1) Post-World War II American poetry can be divided into three 'schools'. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

2) Traditional writers in their poems did NOT use:

3) Which poet who began traditionally but was influenced by experimental currents is considered to be the most influential poet of the period?

4) Lowell's books Life Studies, For the Union of Dead, and Notebook 1967-1968 are examples of his:

5) Sylvia Plath in her prose and poetry tried to express:

6) Which two authors wrote about bleak urban environments and sufferings of workers?

7) Experimental writers have tended to be bohemian, counterculture intellectuals who disassociated themselves from universities and outspokenly criticized 'bourgeois' American society.

8) Which of the five schools of Experimental poetry was inspired by Eastern philosophy and religion as well as by Japanese and Chinese poetry?

9) Which of the poets listed below was NOT considered to be the nucleus of the Beat movement?

10) Many American Surrealists saw their role-models in Spanish and Italian surrealism.

11) Which famous feminist writer is the author of the book The Feminine Mystique (1963) which decried women's low status?

12) In the 1960s ethnic writers in the United States began to command public attention. Some of the minorities that stood out were Latino and Chicano Americans, Native Americans, African-American writers, and Asian-American poets.

13) In Cold Blood is a riveting analysis of a brutal mass murder in the American heartland, written by:

14) New Journalism stands for volumes of nonfiction that combined journalism with techniques of fiction, or that frequently played with the facts, reshaping them to add to the drama and immediacy of the story being reported.

15) Ken Kesey's novel about life in a mental hospital in which the wardens are more disturbed than the inmates is entitled:

16) A mode of writing in which self-conscious or reflexive fiction calls attention to its own technique is called:

17) Which of the following writers does NOT belong to metafictionists?

18) Thomas Pinchon uses themes of translating clues, games, and codes that could derive from Nabokov.

19) Whose intention is to alert the reader to the artificial nature of reading and writing and to prevent him or her from being drawn into the story as if it were real?

20) Unlike the invisible Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon constantly courts and demands attention (he married six times and ran for mayor of New York).

21) Philip Roth's treatment of sexual themes and ironic analysis of Jewish life have drawn popular and critical attention, as well as criticism.

22) William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe are the authors who inspired the so-called:

23) Recurring southern themes include family, the family home, history, the land, religion, guilt, identity, death, and the search for redemptive meaning in life.