Post-Civil war literature in America __________ the previous literary Romanticism.

Rejected

The Reconstruction Era was focused on...

Reconstructing a post-war America

Due to the extremely high levels of immigration in the 1900s, America began to be referred to as...

The Great Melting Pot

Which story from this week is about a newborn baby?

"The Luck of Roaring Camp"

What is this excerpt an example of? "I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while until I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit."

Forced assimilation

What did Zitkala-Sa do when she realized they were going to cut her hair?

Hide under a bed

What was Old Harjo's problem?

He could not keep his two wives and convert to Christianity

What happened to Cherokee Sal after she gave birth?

She died

Roaring Camp was transformed after Luck's birth in all of the following ways...

Cabins were kept scrupulously clean; Shouting and yelling were no longer permitted; Profanity was not allowed;

Booker T. Washington wrote...

Up From Slavery

Ambrose Bierce wrote...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Henry James wrote...

The Turn of the Screw

Realism lasted from roughly

1865-1910

Realism can be defined as all of the following EXCEPT...

Sensational

Up From Slavery is a true story

True

Owl Creek Bridge is a fictional bridge that Bierce made up for the story.

False

In Chapter 8 of Turn of the Screw, how does the governess convince Mrs. Grose that she is not "making up" apparitions?

She gave descriptions so detailed that Mrs. Grose recognized the ghosts from when they worked at Bly.

What does Peyton see right before everything goes black in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?"

His wife waiting at the bottom steps of his home.

Peyton's escape in the woods is discovered at the ending to be...

An Illusion

What did Booker T. Washington do until the end of the Civil War?

Worked as a slave

What does Booker T. Washington remember was read right before they were told to go free?

The Emancipation Proclamation

Charles Chestnutt wrote...

"The Passing of Grandison"

Mark Twain wrote..

"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County"

Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote...

"We Wear the Mask"

Regionalism is a form of realism.

True

Vernacular speech is often phonetically spelled to convey dialect.

True

Regionalist writing is never satirical or political.

False

"We wear the mask that grins and lies, / It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—" Who is "we" in these lines?

African Americans

All of the following themes describe the poem "We Wear the Mask"

Racism; Identity; Suffering;

"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a chapter in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

False

Which of the following quotes from the short story is an example of vernacular dialect?

"Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yeller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only jest a short stump like a bannanner."

“So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to himself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail-shot—filled him pretty near up to his chin—and set him on the floor."

The stranger cheating to win his bet with Smiley.

How does the narrator feel about Smiley's stories?

Uninterested and ready to leave

In "The Passing of Grandison," what does Dick Owens set out to do, and why?

He tries to free a slave to win a girl's heart

Why was Dick Owens frustrated with Grandison?

Grandison was not escaping even when given the chance.

Naturalism can be described using all of the following elements

The Lower Class; Dramaticism; Determinism;

Characters in Naturalistic fiction are often...

Controlled by their environments

The Jungle played an influential role in...

The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906

The Jungle is based in part on Upton Sinclair's undercover work.

True

In The Jungle, what is one of Jurgis's primary complaints?

Men were paid for only part of their work

At the beginning of "The Open Boat," who rowed the boat?

The Oiler and the Correspondent

Who dies at the end of the story?

The Oiler

"The Open Boat" is an example of Naturalistic fiction for all of the reasons below EXCEPT...

The story shows a group of men taking back control of their fate

The story ends with the men on a deserted island.

False

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

Mary Wilkins Freeman wrote

"The Revolt of Mother"

Kate Chopin wrote

"The Story of an Hour"

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is partly based on the author's experience with...

Postpartum Depression

The Women's Movement, or Women's Suffrage, was mainly focused on..

Women's right to vote

What is ironic about Mother's revolt in "The Revolt of Mother?"

She finds a way to do it while still being submissive to her husband

Which of the readings from this week featured themes of horror and suspense?

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

First-wave feminism lasted from roughly 1848 to 1920

True

The Women's Movement, or First-Wave Feminism, resulted in...

The 19th Amendment

"The Story of an Hour" is written with complex characters, over a very long time frame, and with zero dialogue.

False

Why are they afraid to tell Mrs. Mallard of her husband's death?

She has a heart condition

What is the narrator's husband's name in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

John

What is ironic about Mother's revolt in "The Revolt of Mother?"

She finds a way to do it while still being submissive to her husband

Which of the readings from this week featured themes of horror and suspense?

"The Yellow Paper"

Zora Neale Hurston wrote...

"How it Feels to Be Colored Me"

Langston Hughes

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Claude McKay

"Harlem Shadows"

What was the Red Summer?

A summer of social riots and uprisings across the U.S. in response to the increasing lynchings

Harlem writers debated whether it was better to write in praise of Black culture/history or in condemnation of racism and discrimination.

True

The Harlem Renaissance was a literary movement that did not affect the other arts and humanities.

False

The phrase "Harlem Renaissance" literally means..

Harlem Rebirth

Langston Hughes often incorporates elements of ______ in his poetry.

Jazz Music

The Harlem Renaissance was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT...

Formal Speech

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" portrays death as...

Something meaningless and unimportant

Which of the following is a description of the hollow men?

Shape without form, shade without colour

Which of the following was NOT a common literary theme following the world wars?

Optimism

Katherine Anne Porter wrote...

“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”

Amy Lowell

“September 1918”

T. S. Eliot

“The Hollow Men”

Randall Jarrell

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”

None of the authors this week were personally involved in combat.

False

The hollow men are compared to which object?

A scarecrow

The Hollow Men" has several religious themes.

True

In "September 1918," why does the speaker state: "For I have time for nothing / But the endeavour to balance myself / Upon a broken world."

Because the world is still at war

What is a Ball Turret?

A part of some American WWII planes

Allen Ginsberg wrote...

"Howl"

Tim O'Brien wrote...

"How to Tell a True War Story"

David Foster Wallace wrote...

"Consider the Lobster"

The term postmodernism is tightly defined to consist of uniform ideas and styles.

False

Postmodern works, like modernist works before them, engaged with the sense of tremendous loss and disruption caused by violent wars fought overseas.

True

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of postmodern literature?

High value of absolute truth

What poetic device does the line "I'm with you in Rockland" employ?

Refrain

What must have been the final truth for Curt Lemon?

That sunlight was killing him

According to the author, what do war stories really come down to?

Gut instinct

In "Howl," what did the speaker note about the "best minds of [his] generation?"

They were destroyed by madness

In "Consider the Lobster," the author lists numerous activities that festival-goers can do that do not include eating lobsters.

True

Sylvia Plath wrote...

"Lady Lazarus"

Juan Felipe Herrera wrote...

"Half Mexican"

Art Spiegelman wrote...

Maus

Anne Sexton wrote...

Maus

Anne Sexton wrote...

"Sylvia's Death"

Li Young-Lee wrote...

"Persimmons"

Confessional poetry was often autobiographal.

True

Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath never met during their lifetime.

False

Both Sexton and Plath eventually died by suicide.

True

Maus was written based on a survivor's account of the Holocaust and not a work of fiction.

True

Creative nonfiction can only be written in the form of essays.

False

In the poem "Half-Mexican," the speaker is half what?

Half mexican and half mexican

In the poem "Persimmons," the speaker gets in trouble for confusing which words?

Persimmons and precision

Who is the speaker referring to in this line of "Sylvia's Death?" "the ride home / with our boy"

Death

Which poem this week contains several references to the Holocaust?

"Lady Lazarus"

Jamaica Kincaid wrote...

"Girl"

Audre Lorde wrote...

“Poetry is not a Luxury”

Flannery O’Connor wrote...

“The Life You Save May Be Your Own”

Amiri Baraka

"Black Art"

Literature from the late twentieth century is often cause-focused and prompts the reader to action or protest.

True

The poem "Black Art" contains several racial slurs.

True

Which of the following is NOT something "Black Art" lists as a trait of a good poem?

Flowers

If "poetry is not a luxury," then what is it?

A vital necessity

Who is Mr. Shiftlet?

A travelling repair man

What is the name of the young girl in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own?"

Lucynell

Mr. Shiftlet is a morally upright man.

False

Mr. Shiftlet and Mother Lucynell are both opportunists.

True