American Prose MCQs [English Realism ]

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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