American Timeline 2

Question 0

Realism Historical Context

Answer 0

A) People in society defined by class; materialism

B) reflect ideas of Darwin

Question 1

Realism time period

Answer 1

1865-1915

Question 2

Realism Genre

Answer 2

A) Reaction against romanticism
B) focus in lives of ordinary people
C) anti-materialism

Question 3

Naturalism

Answer 3

A) like Realism, but darker view of the world

B) universe is unpredictable

Question 4

Major writers of realism during civil war

Answer 4

A) Harriet Beecher Stowe

B) Frederick Douglas

Question 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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A) most famous woman of her day

B) Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 6

Frederick Douglas

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A) an escaped slave
B) influential newspaper writer
C) famous autobiography

Question 7

Realism writers suing the frontier

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A) Mark Twain
B) Stephen Crane
C) Jack London

Question 8

Mark Twain

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A) Samuel Clemens
B) adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
C) celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras

Question 9

Stephen Crane

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A) Attacked patriotism, individualism, organized religion
B) Crane’s writing known for its images an symbolism
C) Red Badge of Courage

Question 10

Jack London

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A) pushed Naturalism to its limits

B) call of the wild

Question 11

Modernism time period

Answer 11

1915-1945

Question 12

Modernism Historical Context

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A) Overwhelming technological changes
B) WWI and WWII
C) rise of youth culture

Question 13

Modernism: Genre/Style

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A) dominant mood
B) writing highly experimental
C) writers seek to create a unique style

Question 14

Modernism: Major Writers

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A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) William Faulkner
D) John Steinbeck

Question 15

Ernest Hemingway

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A) Writing style: concise, direct, rhythmic
B) The Sun Also Rises
C) Larger than life hero

Question 16

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A) The Great Gatsby

B) his work and life illustrate American culture of the 1920s

Question 17

William Faulkner

Answer 17

A) As I Lay Dying

B) Most original writer of his time

Question 18

John Steinbeck

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A) Grapes of Wrath

B) The Pearl

Question 19

Modernism: Drama

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A) Tennessee Williams

B) Arthur Miller

Question 20

Tennessee Williams

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A) writing style: playwright

B) concerns with traditional values of the American South

Question 21

Arthur Miller

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A) writing style; playwright and essayist
B) Major Works include: Death of a Salesman
Tragic Figure

Question 22

Modernism: Major 20th Century Poets

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A) Ezra Pound
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Robert Frost
D) e.e. Cummings
E) Carl Sandburg

Question 23

Ezra Pound

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A) imagism

B) committed treason

Question 24

T.S. Eliot

Answer 24

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Question 25

Robert Frost

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A) America’s best known and best-loved poet

B) Birches

Question 26

e.e. Cummings

Answer 26

Broke grammar rules

Question 27

Carl Sandburg

Answer 27

One of Chicago’s poets

Question 28

Modernism: Harlem Renaissance

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A) black-cultural movement that emerged in Harlem during the 20’s
B) Langston Hughes: most successful black winter in America
C) Countee Cullen: skilled as a poet