Realism in American Literature

The American Realism movement covered the years

• before the Revolutionary War
• after the Civil War
• before the Civil War
• after the Revolutionary War

The movement before the American Realism is known as the

• Romanticism
• Enlightenment
• Puritan Era
• Modernism

The Civil War left a nation divided and interrupted the Transcendentalist movement. One transitional author was

• Emily Dickinson
• Walt Whitman
• Mark Twain
• Stephen Crane

Science, industry and transportation are signs of____ during the period of 1865-1914.

• contraction
• expansion
• immigration
• suffrage

The aftermath of the Civil War left Americans feeling

• more optimistic
• very certain
• very happy
• less optimistic

The purpose of writing  during the Realism was to

• instruct and entertain
• explain ideals
• argument
• persuade

The setting in Realist writings was usually

• familiar to the writer
• unfamiliar to the writer
• far away places
• in  Europe

Characters in Realist writing were

• extraordinary people
• ordinary people
• politically important
• famous people

Which of the following is NOT typical of Realism in literature?

• settings are imaginary
• lots of detailed descriptions
• characters are ordinary people
• use of dialect in everyday speech

Desiree's Baby is set (where and when)

• in Georgia after the Civil War
• in Alabama during the Civil War
• in Louisiana near the time of the Civil War
• in Virginia just before the Civil War