1. : 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
2. : 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
3. : The Red Badge of Courage, a Novel by Stephen Crane has as its theme of ______.
(A) Love
(B) Envy
(C) Satire
(D) War
4. : What is the Utopian novel 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
5. : 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
6. : When did Howells leave Boston for New York?
(A) 1850
(B) 1723
(C) 1880
(D) 1800
7. : Who referred to Garland and Howells as his literary fathers?
(A) Frank Norris
(B) Stephen Crane
(C) Jack London
(D) Theodore Dreiser
8. : Who is the author of: “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
9. : 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
10. : 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
11. : Whose writings do Nietzsche and Karl Marx disagree with?
(A) William Dean Howells
(B) Jack London
(C) Stephen Crane
(D) Henry James
12. : 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
13. : Theodore Dreiser, American novelist, gives the readers a relief from the America rhetoric of ______.
(A) Democracy
(B) Feudalism
(C) Moral law
(D) Monarchy
14. : ______ was Theodore Dreiser’s first novel for a publisher.
(A) The Financier
(B) The Titan
(C) Sister Carrie
(D) An American Tragedy
15. : Soviet readers have coupled Jack London with
(A) William Dean Howells
(B) Upton Sinclair
(C) Stephen Crane
(D) Frank Norris
16. : 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
17. : 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
18. : Carrie 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
19. : We can divide Henry James’s literature into _______ periods.
(A) Three
(B) Four
(C) Five
(D) Two
20. : To which period do James’s three novels Roderick Hudson, The American and Daisy Miller belong?
(A) Second
(B) Fourth
(C) Third
(D) First
21. : Who ridiculed James’s concern with style?
(A) Stephen Crane
(B) Jack London
(C) B.G. Wells
(D) Edith Wharton
22. : 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
23. : Who called Dreiser’s An American Tragedy a harrowing novel?
(A) W.D. Howells
(B) Irving Babbit
(C) F.R. Leavis
(D) Jack London
24. : In which novel does James portray young businessman Christopher Newman face to face with the intriguing aristocracy of France?
(A) The American
(B) Roderick Hudson
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) The Tragic Muse
25. : James revealed his mastery of realistic fictional technique in
(A) The Bostonians
(B) Portrait of a Lady
(C) The American
(D) The Princess Cassamassima
26. : When was Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove published?
(A) 1900
(B) 1904
(C) 1903
(D) 1902
27. : In 1904, Henry James got published his
(A) Roderick Hudson
(B) The Golden Bowl
(C) The Europeans
(D) The American
28. : Lily Bart occurs in Edith Wharton’s
(A) The House of Mirth
(B) The Custom of the Country
(C) Ethan Frome
(D) Hudson River Bracketed
29. : The absence of a fully realized conflict is especially noticeable in Wharton’s
(A) Beginning novels
(B) Unfinished novel
(C) Later novels
(D) Posthumous work
30. : Henry James left behind incomplete
(A) The Ambassadors
(B) The Ivory Tower
(C) The Outcry
(D) The Golden Bowl
31. : 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
32. : Edith Wharton has a sharp eye for which of the following?
(A) Town life
(B) Love
(C) Romance
(D) Social absurdities
33. : 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
34. : Wharton’s novels and stories have frequently been compared with which of the following authors?
(A) Henry James
(B) John Steinbeck
(C) Gertrude Stein
(D) Henry Adams
35. : 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 the Country
(D) Hudson River Bracketed