ENGLISH (002) MTTC EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Dame Agatha Christie - Answer-English novelist and playwright; Wrote over 80
detective novels; Created Hercules Poirot and Miss Jane Marple; "The Mousetrap" - the
longest running play in the history of drama
Edward Estlin Cummings (E.E. Cummings) - Answer-American poet and novelist; Noted
for his unique writing style, using unconventional punctuation and typography,
innovative language and imagery; "The Enormous Room"; His verse is often light and
joyful but contains a great depth of irony and complex feelings; "Tulips and Chimney's",
"50 Poems", "Ninety-Five Poems", "73 Poems"
Rene' Maria Rilke - Answer-German poet; Themes of life and death; Explore man's
relationship to the Divine and particularly humanity's perception of the universal; "The
Book of Images", "Duino Elegies", "Sonnets to Orpheus" and "New Plans"
Edward Morgan Forster - Answer-English novelist, essayist and critic; "A Room With a
View", "Howard's End", "The Longest Journey" and "Where Angels Fear To Tread" -
Addressed subjects such as social justice, materialism and spirituality and dissolution of
the English upper classes; His masterpiece "A Passage to India" was inspired by
several visits to India and Fosters service in Egypt in WWI
Thomas Mann - Answer-German novelist and essayist; Focused on art and the struggle
of the artist to flourish in European society; "Buddenbrooks", "Death in Venice", "The
Magic Mountain", "Dr Faustus", "Joesph and His Brothers" ; Won Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1929
Ezra Pound - Answer-American poet, critic and editor; "The Cantos"; His influence as a
critic was formidable - he fostered the work of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, James
Joyce and T.S. Eliot; Important imagist, advocating the use of free meter, and the
extravagant use of image; Associated with Mussolini and his fascist regime, Pound was
arrested for treasonable propganda
William Butler Yeats - Answer-Irish poet and playwright; "The Countess Cathleen", "The
Land of Heart's Desire", "Cathleen in Houlihan"; Spare, realistic style with much
symbolism - "Easter 1916" - celebrating the Easter rising in Dublin - "The Second
Coming"; Nobel Prize in Literature (1923); In love with Maud Gonne but it was
unrequited; Founder of Abbey theatre
William Faulkner - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; Wrote almost solely
about southern history in his fiction; "Sartoris", "The Sound and The Fury", "As I Lay
Dying", "Absalom, "Absolom", "Sanctuary", "Go Down, Moses"; Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1949; Won two Pulitzer Prizes; Recurring themes include Southern aristocracy's
,attempt to survive in the modern world, racial inequality in the South and burdens of
slavery carried by his characters
Hart Crane - Answer-American poet; "The Bridge" - 18 part epic poem based on the
Brooklyn Bridge celebrates America's muscular industrial strength in a manner that
precedes Carl Sandburg - combines cold imagery with technical dexterity; Committed
suicide by jumping off of the ship into the ocean
John Dos Passos - Answer-American novelist; Wrote sobering fiction and prose about
the decline of the US both spiritually and socially; "U.S.A." - Trilogy of novels; His
jaundiced view of America is based on his observations of a country deeply divided by
class and coarsened by commercialism; Worked with Ernest Hemingway; Recurring
theme of a negative view of American society
Aldous Huxley - Answer-English novelist and social critic; Created a hellish vision of the
future in "Brave New World" - describing a society based on technology and social
control, summation of a generation's fears about the future; "Island" reflecting his
interest in eastern spirituality and metaphysics; "After Many A Summer Dies The Swan"
indicates growing distrust of politics and social trends
Henry Miller - Answer-American novelist, short-fiction writer and essayist; Banned
initially in the US - "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn" - two autobiographical
novels caused an uproar because of their controversial treatment of sex; "The Rosy
Crucifixion" - trilogy based on Miller's life
Lillian Hellman - Answer-American playwright and diarists; "The Children's Hour" a play
about two schoolteachers who are accused of being Lesbians; "The Little Foxes" a
portrait of a ruthless southern family, "Nazi Watch On the Rhine", "Toys In The Attic" -
notable plays
Anna Akmatova (Andreyevna Gorenko) - Answer-Russian poet; Work is set against
repression in the Soviet Union; "Vecher" - first book; "Requiem" - epic poem; was a
response to her husband's execution by the Soviets; "Poem Without A Hero" regarded
as her masterpiece and narrated the difficulties of an artist working in a repressive
regime; Stalinist officials banned her work for 20 yrs judging it to be too concerned with
love and God
John Steinbeck - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; Wrote realistic style
about the lives of common people; Most important work describes the plight of itinerant
workers set in rural and industrial California; "Of Mice and Men" - Pulitzer Prize; "The
Grapes of Wrath" - depression stricken "dust bowl" and a refugee family's travails;
"Cannery Row", "East of Eden", "Travels of Charley"; Novel Prize in Literature in 1962
Robert Penn Warren - Answer-Influential American novelist, poet and critic; "All The
King's Men" - Pulitzer Prize winning novel - based loosely on the life of Huey P. Long;
,"World Enough and Time", "The Circus In The Attic"; "Now and Then" - Won the Pulitzer
Prize for the collection of poetry; Named Poet Laureate of the United States in 1985
Richard Wright - Answer-American novelist and short-fiction writer; One of the most
influential black voices in American literature; "Uncle Tom's Children" - included four
novellas and won critical acclaim; "Native Son", "The Outsider", "Black Boy"
Wystan Hugh Auden - Answer-English poet, playwright, critic, editor and translator; Best
known for his verse - witty, musical, and innovative in the use of rhythms; "The Age of
Anxiety" - won him a Pulitzer Prize for poetry; "Another Time", "The Double Man",
"Nuns" - National Book Award winner, "The Shield of Achilles"; BFF's with Brittan and
Stravinsky
Carson McCullers (Lula Carson Smith) - Answer-American novelist; Set her fiction in the
small Southern towns she grew up in as a child; Her themes were alienation, loneliness,
and spiritual longing; "The Member Of the Wedding" narrates the story of a lonely
adolescent girl in a Southern town, who lives vicariously through her brother; "The Heart
Is A Lonely Hunter", "Reflections In A Golden Eye", "Clock Without Hands", "The
Mortgaged Heart"; Studied music at Julliard
Henry Adams - Answer-American editor, biographer and historian famed for his
autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams"; "Democracy, an American Novel",
"Esther"; "History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
and James Madison" - nine volumes
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; "This Side of
Paradise" - novel of the jazz age; "The Great Gatsby" - chronicles the life of a
bootlegger who reforms; "Tender is the Night" - a largely autobiographical novel about a
psychiatrist's failing fight to save his wife from mental illness
Ernest Hemingway - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; Modernist master
who became a legendary figure; "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell to Arms" based on
WWI experiences; "For Whom the Bell Tolls" based on the Spanish Civil War, "The Old
Man and the Sea", a novel about a Cuban fisherman; Awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1954
Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark) - Answer-German novelist and literary
figure; "All Quiet on the Western Front" - Experiences as a solider in WWI formed the
subject of this novel
Clifford Odets - Answer-American playwright; Forte was social protest theatre in which
he became a leader; 1st success - "Waiting For Lefty", "Awake and Sing" - powerful
depictions of class struggle; "Golden Boy", "The Country Girl" - a story of an alcoholic
actor's attempt at a comeback
, Margaret Mitchell - Answer-"Gone With the Wind"; Novel won a Pulitzer Prize - Narrates
a Southern Belle's rise and fall set against the panorama of the planter South and the
American Civil War, the protagonist, Scarlett O'Hara, suffers the end of her Southern
society and her values, before becoming a resilient and successful survivor; Wrote over
a 10 year period
Oral Assessments - Answer-Used when written assessments are not feasible and to
evaluate a student's mastery of a specific topic (verbal language proficiency, debating
skills, ability to think/respond quickly)
Oral Presentations - Answer-A flexible assessment tool that can be assigned to an
individual student or group project
Oral presentations can show student growth and development in several
areas...including: - Answer-1. Understanding the subject
2. Planning and organizing abilities
3. Communication skills
Performance Test - Answer-Used to evaluate a particular skill that is one of the primary
objectives of the class (ex. playing a musical instrument, conducting a lab experiment)
When conducting a performance test, student's should be evaluated on both...? -
Answer-The process and the results using a observation checklist or rating scale
Performance Assessment - Answer-Used to evaluate students' progress in a specific
task (ex. demonstrating a skill, solving a complex problem with multiple parts)
Choruses - Answer-A group of actors that furnishes a commentary on the play as it
unfolds (used in Greek Drama) - The chorus is an objective observer of the dramatic
action
What are the three major types of dramatic stages? - Answer-1. Theatre-in-the-Round
or the Arena Stage
2. Apron or Thrust Stage
3. Proscenium Stage
Theatre-in-the-Round or the Arena Stage - Answer-Allows the audience to surround the
stage (widely used today in smaller experimental theatres)
Apron or Thrust Stage - Answer-Seats the audience on the side of a platform - Less
commonly used today (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was an early form)
Proscenium Stage - Answer-Most commonly used stage; Audience sits in front of a
stage framed by the acting space - Very common in drama, opera and musical
presentations
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Dame Agatha Christie - Answer-English novelist and playwright; Wrote over 80
detective novels; Created Hercules Poirot and Miss Jane Marple; "The Mousetrap" - the
longest running play in the history of drama
Edward Estlin Cummings (E.E. Cummings) - Answer-American poet and novelist; Noted
for his unique writing style, using unconventional punctuation and typography,
innovative language and imagery; "The Enormous Room"; His verse is often light and
joyful but contains a great depth of irony and complex feelings; "Tulips and Chimney's",
"50 Poems", "Ninety-Five Poems", "73 Poems"
Rene' Maria Rilke - Answer-German poet; Themes of life and death; Explore man's
relationship to the Divine and particularly humanity's perception of the universal; "The
Book of Images", "Duino Elegies", "Sonnets to Orpheus" and "New Plans"
Edward Morgan Forster - Answer-English novelist, essayist and critic; "A Room With a
View", "Howard's End", "The Longest Journey" and "Where Angels Fear To Tread" -
Addressed subjects such as social justice, materialism and spirituality and dissolution of
the English upper classes; His masterpiece "A Passage to India" was inspired by
several visits to India and Fosters service in Egypt in WWI
Thomas Mann - Answer-German novelist and essayist; Focused on art and the struggle
of the artist to flourish in European society; "Buddenbrooks", "Death in Venice", "The
Magic Mountain", "Dr Faustus", "Joesph and His Brothers" ; Won Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1929
Ezra Pound - Answer-American poet, critic and editor; "The Cantos"; His influence as a
critic was formidable - he fostered the work of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, James
Joyce and T.S. Eliot; Important imagist, advocating the use of free meter, and the
extravagant use of image; Associated with Mussolini and his fascist regime, Pound was
arrested for treasonable propganda
William Butler Yeats - Answer-Irish poet and playwright; "The Countess Cathleen", "The
Land of Heart's Desire", "Cathleen in Houlihan"; Spare, realistic style with much
symbolism - "Easter 1916" - celebrating the Easter rising in Dublin - "The Second
Coming"; Nobel Prize in Literature (1923); In love with Maud Gonne but it was
unrequited; Founder of Abbey theatre
William Faulkner - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; Wrote almost solely
about southern history in his fiction; "Sartoris", "The Sound and The Fury", "As I Lay
Dying", "Absalom, "Absolom", "Sanctuary", "Go Down, Moses"; Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1949; Won two Pulitzer Prizes; Recurring themes include Southern aristocracy's
,attempt to survive in the modern world, racial inequality in the South and burdens of
slavery carried by his characters
Hart Crane - Answer-American poet; "The Bridge" - 18 part epic poem based on the
Brooklyn Bridge celebrates America's muscular industrial strength in a manner that
precedes Carl Sandburg - combines cold imagery with technical dexterity; Committed
suicide by jumping off of the ship into the ocean
John Dos Passos - Answer-American novelist; Wrote sobering fiction and prose about
the decline of the US both spiritually and socially; "U.S.A." - Trilogy of novels; His
jaundiced view of America is based on his observations of a country deeply divided by
class and coarsened by commercialism; Worked with Ernest Hemingway; Recurring
theme of a negative view of American society
Aldous Huxley - Answer-English novelist and social critic; Created a hellish vision of the
future in "Brave New World" - describing a society based on technology and social
control, summation of a generation's fears about the future; "Island" reflecting his
interest in eastern spirituality and metaphysics; "After Many A Summer Dies The Swan"
indicates growing distrust of politics and social trends
Henry Miller - Answer-American novelist, short-fiction writer and essayist; Banned
initially in the US - "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn" - two autobiographical
novels caused an uproar because of their controversial treatment of sex; "The Rosy
Crucifixion" - trilogy based on Miller's life
Lillian Hellman - Answer-American playwright and diarists; "The Children's Hour" a play
about two schoolteachers who are accused of being Lesbians; "The Little Foxes" a
portrait of a ruthless southern family, "Nazi Watch On the Rhine", "Toys In The Attic" -
notable plays
Anna Akmatova (Andreyevna Gorenko) - Answer-Russian poet; Work is set against
repression in the Soviet Union; "Vecher" - first book; "Requiem" - epic poem; was a
response to her husband's execution by the Soviets; "Poem Without A Hero" regarded
as her masterpiece and narrated the difficulties of an artist working in a repressive
regime; Stalinist officials banned her work for 20 yrs judging it to be too concerned with
love and God
John Steinbeck - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; Wrote realistic style
about the lives of common people; Most important work describes the plight of itinerant
workers set in rural and industrial California; "Of Mice and Men" - Pulitzer Prize; "The
Grapes of Wrath" - depression stricken "dust bowl" and a refugee family's travails;
"Cannery Row", "East of Eden", "Travels of Charley"; Novel Prize in Literature in 1962
Robert Penn Warren - Answer-Influential American novelist, poet and critic; "All The
King's Men" - Pulitzer Prize winning novel - based loosely on the life of Huey P. Long;
,"World Enough and Time", "The Circus In The Attic"; "Now and Then" - Won the Pulitzer
Prize for the collection of poetry; Named Poet Laureate of the United States in 1985
Richard Wright - Answer-American novelist and short-fiction writer; One of the most
influential black voices in American literature; "Uncle Tom's Children" - included four
novellas and won critical acclaim; "Native Son", "The Outsider", "Black Boy"
Wystan Hugh Auden - Answer-English poet, playwright, critic, editor and translator; Best
known for his verse - witty, musical, and innovative in the use of rhythms; "The Age of
Anxiety" - won him a Pulitzer Prize for poetry; "Another Time", "The Double Man",
"Nuns" - National Book Award winner, "The Shield of Achilles"; BFF's with Brittan and
Stravinsky
Carson McCullers (Lula Carson Smith) - Answer-American novelist; Set her fiction in the
small Southern towns she grew up in as a child; Her themes were alienation, loneliness,
and spiritual longing; "The Member Of the Wedding" narrates the story of a lonely
adolescent girl in a Southern town, who lives vicariously through her brother; "The Heart
Is A Lonely Hunter", "Reflections In A Golden Eye", "Clock Without Hands", "The
Mortgaged Heart"; Studied music at Julliard
Henry Adams - Answer-American editor, biographer and historian famed for his
autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams"; "Democracy, an American Novel",
"Esther"; "History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
and James Madison" - nine volumes
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; "This Side of
Paradise" - novel of the jazz age; "The Great Gatsby" - chronicles the life of a
bootlegger who reforms; "Tender is the Night" - a largely autobiographical novel about a
psychiatrist's failing fight to save his wife from mental illness
Ernest Hemingway - Answer-American novelist and short-story writer; Modernist master
who became a legendary figure; "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell to Arms" based on
WWI experiences; "For Whom the Bell Tolls" based on the Spanish Civil War, "The Old
Man and the Sea", a novel about a Cuban fisherman; Awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1954
Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark) - Answer-German novelist and literary
figure; "All Quiet on the Western Front" - Experiences as a solider in WWI formed the
subject of this novel
Clifford Odets - Answer-American playwright; Forte was social protest theatre in which
he became a leader; 1st success - "Waiting For Lefty", "Awake and Sing" - powerful
depictions of class struggle; "Golden Boy", "The Country Girl" - a story of an alcoholic
actor's attempt at a comeback
, Margaret Mitchell - Answer-"Gone With the Wind"; Novel won a Pulitzer Prize - Narrates
a Southern Belle's rise and fall set against the panorama of the planter South and the
American Civil War, the protagonist, Scarlett O'Hara, suffers the end of her Southern
society and her values, before becoming a resilient and successful survivor; Wrote over
a 10 year period
Oral Assessments - Answer-Used when written assessments are not feasible and to
evaluate a student's mastery of a specific topic (verbal language proficiency, debating
skills, ability to think/respond quickly)
Oral Presentations - Answer-A flexible assessment tool that can be assigned to an
individual student or group project
Oral presentations can show student growth and development in several
areas...including: - Answer-1. Understanding the subject
2. Planning and organizing abilities
3. Communication skills
Performance Test - Answer-Used to evaluate a particular skill that is one of the primary
objectives of the class (ex. playing a musical instrument, conducting a lab experiment)
When conducting a performance test, student's should be evaluated on both...? -
Answer-The process and the results using a observation checklist or rating scale
Performance Assessment - Answer-Used to evaluate students' progress in a specific
task (ex. demonstrating a skill, solving a complex problem with multiple parts)
Choruses - Answer-A group of actors that furnishes a commentary on the play as it
unfolds (used in Greek Drama) - The chorus is an objective observer of the dramatic
action
What are the three major types of dramatic stages? - Answer-1. Theatre-in-the-Round
or the Arena Stage
2. Apron or Thrust Stage
3. Proscenium Stage
Theatre-in-the-Round or the Arena Stage - Answer-Allows the audience to surround the
stage (widely used today in smaller experimental theatres)
Apron or Thrust Stage - Answer-Seats the audience on the side of a platform - Less
commonly used today (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was an early form)
Proscenium Stage - Answer-Most commonly used stage; Audience sits in front of a
stage framed by the acting space - Very common in drama, opera and musical
presentations
