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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May Swenson, Robert Duncan, William Meredith, Howard Nemerov, and Richard Wilbur.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Duncan was linked to the _______ poets.
(a) Black Mountain.
(b) Post Modern.
(c) Ancient Greek.
(d) Greenwich Village.

2. Which was not one of Cunningham's jobs?
(a) Translator.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Critic.

3. Cunningham's work was referred to as being cool and _____.
(a) Aloof.
(b) Hip.
(c) Classical.
(d) Reserved.

4. Duncan's work is different because it is considered to be more ____.
(a) Visionary.
(b) Surreal.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Abstract.

5. Randall Jarrell's poetry is typically centered around which event/era?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) World War I.
(c) Civil War.
(d) World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is best used to describe Robert Lowell?

2. What is the latest year in which one of the poets was born?

3. From which university did Theodore Roethke graduate?

4. What was Meredith's job?

5. Charles Olson refers to himself as which of the following?

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