Language Arts 11 B Unit Test Review

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

RIGHT the song and its message struck a chord with the American public.

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

RIGHT walks

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

RIGHT 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?

RIGHT sentence 3

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

RIGHT "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

RIGHT American businesses were imperishable.

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

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

Read the sentence. The team raises most of their money at the bake sale. The error in this sentence is a

RIGHT pronoun-antecedent number agreement error.

Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life?

RIGHT 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.

Read the excerpt from Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." He held the pose for almost fifty seconds and then he picked up his box and came on to the porch and dropped down on the bottom step. "Lady," he said in a firm nasal voice, "I'd give a fortune to live where I could see me a sun do that every evening." Keeping in mind the ending of the story, which best describes the irony of Mr. Shiftlet's statement?

RIGHT Instead of staying at the plantation, where he can see sunsets like these for the rest of his life, he runs away with Mrs. Crater's car and money.

Which incident taken from O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is the best example of irony?

RIGHT 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 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?

RIGHT They indicate that Passini feels passionately about his beliefs.

Because of his journalistic background, Ernest Hemingway's diction tends to be

RIGHT a combination of formal and informal.

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"?

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

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

RIGHT he is a man of mystery and secrets.