Realistic Time Period

Question 1

Realistic Time Period

Answer 1

1865-1900

Question 2

Modern America was born & grew into a lusty, although not always happy, adolescence - triumph of industrialism. Corrupt - great advances in communication & transportation.

Answer 2

Realistic Time Period

Question 3

Wrote -The Golden Bowl-, -The Portrait of a Lady-, -Daisy Miller-, &
-The American-.

Answer 3

Henry James

Question 4

A local color writer - frontier literature. Wrote -Mrs. Skagg’s Husbands- & -The Luck Of a Roaring Camp-.

Answer 4

Bret Harte

Question 5

Wrote Biglow Papers (2nd series) & poems.

Answer 5

Amy Lowell

Question 6

A novel that reconstructs a past age.

Answer 6

Historical Novel

Question 7

Wrote -Little Women-.

Answer 7

Louisa May Alcott

Question 8

Wrote -The Prince & the Pauper-,

• Tom Sawyer-, -Huckleberry Finn-,
• Pudd’n Head Wilson-, &
• A Connecticut Yankee @ King Arthur’s Court-.

Answer 8

Mark Twain

Question 9

Comes out of science. Humans behave as animals - respond to environmental & internal stresses, none of which they can control or understand. Ex: fear, hunger, sex, determinism, fate - objective view of it.

Answer 9

Naturalism

Question 10

Determines value through the test of consequences or utility. Practical. High premium conduct & ethical concerns.

Answer 10

Pragmatism

Question 11

Wrote -The Red Badge of Courage-, -The Open Boat-, “War is Kind”, &
-Maggie: A Girl of the Streets-.

Answer 11

Stephen Crane

Question 12

Wrote -Leaves of Grass-.

Answer 12

Walt Whitman

Question 13

Wrote -The Origin of Species-.

Answer 13

Charles Darwin

Question 14

When was Civil War Literature popular?

Answer 14

Realistic Period