Go ahead and take the online quiz linked below. Simply click on the link to get to the quiz. You will answer one question at a time, and then when you are finished, you will see a screen that tells you which questions you answered incorrectly. You will then receive information about what the correct answer is. For this reason, it would be advantageous to write notes as you take the quiz, and after you see the results. In addition to questions like these questions, our quiz tomorrow will also address the things in the other posts within this blog, and the discussion questions from "To Build a Fire."
Here is the link to the quiz:
http://www.classmarker.com/online-test/start/?quiz=mr34ee6a68cba690
In case the link doesn't work, I have posted the contents in the last post on this blog. You can just look at the quiz contents there if your link isn't working.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Review Posting Activity
When you're done with the online quiz, spend some time working on the following review activity. For each part of this review activity, post a separate comment that includes your name in it.
Activity #1
In a comment labeled "Activity #1," write a response that explains why "To Build a Fire" is an example of Naturalism.
Activity #2
In a comment labeled "Activity #2," write a comment that explains why "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is an example of Realism.
Activity #3
In a comment labeled "Activity #3," write about the three different types of funny stories described in "How to Tell a Story."
Activity #4
In a comment labeled "Activity #4," write an explanation for why "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an example of a FRAME TALE.
Activity #5
In a comment labeled "Activity #5," write about the key defining features of a piece of Realism literature.
Activity #6
In a comment labeled "Activity #6," write about the key defining features of a piece of Naturalism literature.
Activity #7
In a comment labeled "Activity #7," respond to the following prompt:
We know that during the Romanticism period (Transcendentalism and American Gothicism), the authors often had persuasive or argumentative purposes. Then, during Realism and Naturalism, the writing purposes were less persuasive. Describe some of the possible writing purposes for Realism, and then also describe the possible writing purposes of Naturalism.
When you finish these activities, you may benefit from looking at the comments of others to double check your knowledge as well as the knowledge of your classmates. :-)
Activity #1
In a comment labeled "Activity #1," write a response that explains why "To Build a Fire" is an example of Naturalism.
Activity #2
In a comment labeled "Activity #2," write a comment that explains why "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is an example of Realism.
Activity #3
In a comment labeled "Activity #3," write about the three different types of funny stories described in "How to Tell a Story."
Activity #4
In a comment labeled "Activity #4," write an explanation for why "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an example of a FRAME TALE.
Activity #5
In a comment labeled "Activity #5," write about the key defining features of a piece of Realism literature.
Activity #6
In a comment labeled "Activity #6," write about the key defining features of a piece of Naturalism literature.
Activity #7
In a comment labeled "Activity #7," respond to the following prompt:
We know that during the Romanticism period (Transcendentalism and American Gothicism), the authors often had persuasive or argumentative purposes. Then, during Realism and Naturalism, the writing purposes were less persuasive. Describe some of the possible writing purposes for Realism, and then also describe the possible writing purposes of Naturalism.
When you finish these activities, you may benefit from looking at the comments of others to double check your knowledge as well as the knowledge of your classmates. :-)
Contents of the Quiz
After completing the online practice quiz and the review post activity, spend some time looking at the following list of concepts that will be on tomorrow's quiz. If there is anything listed below that is a little "foggy" to you, write it down and make a note to look into that concept so you are ready for tomorrow.
-Basic description of Realism and Naturalism
-Basic understanding of the time period of Realism
-Basic understanding of the time period of Naturalism
-Historical and cultural events that were substantial during the times of Realism and Naturalism
-Differences between Realism and Romanticism (Transcendentalism and Gothic writing)
-Differences between Realism and Naturalism
-Understand why Realism/Naturalism are seen as objective (as opposed to subjective)
-Understand the focus on characterization in Realism
-Understand the detachment of characters in Naturalism
-Describe the mood and tone of Realism writing
-Describe the mood and tone of Naturalism writing
-Understand the possible writing purposes for Realism and Naturalism
-Identify a Realism author and a Naturalism author
-Define detachment, apathy, heredity, pragmatic, dialect, regionalism, frame tale, satire, memoir, and depravity
-Understand the basic "premise" of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
-Understand the basic "premise" of "To Build a Fire"
-Understand the basic "premise" of "How to Tell a Story"
-Understand the basic "premise" of "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
-Basic description of Realism and Naturalism
-Basic understanding of the time period of Realism
-Basic understanding of the time period of Naturalism
-Historical and cultural events that were substantial during the times of Realism and Naturalism
-Differences between Realism and Romanticism (Transcendentalism and Gothic writing)
-Differences between Realism and Naturalism
-Understand why Realism/Naturalism are seen as objective (as opposed to subjective)
-Understand the focus on characterization in Realism
-Understand the detachment of characters in Naturalism
-Describe the mood and tone of Realism writing
-Describe the mood and tone of Naturalism writing
-Understand the possible writing purposes for Realism and Naturalism
-Identify a Realism author and a Naturalism author
-Define detachment, apathy, heredity, pragmatic, dialect, regionalism, frame tale, satire, memoir, and depravity
-Understand the basic "premise" of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
-Understand the basic "premise" of "To Build a Fire"
-Understand the basic "premise" of "How to Tell a Story"
-Understand the basic "premise" of "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
Contents of the online quiz if the link doesn't work
Question 1
Realism literature tended to focus on the working class rather than the upper class.
 | | |
 | A) | True |
B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 2
Which of the following best describes the time Realism started?
| | |
A) | 1900s | |
| B) | 1860s |
C) | 1820s | |
D) | 1770s |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 3
Which year best describes the start of Naturalism?
| | |
| A) | Early 1900s |
B) | 1860s | |
C) | 1770s | |
D) | 1820s |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 4
Which of the following is NOT a defining feature of Realism?
| | |
A) | The writing is very character focused. | |
B) | The writing focuses on day-to-day life and happenings. | |
C) | The writing includes dialect and regional details. | |
| D) | The writing dramatizes and idealizes life and people. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 5
Which of the following is NOT true about Naturalism writing?
| | |
A) | The writing includes detachment from the characters. | |
B) | The writing focuses on inevitability and scientific fact. | |
| C) | The writing uses vivid characterization to describe the characters' feelings. |
D) | The writing reveals the over-powering forces working against humans. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 6
Jack London is a Naturalist writer
| | |
| A) | True |
B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 7
Mark Twain is a Transcendentalist.
| | |
A) | True | |
| B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 8
Mark Twain is a Realist author.
| | |
| A) | True |
B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 9
Who wrote "The Outcasts of Poker Flat?"
| | |
A) | Mark Twain | |
B) | Jack London | |
C) | Upton Sinclair | |
| D) | Bret Harte |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 10
Who wrote "To Build a Fire?"
| | |
A) | Mark Twain | |
| B) | Jack London |
C) | Upton Sinclair | |
D) | Bret Harte |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 11
Who wrote "How to Tell a Story?"
| | |
| A) | Mark Twain |
B) | Jack London | |
C) | Upton Sinclair | |
D) | Bret Harte |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 12
Who wrote "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?"
| | |
| A) | Mark Twain |
B) | Jack London | |
C) | Upton Sinclair | |
D) | Bret Harte |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 13
Which of the following is NOT a character from "The Outcasts of Poker Flat?"
| | |
A) | Mother Shipton | |
B) | Uncle Billy | |
C) | Mr. Oakhurst | |
| D) | Goody Putnam |
E) | The Dutchess |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 14
Which of the following is NOT true about "To Build a Fire?"
| | |
| A) | The man had taken proper precautions given the situation he was involved in. |
B) | The man was only traveling with a dog. | |
C) | The man knew it was very cold, but he wasn't initially aware HOW cold it was. | |
D) | The man was able to start several fires, but not enough to keep himself alive. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 15
Which of the following statements about "How to Tell a Story" is NOT true?
| | |
A) | The Humorous story is an American work of art. | |
B) | The Comic story includes a "nub" that is repeated several times. | |
| C) | The witty story disguises the fact that there is a "snapper," and the teller acts surprised when it happens. |
D) | The comic and witty stories are similar in most ways other than where they originated from. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 16
Which of the following statements about "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is NOT true?
| | |
A) | Simon Wheeler is very talkative. | |
| B) | Jim Smiley was very conservative with his money and would never be caught betting. |
C) | The narrator of the story wanted to learn about a man named Leonidas W. Smiley. | |
D) | Simon Wheeler spent a lot of time telling the narrator about a man named Jim Smiley, which did nothing to help the narrator learn about Leonidas W. Smiley. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 17
"The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an example of Naturalism
| | |
A) | True | |
| B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 18
"How to Tell a Story" is an example of Realism.
| | |
| A) | True |
B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 19
"How to Build a Fire" is an example of Naturalism.
| | |
| A) | True |
B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 20
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is an example of Naturalism.
| | |
A) | True | |
| B) | False |
Type: True/False
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Question 21
Which of the following best describes apathy?
| | |
A) | A strong ability to relate to the emotions and feelings of others. | |
| B) | A lack of concern about the emotions and feelings of others. |
C) | A desire for peace in religion and politics. | |
D) | Intense obsession with another human being. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 22
Which of the following best describes the word depravity?
| | |
A) | Strong morals and values. | |
| B) | Unethically and morally corrupt or "bad." |
C) | Sentimental feelings about other humans. | |
D) | Focus on the beautiful aspects of life. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 23
Which of the following best defines pragmatic?
| | |
A) | A type of writing that focuses on the rational versus irrational aspects of the human mind. | |
B) | A way of speaking that demonstrates where a person is from or living. | |
C) | Intense fear of human betrayal. | |
| D) | Relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters: practical as opposed to idealistic. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 24
Which of the following best defines satire?
| | |
| A) | Use of sarcasm, irony, or ridicule. |
B) | Writing that is about a particular event or time in someone's life. | |
C) | Use of figurative language to create interpretive meaning. | |
D) | The construction and formation of sentences. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 25
Which of the following best defines memoir?
| | |
A) | Use of irony, ridicule, or sarcasm. | |
B) | Separation of church and state. | |
| C) | Autobiographical writing that focuses on a particular time in a person's life. |
D) | A short, witty story about a person. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 26
What is diction?
| | |
A) | Sentence structure | |
| B) | Word choice |
C) | Sentence Fluency | |
D) | Writing purpose |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 27
What is syntax?
| | |
| A) | Sentence structure |
B) | Word choice | |
C) | Sentence Fluency | |
D) | Writing purpose |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 28
What is rhetoric?
| | |
A) | Sentence structure | |
B) | Word choice | |
| C) | The art of communication that features of presenting an idea or opinion. |
D) | A short, witty, and often revealing story. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 29
What is an anecdote?
| | |
A) | Sentence structure | |
B) | Sentence fluency | |
C) | Word choice | |
| D) | A short, witty, and revealing story. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 30
Which of the following best defines detachment?
| | |
| A) | Aloofness from worldly affairs and the concerns of others. |
B) | To rid or free of enchantment, illusion, or credulity. | |
C) | A focus on the scientific aspects of life and the inability to choose your own destiny. | |
D) | The genetic traits that are passed down through generations. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 31
Which of the following best defines heredity?
| | |
A) | Undesirable, disliked, and appalled. | |
B) | The study of humans as animalistic beings. | |
C) | Eternal optimism and hopefulness. | |
| D) | Transmission of characteristics to offspring. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 32
Which of the following best defines dialect?
| | |
| A) | A language variation that is specific to a particular region or location. |
B) | A character that is the opposite of another character in order to emphasize the other. | |
C) | Writing that presents a claim and then supports it. | |
D) | A figure of speech that compares two things indirectly by using "like" or "as." |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 33
Which of the following did NOT occur during Realism?
| | |
A) | Abolishment of Slavery | |
| B) | Word War I |
C) | The Civil War | |
D) | Educational advancements |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 34
Which of the following did NOT occur during Naturalism?
| | |
A) | Prohibition | |
B) | World War I | |
C) | The Great Depression began | |
| D) | The Declaration of Independence was signed. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 35
Which of the following is NOT a Realism author?
| | |
A) | Mark Twain | |
| B) | Jack London |
C) | Bret Harte | |
D) | Upton Sinclair |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
Question 36
Which of the following best describes the differences between Realism and Naturalism?
| | |
A) | Realism really idealized characters and Naturalism didn't. | |
| B) | Realism included more characterization and was slightly more optimistic than Naturalism. |
C) | Realism was very serious and Naturalism was somewhat humorous. | |
D) | Realism was told in first person and Naturalism was told in third person. |
Type: Multiple choice
Category: Generic
Points: 1
Randomize answers: No
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