Chapter 8 - Regionalists

Question 1

In what time period did realism and naturalism appear?

Answer 1

1865-1914

Question 2

What were the two major forces of change following the Civil War period

Answer 2

Rapid industrialization and Derwin’s theory of evolution

Question 3

What are 3 things the rapid growth of industrialization following the civil war result in?

Answer 3

Growth of new towns
Growth of labor unions
Assumption of power by American business men

Question 4

Southern blacks, immigrants, and discouraged farmers caused what?

Answer 4

Growth in large cities

Question 5

Where did higher criticism originate?

Answer 5

German seminaries and universities

Question 6

According to the social-gospel movement, what is evil the result of?

Answer 6

Society’s corrupt institutions

Question 7

What event marked the end of the literary period characterized by the emergence of realism and naturalism?

Answer 7

World war 1

Question 8

Fundamentalists professed beliefs of what 5 things?

Answer 8

The inerrancy of scripture 
The virgin birth of Christ
The substitutionary death of Christ 
Christ's physical resurrection
Christ's miracle working power

Question 9

What were the 3 major groups of writers?

Answer 9

Regionalists, realists, and naturalists

Question 10

Regionalists served as a transition between what 2 groups of writers?

Answer 10

Major romantics and major realists

Question 11

Who are the masters of realism?

Answer 11

Howells, James, and Clemens

Question 12

What group of people were more romantic than realistic?

Answer 12

Local colorists

Question 13

At the end of the literary period, what was the prevailing spirit?

Answer 13

Pessimism

Question 14

What author skillfully used western dialect?

Answer 14

Bret Harte

Question 15

What is the setting of “A Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?

Answer 15

A county in California

Question 16

How are Mr. Dimmidges physical appearance and his mission a paradox?

Answer 16

He is a big man carrying a gun half-cocked. He appears to be rough and ready for trouble, but really only wants to find his wife

Question 17

Quote to Match: “who dressed like a miner”

Answer 17

Mr. Dimmidge

Question 18

Quote to match: “her face was unknown… But it was pleasant, marked by a certain good humor and determination”

Answer 18

Eliza Dimmidge

Question 19

Quote to Match: “His position was trying and he was not sorry when the term of his engagement expired the next week”

Answer 19

The editor

Question 20

Why do Mr. And Mrs. Dimmidge device to reconcile their differences?

Answer 20

Bc everything they have been doing seems unimportant.
They feel ashamed and afraid
Eliza finds out Dimmidge is jealous

Question 21

What is a form of humor whose grotesque and morbid situations reveal bitter disillusionment of its author?

Answer 21

Black humor

Question 22

Ambrose Bierce’s “The Cynic’s Wordbook” was renamed to what?

Answer 22

The Devil’s Dictionary

Question 23

What is the setting of “An Occurence at Owlcreek Bridge”?

Answer 23

Northern Alabama during the civil war

Question 24

In “An Occurence at Owlcreek Bridge” the author uses what to build suspense and give needed information?

Answer 24

Flashback

Question 25

Quote to match: "He closed his eyes in order to fix his last thoughts upon his wife and children."

Answer 25

Peyton Farquhar

Question 26

Quote to match: "He unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him."

Answer 26

Peyton Farquhar

Question 27

Quote to match: "His body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of Owl Creek Bridge."

Answer 27

Peyton Farquhar

Question 28

Name 3 reasons why the reader believes Farquhar has escaped

Answer 28

He dived as deeply as he could The soldiers had almost finished reloading He stood at the gate of his own home

Question 29

Which author powerfully portrayed the farmer's plight?

Answer 29

Hamlin Garland

Question 30

Garland defined his brand of realism as what?

Answer 30

Veritism (truth)

Question 31

Which work of Garland's won him a a Pulitzer Prize?

Answer 31

"The Return of the Private"

Question 32

What is the setting of "The Return of the Private"?

Answer 32

Lacrosse, Wisconsin after the civil war

Question 33

Quote to Match: "he was like a man lost in a dream"

Answer 33

Ed Smith

Question 34

Quote to match: "The wife shuttered to think this near she had come to being a soldier's widow"

Answer 34

Emma Smith

Question 35

There are many examples of what type of figurative language in the poem "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin"?

Answer 35

Onomatopoeia

Question 36

What is the setting of "The White Heron"?

Answer 36

Maine on a small farm

Question 37

What is rated as Sarah Orne Jewett's best book?

Answer 37

The Country of the Pointed Furs

Question 38

Sarah Orne Jewett's short stories emphasized what?

Answer 38

Characterization

Question 39

What is Sylvia from "The White Heron"'s inner conflict?

Answer 39

about the hunter and his request of her is whether her friendship with the hunter is important enough for her to tell him where the white heron's nest is and whether she and Mrs. Tilley need the $10 enough to give away the life of the heron

Question 40

Quote to Match: "She had always believed that whoever climbed to the top of it could see the ocean"

Answer 40

Sylvia

Question 41

Quote to Match: "Here she comes now, paler than ever, and her worn frock is torn and tattered"

Answer 41

Sylvia

Question 42

Quote to match: "I can't think of anything I should like so much as to find the heron's nest, the handsome stranger was saying."

Answer 42

The bird hunter

Question 43

The author uses what for emphasis while taking directly to Sylvia who is looking for the white heron?

Answer 43

Imperative sentences

Question 44

What author only published 7 poems in their lifetime before death?

Answer 44

Emily Dickinson

Question 45

Which author dressed in all white the last years of her life?

Answer 45

Emily Dickinson

Question 46

In "Prologue" and "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" reveal what about Dickinson?

Answer 46

That she is isolated

Question 47

Madness and Much Sense in "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" are described as a what?

Answer 47

Paradox