English Final Exam
In "Babylon Revisited," why did F Scott Fitzgerald choose the title to be metaphoric of Paris?
It represents the ruins of American "royalty" in Paris.
Which of the following statements describes poetry in the 1960s?
It was new and inventive
Wong's grandmother embarrasses her in "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by ___.
Sticking out the American Supermarket
Tobias Wolff most likely named his short story "Mortals" because the story explores the theme of people
Hoping that they will have accomplished something before they die
Because he is ______ and he has no money, the narrator in Langston Hughes's short story "Why, You Reckon?" goes along with a plan to steal from a white person.
Hungry
"We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital."
A
In "Babylon Revisited," F Scott Fitzgerald uses _____ to present a moral lesson.
Allegory
Identify the sentence that uses a modifier correctly.
As I leave the store, a man wearing a long coat almost ran into me.
"Well, sir, Edward never did get back no more that evenin' to the Dixie Bar, No, pal, uh-hum! 'Cause we nabbed him. When he come back down the street in his evenin' clothes and all, with a swell black overcoat on that I wished I had, just a-tippin' so as not to slip up and fall on the snow, I grabbed him."
B
"By my calculations, the professor was about fifty-five times more powerful than a Nagasaki-type atomic bomb at the time he went into hiding. He was not bluffing when, on the eve of 'Operation Brainstorm,' he told General Honus Barker: 'Sitting here at the dinner table, I'm pretty sure I can flatten anything on earth- from Joe Louis to the Great Wall of China."
D
"Where are we going, Walt Whitman?" The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely."
E
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun; and makes gaps even two can pass a breast
F
The secret message was written with a special pen, making it indiscernible under normal light.
Hard to see
The rebirth of African American musical and literary talent is known as the
Harlem Renaissance
A memoir is a nonfiction account of one Society's history.
Person's experiences
In the modernist literary ear, ________ wrote about the unequal treatment of African Americans
Ralph Ellison and Langston Hughes
What does the phrase "even in the boy's ten years" in line 2 suggest?
The family has moved a lot during the boy's life.
Which of the following is true of the beat generation?
They rejected the literary forms of the past.
The Puerto Rican sister in "I want to be miss America" try to
adopt the "American look"
When the father talks about the man who will "own" him, he is talking about his
boss
Brianna signed up for skydiving lessons, even though her family tried to dissuade her
dishearten
Read the sentence below. Choose the correct tense of the underlined verb. That factory will produce more than 10 million cholate bars this month.
future
In what way does the narrator in Ernest Hemingway's short story "In Another Country" feel that he is different from the other injured soldiers?
he feels less brave
Which word best describes the boy based on the description in the last paragraph?
helpless
"Sure you can ask me a personal question" is written as a
one-sided conversation
Berlin laughs uncontrollably at "Where have you gone, charming Billy?" because he finds Billy's death
ironic
An elliptical clause is an adverbial clause that
is missing words
The last paragraph is an example of hyperbole because
it exaggerates the boy's helplessness
Read the sentence below, Identify the correct past form or past participle of the underlined verb. They keeped the alligators in a separate enclosure so the flamingos would be safe.
kept
After hearing horror stories, the babysitter was relieved to find the children so compliant.
obedient
Read the sentence below, Identify the progressive or emphatic verb tense that is used in the sentence. The cougars had been winning until the third quarter of the game.
past perfect progressive
The works of both modernist and postmodern writers tended to be highly
personal
The nonfiction novel was a creation of __________ writers.
postmodernism
In Kurt Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron," Vonnegut uses ______ and irony to expose and condemn the desire to have a society of complete equality.
satire
Although teaching is not the most rewarding occupation, financially speaking, it is definitely one of the most gratifying careers.
satisfying
Two years later, two of the men were dead, one had moved in with his married daughter in the suburbs, and the three remaining sat and watched dolefully as people waiting each night for a table in the restaurant
sorrowfully
When an author uses a concrete object to represent an idea or emotion, it is called
symbolism
Choose the pronoun that correctly completes the sentence below. The log cabin ______ we stayed in was built by a settler in the 1800's
that
Modernist writers were mainly reacting to the practice of slavery.
the honors of World War I
Identify the infinitive phrase in the sentence below. Eliza called the dog day care to make a reservation for her labradoodle.
to make a reservation
An author's attitude toward his or her subject in a piece of writing is
tone
The word nerd is a pejorative term for people who are smart and studious
uncomplimentary