Regionalism

Question 1

The setting is frequently in _____ and ______ on the limitations it imposes; ______ are frequently ______ and inaccessible. The setting is integral to the _____ and may sometimes become a _____ in itself.

Answer 1

1. nature
2. focuses
3. setting
4. remote
5. story
6. character

Question 2

The _____ sometimes severs mediator between the ____ folk in the tale and the ______ audience to whom the tale is being told.

Answer 2

1. narrator
2. rural
3. urban

Question 3

______ is often used to help establish the creditability and authenticity of the regional characters.

Answer 3

dialect

Question 4

Authors often choose to use a frame story in which the _______ hears some tales of the region.

Answer 4

narrator

Question 5

In women’s regionalist fiction, the ______ are often ______ women or _______ girls.

Answer 5

1. heroines
2. unmarried
3. young

Question 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 6

New England

Question 7

Edith Wharton

Answer 7

New England

Question 8

Kate Chopin

Answer 8

southern

Question 9

Harper Lee

Answer 9

southern

Question 10

James Thurber

Answer 10

Midwestern

Question 11

Sinclair Lewis

Answer 11

Midwestern

Question 12

Bret Harte

Answer 12

western

Question 13

Wila Cather

Answer 13

western

Question 14

Gertrude Simmons

Answer 14

great plains

Question 15

Bonnin

Answer 15

Great Plains

Question 16

who wrote A Worn Path

Answer 16

Eudora Whelty

Question 17

born and raised in Jackson, Ms.

Answer 17

Eudora Whelty

Question 18

was apart of a literary movement known as the Southern Renaissance

Answer 18

Eudora Whelty

Question 19

her fist short story was “ Death of Traveling Salesman” that was published in 1936

Answer 19

Eudora Whelty

Question 20

she was awarded The national insitute of arts and letters gold metal for fiction in1972

Answer 20

Eudora Whelty

Question 21

this story involves an elderly woman who periodically goes along a worn path to the city

Answer 21

a worn path

Question 22

a _______ is a mythical Egyptian bird that never dies because _________________________.

Answer 22

1. Pheonix

2. it rises from its own ashes after consuming itself in flames

Question 23

he had an eye injury as a child and lost sight in one eye and ater lost sight in his other eye and became blind

Answer 23

James thurber

Question 24

he was a writer, reported a humorist and a cartoonsit

Answer 24

thurber

Question 25

born in Savannah, Georgia

Answer 25

Flannery O'Conner

Question 26

a devout Christian who dealt with concepts of man's fall from grace and redemption through Christ

Answer 26

o'conner

Question 27

often contains hypocrisy

Answer 27

O'Conner's style

Question 28

characters often seem monstrous

Answer 28

O'Conner's style

Question 29

"A Good Man is Hard to Fine"

Answer 29

O'conner

Question 30

" The Life You Save May Be Your Own"

Answer 30

O'conner

Question 31

set in Rural Alabama in the 40s

Answer 31

The life you save may be your own

Question 32

Mr. Shiftlet is the stories ________. He is ______ and is is a __________ and his only purpose in life Is to _____ people

Answer 32

1. protagonist 2. shiftless 3. cheat

Question 33

he did manual labor to support himself while he wrote

Answer 33

Steinback

Question 34

won the noel peace prize for lit in 1962

Answer 34

steinback

Question 35

who wrote Of Mice and Men

Answer 35

Seinback

Question 36

who wrote Grapes of Wrath

Answer 36

Steinback

Question 37

he published his first work at the age of 11 but it was not well relieved by his family

Answer 37

Harte

Question 38

He worked as a messenger for Wells Fargo

Answer 38

Harte

Question 39

who wrote " A Yellow Dog"

Answer 39

Harte

Question 40

who wrote " The Outcast of Poker Flat"

Answer 40

Harte

Question 41

his setting and plot often centered around this stories of mining camps and towns

Answer 41

Harte's style

Question 42

the critics felt that he used to much sentimentality in his writing and failed to show originality to his themes and plots

Answer 42

Harte

Question 43

______ is credited with the invention of the ______ characters that would later becomes staples in Westerns

Answer 43

1. Harte | 2. stock

Question 44

who created the roving gambler, the tainted woman with a heart of gold, and the restless cowboy

Answer 44

Harte

Question 45

attented the St. Louis academy of the Sacred heart as a young girl

Answer 45

chopin

Question 46

her father died in a railroad accident

Answer 46

chopin

Question 47

at 32 she became a widow and found herself raising 6 kids

Answer 47

chopin

Question 48

she focused her writing on her feelings. specifically the feelings of women and their desires amended for independence

Answer 48

chopin

Question 49

who wrote " The Story of an Hour"

Answer 49

chopin

Question 50

who wrote " The Awakening"

Answer 50

chopin

Question 51

lived in both New York and Rural Nebraska

Answer 51

Cather

Question 52

who wrote "O, Pioneers!"

Answer 52

Cather

Question 53

who wrote "My Antonia"

Answer 53

Wila Cather

Question 54

She received the Gold medal of the national institute of the American academy of arts and letters for her works

Answer 54

Wila Cather

Question 55

said to of invented the westerns

Answer 55

Harte

Question 56

predecessor of the romance novels

Answer 56

chopin