Realism

Question 1

Who wrote “The Death of Ivan Ilyich?”

Answer 1

Leo Tolstoy

Question 2

Who wrote “The Rod of Justice?”

Answer 2

De Assis

Question 3

Who wrote “Separate Ways?”

Answer 3

Ichiyo

Question 4

What was Ichiyo’s real last name?

Answer 4

Natsu

Question 5

Who wrote “Punishment?”

Answer 5

Tagore

Question 6

Who wrote “Kabuliwala?”

Answer 6

Tagore

Question 7

What are the three Anansi stories?

Answer 7

“All Stories Are Anansi’s”, “Annancy, Monkey and Tiger”, and “Brer Rabbit and Aunt Nancy”.

Question 8

Who seemed to be the only sincere character in “The Death of Ivan Ilyich?”

Answer 8

Gerasim

Question 9

Which author was an anarchist, pacifist, womanizer, peasant sympathizer, gambler, and high ranking aristrocrat, excommunicated from the Russian,Orthodox Church, and an orphan?

Answer 9

Leo Tolstoy

Question 10

Which author of this time period did Ghandi look up to?

Answer 10

Leo Tolstoy

Question 11

What does Caius Quote mean?

Answer 11

We are all mortal. Tolstoy didn’t think he was immortal.

Question 12

Who recited the eulogy and was glad to be alive?

Answer 12

Peter Ivanovich

Question 13

What day did Ilyich die?

Answer 13

February 4, 1882

Question 14

What was Ivan’s Wife’s name, and why did he marry her?

Answer 14

Praskovya Fedorovna; for practical reasons, not love.

Question 15

What is Ivan’s daughter’s name? What was her fiancee’s name?

Answer 15

Lisat; Fedor Petrovich.

Question 16

What are the five stages of death?

Answer 16

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.

Question 17

What symbolizes Tolstoy’s religious rebirth?

Answer 17

Ivan breaking out of the black sack.

Question 18

Where was De Assis from/born?

Answer 18

Brazil; Rio de Janeiro

Question 19

Despite being a poet what did Machado do?

Answer 19

he took a job at bureauctratic posts in the Brazillian Government.

Question 20

Who were Machado’s influences?

Answer 20

Shakespeare and Jonathan Swift

Question 21

What year did Brazil abolish slavery?

Answer 21

1888

Question 22

In Rod of Justice, what was the main character trying to escape from?

Answer 22

The Priesthood

Question 23

When was The Rod of Justice written?

Answer 23

1891

Question 24

What was the main character’s name in Rod of Justice?

Answer 24

Damiao

Question 25

What was the year Damiao ran away from the seminary?

Answer 25

Sometime before 1850.

Question 26

Who was Damiao’s godfather?

Answer 26

Joao Carneiro

Question 27

Joao Carneiro’s mistress is called what?

Answer 27

Sinha Rita

Question 28

What did Sinha Rita do?

Answer 28

Teach sewing and made little girls sew.

Question 29

Who was Lucretia?

Answer 29

The girl that got whipped at the end.

Question 30

Who was the first asian to recieve the Nobel Prize?

Answer 30

Rabindranath Tagore

Question 31

What two stories did Tagore write?

Answer 31

Punishment and Kabuliwala

Question 32

In Punishment, what were the two boys’ names?

Answer 32

Dukhiram Rui and Chidam Rui

Question 33

Who murdered whom in Punishment?

Answer 33

Dukhiram murdered Rahda.

Question 34

Who came to collect the rent in Punishment?

Answer 34

Ramlochan Chakravarti

Question 35

Who was Chidam’s wife?

Answer 35

Chandara.

Question 36

Who recieved the punishment in Punishment?

Answer 36

Chandara

Question 37

Who was the first major Japanese woman writer in six centuries?

Answer 37

Higuchi Ichiyo

Question 38

How was Ichiyo raised?

Answer 38

In a poverty stricken area, where she was barely educated.

Question 39

What was Ichiyo’s real name?

Answer 39

Natsu

Question 40

What does Ichiyo mean?

Answer 40

Single Leaf

Question 41

Who was Ichiyo’s mentor and lover?

Answer 41

Nakari Tosui

Question 42

During the time period, who was emperor in Japan?

Answer 42

Meiji

Question 43

What story did Ichiyo wrote?

Answer 43

Separate Ways