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Regionalism Movement Flashcards

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1
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Which region is Harriet Beecher Stowe associated with?

A

New England

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Which region is Zitkala-Sa associated with?

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Great Plains

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3
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Which region is James Thurber associated with?

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Mid-Western

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Which region is Harper Lee associated with?

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Southern

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Which region is Edith Wharton associated with?

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New England

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Which region is Willa Cather associated with?

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Western and Others

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Which region is Kate Chopin associated with?

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Southern

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Which region is Sinclair Lewis associated with?

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Mid-Western

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Which region is Sherwood Anderson associated with?

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Mid-Western

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10
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Who had an eye injury as a child

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James Thurber

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11
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Who wrote A Good Man is Hard to Find

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Flannery O’Connor

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12
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Who was born in Savannah, GA

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Flannery O’Connor

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13
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Who was born in Jackson, MS

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Eudora Welty

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14
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Who became a widow and raised six kids by herself at age 32

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Kate Chopin

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15
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Who wrote the Nobel prize for literature in 1962

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John Steinbeck

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Who published their first work at 11 but their family thought it was awful

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Bret Harte

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Who was a writer, reporter, humorist, and cartoonist

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James Thurber

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18
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Whose father died in a railroad accident

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Kate Chopin

19
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Who was considered a part of the southern renaissance

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Eudora Welty

20
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Whose writing contained hypocrisy

A

Flannery O’Connor

21
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Who worked as a messenger for Wells Fargo

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Bret Harte

22
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Whose settings and plot often center around stories of mining camps and towns

A

Bret Harte

23
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Who lived in both New York and Nebraska

A

Willa Cather

24
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Who was awarded the The National Institute of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal for Fiction in 1972

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Eudora Welty

25
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Who was a devout Christian who dealt with the concept of a man’s fall from grace

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Flannery O’Connor

26
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Who did critics feel was unoriginal or too sentimental

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Bret Harte

27
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Who wrote Grapes of Wrath

A

John Steinbeck

28
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Who wrote about feelings, specifically feelings of women and their desire for independence

A

Kate Chopin

29
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Whose first short story was Death of a Traveling Salesman written in 1936

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Eudora Welty

30
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Who Wrote O Pioneers!

A

Willa Cather

31
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Who received the Gold Medal of the National Institute of the American Academy of Arts and Letters of Works for their body of work

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Willa Cather

32
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Whose characters seem monstrous

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Flannery O’Connor

33
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Who wrote Yellow Dog

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Bret Harte

34
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Who wrote The Life You Save May Be Your Own

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Flannery O’Connor

35
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What is the lady’s name in a Worn path

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Phoenix

36
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What does Phoenix stand for in a worn path

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A mythical bird that never dies; rising from its own ashes

37
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What is aunt phoenix doing in A Worn Path

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Getting her grandson medicine

38
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What did Bret Harte create

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He created stock characters including roving gambler, tainted woman with a heart of gold (most often a saloon girl), and relentless cowboy

39
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What is the setting of the life you save may be your own

A

Rural Alabama and the 1940s

40
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Who is the protagonist in the life you save may be your own

A

Mr. Shiflet

41
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What is the protagonist purpose in The life you save may be your own

A

To cheat people

42
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Fill in the blank from The Night the Ghost Got In:

The boy heard a ____. His mother throws a ____. The house was ____. The grandfather ____ the policeman with his ____.

A

Ghost; shoe; locked; shoots; own gun

43
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Which story is an excerpt from the grapes of wrath

A

Turtle

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