Critics

Question 1

Rapin: “only in her own natural habitat can she hold our……..

Answer 1

own attention and capture our emotion”

Question 2

Churchwell: “The book likes Antonia but it does not always like………

Answer 2

Jim- we are encouraged to distance ourselves”

Question 3

Miller: “in the closing of the book of My Antonia, Antonia emerges……

Answer 3

as vividly as she did in the first”

Question 4

Dyck: “written at the time of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation, Cather’s…. novel reflects……..

Answer 4

the uneasiness it’s readers felt toward changing US culture”

Question 5

Miller: “My Antonia does not portray, in any meaningful sense ……

Answer 5

the fulfilment of the american dream”

Question 6

Daiches: “The narrator’s sensibility takes control; and this……….

Answer 6

raises problems which Willa Cather is never quite able to solve”

Question 7

Scholes: “Antonia, though also a young, innocent creature in a……..

Answer 7

raw country, is not bereft of the past as Jim is”