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  Which of the following is one of Edith Wharton's New England novels? see if you know the answer
Answered: 28828 times
Correct: 12008 times (29.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 16820 times (41.8%)
Skipped: 11428 times (28.4%)
  Which of the following best describes how the realism of Henry James and Edith Wharton differs from that of William Dean Howells? see if you know the answer
Answered: 153 times
Correct: 56 times (21.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 97 times (37.7%)
Skipped: 104 times (40.5%)
  Which novel was not written by Edith Wharton? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 208 times (57.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 107 times (29.4%)
Skipped: 49 times (13.5%)
  Which of the following novels was NOT authored by Edith Wharton? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 6419 times (72.9%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 861 times (9.8%)
Skipped: 1520 times (17.3%)
  From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton:

"She dropped her eyes to the immense bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley on her knee, and Newland Archer saw her white-gloved finger-tips touch the flowers softly. He drew a breathe of satisfied vanity..."

What is the name of the woman that brought Newland Archer's vanity such satisfaction?
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Correct: 267 times (31.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 196 times (23.0%)
Skipped: 390 times (45.7%)
  With which fellow author was Edith Wharton famously close? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 2781 times (44.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1877 times (29.7%)
Skipped: 1668 times (26.4%)
  In Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" what is the name of Ethan's wife? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 767 times (28.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 906 times (34.0%)
Skipped: 990 times (37.2%)
  Edith Wharton had the following romantic life: see if you know the answer
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Correct: 570 times (32.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 598 times (33.5%)
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  Which affluent New York family did Edith Wharton come from? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 85 times (17.3%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 172 times (35.0%)
Skipped: 234 times (47.7%)
  "She sang, of course, 'M'ama!' and not 'he loves me,' since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."

Who wrote it?
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Correct: 129 times (24.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 152 times (29.1%)
Skipped: 242 times (46.3%)
  Who was the first woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for one of her novels? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 113 times (43.5%)
Skipped: 45 times (17.3%)
  Which novelist called Oscar Wilde "an unclean beast" and "a fatuous cad" after meeting him? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 77 times (34.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 67 times (30.3%)
Skipped: 77 times (34.8%)
  In the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Newland Archer sends what type of flowers to Countess Olenska? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 61 times (27.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 83 times (37.7%)
Skipped: 76 times (34.5%)
  In the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Newland Archer is engaged to which character? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 117 times (53.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 37 times (16.8%)
Skipped: 66 times (30.0%)
  In the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton which character is percieved as the "innocent" one? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 106 times (49.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 37 times (17.3%)
Skipped: 71 times (33.2%)
  The novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton was published in which year? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 79 times (37.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 66 times (31.3%)
Skipped: 66 times (31.3%)
  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton takes place in Italy. see if you know the answer
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Correct: 154 times (73.7%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 25 times (12.0%)
Skipped: 30 times (14.4%)
  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton takes place in New York. see if you know the answer
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Correct: 164 times (77.4%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 10 times (4.7%)
Skipped: 38 times (17.9%)
  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a novella. see if you know the answer
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Correct: 121 times (57.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 47 times (22.4%)
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  The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Set against the backdrop of upper-class society during the time of?? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 71 times (34.6%)
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  Who wrote "The Age of Innocence"? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 1143 times (75.7%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 220 times (14.6%)
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  Which of these characters does NOT appear in the title of a novel by George Eliot? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 199 times (53.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 90 times (24.3%)
Skipped: 81 times (21.9%)
  In the final pages of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, what is the only descriptive for Countess Olenska that Newland Archer will admit to his son, Dallas? That she was: see if you know the answer
Answered: 346 times
Correct: 79 times (10.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 267 times (35.6%)
Skipped: 404 times (53.9%)
  In Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Archer's daughter marries whose son? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 39 times (5.9%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 193 times (29.1%)
Skipped: 431 times (65.0%)
  In Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Mrs. Lemuel Struthers is the widow of a tycoon who made his fortune from...? see if you know the answer
Answered: 298 times
Correct: 64 times (9.3%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 234 times (34.1%)
Skipped: 388 times (56.6%)
  Which one of these women novelists was NOT a good friend of Henry James? see if you know the answer
Answered: 81 times
Correct: 31 times (25.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 50 times (41.3%)
Skipped: 40 times (33.1%)
  Which novelist was, according to Henry James, "both sweet and superior, and has a delightful expression in her large, long, pale, equine face. I had my turn at sitting beside her and being conversed with in a low, but most harmonious tone; and bating a tendency to 'aborder' only the highest themes I have no fault to find with her"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 72 times
Correct: 35 times (33.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 37 times (35.6%)
Skipped: 32 times (30.8%)
  Which novelist left this caricature of one of Henry James' sentences after having had tea with him?

"My dear, they tell me, they tell me, they tell me, that you -- as indeed being your father's daughter, nay your grandfather's grandchild, the descendant, descendant of a century -- of a century -- of quill pen and ink, ink, in pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me ahmmm, that you, that you, that you write in short."
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Answered: 93 times
Correct: 27 times (21.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 66 times (52.4%)
Skipped: 33 times (26.2%)
  Of whom did Virginia Woolf say:

"Of all the great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness"?
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Correct: 254 times (37.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 239 times (35.4%)
Skipped: 183 times (27.1%)
  Of whom does Q.D. Leavis complain here?

"She has none of that natural piety, that richness of feeling and sense of a moral order, of experience as a process of growth, in which George Eliot's local criticisms are embedded and which give the latter her large stature."
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Answered: 80 times
Correct: 20 times (16.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 60 times (49.6%)
Skipped: 41 times (33.9%)
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