Call me Ishmael
I am not Ahab
I am lucky
Moby Dick is a white whale
Many critics have suggested that there is no clear distinction between realism and its related late nineteenth-century movement _____________.
Naturalism
Surrealism
Romanticism
Abolitionism
What is the first novel written by Theodore Dreiser?
“Sister Carrie”
“Jennie Gerhardt”
“An American Tragedy”
“The Titan”
Portraying a changing society, Dreiser wrote about a young woman who flees rural life for the city Chicago and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men in the novel __________.
a) “Sister Carrie”
b) “Jennie Gerhardt”
c) “An American Tragedy”
d) “The Titan”
Whom does Carrie regard as a male ideal in the novel “Sister Carrie”?
Robert Ames
Charles Drouet
George Hurstwood
Mr. Vancy
Love triangle given in “An American Tragedy”
Clyde, Roberta, Sondra
Hortanse, Sparser, Sondra
Roberta, Bob, Brown
Sondra, Roberta, Brown
Who is the ambitious but ill-educated, illusioned and immature character of the book “An American Tragedy”?
Clyde
Roberta
Sondra
Samuel
Find out a poor and innocent girl working in Griffith’s department, who falls in love with Clyde.
Roberta
Sondra
Hortanse
Rebecca
In the nineteenth century, there was a ____________ in both public and private morality: people had to “talk one way while acting in a completely different way”.
“double standard”
“objective style”
“subjective standard”
“illusion”
____________by Edith Wharton is a story of a beautiful but poor woman, Lily Bart, trying to survive in the pitiless New York City .Lily Bart through society with the aim of finding a suitable and wealthy husband. Unsuccessful in her search, she suffers declining fortunes and is reduced to poverty, excluded from the social circles she once charmed and burdened with financial debts.
“The House of Mirth”
“Age of Innocence”
“The Reef”
“The Custom of the Country”
_________ by Edith Wharton presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. In the story, Newland Archer is engaged to May Well and, a beautiful but proper fellow member of elite society, but he falls deeply in love with Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has returned to New York to escape her disastrous marriage to a Polish nobleman.
“The Age of Innocence”
“The Reef”
“The Custom of the Country”
“The House of Mirth”
Select Dreiser’s books on political issues.
“Dreiser Looks at Russia”, “Tragic America” and “America is Worth Saving”
“Dawn”, “An American Tragedy”
“Sister Carrie”, “America is Worth Saving”
“Jennie Gerhardt”, “Tragic America”
It is a sprawling semi-autobiographical chronicle of Dreiser's numerous love affairs, was censured by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Its sequel, “The Bulwark”, appeared posthumously in 1946.
“The Genius”
“Sister Carrie”
“Tragic America”
“America is Worth Saving”
Find out Dreiser’s greatest novel, the hero (or “anti-hero”), has the same dream as Carrie, he thinks money & success will bring him happiness. When a pregnant girlfriend threatens to destroy this dream, he plans to kill her. At last moment, he changes his mind but the girl dies accidently.
“An American Tragedy”
“Sister Carrie”
“Tragic America”
“America is Worth Saving”
Which novel relates, in great detail, the life of Clyde Griffiths, a boy of weak will and little self-awareness. He grows up in great poverty in a family of wandering evangelists, but dreams of wealth and the love of beautiful women.
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