America (Claude McKay poem) Quizzes

America (Claude McKay poem) Quiz

1 In what year did McKay publish America?
1920

1919

1922

1921
2 How could we best describe the speaker's tone?
Dispassionate

Ambivalent

Furious

Miserable
3 What could we NOT safely infer about the speaker from the poem?
He is young

He has lived in America

He is well-read

He was born in America
4 What kind of sonnet is "America"?
Shakespearean

Petrarchan

Victorian

Spenserian
5 What animal does the speaker compare America to in line 2?
Tiger

Panther

Dog

Lion
6 What recurring image does the speaker use in lines 5-7?
Air

Water

Wind

Fire
7 Besides the traditional three quatrains and final couplet of the English sonnet, how else can we break the poem down?
Into two mirroring halves

Into four distinct thematic subsections

Into an octave and sestet

Into five complete sentences
8 What kind of rock does the speaker mention in his vision of America's demise at the end of the poem?
Granite

Sandstone

Marble

Limestone
9 What kind of political figurehead does the speaker compare America to?
A queen

An emperor

A king

A president
10 Which body part is not mentioned directly in the poem?
Hand

Eye

Throat

Tooth
11 What kind of hell does the speaker describe America as?
A fiery hell

A sinful hell

A civilized hell

A cultured hell
12 The phrase "through a glass, darkly" comes from which book of the King James Bible?
Philippians

1 Corinthians

Colossians

2 Corinthians
13 What does the speaker suggest will happen to America?
It will decline

It will thrive

It will stagnate

It will split in two
14 What sound is repeated in the poem's final line?
"m" sound

"t" sound

"a" sound

"s" sound
15 What is the first word of the poem?
Though

If

Although

Yet
16 What word in the poem gestures self-reflexively to the sonnet form itself?
Walls

Room

Lines

Granite
17 What is surprising about the speaker's response to America's vigor?
It depletes him

It arouses him

It frustrates him

It doesn't affect him
18 Who wrote the poem "Ozymandias"?
John Keats

Lord Byron

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

P.B. Shelley
19 What is the name for the feminine personification of America?
Eternia

Oceania

Columbia

Polonia
20 Which of the following five senses is absent from the poem?
Hearing

Taste

Touch

Sight
21 What does the speaker say "sweeps his being like a flood"?
Her vastness

Her vigor

Her bigness

Her grandeur
22 What does the speaker say America steals from him?
His vigor

His breath

His youth

His culture
23 How many similes are in the poem?
4

2

None

7
24 How does the speaker describe the hand of Time?
Unfailing

Unmerciful

Unerring

Unwavering
25 What word does the speaker NOT use to describe America's achievements?
Priceless

Invaluable

Wonders

Treasures

What is the effect of the author use of metaphor in lines 1-4 ( bread of bitterness)?

Can you please quote the metaphor? Thanks.

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What do you think about the word "cultured hell"?

On the one hand, the "cultured" in "cultured hell" confirms America's achievements, anticipating the "wonders" and "priceless treasures" at the end of the poem and countering any Eliotic notion of modernity as a cultural wasteland. Yet the "hell"...

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