PAM II+

Question 1

The last of the Mohicans when

Answer 1

1826

Question 2

Uncle Tom’s Cabin when

Answer 2

1852

Question 3

Moby Dick when

Answer 3

1851

Question 4

Walt Whitman 2 works

Answer 4

Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself

Question 5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when

Answer 5

1884

Question 6

Twain 2 works

Answer 6

The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Question 7

Kate Chopin 2 works

Answer 7

The Story of an Hour, The Awakening

Question 8

Hemingway 3 works

Answer 8

The Old Man and the Sea, Hills Like White Elephants, The Sun Also Rises

Question 9

Eugene O’Neill 3 plays

Answer 9

Mourning Becomes Electra, the Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night

Question 10

Tennessee Williams 2 plays

Answer 10

Streetcar named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Question 11

Jack Kerouac 1 work

Answer 11

On the Road

Question 12

Cormac McCarthy 3 novels

Answer 12

Blood Meridian, No Country for the Old Men, The Road

Question 13

DeLillo 3 works

Answer 13

Cosmopolis, Underworld, White noise*

Question 14

J. F. Cooper 2 works

Answer 14

The Pioneers, The last of the Mohicans 1826

Question 15

Poe 2 works

Answer 15

Philosophy of Composition, The Narrative of Arthur Golden

Question 16

Guilded Age author

Answer 16

William Dean Howells

Question 17

Imagism def

Answer 17

a sub-genre of Modernism concerned with creating clear imagery with sharp language promoted by Ezra Pound, early 20th century

Question 18

Harlem Renaissance def n authors

Answer 18

= New Negro Movement, revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, authors —Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes 1920—1930s

Question 19

American dream def

Answer 19

democracy, rights, liberty, equality, hard work and capitalist society 1930s

Question 20

Confessionalism def authors

Answer 20

poetry that uses the autobiographical details of the poet’s life as subject matter — Sexton, Sylvia Plath

Question 21

The Beats def authors

Answer 21

Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs… rejection of standard values, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration, 1940s—1950s

Question 22

Civil rights movement def

Answer 22

nonviolent campaign to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination 1954—1968

Question 23

Gonzo journalism def

Answer 23

obscene first person evaluating style of j. promoted by Hunter S. Thompson 1970s

Question 24

The iceberg theory def

Answer 24

or theory of omission is a writing technique coined by Ernest Hemingway, who believed that the deeper meaning of a story should not be evident on the surface, but should shine through implicitly.

Question 25

Allen Ginsberg 2 works

Answer 25

Howl , Kadish