Pre test 1 English
He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which
barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately
behind. It was all as lonely as could be.
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Answer:
“Young Goodman Brown”
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Question 2
Flashback is the term used to refer to events to come in a narrative:
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Fals
e
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Question 3
is the basic material out of which most plots are made.
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confli
ct
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Question 4
Felt that death of a beautiful woman was the highest form of beauty:
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Poe
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Question 5
1 out of 1 points
There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages,
yet she had no luck.
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“The Rocking-Horse Winner”
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Question 6
“Malabar! Malabar! Did I say Malabar, Mother?”
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Pa
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ul
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Question 7
Wrote “The Rocking-Horse Winner”:
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Answer:
D. H. Lawrence
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Question 8
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Point of view in which the narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of
the characters:
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Limited Omniscience
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Question 9
1 out of 1 points
In the
, the scene is set, the protagonist is introduced, and the
author discloses any other background information necessary for the reader to
understand the events that follow:
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expositi
on
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Question 10
The main or central character in a narrative:
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Protagon
ist
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Question 11
The point of highest tension in a short story is its:
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climax
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Question 12
Compiled A Thousand and One Arabian Nights:
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Answer:
Scheherezade
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Question 13
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“Poor little Faith!” thought he, for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I, to
leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too”
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Answer:
Young Goodman Brown
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Question 14
1 out of 1 points
“Faith! Faith!” cried the husband. “Look up to heaven, and resist the Wicked one!”
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Answer:
“Young Goodman
Brown”
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Question 15
1 out of 1 points
The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative
is called the antagonist:
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Tru
e
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Question 16
Poe felt that death of a beautiful woman was the highest form of beauty:
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Answer:
Tru
e
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Question 17
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The new recruit had been with the gang since the beginning of the summer
holidays, and there were possibilities about his brooding silence that all
recognized. He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required
of him by the rules. When he said “Trevor” it was a statement of fact, not as it
would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. Nor did
anyone laugh except Mike, who finding himself without support and meeting the
dark gaze of the newcomer opened his mouth and was quiet again. There was
every reason why T., as he was afterward referred to, should have been an object
of mockery—there was his name (and they substituted the initial because
otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it), the fact that his father, a former
architect and present clerk, had “come down in the world” and that his mother
considered herself better than the neighbors. What but an odd quality of danger,
of the unpredictable, established him in the gang without any ignoble ceremony of
initiation?
(From “The Destructors” by Graham Greene)
From the above passage, one can characterize Trevor or T as
.
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differe
nt
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Question 18
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. . . .destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen
this house as it had now become.
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“Destructors
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An indication of events to come in a narrative:
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Foreshadow
ing
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Question 20
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Point of view in which the narrator knows everything about all of the characters
and events in the story is called total omniscience:
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Question 19
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True
