Unit 9

Question 0

Appointed by Lincoln to American consulate in Venice, Italy

Answer 0

Howells

Question 1

Literature that portrays events in a realistic, true-to-life manner.

Answer 1

Realism

Question 2

Wrote “The Ride of Silas Lapham”

Answer 2

Howells

Question 3

He brought respectability to realism

Answer 3

Howells

Question 4

What is the setting of “Editha”?

Answer 4

The Spanish American war, a country in Iowa Balcom’s Works, New York

Question 5

What persuasive arguments does Editha use to convince George to enlist?

Answer 5

He should fight to liberate the people involved
Editha and he must agree on everything
He should fight for his country

Question 6

Who did Editha say “meant it to be war?

Answer 6

God

Question 7

Why did Editha’s mother say “well, I guess you’ve done a wicked thing”?

Answer 7

Because she finds out from Editha that she wants George to go to war and she realizes that Editha will do anything to persuade George to go

Question 8

“I never thought I should like to kill a man, but now, I shouldn’t care, and the smokeless powder lets you see the man drop that you kill”

Answer 8

George

Question 9

“She lifted herself by her powerful arms so high that her helpless body seemed to hang limp its full length”

Answer 9

Mrs. Gearson

Question 10

“The mystery that has bewildered her was solved by the word, and from that movement she rose from groveling and began to live again in the ideal”

Answer 10

Editha

Question 11

Notes for his psychological realism

Answer 11

James

Question 12

Reacted against didacticism in fiction

Answer 12

James

Question 13

Developed the “international theme” through his characters

Answer 13

James

Question 14

Became the most famous 19th century American expatriate

Answer 14

James

Question 15

Wrote “The American”

Answer 15

James

Question 16

What is the setting of “The American”?

Answer 16

Begins in the city of Paris

Another location is: a chateau in Fleuieres

Question 17

“The gentleman on the divan was a powerful specimen of an American”

Answer 17

Christopher Newman

Question 18

What words describe Christopher Newman?

Answer 18

Determined
Intelligent
Resourceful

Question 19

What was Christopher Newman’s sole aim in life?

Answer 19

To make money

Question 20

What can’t Newman marry the one he loves?

Answer 20

He family doesn’t approve

Question 21

“She was the sweetest young creature in France, and knew as little of what was going on around her as the lamb does of the butcher.”

Answer 21

Claire

Question 22

“I wouldn’t get well, for a kingdom.”

Answer 22

Valentin de Bellegarde

Question 23

“I didn’t know what was written on the paper, or how bad it might be, and there was no one I could trust enough to ask.”

Answer 23

Mrs. Bread

Question 24

Why does Mrs. Bread keep her secret?

Answer 24

She is afraid, she doesn’t know who to tell and she doesn’t want to hurt Claire

Question 25

What is the significance of the phrase “Newman found himself in a part of Paris which he little knew - a region of convents and prisons.”

Answer 25

The way the author uses these words together gives the same meaning to both words. To Newman the convent is like a prison because Clair is thee and can’t marry him. Also, it has tall walls around it.

Question 26

When Mrs. Tristram reveals the Bellegard’s possible motivation behind their defiance why does Newman look back into the fire?

Answer 26

He looks back into the fire and has second thoughts about his decision to not expose the Bellegardes.

Question 27

Henry James does not use what to conclude “The American”?

Answer 27

Romantic ending

Question 28

Made a colloquial speech of the frontier into an artistic form

Answer 28

Clemens

Question 29

Both a humorist and satirist

Answer 29

Clemens

Question 30

Made famous by a tall tale

Answer 30

Clemens

Question 31

What does the author use in “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” to tie the episodes together?

Answer 31

Common setting

Question 32

What is the setting o “Life on the Mississippi”?

Answer 32

Hannibal, Missouri

Question 33

What are the different jobs the narrator of “Life on the Mississippi” wants to be?

Answer 33

Clown
Steamboatman
Pirate

Question 34

“He would crowd around a point, hugging the shore with affection”

Answer 34

Mr. Bixby

Question 35

Once the narrator has learned the river he says, “All grave, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river.”

Answer 35

Mr. Bixby

Question 36

What is the setting of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?

Answer 36

A Kentucky household and the Phelp’s farm

Question 37

Huck’s writing style is in what?

Answer 37

The way he would speak, using his own vocabulary and simple words that flow naturally

Question 38

Clemens criticizes human weakness by using what?

Answer 38

Satire

Question 39

Buck escapes from Pap by making everyone think he had been killed by:

Answer 39

Killing a pig and drips its blood
Dragging a sack of rocks to the river
Dropping a trail of meal to the lake

Question 40

Samuel Clemens uses Huck’s native to what?

Answer 40

Satirize

Question 41

Why is Huck upset about helping Jim escape?

Answer 41

He thinks it’s wrong

Question 42

“I felt good and all washed clean of sim for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knower I could pray now.”

Answer 42

Huck Finn

Question 43

“When he go done, he couldn’t no way make up his mind which one for Jim to scrap onto the wall, they was all so good; at least he allowed he would let him scrabble them all.”

Answer 43

Tom Sawyer

Question 44

“No, sah, gimme g’yarters-snakes, ‘f I’s got to have ‘m, but doan’ gimme no rats, I ain’t got no use f’r um, skasely.”

Answer 44

Jim

Question 45

When Ton Sawyer visits his aunt at the Phelp’s farm, he decides that Jim must do the following before he escapes:

Answer 45

Dig inscriptions into a rock
Play a Jews harp for the rats
Raise a flower and water with his tears