9) Lost Generation and Fiction Between the World Wars

Question 1

When was the stock market crash?

Answer 1

October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday)

Question 2

When was The Great Depression?

Answer 2

1930s

Question 3

What is The Lost Generation?

Answer 3

a group of American writers who came of age during WWI, questions of meaning, purpose, identity, existential angst, themes of alienation and isolation

Question 4

Name some “Lost Generation” authors

Answer 4

Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Pasos, Gertrude Stein

Question 5

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 5

“the new negro movement”, Harlem as the place of mass immigration, new platform for the voice of African Americans

Question 6

Which author wrote about their experience in Spanish Civil War?

Answer 6

John Dos Pasos

Question 7

John Dos Pasos

Answer 7

U.S.A. trilogy, The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money

Question 8

Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 8

Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Question 9

John Steinbeck

Answer 9

Cup of Gold, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Tortilla Flat

Question 10

William Faulkner

Answer 10

The Sound and the Fury, Absolon Absolon, As I Lay Dying

Question 11

Nobel Prize for literature

Answer 11

John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway

Question 12

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 12

The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, The Side of Paradise

Question 13

What is the setting of The Great Gatsby?

Answer 13

Roaring Twenties, Long Island, New York, primarily in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg

Question 14

Who is the narrator of The Great Gatsby?

Answer 14

Nick Carraway

Question 15

Who is Jay Gatsby’s lost love?

Answer 15

Daisy Buchanan

Question 16

How does The Great Gatsby end?

Answer 16

Gatsby is shot and killed, Daisy and her husband leave Long Island

Question 17

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 17

To Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Amrs, The Sun Also Arises, Hills Like White Elephants

Question 18

What is the iceberg theory?

Answer 18

a concept by Ernest Hemingway, the deeper truths of a story are submerged beneath the surface of the text, much like the majority of an iceberg is underwater, Ernest Hemingway

Question 19

Which novel set in the 1920s is often considered a defining work of the Lost Generation?

Answer 19

The Sun Also Arises

Question 20

Who is the narrator of The Sun Also Arises?

Answer 20

Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris

Question 21

What is the main theme of Hills Like White Elephants?

Answer 21

abortion

Question 22

Robert Penn Warren

Answer 22

I’ll Take My Stand, All the King’s Men

Question 23

Mary McCarthy

Answer 23

The Company She Keeps, The Group

Question 24

What is New Criticism?

Answer 24

emphasizes a close reading of literary texts and focuses on the text itself, rather than on external factors such as the author’s biography, historical context, or the reader’s emotional response, Robert Penn Warren was one of the founders