English IV Part 2 - Unit 4 - Lesson 1, 2, 3, AND 4 Quizzes
Who is the poet that wrote "Sonnet 43?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Which of the following selections best states Mary Wollstonecraft's central argument in the Chapter II excerpt?
Encouraging women to seek intellectual pursuits would not only improve their lives, it would make their marriages stronger.
What is most closely the meaning of bugbear in the following passage? Indeed, the word masculine is only a bugbear. There is little reason to fear that women will acquire too much courage or fortitude, for their apparent inferiority with respect to bodily strength must render them, in some degree, dependent on men in the various relations of life, but why should it be increased by prejudices that give a sex to virtue and confound simple truths with sensual reveries?
noun | something that excessively frightens or annoys people
Mary Wollstonecraft criticizes past writings on women mainly because ___________.
she finds that they talk down to women and paint them as weaker
There is little reason to fear that women will acquire too much courage or fortitude, for their apparent inferiority..." What choice most closely defines the underlined word?
strength
Identify the letter of the choice that best answers the question. What characteristic of the Romantic Movement did Shelley try to achieve in Frankenstein, according to the Introduction?
to evoke intense, vivid feelings
Which of the following is the best synonym for vales in these lines from "The Lamb"? By the stream & o'er the mead... Making all the vales rejoice!
valleys
What is most closely the meaning of the word flag as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 4)? "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end." --Winston Churchill, speech, June 4, 1940
verb | to weaken
Which statement by Heathcliff most strongly suggests the reason(s) he is angry?
"'Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself."
Choose the sentence that would best connect the passage below (paragraph 1) with the rest of the excerpt: Victoria came to the British throne in 1837 as a girl of eighteen; at her death in 1901, most of her subjects had never known any other ruler. Personally, Victoria was most interested in her own family—her husband, Prince Albert, and their nine children. As "mother of the empire," however, she also played a major symbolic role in unifying Britain's widespread colonies. By Queen Victoria's sixtieth anniversary Diamond Jubilee in 1897, she ruled one-quarter of the world's population. Question
"The age of her reign, which would carry her name, is associated with self-improvement, bourgeois values, and an absolute faith in science and progress."
Which sentence from this Pride and Prejudice excerpt best supports the idea that gossipy Mrs. Bennett is also rationally minded?
. "My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now."
Which answer choice best describes the speaker in "In Memoriam, A.H.H."?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What mainly does the following dialogue reveal about Mr. Bennet (paragraphs 11-19) in Pride and Prejudice? "What is his name?" "Bingley." "Is he married or single?" "Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" "How so? how can it affect them?" "My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them." "Is that his design in settling here?" "Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes." "I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party."
He does not demonstrate eagerness regarding his wife's plans.
What do the following lines reveal mainly about Thomas Carlyle's opinion of the laboring class (paragraph 19)? All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven. Sweat of the brow; and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart; which includes all Kepler calculations, Newton meditations, all Sciences, all spoken Epics, all acted Heroisms, Martyrdoms,--up to that "Agony of bloody sweat," which all men have called divine! O brother, if this is not "worship," then I say, the more pity for worship; for this is the noblest thing yet discovered under God's sky. Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother; see thy fellow Workmen there, in God's Eternity; surviving there, they alone surviving: sacred Band of the Immortals, celestial Bodyguard of the Empire of Mankind.
He thought workers were the most exalted of beings, and work the highest human calling there is.
At the end of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," why does the ancient Mariner travel from land to land?
He travels about to tell his tale.
Which statement about Mr. Bennet is best supported by the following passage (paragraphs 29-31)? "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least." "Ah! you do not know what I suffer." "But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood."
He uses his sense of humor to defuse tension with his wife.
What is the stream of consciousness writing technique?
Is the non-traditional form of writing in which the reader gets to directly see a characters' flow of thoughts
Which of the following best explains the Romantic movement and its relationship to what came before it? It represented a move from spiritual and artistic preoccupations to those of science and technology.
It was a turn toward the natural, mystical and impressionistic, away from the hard science and logic of the Enlightenment.
What mainly does Wollstonecraft say is to blame for the "false system of education" in the following passage (paragraph 1)? One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the books written on this subject by men, who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilized women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition, and by their abilities and virtues exact respect.
Men want women to be objects of desire, rather than intellectual beings.
According to the Introduction, who encouraged Mary Shelley to expand Frankenstein into a full-length novel?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which man was considered to be "the leader of Modernism" beginning in the 1920s?
T.S. Eliot
Which of the following best explains the historical circumstances which led to the Victorian Age?
Technological advances, as well as the gains of imperialism, produced a society with the leisure to improve itself.
What is one archetypal idea that "The Lamb" symbolizes?
The Creator
Romantic poets like William Wordsworth lived here:
The Lake District
What sound devices help emphasize the movement of the ship in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?" Till noon we quietly sailed on, Yet never a breeze did breathe; Slowly and smoothly went the ship. Moved onward from beneath.
The alliteration of the b and s sounds emphasizes the ship's gentle movement.
Which of the following statements best explains the effect(s) of World War I on the perspectives of artists and writers in Britain?
The war's horrors undid traditional notions of honor and duty, and mechanized war changed the parameters of visual art.
What does the following excerpt most strongly reveal about the British government's willingness to grant voting rights to women (paragraph 13, Modern Age background reading? Women composed another disaffected group that began to seek greater political power. The suffrage movement in Britain, which had long been working peacefully to secure votes for women, took a bold new direction after Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. Under the leadership of Pankhurst and her daughters, British suffragettes used unusual publicity stunts to call attention to their demands. They pelted government officials with eggs, chained themselves to lampposts, burned railroad cars, and smashed the windows of fashionable department stores. The British government finally relented and gave women over thirty the right to vote in 1918; ten years later, the voting age for women was lowered to twenty-one.
Their reaction was slow and grudging.
What does the following passage reveal mainly about the Romantics (paragraph 24)? Romantics preferred their nature wild and untamed. Their landscape gardens, for example, kept a space for wilderness, with winding paths through tangled woods leading to sudden, startling views. Instead of the arranged prettiness of an ornamental garden, they preferred the sublime experience of the Swiss Alps, where the overwhelming scale of nature inspires awe rather than mere appreciation. In his poem "The Tables Turned," William Wordsworth recommended that we shut our books and lift our eyes to the natural world around us: "Enough of science and of art; / Close up those barren leaves; / Come forth, and bring with you a heart / That watches and receives."
They believed that raw nature was the best place for humanity to seek both enjoyment and philosophy.
Identify a major characteristic of Romantic Poets.
They wrote about faraway places and were fascinated with nature.
What is most likely the author's point in including the following metaphor (paragraph 10) in "A Vindication of the Rights of Women?" ...The woman who has only been taught to please, will soon find that her charms are oblique sun-beams, and that they cannot have much effect on her husband's heart when they are seen every day, when the summer is past and gone....
To relate the idea of affection to something temporary, like the seasons
Which of the following authors was known for using the stream of consciousness writing technique?
Virginia Woolf
Based on your reading of "A Vindication of the Rights of Women," what can you conclude about women's education at the time this piece was written?
Women were taught ladylike accomplishments such as music and sewing.
"In Memoriam, A.H.H". was written by Tennyson to commemorate ___________.
a dead close friend.
What figure of speech is used in the following line of poetry from Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts?" In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away...
allusion
Which of the following is not a sound device?
analogy
Which answer best describes the effect of alliteration in the following line from Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"? I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore
by repeating the "l" sound, the poet is striving to create a gentle, lulling effect that imitates the musicality of the waves
Which of the following is NOT a feature of modernism?
content with current events
What is that "Good Night" to which the speaker refers in the poem, "Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?
death
To what does Wollstonecraft compare the minds of women in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?"
flowers that are planted in soil that is too rich
What is the tone of the "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?'
horror and awe
