age of innocence quiz Flashcards
Mid-way through the novel, Count Olenski writes to his estranged wife, Ellen, asking her to return to him in Europe.
True or false?
True
At the end of the first book of The Age of Innocence, Countess Olenska is preparing to move from New York to this famously scandalous city:
Washington, DC
As a way of bringing out the inquisitive dimension of Newland Archer’s conventional personality, Wharton reveals the titles and authors of some of the books he reads, which include all except:
Victorian manuals on The Language of Flowers
In Wharton’s novel, these people represent the highest social caste among all the elite families of 1870s New York:
The van der Luydens
Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence soon after the end of World War I, but sets the action of the novel during this different, but significant historical period:
The decade immediately following the end of the American Civil War
When Newland Archer and Ellen Olenska manage at last to meet alone in the old Patroon house on the remote estate of Skuytercliff, their potentially romantic rendezvous is suddenly interrupted by the unexpected arrival of this character:
Julius Beaufort
As a measure of how social customs have evolved since Newland Archer’s young adulthood to that of his son’s, The Age of Innocence concludes with:
Dallas Archer’s engagement to marry Fanny Beaufort
In the opening scene of the novel, most of the major characters are assembled together watching a performance of:
Faust
Although his writer friend, Ned Winsett, is not a member of Newland Archer’s usual social circle or elevated class, the young writer nevertheless provides Newland with:
Much needed intellectual stimulation
In narratological terms, the device Wharton uses to convey, without punctuation, a shift from the narrator’s perspective to that of one of the characters:
Free indirect discourse
