9 Week

Question 1

The south was slow to recover after the war.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Postwar decades continued trends already established

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The railroad spanned the nation shortly after the war

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Few immigrants came

Answer 4

False

Question 5

The nation was intent on new reforms and more Utopias

Answer 5

False

Question 6

There was a tremendous exploitation of natural & human resources

Answer 6

True

Question 7

There was a widening distance between the rich & the poor

Answer 7

True

Question 8

After the pain of the civil war Americans had a me dynamic and firmer sense of human potential

Answer 8

FALSE. Human limitation.

Question 9

The high idealism for changes was now a week force

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The American renaissance has greatly diminished by 1865

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Walt Whitman provided a connection between Romanticism and Realism

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Whitmans leaves of grass had very little influence in modern poetry

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Whitman celebrated Americas energies while deploring its materialism

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Along with realism, regionalism became a trait of American literature in this era

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Realism had its origin in Germany

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The foremost American exponent of realism was walt Whitman

Answer 16

False, William Dean Howells

Question 17

Realism stresses human actualities, facts, and observed social behavior

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Regionalism stresses dialect, customs, and character types

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Bret Harte was Americans greatest author

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Timrod & Lanier promoted regional concerns of the south

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Southwestern humor was short lived and its elements only influenced Mark Twain

Answer 21

False

Question 22

Fredrick Douglas wrote The Souls Of Black Folks in 1855

Answer 22

False, not Fredrick Douglas

Question 23

Henry Timod wrote “Ode on the Confederate death” in 1866

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Louis May Alcott lived from 1832-1888

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Bret Harte wrote “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” in 1969

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Sidney Lainer was a contemporary of Mark Twain

Answer 26

True

Question 27

WEB Dubois lived 95 years

Answer 27

True

Question 28

New England local color writing stressed the expansionist spirit

Answer 28

False, probably freedom

Question 29

Stowe’s “Uncle Toms Cabin” was the most influential antislavery novel

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Mary Freeman provides the most fully developed local color writing in New England

Answer 30

False, Soujorm Iewelt

Question 31

The local color writing about California was fairly ordinary and pretty understanding

Answer 31

False

Question 32

San Francisco became the intellectual, financial, and cultural capital of the far west.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Two famous journalists who am wrote about San Francisco were Bret Harte and Ambrose Bierce

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Twain was able to combine regional literary traditions with jovial oral traditions

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Twain wrote in vernacular style, an imaginative style much like science fiction.

Answer 35

False. He did write in vernacular but that’s more of realism.

Question 36

Trains writings are filled with much social criticism exposing prejudices and injustices.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

The gilded age almost perfectly matched the literary abundance of the American Renaissance

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Henry James was the greatest realistic novelist of the postwar period.

Answer 38

True