Question 1
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One can conclude from the passage that ____________.
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Answer:
The antagonist
wins
Question 2
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The fact that most of the villagers participate in the lottery suggests that ____________.
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Answer:
they accept it without
question
Question 3
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That little Davy Hutchinson, the small son of the victim, is given a few pebbles to throw at his
mother suggests that __________.
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Everyone, including the victim’s family, participates in the tradition
Question 4
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How the story opens and how it ends ________________.
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Shock its
readers
Question 5
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What human characteristic is thematized in the excerpt?
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Rational people can act irrationally.
Question 6
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"Young Goodman Brown" was authored by
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Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Question 7
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Short fiction began in America with
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Answer:
Washington
Irving
Question 8
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The term used to describe a situation where the author tells the story using the third
person, but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do; the author does not
interpret their behavior or tell us their private thoughts or feelings
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Answer:
Dramatic or objective point of
view
Question 9
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The mother in "The Rocking Horse Winner" is truly lucky in many ways: she's beautiful,
married for love, had bonny children, and "started with all the advantages."
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 10
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The first literary critic to make a systematic effort at defining the short story was
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E. A.
Poe
Question 11
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The short story produces a single impression.
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Tru
e
Question 12
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Perhaps the most famous recorder of fables was
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Aeso
p
Question 13
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The protagonist is simply the central character.
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Tru
e
Question 14
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Poetic language in short story analysis is the unusual use of rhyme occurring in the
primary character's speeches.
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Fals
e
Question 15
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In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," Oscar is Paul's
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uncl
e
Question 16
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Sir Christopher Wren designed St. Margaret's Cathedral.
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 17
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One of the five plot elements is the problem or conflict unfolding.
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Tru
e
Question 18
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Who wrote one hundred ribald stories of the Roman priesthood?
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Answer:
Boccacc
io
Question 19
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What is an allegory?
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A story that has a second meaning beneath
the surface
Question 20
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The term used to describe the reasons a character behaves as he does
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Motivatio
n
Question 21
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The author of a technically adept story uses no idle language.
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Tru
e
Question 22
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In the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire and Rousseau hold that whatever one finds in nature
is morally correct.
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Tru
e
Question 23
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"The Lottery" was authored by
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Shirley
Jackson
Question 24
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In "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne includes the names of actual (historical) persons,
such as
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Answer:
Goody Cloyse, Goody Cory, and
Deacon Gookin
Question 25
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Which of the following identifies the term "complication"?
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Answer:
rising action which develops the
story
Question 26
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_____ is an optimistic belief in induction/deduction, i.e., a belief that particulars can be
gathered to formulate universals.
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Answer:
Rationalis
m
Question 27
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An example of a plot pattern is metaphysical structure.
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 28
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Edgar Allan Poe operated from a viewpoint of a personal relationship with GOD, yet felt
that man was divine in his own right.
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 29
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Close to the beginning of Graham Greene’s “The Destructors,” this information is given
about the gang:
The gang met every morning in an impromptu car park, the site of the last bomb of the
first blitz. The leader, who was known as Blackie, claimed to have heard it fall, and no one
was precise enough in his dates to point out he would have been one year old and fast
asleep on the down platform of Wormsley Common Underground station. On one side of
the car park leant the first occupied house, No.3. T, whose words were almost confined to
voting ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the plan of operations proposed each day by Blackie…”
From the passage, the evidence is given that members are disinclined to:
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Answer:
Analyz
e.
Question 30
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Climax is when a character must choose between two courses of action, both desirable.
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 31
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Church history provides much evidence for an antipathy and hostility on the part of
Christians (the church) toward literature.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 32
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T. or Trevor is the protagonist of Greene's "The Destructors."
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 33
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These are actual (historical) persons that appear in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown,"
and were executed at the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692.
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Answer:
Goody Cloyse, Goody Cory, and Martha
Carrier
Question 34
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The technical term "protagonist" is preferable to the popular term "hero" because it is less
ambiguous.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 35
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Any force arranged against the protagonist is the antagonist.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 36
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The opening of a story which acquaints us with characters, themes, and shows readers
conditions or events that would develop into the complication of a story is the
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Answer:
expositi
on
Question 37
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Read this excerpt from “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and answer the question
that follows: “There was no sign of anybody anywhere. The loo stood like a tomb in a
neglected graveyard. The curtains were drawn. The house slept.” The statement that the
“loo stood like a tomb” is an example of?
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Answer:
Simil
e
Question 38
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Plot can be manipulated to offer a surprise ending such as Poe did.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 39
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"The Lottery" ends with the death of
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Answer:
Master
Paul
Question 40
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According to your online lessons, three perceptions can often be assigned to modern man:
Determinism, Behaviorism, and Reductionism.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 41
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The term used to describe information presented in an earlier part of the story that tends
to make us accept as probable an event occurring in a later part is
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Answer:
Foreshadowi
ng
Question 42
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In "The Destructors" the gang has twelve members.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 43
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"The Destructors" was authored by
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Answer:
Graham
Greene
Question 44
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Mr. Summers, Old Man Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Hutchinson are characters in
"The Lottery."
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 45
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Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the question that
follows:
“Mr. Summers called his own name and then stepped forward precisely and selected a slip
from the box. Then he called, ‘Warner.’ ‘Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery,’ Old
Man Warner said as he went through the crowd. ‘Seventy-seventh time.’ ‘Watson’ The tall
boy came awkwardly through the crowd. Someone said, ‘Don't be nervous, Jack,’ and Mr.
Summers said, ‘Take your time, son.’
This passage suggests that “The Lottery” uses ________ as an organizational frame.
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Answer:
ritua
l
Question 46
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The natural law of jurisprudence (or whatever is, is right) was posited by
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Answer:
Rousse
au
Question 47
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Trevor and Blackie are minor characters in "The Destructors."
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 48
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One of the characters in this story believes that luck is "what causes you to have money."
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Answer:
"The Rocking-Horse
Winner"
Question 49
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"Dearest heart," whispered she softly and rather sadly when her lips were close to his ear,
"prithee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight."
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Answer:
"Young Goodman
Brown"
Question 50
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"The Rocking Horse Winner" ends after the death of
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Answer:
Master
Paul
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