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Which country gave the realist movement its name?
Answer: France
Why: Champfleury's book Le Réalisme (1857) argued that a novel's hero should be an ordinary man, not an exceptional one.
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Who is the nihilist hero of Fathers and Sons?
Answer: Yevgeny Bazarov
Why: The word dates back to 18th-century Germany, but this 1862 novel is what made nihilism a widely used term.
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How did Flaubert test each sentence he wrote?
Answer: Shouting it aloud
Why: He called this test his gueuloir, from the French verb gueuler, to yell.
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What offshoot of realism did Émile Zola lead?
Answer: Naturalism
Why: In 1880 his essay The Experimental Novel applied Claude Bernard's experimental method from medicine to fiction.
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How was Dostoevsky sentenced to die in 1849?
Answer: By firing squad
Why: The execution was a staged part of the punishment: the tsar had already commuted the sentences.
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Whom had Innstetten courted before he married Effi Briest?
Answer: Her mother
Why: The suitor her mother once turned down is 38 when he marries Effi, who is just 17.
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