English Mid-term

Question 1

Nature

Answer 1

Transcendentalism

Question 2

Ashamed of Puritan Hypocrisy

Answer 2

Anti-Transcendentalism

Question 3

Utopias

Answer 3

Transcendentalism

Question 4

Hawthorne

Answer 4

Anti-Transcendentalism

Question 5

Passive Resistance

Answer 5

Transcendentalism

Question 6

Moby Dick

Answer 6

Anti-Transcendentalism

Question 7

Based on Immanuel Knats philosophy

Answer 7

Transcendentalism

Question 8

Transparent Eyeball

Answer 8

Transcendentalism

Question 9

Events are plausible

Answer 9

Realism

Question 10

Concentration on middle class

Answer 10

Realism

Question 11

Henry James

Answer 11

Realism

Question 12

Civil War Hero Writers

Answer 12

Realism

Question 13

Steven Crane

Answer 13

Naturalism

Question 14

Samuel Langhorne Clemmens

Answer 14

Realism

Question 15

Author who based ideas on American Oral Tradition

Answer 15

Mark Twain - Realism

Question 16

Portrait of a lady

Answer 16

Realism

Question 17

Determinism

Answer 17

Naturalism

Question 18

Chance (fate)

Answer 18

Naturalism

Question 19

Indifferent and Omnipotent power of Nature

Answer 19

Naturalism

Question 20

Survival of the fittest is the common theme

Answer 20

Naturalism

Question 21

Edith Wharton

Answer 21

Naturalism

Question 22

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 22

Transcendentalism

Question 23

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 23

Transcendentalism

Question 24

John Stienbeck

Answer 24

Naturalism

Question 25

Ethan Frome falls into what movement

Answer 25

Naturalism

Question 26

List 4 themes from Ethan Frome and give an example of each

Answer 26

Repressed passion – Ethan wants Mattie to know but is desperate to keep it from her Isolation – Starkfield is isolated in winter
Poverty – Ethan can’t leave the farm, because he has no education due to poverty
Lost potential – Frome as a young man returned to care for his parents and the farm

Question 27

What is the fictional character?

Answer 27

A secondhand source of information for the reader

Question 28

How does the town’s name reflect the farm?

Answer 28

Frome’s farm mirrors the town’s name. It provides only the bare minimum Frome and his family

Question 29

Know how Zeena foreshadows

Answer 29

Zeena forshadows Mattie’s future. Zeena was once a vibrant and lively young woman, but now due to her harsh life on the Frome farm she is not

Question 30

What is the parallel in chapter 5

Answer 30

The dish is the symbol of the Frome’s marriage. When it breaks it represents the loss of passion in their marriage. Since the dish was broken by a cat, an intruder, it symbolizes that the Frome’s marriage is being broken by someone who is an outsider in their home.

Question 31

Give two examples of environments power over man

Answer 31

The horse falls on the way to load lumber

The sleet makes the work take longer

Question 32

Discuss the pickle dish and it’s relationship to Ethan

Answer 32

Zeena possesses Ethan; she clings to him. When Zeena confronts Mattie about the dish she uses phrases like the “one I care for most of all”, the word “took” instead of broke, and “the one” instead of “the thing”. It seems that she may be talking about Ethan.

Question 33

What is the tragic flaw in chapter 8

Answer 33

Ethan is an honorable man, so he will not abandon Zeena or deceive the Hales

Question 34

How did the sled ride reflect the books naturalistic themes

Answer 34

Free will and fate don’t matter. Ethan doesn’t steer the sled, the track does (gravity and slope). Nature is in control. It doesn’t matter what Ethan does, his fate is already determined

Question 35

Civil Disobedience

Answer 35

Transcendentalism