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100

He is the Author “Hap” and “The Darkling Thrush” 

Thomas Hardy 
100

“A terrible __ is born”

Beauty 

100

He attended Harvard University 

T.S. Eliot 

100

This was a famous modernist slogan coined by Ezra  Pound 

“Make it new” 

100

What type of creature is an “Orb Weaver” 

A Spider 

200

The “rough beast” in Yeats’ “The Second Coming” “slouches” toward which city? 

Bethlehem

200

“The feminist movement as a present institution is __”

Inadequate 

200

This author fought in “The Battle of the Somme” 

Wilfred Owen 

200

This WWI battle accounts for the most casualties in British history  

The Battle of the Somme 

200

He is the current Prime Minister of Canada 

Justin Trudeau

300

This poem starts: “To JS/07/378” 

“The Unknown Citizen” 

300

“In a __ there is time/for decisions and __/which a __ will reverse. 

Minute/revisions/minute 

300
This author conceptualized history as a spiraling “gyre” 

William Butler Yeats 

300

This artistic movement sought to focus on irrationality, unconsciousness and dreams 

Surrealism/Dadaism 

300

What does a barometer measure? 

Atmospheric/Air Pressure 

400

This poem reads: “The apparition of these faces in a crowd;/petals on a wet, black bough.”

“In a Station of the Metro” 

400

“LONDON IS NOT A __ TOWN.”

PROVINCIAL 
400

He is the author of “Neutral Tones”

Thomas hardy 

400

This was the term for the ships that utilized black and white camouflage to disguise their movement and direction 

Dazzle ships 

400

What was wrong with the Grinch’s heart in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas?” 

It was three sizes too small 

500

This poem ends: “Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,/And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds” 

“Anthem for a Doomed Youth” 

500

“My friend you would not tell with such high __/To children ardent for some __ glory,/The old Lie...”  

Zest/desperate 

500

He is the author of “Break of Day in the Trenches” 

Isaac Rosenberg 

500

These were the two years “Blast” was published 

1914 and 1915

500

In 1960, which country became the first in the world to have a female Prime Minister 

Sri Lanka 

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