Ch.9

Question 1

Who was appointed by Lincoln to be a American consulate in Venice, Italy

Answer 1

William dean Howells

Question 2

Who wrote The rise of Silas Lapham

Answer 2

William Dean Howells

Question 3

What persuasive arguments to convince George to enlist?

Answer 3

He should fight to liberate the people involved
Editha and George must agree on everything
He should fight for his country

Question 4

What does editha think God says

Answer 4

Meant it to be war

Question 5

Define realism use as much as you can remember

Answer 5

Literative that portrays events in a realistic,true to life manner.
The author deliberately describes life objectively and unemotionally,usually selecting protagonists from middle or lower classes of society. Realistic works often focus on ugly or degraded subjects and deal with individuals rather than stereotypical characters. Most importantly the realistic author uses the events of everyday life to depict characters who have been molded by their surroundings.

Question 6

Why does editha’ s mother says “well I guess you’ve done a wicked thing”

Answer 6

Because she finds out from editha that she will do anything to persuade George to go

Question 7

Quote refers to “I Never thought I should like to kill a man, but now, I shouldn’t care, and the smokeless powder lets you see the man drop that you kill”

Answer 7

George

Question 8

Quote refers to “ she lifted herself by her powerful arms so high that her helpless body seemed to hang limp its full length”

Answer 8

Mrs. Gearson

Question 9

Quote refers to “ the mystery that had bewildered her was solved by the word; and from that moment she rose from grove long and began to live again in the ideal”

Answer 9

Editha

Question 10

Who was noted for his psychological realism?

Answer 10

Henry James

Question 11

Who reacted against didacticism in fiction

Answer 11

Henry James

Question 12

Who developed the international theme through his characters

Answer 12

Henry James

Question 13

Who became the most famous 19th century American expatriate and wrote the American

Answer 13

Henry James

Question 14

What is the setting and location of “The American”

Answer 14

Begins in the city of Paris

And a chateau in Fleurieres

Question 15

Quote refers to who? “The gentleman on the divan was a powerful specimen of an American.”

Answer 15

Christopher Newman

Question 16

What is Christopher is described as

Answer 16

Determined intelligent and resourceful

Question 17

What is Christopher Newmans sole aim in life

Answer 17

To make money

Question 18

Why can’t Newman marry the one he loves?

Answer 18

Newman cannot marry the one he loves because her family does not approve.

Question 19

Quote refers to who? “She was the sweetest young creature in France, and knew as little of what was going on around her as the lamb does of the butcher.”

Answer 19

Claire

Question 20

“I wouldn’t get well, for a kingdom.”Quote refers to who

Answer 20

Valentin de bellegarde

Question 21

Quote for who.”I didn’t know what was written on the paper, or how bad it might be, and there was no one I could trust enough to ask.”

Answer 21

Mrs. Bread

Question 22

Why is Mrs. Bread keeping her secrets?

Answer 22

Mrs. Bread keeps her secret because she is afraid, she doesn’t know who to tell and she doesn’t want to hurt Claire.

Question 23

Who made a colloquial speech of the frontier into an artistic form. was both a humorist and a satirist.
was made famous by a tall tale?

Answer 23

Samuel Longhorne Clemens

Question 24

In “ the adventures of huckleberry Finn”. Samuel Clemens uses what to tie the episodes together?

Answer 24

Common setting

Question 25

What is the location of the story “life on the Mississippi”?

Answer 25

Hannibal, Missouri

Question 26

In life on the Mississippi the narrator wants to be what?

Answer 26

clown, a steam boat man and a pirate

Question 27

QOUTE refers to who? “ He would crowd around a point, hugging the shore with affection
Once the narrator has learned the river he says,”

Answer 27

Mr bixby

Question 28

What is the location of The adventures of huckleberry Finn

Answer 28

A Kentucky household and the phelps farm

Question 29

How does Clemens criticizes human weakness?

Answer 29

By using satire

Question 30

How does Huck escape from pap what did he do to get away

Answer 30

Made them think he was dead 
Used
Killed a pig and drips blood
Drags a sack of rocks to the river 
And drops a trail of meal to the lake

Question 31

Samuel Clemens uses Hucks naïveté to what?

Answer 31

satirize emmelines pictures and poetry, Tom Sawyers romantic ideas and societies views on religion and slavery