemployed (Dr. Francis E. Townsend). ———————————————————————————————- 1934—Securities and Exchange commission established to oversee Stock market 1935–First Neutrality Act impartial embargo of arms to both sides in a military conflict. 1936—United Auto Workers (UAW) Union begin a sit-down strike. To prevent to company for using strikebreakers employees in several GM plants in Detroit sat down and refused to leave or work. GM relented and workers won concessions when Michigan’s governor refused to call in the national guard and federal government refused to intervene. Eugene O’Neill wins Nobel Prize for Literature. 1938—The Fair Labor standards Act sets minimum wages and maximum hours. The Munich pact appeases Hitler’s threats of invading Czechoslovakia by granting him the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia if he promised not to invade. Six months later he invaded.

Question 4

1939

Answer 4

1939—Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact shocks the world. The agreement freed Hitler to invade Poland without Soviet opposition and allowed Soviets to bring in eastern Poland and Baltic states into Soviet control. WWII begins. France and England declared war on Germany when Hitler invaded Poland. John Steinbeck publishes Grapes of Wrath.

Question 5

1915

Answer 5

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania : 1,198 killed in this torpedo attack on a civilian british passenger liner The controversial film, The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles. It will be the highest-grossing film for around 25 years. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Question 6

Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth…

Answer 6

Herman Melville “Hawthorne and His Mosses”

Question 7

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly: Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.

Answer 7

Walt Whitman from “Song of Myself”

Question 8

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Answer 8

Walt Whitman from “Song of Myself”

Question 9

Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore, Others will watch the run of the flood-tide, Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east, Others will see the islands large and small; Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high, A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them, Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.

Answer 9

Walt Whitman “Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry”

Question 10

1 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. 2 O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night—O moody, tearful night! O great star disappear’d—O the black murk that hides the star! O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me! O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.

Answer 10

Walt Whitman “When Lilacs in the Morning Bloom’d”

Question 11

Because I could not stop for Death– He kindly stopped for me– The Carriage held but just ourselves– And Immortality

Answer 11

Emily Dickinson “Because i could not stop…”

Question 12

The eyes glaze once–and that is Death– Impossible to feign The Beads open the Forehead By homely Anguish strung.

Answer 12

Emily Dickinson “I like the look of agony…”

Question 13

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,–an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Answer 13

W.E.B. DuBois “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”

Question 14

And he was no soft-tongued apologist; He spoke straightforward, fearlessly uncowed; The sunlight of his truth dispelled the mist, And set in bold relief each dark hued cloud; To sin and crime he gave their proper hue, And hurled at evil what was evil’s due.

Answer 14

Paul Dunbar “Fredrick Douglass”

Question 15

We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!

Answer 15

Paul Dunbar “We wear the Mask”

Question 16

Look for local dialact

Answer 16

Charles Chesnutt “The Goophered Grapevine”

Question 17

This wallpaper has a kind of subpattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.

Answer 17

Charlotte Gilman “the Yellow Wallpaper”

Question 18

Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

Answer 18

Langston Hughes “I, Too”

Question 19

Kitchenettes With no heat And garbage In the halls. Who’re you, outsider? Ask me who am I.

Answer 19

Langston Hughes “Visitors to the Black Belt”

Question 20

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

Answer 20

Langston Hughes “Democracy”

Question 21

I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That’s all that I remember. (Look for either baltimore or nigger)

Answer 21

Countee Cullen “Incident”

Question 22

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die, … Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

Answer 22

Countee Cullen “Yet, I do Marvel”

Question 23

A feast of moon and men and barking hounds, An orgy for some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Answer 23

Jean Toomer “Georgia Dusk”

Question 24

Hair–braided chestnut, coiled like a lyncher’s rope, Eyes–fagots, Lips–old scars, or the first red blisters, Breath–the last sweet scent of cane, And her slim body, white as the ash of black flesh after flame.Portrait in Georgia

Answer 24

Jean Toomer “Portrait in Georgia”

Question 25

imaginary gardens with real toads in them

Answer 25

Marianne Moore “Poetry”

Question 26

It has memory’s ear     that can hear without having to hear.         Like the gyroscope’s fall,         truly unequivocal because trued by regnant certainty, –look for strong use of breaks

Answer 26

Marianne Moore “The Mind is an Enchanting thing”

Question 27

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady’s slipper. Your knees are a southern breeze – or a gust of snow. Agh! what sort of man was Fragonard? –look for question responses

Answer 27

W.C. Williams “Portrait of a Lady”

Question 28

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches- They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind-

Answer 28

W.C. Williams “Spring and All”

Question 29

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

Answer 29

W.C. Williams “The Red Wheel Barrow”

Question 30

plums…saving for breakfast…forgive me

Answer 30

W.C. Williams “This is just to Say”

Question 31

She says, “I am content when wakened birds, Before they fly, test the reality Of misty fields, by their sweet questionings; But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields Return no more, where, then, is paradise?” ——- DESCRIPTIONS OF SUNDAY OBJECTS, QUESTIONS ON FAITH, “ORGY”

Answer 31

Wallace Stevens “Sunday Morning”

Question 32

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

Answer 32

Wallace Stevens “Anecdote of the jar”

Question 33

Then the theatre was changed To something else. Its past was a souvenir. It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place. It has to face the men of the time and to meet The women of the time. It has to think about war And it has to find what will suffice. It has To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage,

Answer 33

Wallace Stevens “Of Modern Poetry”

Question 34

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The BLACKBIRD whistling Or just after.

Answer 34

Wallace Stevens “Thirteen Ways of looking at a Black bird”

Question 35

Michaelangelo, Peaches, Yellow Fog, bald spot, part of hair, hamlet,

Answer 35

T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Question 36

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion, it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum.

Answer 36

T.S. Eliot “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

Question 37

You had your searches, your uncertainties, And this is good to know—for us, I mean, Who bear the brunt of our America And try to wrench her impulse into art. Lincoln

Answer 37

Ezra Pound “To Whistler, American”

Question 38

I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman - I have detested you long enough.

Answer 38

Ezra Pound “A Pact”

Question 39

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

Answer 39

Ezra Pound “In a Station of a Metro”

Question 40

He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

Answer 40

Robert Frost “Mending Wall”

Question 41

What but design of darkness to appall?– If design govern in a thing so small.

Answer 41

Robert Frost “Design”

Question 42

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

Answer 42

Gertrude Stein “Tender buttons”