- •12Th century;
- •17Th century;
- •18Th century;
- •20Th century
- •20Th century
- •To which literary subgenres did women like Ursula k. LeGuin increasingly turn in order to overturn male stereotypes about gender?
- •Which of the following voices had not had literary production encouraged and expanded during and after the 1960s thanks to increased political protests and activism?
- •How did the literary fortunes of Native American writers change as a result of the political and social movements of the 1960s?
- •Which does not represent one of the social tensions that the publication and impact of Howl (1956) and Life Studies (1959) illustrate about American society?
- •Which of the following best describes the ideal aesthetic value of contemporary literature?
- •Which of the following best describes how the realism of h. James and e. Wharton differs from that of w. D. Howells?
- •How is nature represented in Jack London’s “The Law of Life” and Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”?
- •Which work of nineteenth-century intellectual prose had the most influence on literary naturalism?
- •Which of the following American realists is best known for his comic experiments in regional vernacular?
- •Which sentence best describes the characteristic tones of the novels of American naturalist authors Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Theodore Dreiser?
- •What literary movement did William Dean Howells describe as “nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”?
- •How does Hamlin Garland portray Midwestern farmers in his story “Under the Lion’s Paw”?
- •How did local color writing about the legendary West compare with native American writings by Zitkala–Ša, Ohiyesa, and s. Winnemucca in their characters’ relationship to the land?
- •In 1893, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner wrote The Significance of the Frontier on American History. Where did he place the frontier in that essay?
- •Which of the following sentences best defines literary naturalism?
- •Why did Jim run away from Miss Watson?
- •What was the effect of modernism on African American writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Langston Hughes?
- •Why did American authors treat the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, condemned to death in 1921 for a robbery and homicide, from a sympathetic standpoint?
- •How did new scientific advances concerning relativity, uncertainty, quantum theory affect the relationship between science and literature?
- •Which was not one of the three characteristic “issues” of American literary modernism?
- •In what way did authors use Hollywood to bridge the divide between serious and popular modernist literature?
- •Why did the writings of Karl Marx appeal to so many American writers and intellectuals in the 1920s and 30s?
- •What was the name of the small, experimental theater group, founded in 1915 by s. Glaspell, e. O’Neill in order to challenge Broadway’s control over the American drama scene?
- •What effect did de-emphasis of closure and certainty have on the types of subjectivity represented by modernist works?
- •Which of the following types of dramas performed in the us was not a distinctively American innovation (rather than one borrowed or adapted from another culture)?
- •In what way did the social debates of the 1920s mirror Ralph Waldo Emerson’s belief, in the 1840s, that “whosoever would be a man, must be a non-conformist”?
- •Which of the following events in European modernism occurred before World War I?
- •How did modernist poets’ emphases on directness, precision, and vividness of expression affect both poetry and prose during this period?
- •Which of the following best describes how the influential authors of the period 1914-1945 responded to the “internal fractures” caused by modernity?
- •Why did travel literature become an increasingly popular subgenre in the 1840s?
To which literary subgenres did women like Ursula k. LeGuin increasingly turn in order to overturn male stereotypes about gender?
coterie theater and off-Broadway productions;
animated films adapted from fairy tales;
absurdist poems adapted from French Symbolisme;
science fiction and fantasy
Which of the following voices had not had literary production encouraged and expanded during and after the 1960s thanks to increased political protests and activism?
African American writers like Amiri Baraka;
Jewish American writers like Philip Roth;
women writers like Adrienne Rich;
Southern writers like Charles Wright
How did the literary fortunes of Native American writers change as a result of the political and social movements of the 1960s?
white social commentators began making reparative amends for past injustices committed against Natives by opening up space for new publication;
blacks and women looked to the successes of the Native American writers' movement, and multiethnic anthologies appeared in the 1970s;
Native writers created a body of critical and historical works that exposed white stereotypes and put past and present Native literature into an ecological context;
contemporary audiences continued to neglect Native literature of previous centuries in favor of postwar poetry and prose
Which of the following is an emblem of the heterogeneity and pluralism of contemporary literature?
the internet;
artificial intelligence;
the kaleidoscope;
cellular telephones
What does the “Death of the Novel” controversy in the 1960s refer to?
a fatal disease that only struck novelists;
the abandonment of the novel by major artists in favor of poetry and drama;
a crisis of faith in the ability of novelistic conventions to depict reality adequately;
extreme experimentation prompted by stale and formulaic novels of the 1950s
Despite representations that emphasized tensions carried over from the prewar modernist period, which of the following was the literary ideal for the 1950s?
rugged individualism;
ethnic diversity;
cultural homogeneity;
material wealth
Which modernist writers inspired authors between World War II and the 1960s to attempt to write “the great American novel” which would characterize an essential national experience?
F. Scott Fitzgerald;
William Faulkner;
T. S. Eliot;
Ernest Hemingway
Which social and historical gap has the successful emergence of African American women writers since the 1970s and 80s proven can be overcome literarily?
the lack of authentic perspectives on the continuing legacy of slavery;
the lack of evidence that a group hindered from speaking could succeed in establishing their perspectives as important and necessary in mainstream culture;
the lack of means by which authors could have their works produced by literary publishers whose practices were still largely discriminatory;
the lack of means by which authors could have their works produced by literary publishers whose practices were still largely discriminatory