American Literature

Part I: Choose A, B, or C:
1. Which of the following is a characteristic of literary realism?
A. Characters resemble ordinary people
B. Plot contains unsual events
C. Setting are often made up

2. With which famous writer of the same time period, did Ernest Hemingway join
the movement of the ‘Lost Generation’?
A. Edna Ferber B. Emily Dickinson C. Francis Fitzgerald

3. Which of the following statement is true of Edgar Poe’s life?

A. Poe’s relationship with Frances Allan, his foster father, was marked by affection
B. While in college he became an avid gambler
C. He graduated the University of Virginia

4. When the old waiter when home, he would usually lied in his bed…
A. until daylight
B. wit isomnia
C. thinking about to other people

5. American Romanticism focuses on ______________.

A. political matters
B. religious beliefs
C. emotions and imagination

6. What does the old waiter in ‘A clean well-lighted place’ think religion is?
A. Everything
B. Nothing
C. a nasty thing
Part II: Answer the question:
1. Do you think Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade would continue to be friends after the
striking event at the end of the story? Explain your answer.
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2. Do you think the relative of the old man in the story ‘A clean well-lighted place’
cared about him? Explain your answer.
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Part I: Choose A, B, or C:
1. Which of the following is NOT an element of the feature “local color” in
American literature?
A. a region’s dialect B. a region’s tradition C. a region’s religion

2. Which writer is a writer of Religionalism?

A. Mark Twain B. Edith Wharton C. Henry James

3. Edgar Poe has been seen as a forerunner to the __________

A. “art for art’s sake” movement
B. horror story
C. major figure in world literature

4. Why did Wharton’s parents move to and live in Europe?

A. for the sake of her self education
B. because of Civil War
C. because of the impact of inflation

5. Which of the following works by Wharton was unfinished because of her death?
A. The House of Mirth
B. A Backward Glance
C. The Buccaneers

6. Hemingway's economical and understated style has originated from

A. his war experiences B. his newspaper career C. his short stories

7. Many of Hemingway's works deal with several of the hard- hitting themes -
namely, the futility of modern society, loneliness, and ________
A. isolation
B. the pain of old age
C. the iceberg theory

8. Which of the following works reveals Poe's talent as "Master of Macabre"?

A. Annabel Lee
B. Ligeia
C. The Murders in Rue Morgue

9. In the first stanza of the poem "Annabelle Lee", the speaker calls his lover a
"maiden". This lets the reader know that
A. she is a subject in the "kingdom by the sea"
B. she's the title character.
C. she's young & attractive
10. The narrator admits that he and Annabel Lee were children when they fell in
love because he wants the reader to know that his love for her
A. was like a fairy tale
B. wasn't just a teenage crush
C. was beautiful and painful

11. Poe blames the angels for the death of his woman. How did this happen?
A. The highborn kinsman came and took her away.
B. A wind came down from the clouds, which made her sick and then eventually killed
her.
C. the demons from under the sea dissevered her soul from his soul

12. When in Rome again, Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley are reminiscing with "the
stupendous scene at their feet". Which of the following is the scene?
A. the Colosseum
B. the Palatine
C. the Forum

13. The older waiter leaves the café and mulls over the idea of
A. nothingness
B. old age
C. insomnia

14. Which of the following is NOT true of both Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley?
A. Both women are equal financially
B. Both women are equal socially, but Mrs. Slade is bitter.
C. Both women are unhappy with their lives.

15. At the beginning of the story "A Clean, Well-lighted Place", the old man is
sitting late at the café and "he felt the difference." What is the difference?
A. The difference between the café & a bodega
B. The difference between the older & the younger waiter
C. The difference between the dusty street in the daytime and the quiet night

16. In "A Clean, Well-lighted Place", what does the older waiter think of in terms of
differences between him and the younger waiter when he says, "We are of two
different kinds"?
A. their age gap relationship
B. their different attitudes towards the café.
C. the fact that the younger waiter has confidence while he does not

17. the author of "Roman Fever" sides with

A. Mrs. Ansley
B. Mrs. Slade
C. neither
Part II: Answer the question:
1. Talking about the death of Poe's wife, Virginia Clemm, Mrs. Rebecca Cromwell,
a former Fordham neighbor, quotes in "Edgar Poe's Cottage" ".. He used to cry
over her grave every day and kept it green with flowers." Why does the poet do
this and what does he say about it in the poem?
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2. In the short story "Roman Fever", Mrs. Slade says, "When Roman fever stalked
the streets it must have been comparatively easy to gather in the girls at the
danger hour." Explain what she mean by the fever and state why the girls should
be gathered in "at the danger hour".
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Part I: Choose A, B, or C: I. American Literature Periods

1. American Romanticism focuses on __________.
A. political matters B. religious beliefs C. emotions and imagination

2. Which of the following is a representative work of American Romanticism?

A. Moby Dick B. The Great Gatsby C. Portrait of a Lady

3. Which of the following is a characteristic of literary realism?

A. Characters resemble ordinary people
B. Plot contains unusual events
C. Settings are often made up

4. Local Color Fiction in American literature is also called _____________.

A. Transcendentalism B. Regionalism C. Realism in art

5. American Modernist literature came into its own due to ________________.

A. increasing industrialization and globalization
B. increasing rates of democracy and literacy
C. increasing desire to break free of traditions

6. In the aftermath of World War 1 there arose a group of writers and poets known as
____________.
A. the “Lost Generation." B. the casualties of the war C. the Transcendentalists

II. Edgar Poe / ‘Annabel Lee'

7. Which of the following statements is true of Edgar Poe’s life?
A. Poe's relationship with Frances Allan, his foster father, was marked by affection
B. While in college he became an avid gambler
C. He graduated the University of Virginia
8. Edgar Allan Poe lost his wife to ____________.
A. suicide B. smallpox C. tuberculosis

9. Who committed the murders in Rue Morgue?

A. an Orangutan B. a sailor C. a corrupt cop

10. Which of the following word in Annabel Lee means “angel”?

A. maiden B. seraph C. demon

11. Select the line of text that reveals the cause of death of Annabel Lee.
A. “A wind blew out of a cloud by night/ Chilling my Annabel Lee”
B. “So that her high-born kinsmen came/And bore her away from me
C. “The angels, not half so happy in Heaven/Went envying her and me”

12. What did Annabel Lee's kinsmen shut her up in?

A. Kingdom by the sea B. Sepulchre C. Family home

IV. HEMINGWAY / A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

13. In what year did Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. 1944 B. 1954 C.1964

14. With which famous writer of the same time period, did Ernest Hemingway join the
movement of the 'Lost Generation'?
A. Edna Ferber B. Emily Dickinson C. Francis Fitzgerald

15. Which of Hemingway's novels is based on his World War I experiences?

A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. A Farewell to Arms C. The Sun Also Rises

16. The older waiter tells the younger waiter that the old man “stays up because _____.”
A. He’s lonely B. He’s scared C. He likes it
17. What does the older waiter think religion is?
A. Everything B. Nothing C. a nasty thing

18. The younger waiter tells the older waiter that he ________ like an old man.
A. Drinks B. Dresses C. Talks

19. The older waiter says, “This old man is clean. He drinks without spilling. Even now,
drunk.” What does he recognize in the old man?
A. drunkenness B. insomnia C. dignity

20. When the old waiter went home, he would usually lie in his bed _________.
A. until daylight B. with insomnia C. thinking about other people

IV. Edith Wharton / “Roman Fever”

21. Which of the following statements about Edith Wharton is NOT TRUE?
A. She came from a wealthy, upper class family.
B. She was happily married to Edward Robbins Wharton.
C. Wharton spent a considerable part of her youth traveling around Europe with her family

22. Why did Wharton’s family go to Europe after the Civil War?
A. due to the depreciation of American currency
B. for her education abroad
C. for Wharton's father's health

23. Edith wanted more education than she received, so she started her self education by
______________.
A. reading from the libraries B. learning from tutoring C. attempting at writing

24. From what point of view is the story Roman Fever told?
A. 1st person (Mrs. Ansley) B. 1st (Mrs. Slade) C. 3rd person
25. Roman fever in the title story may be a metaphor for ______________
A. malaria
B. hostility among women
C. feverish ailment due to one’s exposure to cool air after sunset

26. The reason why the women are in Rome together is because _______________.
A. they went together to celebrate their friendship where they first met.
B. they ran into each other in the hotel room after a long interval not seeing one another
C. they came to remember their dead husbands.

27. In "Roman Fever," as the story opens Jenny and Barbara run off to meet ________.
A. some Marcheses B. some aviators C. some Campolieri boys

28. Which of the following is NOT true for both women?

A. lived in New York B. widowers C. had 1 child

29. In Roman Fever, at one point what does Mrs. Slade suddenly confess?
A. She never liked Mrs. Ansley.
B. She forged a note to Mrs.Ansley.
C. She has been following Mrs. Ansley all her life.

30. Mrs. Ansley feels this way for Mrs. Slade:

A. jealous B. sorry C. angry

Part II: Answer the question:

1. What is the message behind the poem ‘Annabel Lee’? Find the line(s) in the poem to
justify your answer.
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2. Do you think the ending of this poem is beautiful? Explain your answer.
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3. Find the words from the following extract of ‘Roman Fever’ to match with their
definitions
For a long time Mrs. Slade did not answer. She appeared to be lost in contemplation, and
Mrs. Ansley thought the remark had escaped her. But after a while she said, as if speaking out
of a dream: "Bridge, did you say? Not unless you want to...But I don't think I will, you
know."
"Oh, no," Mrs. Ansley hastened to assure her. "I don't care to at all. It's so lovely here; and so
full of old memories, as you say." She settled herself in her chair, and almost furtively drew
forth her knitting. Mrs. Slade took sideway note of this activity, but her own beautifully
cared-for hands remained motionless on her knee.
"I was just thinking," she said slowly, "what different things Rome stands for to each
generation of travellers. To our grandmothers, Roman fever; to our mothers, sentimental
dangers -- how we used to be guarded! -- to our daughters, no more dangers than the middle
of Main Street. They don't know it -- but how much they're missing!"
The long golden light was beginning to pale, and Mrs. Ansley lifted her knitting a little closer
to her eyes.
"Yes; how we were guarded!"
"I always used to think," Mrs. Slade continued, "that our mothers had a much more difficult
job than our grandmothers. When Roman fever stalked the streets it must have been
comparatively easy to gather in the girls at the danger hour; but when you and I were young,
with such beauty calling us, and the spice of disobedience thrown in, and no worse risk than
catching cold during the cool hour after sunset, the mothers used to be put to it to keep us in
-- didn't they?"
She turned again toward Mrs. Ansley, but the latter had reached a delicate point in her
knitting. "One, two, three -- slip two; yes, they must have been," she assented, without
looking up.
Definitions:
A. in a way that shows you do not want to be noticed = .........................
B. the act of thinking deeply about something = .......................
C. connected with your emotions, rather than reason = ........................
D. made or formed in a very careful and detailed way = ...........................

4. Do you think Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade would continue to be friends after the
striking event at the end of the story? Explain your answer.
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5. Do you think the relative of the old man in the story ‘A clean, well-lighted place’
cared about him? Explain your answer.
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6. Read the following extract from ‘A clean, well-lighted place’
"Why didn't you let him stay and drink?" the unhurried waiter asked. They were putting up
the shutters.
"It is not half-past two."
"I want to go home to bed."
"What is an hour?"
"More to me than to him."
"An hour is the same."
"You talk like an old man yourself. He can buy a bottle and drink at home."
"It's not the same."
"No, it is not," agreed the waiter with a wife. He did not wish to be unjust. He was only in a
hurry.
"And you? You have no fear of going home before your usual hour?"
"Are you trying to insult me?"
"No, hombre, only to make a joke."
"No," the waiter who was in a hurry said, rising from pulling down the metal shutters. "I have
confidence.
I am all confidence."
Answer the question:
Who is the person that says "Are you trying to insult me?" Why does he feel that he is
being insulted?
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