Ch.5 Unit Test Review

Which incident taken from O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is the best example of irony? Lucynell Crater falls asleep in the diner before she has a chance to eat her food, and she is left there by her husband. Mrs. Crater gives her car to Mr. Shiftlet in hopes that he will marry her one and only daughter. Mrs. Crater thinks she is gaining a son-in-law, when in fact Mr. Shiftlet takes her car, her money, and abandons her daughter at a diner. Mr. Shiftlet appears at the plantation house and explains that even the best doctors cannot know what is in his heart.

Mrs. Crater thinks she is gaining a son-in-law, when in fact Mr. Shiftlet takes her car, her money, and abandons her daughter at a diner.

Read the sentence. The team raises most of their money at the bake sale. The error in this sentence is a pronoun-antecedent voice agreement error. pronoun-antecedent number agreement error. pronoun-antecedent gender agreement error. pronoun-antecedent subject agreement error.

pronoun-antecedent number agreement error.

Read the sentence. Timothy walk to school everyday, and he lives four miles away. Which is the best revision of the underlined word? walks walked walking would walk

walks

Read the sentence. _________ went to baseball practice together today. Which best fits in the blank? I We He You

We

Read the excerpt from the song, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead— These lines emphasize the pre-Great Depression belief that peace and glory were the ultimate goals of WWI. the American dream was beyond reach. American businesses were imperishable. there would always be work available.

American businesses were imperishable.

Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life? He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two. Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business. I had a dog—at least I had him for a few days until he ran away—and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.

Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.

Because of his journalistic background, Ernest Hemingway's diction tends to be a combination of formal and informal. neither formal nor informal. only formal. only informal.

a combination of formal and informal.

Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "Tenente," Passini said. "We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made." "I know it is bad but we must finish it." "It doesn't finish. There is no finish to a war." "Yes there is." Passini shook his head. "War is not won by victory. What if we take San Gabriele? What if we take the Carso and Monfalcome and Trieste? Where are we then? Did you see all the far mountains to-day? Do you think we could take all them too? Only if the Austrians stop fighting. One side must stop fighting. Why don't we stop fighting? If they come down into Italy they will get tired and go away. They have their own country. But no, instead there is a war." Which best describes the effect of Passini's long pieces of dialogue? They indicate that Passini is naive about the ways of war. They indicate that Passini is guided by his emotions. They indicate that Passini feels passionately about his beliefs. They indicate that Passini is the main protagonist.

They indicate that Passini feels passionately about his beliefs.

Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village. Keeping in mind Hemingway's iceberg principle, what feeling is he trying to convey by describing the scene as an "entrance to a circus or a native village"? a feeling of unease as the narrator is driving into a peculiar and alien location a feeling of sadness at the devastation that has been caused by violence of war a feeling of joy as the narrator realizes that he is alive despite all the carnage a feeling of defeat about a war that has taken so many lives and still continues on

a feeling of unease as the narrator is driving into a peculiar and alien location

Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They were not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. The use of words such as "fashionable," "superficial," "bizarre," and "sinister" provide a truthful and vivid description of the West Egg and East Egg. a sense of artificiality in the world the narrator finds himself in. an idea of mischief that surrounds the narrator and his friends. a meaningful portrayal of life on the Long Island Sound in the 1920s.

a sense of artificiality in the world the narrator finds himself in.

Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens. The appearance of Gatsby from the shadows suggests that he prefers to go out at night. he is very busy during daytime hours. he prefers to be left alone. he is a man of mystery and secrets.

he is a man of mystery and secrets.

Read the excerpt from the interview with E.Y. (Yip) Harburg. I was relieved when the Crash came. I was released. Being in business was something I detested. When I found that I could sell a song or a poem, I became me, I became alive. Other people didn't see it that way. They were throwing themselves out of windows. Harburg was relieved when the crash occurred because it allowed him to become a man of leisure who did not have to work anymore. it forced him out of his comfort zone and into a brand new environment. it was easier to write songs about the Depression than about prosperity. it gave him the opportunity to develop and profit from his creativity.

it gave him the opportunity to develop and profit from his creativity.

Read the paragraph. [1] Studies have shown that kids who eat healthy food have more energy. [2] When students are more energized, they get better grades. [3] Still, half the Lincoln High students eat pizza at its lunchtime. [4] The school plans to start offering healthier options like salads and fruit as an alternative. Which sentence contains a pronoun-antecedent error? sentence 4 sentence 3 sentence 2 sentence 1

sentence 3

Read the excerpt from the interview with E.Y. (Yip) Harburg. Everybody picked the song up in '30 and '31. Bands were playing it and records were made. When Roosevelt was a candidate for President, the Republicans got pretty worried about it. Some of the network radio people were told to lay low on the song. In some cases, they tried to ban it from the air. But it was too late. The song had already done its damage. From the content of the excerpt, it can be inferred that the money Harburg made from the song made him a very wealthy man. the song and its message struck a chord with the American public. the Republican Party lost the elections of that particular year. the president was a big fan of Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney.

the Republican Party lost the elections of that particular year.

Read the excerpt from Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." "A body and a spirit," he repeated. "The body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always . . ." This excerpt contains one simile. two metaphors. two similes. one case of irony.

two similes.