CSET Practice Test On Poetry and Why Some People Pass and Some Do Not

11. Lived between 1902 and 1967. He was an African-American poet. He is called the poet laureate of the African-American experience. He was a popular writer of the Harlem Renaissance. His famous essay entitled The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, spoke of Black writers and poets who would surrender racial pride in the name of false integration, and how he would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet. The Black Movement criticized him as wanting to write like a white poet. He countered that argument with, “no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself.” He liked sitting in clubs listening to blues, jazz, and writing poetry. His most famous poems include:The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Dreams, and Let America Be America Again.

A. James Langston Hughes

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Charles Pierre Baudelaire

D. Dante

12. She is a Canadian poet, feminist, and political activist. Issues of gender appear frequently in her work. Her work has focused on Canadian national identity, Canada’s relations with the United States and Europe, environmental issues, and the Canadian wilderness. Her most famous poem is You Begin.

A. Margaret Atwood

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Emma Lazarus

D. Gwendolyn Brooks

13. Lived between 1888 and 1965. He was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose famous works include: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, and Four Quartets. His works are considered defining achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry. In 1948, he won the Noble Prize for Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.

A. Gwendolyn Brooks

B. Robert Frost

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Emily Dickinson