American literature 2 Final Exam
Who were the characters in "The Swimmer"? correct answers Neddy Merrill. Lucinda
Merrill, Helen Westerhazy, Donald Westerhazy
Two Major Literary Periods correct answers Post Modernism:American Literature from
1945-1990
Digital Modernism: 1990- present
Post Modernism correct answers 1945-1990
What is post modernism? correct answers
What are the characteristics of post modernism? correct answers
What is Digital Modernism? correct answers
What are the characteristics of digital modernism? correct answers
James Baldwin (1924-1987) correct answers As a child, he cast about for a way to
escape his circumstances. As he recalls, "I knew I was black, of course, but I also knew
I was smart. I didn't know how I would use my mind, or even if I could, but that was the
only thing I had to use." By the time he was fourteen, Baldwin was spending much of his
time in libraries and had found his passion for writing.
James Baldwin correct answers wrote "Sonny's Blue's"
Flannery O' Conner (1925-1964) correct answers Born of the marriage of two of
Georgia's oldest Catholic families, O'Connor was a devout believer whose small but
impressive body of fiction presents the soul's struggle with what she called the "stinking
mad shadow of Jesus."
Flannery O' Conner correct answers Wrote "Good Country People"
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) correct answers Truly, master of his profession, his
outstandingly spectacular works have beautifully manifested the pathos of the immigrant
Jewish Americans in the urbanized society, two National Book Awards and one Pulitzer
Prize standing as a testimony of the same. Interestingly, for Malamud, having no
background in literature writing proved to be not much of a hindrance as his love for
reading and writing overpowered every hurdle, encompassing him with all the talent
required for writing a novel. Read more about Malamud in the biography below.
Bernard Malamud correct answers Wrote "The Magic Barrel
,Edward Albee (1928-2016) correct answers "All of my plays are about people missing
the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things
not done, as opposed to things done," he said in the 1991 Times interview. "I find most
people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die."
Who wrote "A Zoo Story"? correct answers Edward Albee
What is Confessional Poetry? correct answers
Robert Lowell correct answers Wrote:
"Skunk Hour"
"Memories of West Street and Lepke"
"Home after Three Months"
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) wrote: correct answers "A Black Art"
"Water"
"Old"
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) wrote: correct answers "On the Decline of Oracles"
"The Death of Myth-Making"
"Daddy"
Why os the 1960's Turbulent but Creative? correct answers
Bob Dylan (1941) correct answers "Blowin in the Wind"
John Cheever (1912-1982) wrote? correct answers "The Swimmer"
John Cheever (1912-1982) correct answers In 1943 Cheever's first book of short
stories, The Way Some People Live, was published. War and the Great Depression
serve as a backdrop for these stories. This book reveals a lifelong theme for Cheever:
the way some people live.
Joyce Carol Oates wrote correct answers "Where Are You Going, Where Have You
Been"
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) correct answers "I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm
contending with it constantly in my own life."
What new directions started to emerge in the 1970s correct answers
Alice Walker (1944) correct answers Walker has been an activist all of her adult life,
and believes that learning to extend the range of our compassion is activity and work
available to all. She is a staunch defender not only of human rights, but of the rights of
all living beings. She is one of the world's most prolific writers, yet continues to travel the
, world to literally stand on the side of the poor, and the economically, spiritually and
politically oppressed.
Alice Walker (1944) write? correct answers "Everyday Use"
Tim O'Brien (1946) correct answers O'Brien's first writing about his war experiences
came in the form of a memoir called If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me
Home, published in 1973 during his graduate studies in government at Harvard
University.
Tim O'brien (1946) wrote? correct answers "The Things They Carried"'''
Stephen King (1947) correct answers From his sophomore year at the University of
Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE
CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student
Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at
his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional.
Stephen King (1947) wrote? correct answers Squad D
Bobbie Ann Mason (1940) correct answers She became interested in writing as a child,
when she wrote imitations of the mystery series novels she read. She was inspired by
Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," but it wasn't until college that she discovered other
writers, especially the fiction of Hemingway, Salinger, and Fitzgerald.
Bobbie Ann Mason (1940) wrote? correct answers "Shiloh"
Raymond Carver (1938-1988) correct answers Raymond Carver was one of a handful
of contemporary short story writers credited with reviving what was once thought of as a
dying literary form.
Raymond Carver wrote? correct answers "A Small good thing"
Louise Erdich (1954) correct answers It is as a novelist that Erdrich is best known. [Her]
novels have been compared to those of William Faulkner, mainly due to the multi-voice
narration and non-chronological storytelling which he employed in works such as As I
Lay Dying. Erdrich's works, linked by recurring characters who are victims of fate and
the patterns set by their elders, are structured like intricate puzzles in which bits of
information about individuals and their relations to one another are slowly released in a
seemingly random order.
Louise Erdich wrote? correct answers "The Red Convertible"
Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) wrote? correct answers "The Management of Grief"
