American Literature Ii Final Exam Note Cards

Front 1

Sherwood Anderson wrote.......

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"Winesburg, Ohio"

Front 2

"Winesburg, Ohio" was published in...........

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1919, after he had enough short stories to put a book out.

Front 3

Who is the book's central character?

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George Willard

Front 4

The book is made up of ____ short stories.

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15

Front 5

The stories in "Winesburg, Ohio" depend on _______________ rather than plot.

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Epiphanies

Front 6

Sherwood Anderson influenced..............

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Jean Toomer

Front 7

___________, ________________, and __________________ prevented a story from being a typical plot story

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Imagism, impressionistic technique, and the epiphany

Front 8

What was the only book Jean Toomer published?

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"Cane"

Front 9

"Cane" was published in.............

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1923, near the date of publication of "Spring and All" and "Harmonium"

Front 10

The man who had a sort of cult in France. They had dances known as "movements"

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Gurdijeff

Front 11

Fern is kind of a __________

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Christ figure

Front 12

Toomer eventually dropped Gurdjieff's beliefs in favor of _______________

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being a Quaker.

Front 13

"Babylon Revisited" was written by

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Front 14

Fitzgerald was an ____________ starting all the way back in college.

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alcoholic

Front 15

Name 4 collections of Fitzgerald's short stories!

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"Flappers and Philosophers"

"Tales of the Jazz Age"

"All the Sad Young Men"

"TAPS at Revely"

Front 16

Name 4 of Fitzgerald's novels!

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"This Side of Paradise"

"Beautiful and the Damned"

"The Great Gatsby"

"Tender is the Night"

Front 17

"Babylon Revisited" was originally published in ________ in the "____________________"

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1931, "Saturday Evening Post"

Front 18

Fitzgerald was born in ______________ and died in ________________.

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Minnesota, Hollywood

Front 19

Babylon is between the ______________ and _________________ Rivers in Modern Day Iraq.

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Tigris and Euphrates

Front 20

"The Whore of Babylon" was code for the ___________________

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The Catholic Church

Front 21

Babylon in "Babylon Revisited" is supposed to be _______________

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Paris.

Front 22

Date of Stock Market Crash?

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October 12, 1929

Front 23

Lincoln Peters

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is an amalgam of Abe Lincoln and Peter the Great

Front 24

Brick Top was an old ________ lady that owned a _____________

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Red headed ginger bitch, nightclub

Front 25

In Babylon Revisited, the bartender who gave advice was named ______________

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Paul, after one the the apostles of Jesus.

Front 26

Fitzgerald has a wife named __________

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Zelda

Front 27

Fitzgerald had a daughter named ___________

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Scotty

Front 28

The main character in Babylon Revisited is named ________________

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Charlie Wales

Front 29

John Steinbeck is associated with........

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Salinas Valley

Front 30

___________________ is John Steinbeck's most famous novel.

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Grapes of Wrath.

Front 31

Steinbeck was interested in __________________

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Evolutionary biology

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Rosa Shern =

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Rose of Sharon, a biblical allusion.

Front 33

"superannuated" meant

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that a person had exhausted his/her usefulness.

Front 34

Leader of the People ends with Joey getting

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lemonade.

Front 35

Steinbeck was a ________________.
He liked the average, common ________.

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Humanist; person.

Front 36

The __________ family are the main characters in Grapes of Wrath

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Joad family

Front 37

The ___________ in Grapes of Wrath is superannuated.

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Grandfather.

Front 38

Richard Wright wrote the short story called...............

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The Man who was Almost a Man

Front 39

Richard Wright was a ____________

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communist

Front 40

Richard Wright grew up in _____________

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Mississippi

Front 41

Richard Wright had a famous novel called _______________

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Native Sun

Front 42

Native Sun is about...........

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a young black man who kills a young white girl and burns her in a furnace.

Front 43

Richard Wright went to ____________ at the end of his life and became an _______________

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France; existentialist.

Front 44

The Man who was Almost a Man came from a larger work known as...........

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"8 Men"

Front 45

The Man Who Was Almost a Man was originally published in _____________________

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Harper's Bazaare

Front 46

The Man who was Almost a Man probably owes much to ____________

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Huckleberry Finn