Test Your Knowledge


1	e.e. cummings:
		A)	Never used uppercase letters in his poetry.
		B)	Was a general in the French army.
		C)	Wrote a novel, essays, and poetry.
		D)	Attended Yale University.
		E)	Died in captivity in France.


2	"Buffalo Bill's" is NOT:
		A)	Experimental in syntax
		B)	Experimental in diction
		C)	Written in a closed form.
		D)	Written in an open form.
		E)	Unpunctuated


3	Which of the following was NOT a contemporary of cummings?
		A)	T.S. Eliot
		B)	William Carlos Williams
		C)	Ezra Pound
		D)	Walt Whitman
		E)	Wallace Stevens


4	Buffalo Bill used to:
		A)	Ride a stallion
		B)	Kill birds
		C)	Blow smoke rings
		D)	Insult people
		E)	Break bones


5	During the First World War, e. e. cummings served as:
		A)	A marine
		B)	A bombardier
		C)	A charity worker
		D)	An ambulance driver
		E)	None of the above

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