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100
This was the year that World War II began.
What is 1939?
100
What is Hiroshima (1945)?
100
__________ is ironic humor arising from an acknowledgment of the absurd or grotesque.
What is gallows humor?
100
This author wrote In Cold Blood.
Who is Truman Capote?
100
Business and government were revolutionized by these in the 1950s and 1960s.
What are computers?
200
He coined the term "iron curtain."
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
What is War Series: Victory (1947) by Jacob Lawrence?
200
The _____________ asks, "Why choose only one version? Why limit ourselves?"
What is a Postmodernist?
200
This author published Life Stories in 1959.
Who is Robert Lowell?
200
This decade was sometimes referred to as the "me generation."
What is the 1980s?
300
This country was involved in a long and expensive arms race with the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Soviet Union?
300
What is Counter Intelligence (1996) by Mark Kostabi?
300
A _____________ did not feel obligated to keep his or her opinion and presence out of the writing.
What is a new journalist?
300
Who suggested that poetry is "the only history of the human heart we have"?
Who is Billy Collins?
300
By the end of the 1960s, "industrious Americans" had constructed about one million of these.
What are bomb shelters?
400
This was the year that the U.S. was drawn into WWII.
What is 1941?
400
These people are going into one:
What is a bomb shelter (fallout shelter)?
400
____________ poets often write in the language of common speech, and they do not hesitate to surprise or even shock with their language, their attitudes, and the details of their private lives.
What is Contemporary?
400
This poet published Howl in 1956.
Who is Allen Ginsberg?
400
This type of literature may blend fiction with non-fiction, comment on itself, and be intensely personal.
What is postmodern literature?