humanities 7

Question 1

Primary characteristic of which literary movement that was a rejection of tradition and focused on individual experimentation?

Answer 1

Literary Modernism

Question 2

These writers were a part of which literary movement:
D.H. Lawrence
Joseph Conrad
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
Katherine Mansfield

Answer 2

Literary Modernism

Question 3

Which literary modernist writer was said to have mastered stream of consciousness?

Answer 3

Gertrude Steine

Question 4

Which writer focused on social concerns of the modernist movement, features a recurring theme of a lower class man with an upper class woman, publisher Penguin wne to court to publish the full content of Lady Chatterly’s lover?

Answer 4

D. H. Lawrence

Question 5

Which modernist author wrote:
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Sons and Lovers (first major book in 1913)
Women in Love
The Rainbow (first to be condemned for indecency)

Answer 5

D.H. Lawrence

Question 6

Which modernist author was born in Ukraine to Polish parents, spoke Polish, French, and English, was considered a precursor to literary modernism, and most of his characters tended to die?

Answer 6

Joseph Conrad

Question 7

Which modernist author wrote:
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim

Answer 7

Joseph Conrad

Question 8

Who wrote and what was an epic poem about the fall of mankind and was considered to be the most lasting work of poetry?

Answer 8

John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Question 9

Who wrote and what was the most celebrated and lasting piece of prose and was an attack on censorship?

Answer 9

John Milton’s Areopagitica

Question 10

Which playwright was a part of the English Renaissance and wrote The Alchemist?

Answer 10

Ben Jonson

The Alchemist as a comedy about the lengths people will go for material things

Question 11

British literature written between 1837-1901
Influenced by explosive population growth, technological innovations, advancements in science, the Industrial Revolution, and poor working conditions?

Answer 11

Victorian Literature

Question 12

How did Victorian poems differ from literature of the day?

Answer 12

They had a strong desire to connect with the past, skepticism about religion, and a stronger sense of humor

Question 13

Famous Victorian poets?

Answer 13

Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Emily and Charlotte Bronte

Question 14

Which Victorian poet was known for a common theme of good people coping with bad circumstances, most of his work was published as serials in magazines, early life mirrored novels, as a child family was thrown into debtor’s prison and he had to work in a factory, used satire in his work related to class and poverty?

Answer 14

Charles Dickens

Question 15

Which Victorian writer wrote:
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Answer 15

Charles Dickens

Question 16

Which Victorian author wrote under a man’s name but was actually a woman and was known for using metaphors about egotism?

Answer 16

George Eliot

Aka Mary Ann Evans

Question 17

Which Victorian author wrote under the pen name George Eliot so her work would be taken seriously?

Answer 17

Mary Ann Evans

Middlemarch

Question 18

Which Victorian author wrote Middlemarch?

Answer 18

George Eliot aka Mary Ann Evans

Middlemarch presents marriage as a problem not a solution

Question 19

Chaucer, Dante, and Sir Thomas Malory, and Beowulf are part of what genre?

Answer 19

Medieval Literature

Question 20

Which medieval author wrote: 
The Canterbury Tales
The Knights Tale
The Wife of Bath
The Miller's Tale

Answer 20

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 21

Which medieval writer wrote The Divine Comedy?

Answer 21

Dante

Question 22

What was the first novel written in English?

Answer 22

Le Morte de Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

Question 23

Which medieval author wrote the most comprehensive Arthurian legend and was the first novel in English?

Answer 23

Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte de Arthur

Question 24

Which Victorian author wrote Jane Eyre?

Answer 24

Charlotte Bronte

Question 25

Which Victorian author wrote Wuthering heights?

Answer 25

Emily Bronte

Question 26

Characteristics of literary movement: | equality, individualism, self-reliance, integrity, and optimism

Answer 26

Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau

Question 27

Which authors were known for transcendentalism?

Answer 27

Ralph Waldo Emerson | Henry David Throeau

Question 28

Which American novelist was known for experimental writing about fundamentals of nature known as the metaphysical? "wordy"

Answer 28

Herman Melville

Question 29

Which American novelist wrote: Mody Dick Typee: A peep at Polynesian Life Bartleby, the Scriverner: A Story of Wall Street

Answer 29

Herman Melville | metaphysical

Question 30

Which American novelist was influenced by Romantic period, poems focused on the common man, was known as a fireside poet and lyric poems about patriotism, everyday activities and no politics?

Answer 30

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 31

Which American novelist wrote: | Paul Revere's Ride

Answer 31

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 32

Which American novelist was a transcendentalist, lived at Ralph Waldo Emerson's cabin, and supported himself by farming a bean field while he wrote?

Answer 32

Henry David Thoreau

Question 33

Which American novelist wrote: Walden, or Life in the Woods Cape Cod Civil Disobedience

Answer 33

Henry David Thoreau

Question 34

Which American novelist was famous for short stories, fiction was inspired by real-life experiences and won a Nobel prize?

Answer 34

Ernest Hemingway

Question 35

``` Which American novelist wrote: The Old Man and the Sea The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms Short stories: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Hills Like White Elephants The Killers ```

Answer 35

Ernest Hemingway

Question 36

Which American novelist wrote a story that was the first protest piece where the author uses a fictional story to create great influence?

Answer 36

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 37

Which novel had a common theme where both Eliza and Tom have an unrelenting faith in God which molds their characters and is the foundation for compassionate response to those who wanted to do them harm in the book?

Answer 37

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 38

Which American author was an abolitionist, was considered the father of free verse and was "America's poet"?

Answer 38

Walt Whitman

Question 39

Which American author wrote Leaves of Grass When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom (elegy to Lincoln)

Answer 39

Walt Whitman

Question 40

Which American author wrote short stories to financially support himself, became an alcoholic, wrote about the "roaring twenties", and had tumultuous marriage to Zelda?

Answer 40

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 41

Which American author wrote: The Great Gatsby (Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby) The Side of Paradise

Answer 41

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 42

Which American author wrote with accurate Southern speech, created a fictional county called Yoknapatwpha County, and went to Hollywood to write screenplays because he needed the money?

Answer 42

William Faulkner

Question 43

Which American author and screenwriter wrote: The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying Absalom, Absalom!

Answer 43

William Faulkner

Question 44

Which American author wrote about Holden Caulfield who thinks most people are phonies and is considered a coming of age novel?

Answer 44

J.D. Salinger

Question 45

Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?

Answer 45

J.D. Salinger

Question 46

What did Holden Caulfield think a catcher in the rye was in J.D. Salingers book?

Answer 46

He thinks they would 'catch' children's bodies in the rye field to save them.

Question 47

Which American author used allegory symbolism, was known for extremely long drawn out sentences, was considered a Dark Romantic along with Edgar Allan Poe, and changed his last name to distance himself from his Puritan ancestor who was a judge during Salem witch trials?

Answer 47

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 48

Which American author and Dark Romantic wrote: The Scarlet Letter The House of Seven Gables

Answer 48

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 49

Which American author was a transcendentalist, argued for self-reliance, and wanted people to act as individuals in order to positively affect society?

Answer 49

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 50

``` Which American author and transcendentalist wrote: Self Reliance The Over-Soul Circles Experience The Poet ```

Answer 50

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 51

Which American author's father died when he was 12 and his family became destitute?

Answer 51

Mark Twain

Question 52

Which American author wrote: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Answer 52

Mark Twain aka Samual Longhorne Clemens

Question 53

Which American author wrote about the Great Depression?

Answer 53

John Steinbeck

Question 54

``` Which American author wrote: The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men East of Eden Travels with Charley - non fiction account of journey across America with his dog ```

Answer 54

John Steinbeck

Question 55

Tom Joad is destined to be a labor leader in which American novel?

Answer 55

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath