The Age of Innocence

by: Edith Wharton

Context Quiz

Further study Context Quiz

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At the end of the First World War, Edith Wharton was living in ___.

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What term did Wharton coin to describe the wealthy upper class of New York City society?

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What was Edith Wharton’s age when she began writing The Age of Innocence?

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During Wharton’s time, New York’s upper class viewed the “bohemian” life of artists and writers with ___.

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Like her protagonist Ellen Olenska, Wharton was married to ___.