Understanding Realism: Key Concepts and Quiz Insights

Attempt History Exam One: Realism Attempt Time LATEST Attempt 1 59 minutes Correct answers are hidden. Score for this quiz: 94 out of 100 Submitted Jul 20, 2023 at 4:47pm This attempt took 59 minutes. Question 1 2 / 2 pts In the short story “Editha,” this character says, “Why, I believe I was the first convert to the war in that crowd to-night!” George Gearson Question 2 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Called by Howells the "Lincoln of our literature." Mark Twain Question 3 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: This writer often parodied biblical stories, creating characters who were vagrants, prostitutes, or criminals of various sorts. Bret Harte Question 4 2 / 2 pts From Portrait of a Lady , who is speaking, followed by who is being discussed? “In other words she’s an insipid little chit. Is that what you mean? Having no fortune she can’t hope to marry as they marry here.”

Mrs. Touchett speaking about Pansy Question 5 2 / 2 pts This is NOT a frequent subject matter or tone of the realists. heroic achievement Question 6 2 / 2 pts From Portrait of a Lady , who is speaking here? “I sometimes think we’ve got into a rather bad way, living off here among things and people not our own, without responsibilities or attachments, with nothing to hold us together or keep us up; marrying foreigners, forming artificial tastes, playing tricks with our natural mission.” Gilbert Osmond Question 7 2 / 2 pts What is the date marking the end of the Romantic Period and the beginning of the Realistic period? 1865 Question 8 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Born and raised in Ohio; edited literary magazines in Boston and New York. William Dean Howells

Question 9 2 / 2 pts A novel that centers its principal attention on the nature, function and effects of the society in which the characters live is a sociological novel Question 10 2 / 2 pts In the short story “Editha,” the final line of the story says that Editha “rose from groveling in shame and self-pity, and began to live again in ____.” the ideal Question 11 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Huck teases Jim by telling him that they were never separated in the fog Question 12 2 / 2 pts In the short story “Editha,” George’s mother lives in Iowa Question 13 2 / 2 pts From Portrait of a Lady , who is speaking here? “Yes, he’s very hard to satisfy. That makes me tremble for her happiness.” Countess Gemini

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Question 14 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Considered "the father of American realism." Was the most preeminent writer and literary critic of the realistic period. William Dean Howells Question 15 2 / 2 pts Match the quotation with the author. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” Walt Whitman Question 16 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , who is speaking here? “They call that govment! A man can’t get his rights in a govement like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. Yes, and I told ‘em so. I told old Thatcher to his face. Lots of ‘em heard me, and can tell what I said.” Pap Question 17 2 / 2 pts A novel about the life of a rascal of low degree engaged in menial tasks and making his living more through his wits than his industry is picaresque novel Question 18 2 / 2 pts

Throughout the story, when Brer Rabbit tries to speak to the Tar-Baby, what does Brer Fox do? “he lay low” Question 19 2 / 2 pts In the short story “Editha,” this character writes, “There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour this is no other honor.” Editha Balcom Question 20 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Wrote hundreds of poems on a wide array of themes including life, love, desire, nature, faith, morality, death, and eternity. Emily Dickinson Incorrect Question 21 0 / 2 pts From Portrait of a Lady , who is speaking here? “The ladies will save us, that is the best of them will—for I make a difference between them. Make up to a good one and marry her, and your life will become much more interesting.” Ralph Touchett Question 22 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Jim regrets striking his daughter because she is deaf Question 23

2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Entire life was spent in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson Question 24 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: A favorite job was being assigned as a travel writer to Hawaii. Also wrote world-wide travel pieces, including a trip to the Holy Land. Mark Twain Question 25 2 / 2 pts In the short story “Editha,” speaking of war, this character says, “How glorious!” Editha Balcom Question 26 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: A writer of transatlantic culture whose central theme is the innocence and exuberance of the New World in conflict with the corruption and wisdom of the Old World. Henry James Question 27 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the first man to see through the Wilk’s fraud is

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Dr. Robinson Question 28 2 / 2 pts From Portrait of a Lady , who is speaking here? “I never in my life tried to earn a penny, and I ought to be less subject to suspicion than most of the people one sees grubbing and grabbing.” Gilbert Osmond Incorrect Question 29 0 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Despite attention and praise from other poets and literary critics, this author remain relatively unknown to the general American population throughout his or her life. Bret Harte Question 30 2 / 2 pts From the story, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat," why is Mr. Oakhurst outcast from the town? He's a gambler Incorrect Question 31 0 / 2 pts From Portrait of a Lady , what just happened here? “ ‘I shall leave Florence to-morrow,’ he said without a quaver. ‘I’m delighted to hear it!’ she

answered passionately. Five minutes after he had gone out she burst into tears.” Ralph Touchett is sick, and Isabel won’t go to visit Question 32 2 / 2 pts Match the quotation with the author. “What a thing it is to have a country that can’t be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!” William Dean Howells Question 33 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The gang “ambuscades” an encampment of A- rabs which turns out to be a Sunday school picnic Question 34 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Had little formal schooling in his hometown in Georgia but read extensively. Joel Chandler Harris Question 35 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Inspired by romantic writers and Shakespeare, the chief source for this author was Scripture. Emily Dickinson

Question 36 2 / 2 pts Match the description with the author: Wrote elegies to President Lincoln; known for works with spiritual elements, new age philosophy. Walt Whitman Question 37 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , whenever Huck thinks about helping Jim to freedom he feels confused and ashamed Question 38 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , at the end of the novel, Jim is set free because Miss Watson has freed him in her will Question 39 2 / 2 pts From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Huck sells his fortune to the Judge because Pap is back Question 40 2 / 2 pts From Portrait of a Lady , who is described here? “There was a disagreeably strong push, a kind of hardness of presence, in his way of rising before her.”

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Caspar Goodwood Question 41 10 / 10 pts In 150 words or less, briefly describe at least three differences that make Henry James atypical from other American realistic authors, and then describe at least three characteristics of Portrait of a Lady that make it a realistic novel. Your Answer: Henry James is not like the other authors of the Realistic movement. He was born into a wealthy family and enjoyed many of the advantages afforded to the upper class. He was highly educated and had traveled to Europe, giving him an international (or trans-Atlantic) approach and understanding to his writing. His subject matters were of the affluent class. His contemporaries focused on the middle-class and lower-class, the common man, and American topics and travels. Portrait of a Lady is an example of the American Realistic literary movement because it follows the real-life struggles of the main character, Isabel Archer. James explored the psychological breakdown of his characters, by giving them problems to deal with. He wrote his characters with realistic dialogue and divided them based on social class and the new world versus the old world. He also used various locations (America, England, Rome) in his story, with each destination representing a different set of ideas and realities. Question 42 10 / 10 pts In 150 words or less, focusing on either Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson, describe the qualities of his or her works that exhibit both Romanticism and Realism, marking the poet as a transitional figure in American Literature. Your Answer: Emily Dickinson is one of few authors whose written works fall in between the periods known as Romanticism and Realism. Ms. Dickinson's romantic poetry uses free verse and oftentimes is a reflection of her emotional approach to the subjects of nature and death. Her physical isolation allows her to write what is in her imagined and hoped-for mind versus what is real in her life. She bridges this romanticized writing into poems that are based on realism. Her writings that embody realism do so by describing day-to-day activities in

her town, the reality of changing seasons and circumstances (real circumstances), and writing about the ordinary and unimaginative experiences in her life. Her language used, in her short and simple verses, paints pictures, both of the dreamy, somber, insane (romantic) variety and of the normal, natural, and realistic ways. She perfectly bridges the two genres with her unique and simple approach at poetry.

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