ENGLISH (002) MTTC EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Upton Sinclair - ANS American novelist, journalist and essayist; "The Jungle" - attacked and
exposed abuses in the Chicago meat packing industry - instrumental in forcing the passage of
the Pure Food and Drug Act; "King Coal", "Boston"; A "muckracker"
Muckracker - ANS A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived
immoral conduct in business and government
Johan Strindberg - ANS Swedish novelist, playwright, essayist and short-fiction writer; "The
Red Room" - bohemian life in Sweden; Blending realism and naturalism together in a unique
manner; "The Father", "Miss Julie"; later works turned to symbolism mixed with expressionism
for "Ghost Sonata", "The Great Highway" - autobiographical plays; An unhappy childhood
followed by 3 failed marriages influenced his work
Ford Madox Ford (Ford Hermann Hueffer) - ANS English novelist and critic; "The Good
Solider" narrates an unhappy marriage in English upper class; BFF's with Joesph Conrad -
Collaborated two novels "The Inheritors" and "Romance", "Parade's End" - a trilogy of novels set
in America and Europe; Fought in France in World War I
Gertrude Stein - ANS American poet, essayist, novelist and short-story writer; "Three Lives" -
a novel of working class women; "Tender Objects, Food, and Rooms" her poetry collection; "The
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" her autobiography (Alice B. Toklas was her secretary and
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,partner); BFF's with Picasso, Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford; Flamboyant figure in Paris
famous for her acid tongue and wit
Rabindranath Tagore - ANS Indian poet, playwright, novelist, short-fiction writer and
songwriter; Best known for his spiritual poetry written in Bengali - 1st collection was "The ideal
One"; Noted for his lyrical, spiritual poetry; "Song Offerings" - Won a Novel Prize in Literature
(1911); "The Hungry Stones", "Broken Ties" - Stories of village Begal life
D.H. Lawrence - ANS English novelist, poet, essayist and short-fiction writer; "Sons and
Lovers", "The Rainbow", "Women in Love", "Lady Chatterly's Lover" - banned in England for 30
yrs; Books focused on love, class, social standing and sexuality; The intensity to his work and life
that sometimes scandalized peers
George Bernard Shaw - ANS British playwright and critic; Published his collection of dramas in
"Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant" - included some of his best work including his critical prefaces;
"Caesar and Cleopatra", "Major Barbara", "Pygmalion", "St. Joan"; Awarded the Nobel prize in
Literature (1925); Chose controversial topics for his drams, stressing realistic social problems -
satirized social class and gender discrimination with a light touch that made its points w/o anger
Marcel Proust - ANS French novelist; "Remembrance of Things Past" - epic seven-part
masterpiece that examines the existential problem of finding meaning and value in the
maelstrom of life; uses the device of interior monologue - views the transient nature of life and
the flux of consciousness using observation of detail
Thomas Sterns Eliot - ANS American poet, playwright and critic; "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock", "The Waste Land" - Struggled with his own despair at the futility of life and the
spiritual barrenness of modern life, he addressed these themes in "The Waste Land"; "Murder
in the Cathedral", "The Cocktail Party" - dramas
Robert Frost - ANS American poet; Master of technical aspects of poetry while remaining
true to his New England heritage; "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Road Not
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,Taken", "West Running Brook", "A Witness Tree", "In the Clearing"; Received the Pulitzer Prize 4
times; Read "The Gift Outright" at the inaugural of John Kennedy in 1961
Frantz Kafka - ANS Prague born and German writing novelist and short-story writer; Uses
powerful symbolism; Addresses anxieties and chaos of modern society; "The Metamorphosis",
"In the Penal Colony", "The Hunger Artist"; Instructed his executor and literary agent, Max Brod,
to destroy his work after his death but Brod instead published them - "The Trial", "The Castle",
"Amerika"; Fiction was dark, wounding, arresting and sometimes painful
James Joyce - ANS Irish novelist and short-story writer; Developed a style rich in innovative
literary technique and creative language; "The Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man" - novels and dramas "Exiles" and "Ulysses"; "Finnegan's Wake" - novel
Edna St. Vinceny Millay - ANS American poet; Won a poetry contest in 1902 for
"Renascence", Won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry "The Ballad of the Harp-weaver"; "A Few
Twigs from Thistles", "Fatal Interview", "Wine From These Grapes", "Conversation at Midnight",
"Make the Bright Arrows", "Collected Poems"
Virginia Woolf (Adele Virginia Stephen) - ANS English novelist, short-fiction writer, essayist,
critic; One of the most creative and influential writers of the 20th century; "Jacobs Room" using
her steam of consciousness method of interior monologues to develop an absent character;
"Mrs. Dalloway", "To This Lighthouse", "The Waves"; Her families home was the center of the
group of authors, artists and thinkers known as the Bloomsbury Group; Committed suicide by
drowning
Sprung rhythm - ANS Attempts to duplicate human speech - developed by Gerald Manley
Hopkins
Gerald Manley Hopkins - ANS English poet; "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "The
Windhover", "Pied Beauty", "God's Grandeur" and "Carrion Comfort"; Poems were written in a
period of personal depression and religious doubt; He developed a style called "sprung rhythm
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, Willa Cather - ANS American novelist, short-story writer and essayist; "Oh Pioneers" which
narrated the story of an immigrant family's struggle in the new world; "My Antonia" a story of a
woman's struggle and eventual triumph on the prairie; Won Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for "One of
Ours"; "Death Comes for the Archbishop" - Pioneering spirit in America; Other writing examines
the topics of art, loss and disillusionment; "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" - a novel on the
American Civil War
Wilfred Owen - ANS English poet; Best known as a scathing indictment against war based on
his experiences in France during World War I; His language is starkly realistic in depicting the
horrors of war; "Poems" include "Strange Meeting", "Anthem for Doomed Youth" - Owen's
verse was used in Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem"
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp - ANS New Zealand short-story writer; "In a German
Pension", "Bliss", "The Garden Party and Other Stories", "Prelude"; Her style and strength was
the complex and subtle development of her characters, probing their psychological depths
Dame Agatha Christie - ANS 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) - ANS 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 - ANS 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"
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Upton Sinclair - ANS American novelist, journalist and essayist; "The Jungle" - attacked and
exposed abuses in the Chicago meat packing industry - instrumental in forcing the passage of
the Pure Food and Drug Act; "King Coal", "Boston"; A "muckracker"
Muckracker - ANS A socially minded band of writers who decried and attacked perceived
immoral conduct in business and government
Johan Strindberg - ANS Swedish novelist, playwright, essayist and short-fiction writer; "The
Red Room" - bohemian life in Sweden; Blending realism and naturalism together in a unique
manner; "The Father", "Miss Julie"; later works turned to symbolism mixed with expressionism
for "Ghost Sonata", "The Great Highway" - autobiographical plays; An unhappy childhood
followed by 3 failed marriages influenced his work
Ford Madox Ford (Ford Hermann Hueffer) - ANS English novelist and critic; "The Good
Solider" narrates an unhappy marriage in English upper class; BFF's with Joesph Conrad -
Collaborated two novels "The Inheritors" and "Romance", "Parade's End" - a trilogy of novels set
in America and Europe; Fought in France in World War I
Gertrude Stein - ANS American poet, essayist, novelist and short-story writer; "Three Lives" -
a novel of working class women; "Tender Objects, Food, and Rooms" her poetry collection; "The
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" her autobiography (Alice B. Toklas was her secretary and
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,partner); BFF's with Picasso, Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford; Flamboyant figure in Paris
famous for her acid tongue and wit
Rabindranath Tagore - ANS Indian poet, playwright, novelist, short-fiction writer and
songwriter; Best known for his spiritual poetry written in Bengali - 1st collection was "The ideal
One"; Noted for his lyrical, spiritual poetry; "Song Offerings" - Won a Novel Prize in Literature
(1911); "The Hungry Stones", "Broken Ties" - Stories of village Begal life
D.H. Lawrence - ANS English novelist, poet, essayist and short-fiction writer; "Sons and
Lovers", "The Rainbow", "Women in Love", "Lady Chatterly's Lover" - banned in England for 30
yrs; Books focused on love, class, social standing and sexuality; The intensity to his work and life
that sometimes scandalized peers
George Bernard Shaw - ANS British playwright and critic; Published his collection of dramas in
"Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant" - included some of his best work including his critical prefaces;
"Caesar and Cleopatra", "Major Barbara", "Pygmalion", "St. Joan"; Awarded the Nobel prize in
Literature (1925); Chose controversial topics for his drams, stressing realistic social problems -
satirized social class and gender discrimination with a light touch that made its points w/o anger
Marcel Proust - ANS French novelist; "Remembrance of Things Past" - epic seven-part
masterpiece that examines the existential problem of finding meaning and value in the
maelstrom of life; uses the device of interior monologue - views the transient nature of life and
the flux of consciousness using observation of detail
Thomas Sterns Eliot - ANS American poet, playwright and critic; "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock", "The Waste Land" - Struggled with his own despair at the futility of life and the
spiritual barrenness of modern life, he addressed these themes in "The Waste Land"; "Murder
in the Cathedral", "The Cocktail Party" - dramas
Robert Frost - ANS American poet; Master of technical aspects of poetry while remaining
true to his New England heritage; "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", "The Road Not
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,Taken", "West Running Brook", "A Witness Tree", "In the Clearing"; Received the Pulitzer Prize 4
times; Read "The Gift Outright" at the inaugural of John Kennedy in 1961
Frantz Kafka - ANS Prague born and German writing novelist and short-story writer; Uses
powerful symbolism; Addresses anxieties and chaos of modern society; "The Metamorphosis",
"In the Penal Colony", "The Hunger Artist"; Instructed his executor and literary agent, Max Brod,
to destroy his work after his death but Brod instead published them - "The Trial", "The Castle",
"Amerika"; Fiction was dark, wounding, arresting and sometimes painful
James Joyce - ANS Irish novelist and short-story writer; Developed a style rich in innovative
literary technique and creative language; "The Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man" - novels and dramas "Exiles" and "Ulysses"; "Finnegan's Wake" - novel
Edna St. Vinceny Millay - ANS American poet; Won a poetry contest in 1902 for
"Renascence", Won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry "The Ballad of the Harp-weaver"; "A Few
Twigs from Thistles", "Fatal Interview", "Wine From These Grapes", "Conversation at Midnight",
"Make the Bright Arrows", "Collected Poems"
Virginia Woolf (Adele Virginia Stephen) - ANS English novelist, short-fiction writer, essayist,
critic; One of the most creative and influential writers of the 20th century; "Jacobs Room" using
her steam of consciousness method of interior monologues to develop an absent character;
"Mrs. Dalloway", "To This Lighthouse", "The Waves"; Her families home was the center of the
group of authors, artists and thinkers known as the Bloomsbury Group; Committed suicide by
drowning
Sprung rhythm - ANS Attempts to duplicate human speech - developed by Gerald Manley
Hopkins
Gerald Manley Hopkins - ANS English poet; "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "The
Windhover", "Pied Beauty", "God's Grandeur" and "Carrion Comfort"; Poems were written in a
period of personal depression and religious doubt; He developed a style called "sprung rhythm
3 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Willa Cather - ANS American novelist, short-story writer and essayist; "Oh Pioneers" which
narrated the story of an immigrant family's struggle in the new world; "My Antonia" a story of a
woman's struggle and eventual triumph on the prairie; Won Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for "One of
Ours"; "Death Comes for the Archbishop" - Pioneering spirit in America; Other writing examines
the topics of art, loss and disillusionment; "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" - a novel on the
American Civil War
Wilfred Owen - ANS English poet; Best known as a scathing indictment against war based on
his experiences in France during World War I; His language is starkly realistic in depicting the
horrors of war; "Poems" include "Strange Meeting", "Anthem for Doomed Youth" - Owen's
verse was used in Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem"
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp - ANS New Zealand short-story writer; "In a German
Pension", "Bliss", "The Garden Party and Other Stories", "Prelude"; Her style and strength was
the complex and subtle development of her characters, probing their psychological depths
Dame Agatha Christie - ANS 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) - ANS 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 - ANS 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"
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