The following true/false statements are based on “The Revolt of Mother.”

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(Each question is worth one point)
41. Bret Harte wrote eight stories for the magazine that

were lukewarmly received catapulted him to spectacular fame
were ridiculed by critics but popular with the public were popular with critics but ignored-by the public

42. What is the subject matter of Harte’s stories?

the established San Francisco aristocracy life in the early California mining camps
life on large cattle ranches military forts and Indian campaigns

43. Harte received an unprecedented contract from which one of the following Eastern magazines?

Vanity Fair Harper’s Bazaar
Literary Review Atlantic Monthly

44. Which one of the following was not an occupation that Harte held when he went out West in the 1850s?

Wells Fargo driver schoolteacher
prospector clerk

45. What did his experience as a journalist do for Harte’s writing style?

ruined it sharpened it
revitalized it deadened it

46. Which one of the following was not included in Harte’s early writing attempts?

literary essays satiric articles
short novels sketches

47. Which one of the following was the first story to earn Harte any public attention?

“The Outcasts of Poker Flats” “Denver’s Silver Mine”
“The Luck of Roaring Camp” “The Great Transcontinental Railroad”

48. Which one of the following statements is not characteristic of Harte’s picture of the past?

simple virtues triumph over apparent i=oralities colorful characters and colorful language
mildly humorous constant excitement and adventure

49. What was Harte’s contribution to American literature?

a lasting image of the West an awareness of man’s responsibility to his fellow man
local color well-drawn system of character development

50. Mary Freeman’s local color stories concern

the West the South
the Midwest the North

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51. Freeman’s writing is very

flamboyant humorous
realistic understated

52. Where did Freeman find the subjects for her stories?

Boston and New England city life the rural area of Massachusetts
the farmland of New York Maine’s seacoast villages

53. Which one of the following phrases accurately characterizes Freeman’s writing style?

spare and angular elaborate and rich
subtle and intellectual bold and well drawn

54. The climax of Freeman’s stories often takes the form of

a psychological confrontation self revelation
revolt a denial of life

55. Despite the seeming pessimism of her stories, Freeman still portrays in her stories an underlying

tenderness optimism
vitality sublimity

56. How many individuals are expelled from Poker Flat?

ten eight
six four

57. Uncle Billy leaves the group for a time because

he wants to laugh he decides to get wood
Mr. Oakhurst insults him he wants to take a drink in secret

58. Which one of the following characters escapes to Poker Flats?

Mr. Oakhurst The Duchess
The Innocent Piney

59. Mr. Oakhurst does not drink because

he has no money no one offers him any drink
he needs a clear head his father was a drunkard

60. The Innocent recounts to the outcasts episodes from

the Aeneid the Divine Comedy
the Odyssey the Iliad

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61. Mr. Oakhurst advised Tom Simson to

quit drinking gamble no more
marry Piney go to Hangtown

62. Mr. Oakhurst is

a gambler a steamboat captain
a horse thief an inn-keeper

63. The doom of the outcasts from Poker Flat is sealed with the arrival of

rain hail
snow sleet

64. Mr. Oakhurst is used to getting along with very little

sleep food
exercise money

65. Uncle Billy runs off with

all the food Mr. Oakhurst’s gun
the bag of money the mules

66. The refugees from Poker Flat sing to the accompaniment of

an organ an accordion
a piano a violin