Events from 1914-45
Langston Hughes
T.S. Eliot
John Steinbeck
William Carlos Williams
100
What major event happened in 1914?
What is The beginning of World War I in Europe
100
Langston Hughes was apart of what "Renaissnace"
What is The Harlem Renaissance
100
T.S. Eliot attended what school for both his undergraduate and graduate work?
What is Harvard
100
Steinbeck graduated what high school in 1919 ?
What is Salinas High School
100
William Carlos Williams was born where?
What is Rutherford, New Jersey
200
What forced Russia out of World War I?
What is the Russian Revolution
200
From what poem is this stanza? Shall I use Old English Or a Roman letter? I said, Use American American's Better
What is Madam's Calling Cards
200
T.S. Eliot was married to who?
Who is Vivian Haigh-Wood
200
Steinbeck wrote the majority of his work about what state in the United States?
What is California ?
200
In order to be a poet Williams was also what ?
What is a doctor
300
Why did the United States enter World war I?
What is the Sinking of the Lusitiana
300
The publicatoin of what novel solitified his rebutation?
What is "Not without laughter"
300
T.S. Eliot is most famous for what work?
What is "The Waste Land"
300
Steinbeck was married how many time?
What is three times
300
Williams orginially went to school to presue what profession?
What is a Dentist
400
World War II ended in what Month ?
What is Augest
400
During the 1930s Hughs was bing called by what nick name?
What is "The bard of Harlem"
400
What other poet helped Eliot define what is "High Modernism?
Who is Ezra Pound
400
He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for what novel?
What is "The Grapes of Wrath"
400
This is the first stanza of what poem? Let the snake wait under His weed And the writing Be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless
What is "A Sort of a Song"
500
The stock market crashed in what year?
What is 1929
500
The FBI listed Hughes as a sercurity risk in 1953 for what reason?
What is His subversive activities in connection with his 1930s radicalism
500
"The Waste Land" is a poem about what major event in history?
What is World War I
500
"The Grapes of Wrath" is about ?
What is The 1930s drought in the southern plains What is The Dust Bowl
500
In 1951 what medical issue forced him to retire from his practice and made writting increasingly difficult?
What are a serious of strokes What is a Heart Attack