\u2022 Question 1<\/p>\n
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The fact that most of the villagers participate in the lottery suggests that ____________.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 2<\/p>\n
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Mrs. Hutchinson is representative of the whole community because ______________.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 3<\/p>\n
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Which of the following is NOT true? The story uses the symbol of the lottery to communicate ____________.<\/p>\n
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One of the most notable ironies about the characters is that __________.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 5<\/p>\n
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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 __________.<\/p>\n
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A dynamic character and developing character are synonymous, meaning they both undergo a permanent change.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 7<\/p>\n
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The term used to describe the reasons a character behaves as he does<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 8<\/p>\n
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The protagonist is simply the central character.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 9<\/p>\n
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Which of the following authors explored the Puritan past of New England in his short story published in 1835?<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 10<\/p>\n
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Read this excerpt from \u201cThe Destructors\u201d by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: \u201cThe loo stood like a tomb in a neglected graveyard. The curtains were drawn. The house slept. Blackie lumbered nearer the saw and the sledge-hammer. Perhaps after all nobody had turned up; the plan had been a wild invention; they had woken wiser. But when he came close to the back door he could hear a confusion of sound hardly louder than a hive in swarm; a clickety-clack, a bang bangbang, a scraping, a creaking, a sudden painful crack.\u201d<\/p>\n
References to \u201ctomb,\u201d \u201cgraveyard,\u201d and \u201cbang bangbang\u201d suggest imminent doom. This is an example of __________.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 11<\/p>\n
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An example of a plot pattern is metaphysical structure.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 12<\/p>\n
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Mr. Summers, Old Man Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Hutchinson are characters in “The Lottery.”<\/p>\n
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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<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 14<\/p>\n
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“Young Goodman Brown” was authored by<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 15<\/p>\n
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A Bank Holiday in Britain is a four day holiday.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 16<\/p>\n
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“The Child by Tiger” ends with General Zaroff’s and Dick Prosser’s deaths.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 17<\/p>\n
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According to the lectures (PointCast), literature reading forces the person to interact with material in order to sustain mental activity.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 18<\/p>\n
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Conflict is a clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills.<\/p>\n
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In “The Rocking Horse Winner,” the irony of situation is manifested when Hester thinks she’s lucky because she “married for love” and “had bonny children.”<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 20<\/p>\n
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The term used to describe a situation where the author tells the story using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking…<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 21<\/p>\n
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Plot is about cause and effect.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 22<\/p>\n
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“He sat down calmly on the bank and, as quietly as if he were seated on his cot in an Army barracks, he unlaced his shoes, took them off, placed them together neatly at his side, and then stood up like a soldier, erect, in his bare bleeding feet. . . .”<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 23<\/p>\n
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In “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” Bassett is<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 24<\/p>\n
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A flat character and round character are synonymous.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 25<\/p>\n
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The term used to describe the angle of vision from which a story is told<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 26<\/p>\n
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In “The Destructors” the gang has twelve members.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 27<\/p>\n
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Read this excerpt from \u201cThe Destructors\u201d by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: \u201cThere was no sign of anybody anywhere. The loo stood like a tomb in a neglected graveyard. The curtains were drawn. The house slept.\u201d \u201cThe house slept\u201d is a metaphor for __________.<\/p>\n
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death<\/p>\n
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quiet<\/p>\n
\u2022 Question 28<\/p>\n
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The three major areas in examining any story are character, plot, and setting.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 29<\/p>\n
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The term used to describe the position from which details in a narration\/short story are perceived and related is<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 30<\/p>\n
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The antonym (word with opposite meaning) for a round character is<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 31<\/p>\n
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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.”<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 32<\/p>\n
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In \u201cThe Child by Tiger,\u201d Dick Prosser’s final act is removing his shoes, standing up like a soldier, and facing the mob.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 33<\/p>\n
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A character that profits from experience and undergoes a change or development is called.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 34<\/p>\n
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“It’s got a staircase two hundred years old like a corkscrew. Nothing holds it up.” This quotation appears in<\/p>\n
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“<\/p>\n
\u2022 Question 35<\/p>\n
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The plot is the same as the work’s content.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 36<\/p>\n
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In “The Rocking-Horse Winner” the whispers are symptoms, not causes. And Paul only makes them worse.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 37<\/p>\n
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A direct revelation of character is when the traits are mentioned by the author or by another character.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 38<\/p>\n
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Fables are stories about animals that are often used to teach a moral.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 39<\/p>\n
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“I tell you it wasn’t fair. You didn’t give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that.”<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 40<\/p>\n
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“Is luck money, mother?” he asked, rather timidly.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 41<\/p>\n
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“The Most Dangerous Game” was authored by<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 42<\/p>\n
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“My love and my Faith,\u2026of all nights in the year this one must I tarry away from thee.” Who made this statement?<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 43<\/p>\n
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Climax is when a character must choose between two courses of action, both desirable.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 44<\/p>\n
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Another possible name for a character who undergoes no change.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 45<\/p>\n
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A “stock” character is stereotypical.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 46<\/p>\n
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In “The Rocking Horse Winner,” Paul’s mistake of confusing “luck” with “lucre” causes the unhappiness and tragedy in the story.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 47<\/p>\n
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The American author who added an interest in people’s personalities, emotions, and attitudes to the writing of short narrative fiction was the<\/p>\n
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Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/p>\n
\u2022 Question 48<\/p>\n
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“The Child by Tiger” continues for several pages after Dick Prosser’s death.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 49<\/p>\n
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According to the Instructor’s Notes (or Lesson Outline), short fiction began in America with Washington Irving, who dealt with fantasy and humor.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Question 50<\/p>\n
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Read this excerpt from \u201cThe Destructors\u201d by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: \u201cThere was no sign of anybody anywhere. The loo stood like a tomb in a neglected graveyard. The curtains were drawn. The house slept.\u201d The statement that the \u201cloo stood like a tomb\u201d is an example of?<\/p>\n
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