The main character of Chopin’s The Awakening is
Answer(s): A
Edna Pontellier is the troubled heroine of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
Which of the following stories portrays a woman’s descent into insanity while being given a “rest cure” after the birth of her child?
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicts the mental decline of a woman suffering from post-partum depression. The story has become an influential feminist tract.
Which of the following is NOT an essential element in American Realistic fiction?
Answer(s): E
While a number of Realist works do address gender and race relations, these are not essential elements of the American Realistic literary style.
A novel is in its broadest definition a personal impression of life; that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression. But there will be no intensity at all, and therefore no value, unless there is freedom to feel and say.As presented above, which of the following best describes the author’s theory of the novel?
Answer(s): D
The author contends that a novel is the author’s personal expression, and therefore free expression and authorial insight are more important than a strict adherence to literary form.
The passage was most likely written by
Henry James was a great novelist and critic. The above quote is taken from “The Art of Fiction” (1884).
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