Practice Identifying Passages on Test 2, ENG 2314, S2008

For each quotation, give the full name of the author of the work. The interactive answer component of this quiz will recognize only the complete name in its usual form ("Charlotte Perkins Gilman," not "Charlotte Gilman" or "Gilman"). Two authors in the unit have two names, and for them you may use either name in its complete form. (Notice that there is special on-screen keyboard to allow you to type Zitkala Ša's name correctly.)

After two tries, the question will become multiple choice. You may need to click a bar at the top of the browser window to allow the exercise to work properly.

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? Was I brought here merely to have my nose dragged away as I was about to nibble the sacred cheese of life?
1. Stephen Crane
2. William Dean Howells
3. Sui Sin Far
4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Life is very much more exciting now than it used to be. You see I have something more to expect, to look forward to, to watch. I really do eat better, and am more quiet than I was.
1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2. Paul Laurence Dunbar
3. Stephen Crane
4. Sui Sin Far
"See, Little One--the hills in the morning sun. There is thy home for years to come. It is very beautiful and thou wilt be very happy there."
1. Sui Sin Far
2. Paul Laurence Dunbar
3. Zitkala Ša
4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When I saw the lonely figure of my mother vanish in the distance, a sense of regret settled heavily upon me. I felt suddenly weak, as if I might fall limp to the ground. I was in the hands of strangers whom my mother did not fully trust. I no longer felt free to be myself, or to voice my own feelings.
1. Zitkala Ša
2. Sui Sin Far
3. Stephen Crane
4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
But I think it would be bettah,

Ef I’d pause agin to say,

Dat I’m talkin’ ‘bout ouah freedom

In a Bibleistic way.
1. Paul Laurence Dunbar
2. Sui Sin Far
3. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4. Stephen Crane

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Practice Identifying Passages on Test 2, ENG 2314, S2008

Can you recognize the authors of these passages?