American Lit II Final Exam with correct answers 2024
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What Missouri Town did Samuel Clemens call home? correct answers Hannibal
Writers such as Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman benefitted from the women's movement that began in the nineteenth century, also known as what? correct answers First-Wave feminism
What groups does Kate Chopin ...
What Missouri Town did Samuel Clemens call home? correct answers Hannibal
Writers such as Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman benefitted from the women's
movement that began in the nineteenth century, also known as what? correct answers
First-Wave feminism
What groups does Kate Chopin explore in almost all of her fiction? correct answers
Cajuns and Creoles, Men and women, and Whites and blacks
What technology changed the everyday lives fo many Americans between the civil war
and WWI? correct answers Electricity, the telegraph, the telephone, and the
incandescent light bulb
What historian declared in 1893 that the frontier in which many Americans had believed
for so long was now closed, basing his analysis on the census of 1890, which found no
place in the United States with fewer than two people per square mile? correct answers
Frederick Jackson Turner
What does the narrator's husband discover the narrator doing at the end of the short
story "The Yellow Wall-Paper"? correct answers Crawling around the perimeter of the
room
What short story by Kate Chopin features a secret love affair between a lower-class
Cajun woman named Calixta and an upper-class Creole man named Alcee Laballiere?
correct answers "The Storm"
In the story "The Yellow Wall-Paper" what does the narrator believe she sees in the
room? correct answers A stooping and creeping woman
The local color movement was in large part a defensive response to what
emphasis/emphases after the Civil War? correct answers Urbanization
This short essay serves as an accompaniment to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's disturbing
short story about a woman undergoing "treatment" for her "neurastenia." What is this
essay's title? correct answers "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'"
What demographic shift in America became more widespread between the Civil War
and WWI? correct answers The population became more concentrated in urban
centers
, What novel by Kate Chopin scandalized readers and signaled the decline of her writing
career? correct answers The Awakening
What French word is used to describe the categorization, type, or classification of
literature? correct answers Genre
What state is the setting of most of Kate Chopin's local color writings? correct answers
Louisiana
American literary realism was in large part a reaction against what movement that was
prevalent before the civil war? correct answers Romanticism
What publishing medium broadened most Americans' exposure to the literature written
by American authors in the nineteenth century? correct answers Magazines
Which of the following is Not a characteristic of local color writing? correct answers
Settings in exotic locations or faraway planets
What twentieth-century American writer proclaimed, "All modern American literature
comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn"? correct answers Ernest
Hemingway
What was the name of the treatment that Dr. S. Weir Mitchell prescribed for Charlotte
Perkins Gilman for what was termed for "nervous" disorder? correct answers "The rest
cure"
The completion of what major mode of transportation in 1869 made it possible to cross
the country cheaply in just a few days? correct answers The transcontinental railroad
Samuel Langhorne Clemens chose a pseudonym based on his experiences on the
Mississippi River; what does "mark twain" mean? correct answers "Two fathoms deep"
Which of the following is an example of an ancient "ur-text"? correct answers Beowulf,
The Odyssey, The iliad, and The Epic of Gilgamesh
What priciple did the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy V. Ferguson, which originated in
Louisiana, establish in terms of racial policies in the late nineteenth century? correct
answers "Separate but equal"
What phrase does Huck Finn utter when he makes the decision to not only refrain from
turning Jim in but also to help him escape from slavery? correct answers "All right, then
-- I'll go to hell"
In the short story, "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin, what secret is revealed in the
surprise ending/" correct answers That her husband Armand's mother had been black
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