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Your Name:
Phillips – ENGL 238 F2023 Second Take-Home Quiz.
Due: Monday December 4
th
. Hardcopy in Class.
Download this file and insert your answers in the spaces provided.
Be sure to carefully read the
instructions for each section of the quiz.
You may consult the texts when completing this quiz; in fact, you will have to do so to write the short
essays. All the texts are available on our Blackboard site.
Realism and Naturalism
Section 1.
25 Points.
Multiple choice. Mark each correct answer with a capital X.
Note that there may be more
than one correct answer.
Think carefully before making your selections.
1.
The little boy in Ambrose Bierce’s “Chickamauga” does not realize the true nature of the combat
taking place near his home because:
He is a deaf-mute.
He falls asleep.
He is the son of a planter.
2.
The main character in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” is:
A native Alaskan.
A dog lover.
A heavy smoker.
Clean-shaven.
None of the above.
3.
Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” is:
A celebration of blue water sailing.
Concerned with sense impressions.
About the search for a great white whale.
Based on a true story.
4.
Realism in American literature involves:
A focus on social customs, manners, and morality.
A focus on details of setting, action, and dialogue.
Improbable plot lines and exotic locales.
Supernatural events.
Social classes.
Section 2.
75 Points.
Write two (2) short essays of two to three (2-3) paragraphs each on two (2) of the following
topics.
Each answer should be about a page long.
1.
Discuss the story “Chickamauga” or the story “A Horseman in the Sky” as an expression of Ambrose
Bierce’s impatience with attempts to romanticize the Civil War. Be sure to
focus on at least two
passages
that illustrate Bierce’s attitudes toward the war, especially the experience of battle.
2.
Discuss Bierce’s exploration of the difference between sense impressions and facts in
“Chickamauga.” How does he convey this difference verbally? How does this difference inform the
most dramatic moments of the story’s plot?
3.
Discuss the impressionistic aspects of Crane’s “The Open Boat,” focusing on (for instance) the
narrator’s descriptions of the sea, the treatment of the shark that follows the boat for a time, and the
shifts in the story’s point of view, or changes in its tone, in passages of narration as compared to
passages of dialogue.
4.
Discuss Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” as an exploration of the idea of the “survival of the fittest.”
Focus on the man’s arrogant attitude about the weather on the Yukon; the dog’s instinct; London’s
depiction of nature.
5.
Discuss Edith Wharton’s depiction of the wife whose husband dies during the cross-country train trip
described in “A Journey.” Focus on her pleasure in her married life as opposed to her old life, when
she was a schoolteacher; her growing distance from her husband, because of his illness (tuberculosis);
her inability to cope with his death; and the story’s abrupt ending.
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