Answer: Anna Karenina

2003 Mad City Masters The Whole Family (Andrew Yaphe, Subash Maddipoti, Paul Litvak) Tossnps by Andrew Yaphe 1. His worst novel is probably The Coast ofBohemia, which appeared in the same year as The World ofChance and An Imperative Duty. His last novel, 1916's The Leatherwood God, depicts the Ohio frontier, while Boston was the setting for The Minister's Charge and New York City for A Hazard ofNew Fortunes. FTP, name ~his great American novelist of Indian Summer, A Modern Instance, and The Rise ofSilas Lapham. Answer: William Dean Howells 2. William Dean Howells married a cousin of this man, who was also the subject ofa biography by Howells. He was derided as "Granny" and "Queen Victoria in britches," for his conservatism but not as much as his pro temperance wife, Lemonade Lucy. He vetoed Congress's repeals ofthe Force Acts and the Bland-Allison Act, but he split his party by suspending Alonzo Cornell and Chester Arthur in an attempt to break the corrupt Conkling machine. FTP, name this Republican, who ended Reconstruction when he was elected President in 1876 in a controversial race with Samuel Tilden. Answer: ~utherford B. Hayes 3. William Dean Howells's poem "Pordenone" is about his rivalry with this artist for the hand of Violante. The Duke of Ferrara commissioned this man's The Worship of Venus and Bacchanal ofthe Andrians, while Philip II commissioned his Diana and Actaeon, and the Holy Roman Emperor commissioned his Charles Vas the Victor of Mulhberg. FTP, name this pupil of Giorgione and painter of Sacred and Profane Love and the Venus of Urbino. Answer: Titian or Tiziano VeceUio 4. William Dean Howells suggested that its discovery would make the Utopia he envisioned in Through the Eye of the Neeille possible. As a result of it, commercial level 99.5% pure ingots were produced for the first time. It creates a product that is denser than the molten cryolite bath in which the reaction takes place, which allows the desired substance to be collected. The first plant using the process was opened at Pittsburgh in 188S by one of its co-discoverers. FTP, name this process discovered independently by a French and an American scientist, by which aluminum is produced. Answer: Hall-Heronlt process 5. This was William Dean Howells' favorite novel, and he persuaded Rutherford Hayes to read it. He especially liked the scene in which the title character's husband perceives that he cannot forgive with dignity and yet forgives anyway. It begins with the discovery of an affair between a French governess and Stepan Arkadyich Oblonsky, and ends in the nursery of Kitty and Levin. FTP, name this novel about an adulterous woman who throws herself under a train, a work of Leo Tolstoy. Answer: Anna Karenina 6. William Dean Howells thought that Longfellow'S sonnet on the death of this man, which praised him for having ''read Nature's mysterious manuscript," was ''un surpassable." After completing his journey to California around Cape Horn, he opened his summer school of zoology in Buzzards Bay Massachusetts. His early work was on glaciers and fossil fish, but he broadened his scope to all of natural history after accepting a chair at Harvard in 1848. FTP,namethis Swiss-born scientist, one of the last major opponents of Darwinism. Answer: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 7. William Dean Howells made this work a "sensation" by giving it its most favorable review, though what he found most interesting about it was the fact that the titular entity was English in spirit rather than American. The book's final chapters consider survivals of the non-invidious interest and the ''higher learning" as an expression of pecuniary culture, while earlier chapters ofthis "economic study of institutions" introduce the concepts of "pecuniary emulation" and "conspicuous consumption." FTP, name this 1899 book by Thorstein Veblen. Answer: The Theory ofthe Leisure Class 8. The title of William Dean Howells' The Shadow of a Dream comes from this work. It ends with Peona, the title character's sister, going home in wonderment, and it begins with a preface written from Teignmouth that dedicates the "poetic romance" to Thomas Chatterton and expresses hope that the mythology of Greece has not been dulled by the author's mawkishness. FTP, name this long poem in four books and 4,000 lines that begins "A thing of beauty is ajoy for ever," a work ofJohn Keats. Answer: Endvmion 9. This man claimed that a single sentence about black walnut in The Rise ofSilas Lapham changed the entire course of American architecture. He started out working for McKim, Mead, and White in New York, and he would later design that city's Federal Courts Building, but he established a name for himself in Minnesota, where he designed the state capitol. FTP, name this architect whose designs in Washington, D. C. include the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the Supreme Court building. Answer: Cass Gilbert 10. William Dean Howells was appointed consul to this city in 1861, 1135 years after its first known leader, Orso Ipato, came to power. In 1848, under Daniele Manin, it revolted and became part of its current nation in 1866 after the Seven Week's War. Along with the republics of La Spezia, Amalfi, and Genoa, it rose to dominate the Mediterranean in the 14th century, but this most serene republic was conquered by Napoleon in 1797 and made a part of Austria-Hungary. FTP, name this Italian city, whose notable residents besides Howells include Casanova, Marco Polo, and a number ofDoges. Answer: Venice 11. William Dean Howells highly praised this book, writing that one might read passages aloud to even the tenderest female from the chapters on Instinct, Hypnotism, or Habit. Dedicated to Francois Pillon, it was finally published in 1890 as the culmination of over a decade of work, and also includes chapters on the Automaton Theory, the Perception of Time, the Consciousness ofSelt: and the Stream of Thought. FTP, name this enormous work by William James. Answer: The Principles ofPsvchologv 12. He was delighted to meet William Dean Howells at Portsmouth, and claimed to have read all of his novels. He succeeded Vyshnegradsky as Finance Minister and continued his protectionist policies, but his attempts at reform proved unpopular with the Tsar and he was replaced by Ivan Goremykin in 1906. FTP, name this Russian politician, who became Prime Minister after the October Manifesto was issued in 1905. Answer: Count Sergei Witte 13. William Dean Howells' father edited ajournal, The Retina, devoted to expounding the views of this man, and when Henry James Sr. wrote a book on this man's "secret" Howells quipped that James had kept it. Kant attacked this man's views in his Dreams ofa Spirit-Seer, while Blake paid tribute to him in ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and Emerson depicted him as "The Mystic" in Representative Men. FTP, name this author of Heavenly Arcana and The New Jerusalem, a Swede who wrote at length about his spiritual visions. Answer: Emanuel Sweden borg 14. A performance of this play inspired William Dean Howells to write A Modern Instance. The work ends with the title character fleeing to King Aegeus in a chariot belonging to her grandfather Helios, following the death of the daughter of the king of Corinth. That daughter died as a result of a bewitched dress offered as a wedding gift. FTP, name this play about a Colchian princess who takes revenge on her husband Jason, a work of Euripides. Answer: Medea 15. Howells wrote a novel about Lydia Blood, the "lady" of a ship with this name. Its most prominent city, Presque Isle, was the subject of a massing of 50,000 volunteers at its greatest time of crisis. This resulted as its namesake river was the basis of some controversial Canadian lumberjacking, and both New Brunswick and Maine summoned their militias following the arrest of Rufus McIntire there. FIP, name this Anglo-American boundary, over which a "war" was fought in 1839. Answer: Aroostook (accept The Ladv ofthe Aroostook on the first sentence) 16. It is commonly carried by the vivax species though it is the falciparum species that causes the majority of fatalities. William Dean Howells' sister Victoria died of this disease, and it was caught in Cuba by Howells' friend Stephen Crane. If caught via transmission by the Anopheles genus, the disease attacks the liver, from which it spreads into red blood cells, the destruction of which can lead to anemia or jaundice. FTP, name this disease caused by a mosquito-born parasite, Plasmodium. Answer: malaria 17. William Dean Howells wrote that ifnothing but this author's work had come out of American life, it could be said that America had made a distinctive addition to the literature of the world. Recent editions have been edited by Ralph Franklin and Thomas Johnson, but the one Howells read was edited by Mabel Todd, who was sleeping with the poet's brother Austin, and Colonel Thomas Higginson. FTP, name this author of almost 1,800 lyric poems, including ones that begin "I heard a fly buzz when I died" and ''Because I could not stop for death." Answer: Emily Dickinson 18. After Roger Pryor's appeal on behalf of the accused in this incident was denied, William Dean Howells wrote a letter to the New York Tribune asking for clemency. Governor Oglesby responded by commuting two ofthe death sentences, though not that of Augutus Spies, and seven years after this May 4 incident three men were freed by Governor Altgeld. FTP, name this event of 1886, in which seven policemen were killed by a bomb while breaking up an anarchist meeting in Chicago.

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