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The Snowflake Which Is Now and Hence Forever Quiz

1 Why did MacLeish move to Paris?
To give his wife the life she wanted

To pursue a career in poetry and writing

To learn French

To get away from growing fascist tendencies in America
2 When did MacLeish win his first Pulitzer Prize?
1925

1940

1932

1952
3 For what did MacLeish win his first Pulitzer Prize?
His poem Conquistador

His poem Ars Poetica

His play about Roosevelt

His novel about WWI
4 Was MacLeish productive in Paris?
No, but he was afterwards

Somewhat, he published two books

No, and that's why he left

Yes, he published four books
5 What was one of MacLeish's jobs right after Paris?
Secretary of State

Chancellor

Professor

Editor
6 Was MacLeish political?
Yes, but only in regards to funding in the arts

No, he preferred to focus on poetry

Yes, but only in his last decades of life

Yes, he was very against fascism
7 What magazine did MacLeish work at in the 1930s?
The New York Review

Fortune Magazine

Esquire

Life Magazine
8 Who appointed MacLeish Librarian of Congress?
e.e. cummings

Herbert Hoover

Andrew Carnegie

Franklin D. Roosevelt
9 What is one of the things MacLeish did in his position as Librarian of Congress?
Write a play about his experience

Write American novels

Reorganize the offices

Remove low quality poetry from the library
10 Which statement is false?
MacLeish didn't believe in having children

MacLeish struggled with the human condition

MacLeish was a patriot

MacLeish was an expatriate
11 How many children did MacLeish have?
four

three

two

none
12 What year did MacLeish begin teaching at Harvard?
1948

1939

1949

1955
13 What does the concept of the "snowflake" symbolize in the Snowflake poem?
Strength

Transience

Lifelessness

Teamwork
14 What did Clarence Birdseye invent?
The salmon catching industry

The Academy of American Poets

The Bollingen Prize

The frozen food industry
15 What famous writer does MacLeish's Snowflake poem reference?
Geoffrey Chaucer

William Shakespeare

William Blake

Edmund Spenser
16 Whose famous line does MacLeish's Snowflake poem reference?
Hamlet's father

Hamlet's mother

Hamlet

The narrator
17 What fish does MacLeish use as a metaphor in his Snowflake poem?
Carp

Trout

Salmon

Swordfish
18 What synecdoche does MacLeish use in the first stanza of the Snowflake poem?
The page

The sword

The fish

The pen
19 What is one of the main philosophical issues in the Snowflake poem?
Boredom

Violence

Solitude

Remembrance
20 What metaphysical concept does the title of the Snowflake poem give the reader a clue about?
Regret

Grief

Time

Patience
21 What does "pinkness" refer to in his Snowflake poem?
Blushing cheek

Joyful spring

Cooked salmon

Cold skin
22 What do "leap and water" represent in the Snowflake poem?
Life in the present moment

Life's solitude

Resilience

Ancient memories
23 What is a "plank" referring to in the Snowflake poem?
a pirate's punishment

the table written upon

the bottom of a boat

a slab of fish
24 What does "it" most likely mean in the Snowflake poem?
A memory

A snowflake

A poem

A fish
25 What does the word "standard" say about the speaker's fears in the Snowflake poem?
Worrying the world's standards will deteriorate

Blending in and being forgotten

Eating average fish forever

Feeling bored by nature's beauty

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