English 11 Semester Exam Review – Spring 2010
1. What were the causes of the Harlem Renaissance?
2. List the characteristics of the Harlem Renaissance.
3. Where was the Harlem Renaissance centered?
4. Why did Tourists come to the Jazz club?
5. Who popularized the back-to-Africa movement?
6. What brought an end to the Harlem Renaissance?
7. Why did Langston Hughes father move to Mexico?
8. To where did Langston Hughes travel after he graduated high school?
9. How was Hughes “discovered”?
10. Who was the poet laureate of Harlem?
11. By whom was Countee Cullen adopted at the age of fifteen?
12. What scholarship did Cullen receive from Harvard University?
13. On what or who did Cullen base his works?
14. From where is Claude McKay, originally?
15. When and why did he immigrate to the United States?
16. Where was Zora Neale Hurston born and raised?
17. What were the last years of Hurston’s life like?
18. In the poem “Harlem” what is the speaker’s dream?
19. Who is the speaker in “I, Too?”
20. To what poem does “I, Too” allude?
21. What rivers are mentioned in “The Negro Speak of Rivers?”
22. Who are the characters in “The Weary Blues?”
23. What kind of song does the musician sing in “The Weary Blues?”
24. In “Any Human to Another” who is the speaker, and whom does the speaker address?
25. What is the speaker’s view of human isolation?
26. In “Tableau” why are “the dark folk” and “the fair folk” indignant?
27. Metaphorically, what are the thunder and lightning in the last stanza?
28. In “Incident” what is the “incident” to which the title of the poem refers?
29. In “If We Must Die” what type of death does the speaker argue for?
30. What two animals does the speaker name?
31. In “The Tropics in
32. In “How It Feels to be Colored Me” when does Hurston realize she is colored?
33. How is Hurston’s reaction to the music in jazz clubs different from the reactions of the white people who accompany her there?
34. What simile does Hurston use to express the idea that people are all the same under the skin?
35. What does Hurston mean when she says that she is not tragically colored?
36. In the excerpt from Dust Tracks on a Road” what does Hurston receive from the white women?
37. What does she enjoy most?
38. What do the similarities between Zora and Persephone and King David
39. What kind of town was Zora raised in “How It Feels to be Colored me?”
40. Why does Zora leave Eatonville?
41. When does Zora feel different from her white friends?
42. What is the simile Hurston uses at the end of the story?
43. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, who was Janie’s first husband?
44. Who taught Janie to play checkers?
45. Who was the mayor of Eatonville?
46. Who listened to Janie’s life story?
47. Who raised Janie?
48. Where did Janie meet Tea Cake?
49. Who saved Janie from a rabid dog?
50. From what did Joe Starks die?
51. Who was Janie’s best friend?
52. Why did Janie and Tea Cake go to the muck?
53. Why did Janie shoot Tea Cake?
54. Why did Logan Killicks but a second plow?
55. Who was Phoebe’s husband?
56. Why did Tea Cake take Janie’s money?
57. Where did Joe Starks say he would wait for Janie?
58. Why was Joe going to Eatonville?
59. Where did Eatonville get its name?
60. What does it mean to “class off?”
61. Why does Joe make Janie wear a head rag?
62. Why does Joe hit Janie in front of the store?
63. What do the people of Eatonville think about Janie and Tea Cake’s relationship?
64. Who is Annie Tyler?
65. How does Tea Cake get rabies?
66. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
67. What did Hemingway do during World War I?
68. List Hemingway’s four wives.
69. Who was Hemingway’s mentor?
70. What was Hemingway’s breakthrough novel?
71. Where did Hemingway become an avid fisherman?
72. Which of Hemingway’s novel depicts the brutality of war that he witnessed while covering the Spanish Civil War?
73. From what mental illness did Hemingway suffer?
74. For what novel did Hemingway win the Pulitzer Prize?
75. Explain the circumstances of Hemingway’s death.
76. From what region of the country in Faulkner?
77. Why was Faulkner rejected by the U.S. military?
78. What awards did Faulkner win and when?
79. What was the name of the fictional territory where most of Faulkner’s later works are set?
80. In “Acquainted with the Night” what does night symbolize?
81. What is the repetition in this poem?
82. When does the incident in “Out, Out” occur?
83. To what play does the title of this poem allude?
84. In “Mending Wall” what are the two ideas presented by the speaker and his neighbor?
85. Why do the two neighbors work together every spring?
86. Where is the wall located?
87. What does the wall symbolize?
88. In “Death of the Hired Man” explain what both Mary and Silas want concerning Silas and why.
89. What does Silas keep thinking and talking about?
90. Where does Silas’s brother live? And why won’t Silas ask him for help?
91. Explain both Mary and Warren’s definitions of home.
92. What is the central image in “The Red Wheelbarrow”?
93. To what does the title of “The Great Figure” refer?
94. “This is just to say is an apology for what?
95. What does “what if a much of a which of a wind” describe?
96. What does the speaker think will remain?
97. What does the speaker of “somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond” discuss in this poem?
98. To what does the speaker compare himself?
99. Describe J. Alfred Prufrock as he is portrayed in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
100. Why does Prufrock think that the mermaids will not sing to him?
101. Of what is Prufrock afraid?
102. How does Francis Macomber prove himself to be a coward in “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber”?
103. How does his wife punish him for his cowardice?
104. Why are the two married to each other?
105. What does Wilson have on Margot, and what does Margot have on Wilson?
106. Why does Wilson agree to help Margot?
107. Who shoots Francis Macomber?
108. In Hemingway’s “The End of Something” what does the deteriorating town symbolize?
109. What do Nick and Marjorie do on their date?
110. Why does Nick want to break up with Marjorie?
111. Where does the final scene occur?
112. In “A Rose for Emily” what does Emily do after her father dies?
113. Why is Homer Baron considered to be unsuitable for Emily?
114. What does Emily buy from the druggist?
115. Why does Emily believe she does not have to pay taxes?
116. When is the last time Homer Baron is seen alive?
117. Who does Nick Carraway date?
118. What sport does Jordan Baker play?
119. Who does Tom Buchanan have an affair with?
120. Who is the narrator?
121. How does Jay Gatsby end up in the house across from Daisy and Tom?
122. Who does Daisy Buchanan have an affair with?
123. Where does Gatsby come from?
124. Where is Nick’s house?
125. Who is Nick’s neighbor?
126. Where does Nick first meet Gatsby?
127. Who does Nick arrange a meeting for?
128. Where does Gatsby’s fortune come from?
129. Who is driving when Myrtle is killed?
130. Who attends Gatsby’s funeral?
131. How does Mr. Gatz feel about his son’s success?
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