The moral decay of competitive society is described in:
(a) The Rise of Silas Lapham
(b) Harper’s Magazine
(c) Hazard of New Fortunes
(d) Atlantic
Question’s Answer: Hazard of New Fortunes
In which of Crane’s writings does he rewrite the story of a shipwreck he personally witnessed?
(a) The Open Boat
(b) The Red Badge
(c) Maggie
(d) Main Travelled Road
Question’s Answer: The Open Boat
The Red Badge of Courage, a Novel by Stephen Crane has as its theme of ______.
(a) Love
(b) Envy
(c) Satire
(d) War
Question’s Answer: War
What is the Utopian novel in In 1907 that was written by W.D Howells?
(a) A Traveller from Altruria
(b) Through the Eye of the Needle
(c) Harper’s Magazine
(d) Hazard of New Fortunes
Question’s Answer: Through the Eye of the Needle
W.D. Howells advocated socialism in which of the following?
(a) The Rise of Silas Lapham
(b) Hazard of New Fortunes
(c) A Traveller from Altruria
(d) Through the Eye of the Needle
Question’s Answer: A Traveller from Altruria
When Howells left Boston for New York?
(a) 1850
(b) 1723
(c) 1880
(d) 1800
Question’s Answer: 1880
Who referred to Garland and Howells as his literary fathers?
(a) Frank Norris
(b) Stephen Crane
(c) Jack London
(d) Theodore Dreiser
Question’s Answer: Stephen Crane
Who is the author of the? “A newspaper is a court/where everyone is kindly and unfairly tried / by a squalor of honest men”.
(a) W.D. Howells
(b) Hamlin Garland
(c) Frank Norris
(d) Stephen Crane
Question’s Answer: Stephen Crane
Which novel of W.D. Howells captures him at the height of his abilities?
(a) Dr. Breen’s Practice
(b) The Atlantic
(c) The Rise of Silas Lapham
(d) A Woman’s Reason
Question’s Answer: The Rise of Silas Lapham
Who after Crane’s death felt that Maggie was the best thing he did?
(a) W.D. Howells
(b) Henry James
(c) Jack London
(d) Henry Fleming
Question’s Answer: W.D. Howells
Whose writings do Nietzsche and Karl Marx disagree with?
(a) William Dean Howells
(b) Jack London
(c) Stephen Crane
(d) Henry James
Question’s Answer: Jack London
The hero of Jack London’s socialist novel The Iron Heel is presented as a what kind of hero?
(a) Filmstar
(b) Priest
(c) Sailor
(d) Superman
Question’s Answer: Superman
Theodore Dreiser, American novelist
gives the readers a relief from the America hetoric of ______.
(a) Democracy
(b) Feudalism
(c) Moral law
(d) Monarchy
Question’s Answer: Moral law
______ was Theodore Dreiser’s first novel for a publisher.
(a) The Financier
(b) The Titan
(c) Sister Carrie
(d) An American Tragedy
Question’s Answer: Sister Carrie
Soviet readers have coupled Jack ‘London with
(a) William Dean Howells
(b) Upton Sinclair
(c) Stephen Crane
(d) Frank Norris
Question’s Answer: Upton Sinclair
Whose hero is not so much a victor as a martyr in a protracted class struggle?
(a) W.D. Howells
(b) Jack London
(c) Stephen Crane
(d) Frank Norris
Question’s Answer: Jack London
For whom do the moral and social codes of America represent the truths of human nature?
(a) Frank Norris
(b) Jack London
(c) W.D. Howells
(d) Theodore Dreiser
Question’s Answer: Theodore Dreiser
Care in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a
(a) A sophisticated town lady
(b) French lady
(c) Pretty country girl
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pretty country girl
We can divide Henry James’s literature into _______ periods.
(a) Three
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Two
Question’s Answer: Four
To which period do James’s three novels Roderick Hudson, The American and Daisy Miller belong?
(a) Second
(b) Fourth
(c) Third
(d) First
Question’s Answer: First
Who ridiculed James’s concem with style?
(a) Stephen Crane
(b) Jack London
(c) B.G. Wells
(d) Edith Wharton
Question’s Answer: B.G. Wells
According to _________ ,
‘It is art that makes life, makes it interesting, important.”
(a) H. G. Wells
(b) Henry James
(c) Edith Wharton
(d) Stephen Crane
Question’s Answer: Henry James
Who called Dreiser’s An American Tragedy a harrowing novel?
(a) W.D. Mowells
(b) Irving Babbit
(c) F.R. Leavis
(d) Jack London
Question’s Answer: Irving Babbit
In which novel does James portray young businessman Christopher Newman face to face with intriguing
aristocracy of France?
(a) The American
(b) Roderick Hudson
(c) Daisy Miller
(d) The Tragic Muse
Question’s Answer: The American
James revealed his mastery of realistic fictional technique in
(a) The Bostoniars
(b) Portrait of a Lady
(c) The American
(d) The Princess Cassamassima
Question’s Answer: Portrait of a Lady
When was Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove’ published?
(a) 1900
(b) 1904
(c) 1903
(d) 1902
Question’s Answer: 1902
In 1904, Henry James got published his
(a) Roderick Hudson
(b) The Golden Bowl
(c) The Europeans
(d) The American
Question’s Answer: The Golden Bowl
Lily Brat occurs in E. Wharton’s
(a) The House of Mirth
(b) The Custom of the Country
(c) Ethan Frome
(d) Hudson River Bracketed
Question’s Answer: The House of Mirth
The absence of a fully realised conflict is especially noticeable in Wharton’s
(a) Beginning novels
(b) Unfinished novel
(c) Later novels
(d) Posthumous work
Question’s Answer: Later novels
Henry James left behind incomplete
(a) The Ambassadors
(b) The Ivory Tower
(c) The Outcry
(d) The Golden Bowl
Question’s Answer: The Ivory Tower
Which of James’s novels explores the artist’s dilemma in choosing between the conflicting aims of life and art
(a) Portrait of a Lady
(b) The Tragic Muse
(c) The Americans
(d) Roderick Hudson
Question’s Answer: The Tragic Muse
Edith Wharton has a sharp eye for which of the following?
(a) Town life
(b) Love
(c) Romance
(d) Social absurdities
Question’s Answer: Social absurdities
Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth The Custom of the Country and Hudson River Bracketed deal with
(a) London
(b) New York
(c) Paris
(d) Belgium
Question’s Answer: New York
Wharton’s novels and stories have frequently been compared with which of the following author?
(a) Henry James
(b) John Steinbeck
(c) Gertrude Stein
(d) Henry Adams
Question’s Answer: Henry James
The hero Vance Weston is a character of which book of Edith Wharton’?
(a) The House of Mirth
(b) Ethan Frome
(c) The Custom of Country
(d) Hudson River Bracketed
Question’s Answer: Hudson River Bracketed
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