English 10 Part2 Unit: 1 Quizes

Situational irony, and irony in general, is often misunderstood and confused with...

Coincidence

According to "1950s Teens Rebel Against Society's Rules": Why was Rock and Roll such a threat to many of American parents and community leaders?

Rock and roll was considered "Black music" and supported integration of the races

______ is when you expect one thing in a story's plot—but get the opposite.

Situational irony

When reality meets expectations, the event is NOT ironic.

TRUE

Marxist Theory: According to Marx and defined by Charles Bressler, these are the "social elite, or the upper class controlling the lower class through economic and political policy" Select one: a. bourgeoisie b. commoners c. clergy d. proletariat

bourgeoisie

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From "The Beat Generation Characteristics": Its first few lines capture the spirit of the Beat movement: madness, the streets, and drugs. This "defining poem of the Beat generation debuted in 1955 when the World War II generation was raising their Baby Boomer kids in neat little houses with picket fences..."

"Howl" by Alan Ginsberg

Which of these headlines is situational irony, or the EXACT opposite of what we expect to happen?

"Man bites dog."

From "The Beat Generation Characteristics": Hundreds of years before, the_____ school of poetry had rebelled against the Enlightenment school of reason and rationality. Also against rigid form and tradition, the Beat poets rebelled again the Modern school of ______

1. Romantic 2. T.S Eliot Rigid Form

An exact copy or re-print of an original source is NOT considered a primary source.

FALSE

Sarcasm = Verbal Irony + ____

Mockery

Why was The Catcher in the Rye banned in schools?

Profanity, lying/fear of juvenile delinquency, drinking and smoking, and sexial innuendo

Marx's essential question is, "What does it mean to be free?"

TRUE

The unreliable narrator of_____is, in the end, a surprise to the audience. We thought there were two characters but find out that he's both in one: he splits his personality, inventing an uber-masculine and violent version of himself.

fight club

This is cultural dominance. This is what the upper classes have taught the lower classes to believe as "the way things are." It's the internalized means of control establishing bourgeois values as the norm. It's a trick that the upper classes use on the lower classes: that there is a choice to be rich or poor or successful or not successful. Select one: a. jurisdiction b. means of production c. prerogative d. hegemony

hegemony

Sarcasm takes simple verbal irony a step further and uses it to passive-aggressively insult someone. The difference between irony and sarcasm is quite simple: if no one is being insulted, it_____ sarcasm

is NOT

What are the characteristics of beat poetry?

simple diction, free verse, and emotional tone

Dramatic irony creates what feelings in the audience?

tension and suspense

________ is NOT one of the four main areas of Marxist study.

types of governments

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According to Marx's conflict theory, it is difficult in capitalism is to see which classes are in conflict with each other because the social classes : Select one: a. ...are too many to count. There are mega-rich, rich, middle class, upper middle class, and so on... b. ...are not clearly defined. There's no law that says who labors and who doesn't, who can be rich or poor... c. ...don't exist. There's no such thing as social class in a capitalist economy d. ...are in a never-ending war, the rich against the poor, and no class can ever win

..are not clearly defined. There's no law that says who labors and who doesn't, who can be rich or poor...

Fill-in-the-Blank, from the lesson "Context: Post-War and the Birth of the Teenager" "The Beats had shifted the epicenter of American life,______, toward westward expansion, namely...1960s_____."

1. New York 2.San Fransico

The Catcher in the Rye is told in flashback, which starts as an outer story (set in the present) and then shifts back in time to an inner story (set in the past). The flashback, or inner story, take places over ____, and its main setting is _______.

1. a long weekend 2. New York City

Sarcasm is the same as verbal irony. The two terms are interchangeable.

FALSE

We tend to accept our Narrating Self as plain reality, but our Narrating Self is just a storyteller and, therefore, sometimes unreliable. True or False: In our own life's story, our Narrating Self tells ourselves what we want to hear, and it usually shares the best version of our experiences.

TRUE

_____ is when someone says something—but truly means the opposite.

Verbal irony

The birth of the teenager arose mainly because of_____, as the economy changed from a farming-based society to an industrial one, as teenagers were free from so much work at home.

mandatory education

According to Bressler's Capitalist Pyramid, match the following: 1. The bottom tier, a majority of the population, the working class who support the upper-class above them 2. The middle tier, those who protect the upper class elite and do what the religious class tell them 3. The upper class, or social elite, who are supported by the working class and protected by the military 4. The top of the pyramid, those who control all and set rigid class distinctions to keep it that way 5. The second tier from the top, the moral educators who tell the military what to believe and are controlled by the tyrants at the top

1. Proletariat 2. Military leaders 3. Bourgeoisie 4.Aristocracy, or tryants 5.religious leaders

The novel The Catcher in the Rye is about ______ and the main character Holden Caulfield wants to make _________.

1. alienation 2. a connection (to friend or family)

Maybe we are our own unreliable narrators. Psychologists divide human consciousness into two selves. Match the following: Feels sensations and emotions: fear, happiness, pain, pleasure________. Spins emotional input into conflict or resolution in order to make sense of it all______.

1. the experiencing self 2. the narrating self

Holden is obsessed with things that are both child-like and stuck in time, like: Select one: a. the "Little Shirley Beans" record he's excited to give Phoebe b. the essay about Egyptians he writes for Old Spencer c. checkers: Jane keeping her kings in the back row d. ALL OF THESE e. kissing Jane all over her face, but NOT her lips f. the carousel in the park that goes round and round g. Allie's glove with the poems written all over h. his Elmer Fudd-style red hunting hat i. being a catcher in the rye to keep kids from falling off a cliff j. the ducks in the lagoon in Central park: where do they go in winter when it's frozen?

ALL OF THESE

_____is when an audience seems to know more about an event, a situation, or a conversation than the characters in a story.

Dramatic Irony

In The Matrix, Neo and his crew are betrayed by one of their own. If we had learned of this at the moment of betrayal, we certainly would have been shocked but because we learn about it before any of the other characters, we have a nice, juicy piece of_____

Dramatic irony

Nellie Stone, a Civil Rights activist, made an interview about a march on Washington when she was older. Because she did not write down her notes during the march and only later recorded them after the event, her oral history is NOT considered a primary source.

FALSE

The novel The Catcher in the Rye take place in the 1950s, and its protagonist Holden Caulfield is in a mental hospital.

FALSE

The use of the unreliable narrator goes as far back as the Medieval Period when Chaucer first introduced it using an unknown narrator in The Canterbury Tales.

FALSE

Why does Holden hate the movie so much? Select one: a. He knows the movies are better than books and plays, and he is just too much in denial to admit it. b. Movies are where he gets rejected by girls, like Jane and Sally. c. His older brother went from writing short stories to writing for Hollywood, and Holden resents him for selling out and being a phony. d. His younger brother just died, and the movies have tear-jerking scenes that remind him of death.

His older brother went from writing short stories to writing for Hollywood, and Holden resents him for selling out and being a phony.

The most iconic example of the innocent type of unreliable narrator is: Select one: a. Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird b. Huckleberry Finn from Huckleberry Finn c. Christopher Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time d.Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump

Huckleberry Finn from Huckleberry Finn

She was different. She kept her kings in the back row. She was terrific to hold hands with. She was ________. Select one: a. Faith Cavendish b. Jane Gallagher c. Sally Hayes d. Phoebe Caulfield Feedback

Jane Gallagher

What character connection is Salinger revealing by his allusion to characters in the play Romeo and Juliet? Holden is talking to the nun who taught English: "I mean I felt much sorrier when old Mercutio got killed than when Romeo and Juliet did. The thing is, I never liked Romeo too much after Mercutio gets stabbed by that other man--Juliet's cousin--what's his name?" "Tybalt." "That's right. Tybalt," I said--I always forget that guy's name. "It was Romeo's fault. I mean I liked him the best in the play, old Mercutio. I don't know. All those Montagues and Capulets, they're all right--especially Juliet--but Mercutio, he was--it's hard to explain. He was very smart and entertaining and all. The thing is, it drives me crazy if somebody gets killed-- especially somebody very smart and entertaining and all-- and it's somebody else's fault." Select one: a. The reference to Mercutio is foreshadowing the death of James Castle. They die in the same way. b.Mercutio is a reference to Holden, who feels he is a victim in his own kind of tragedy, at the hands of "phonies." c. The reference is to Holden and Jane, who are star-crossed lovers, like Romeo and Juliet, and will both later die for each other. d. Tybalt is a reference to Holden, as Holden will later accidentally kill Maurice in the robbery.

Mercutio is a reference to Holden, who feels he is a victim in his own kind of tragedy, at the hands of "phonies."

Fill-in-the-Blank, from the lesson "Context: Post-War and The Birth of the Teenager":This new invention, the ____ had portability, and with a Beatnik style it captured the ethos of American teen culture and presaged the hippie movement of the 1960s.

Paperback

During the action of Huckleberry Finn, slavery in the South was legal. Huckleberry Finn was taught (wrongly!) that slavery was also moral; thus, he calls himself a "sinner" for helping the slave Jim escape to the North on the river. The reader of Huckleberry Finn can't help but cheer when Huck Finn utters the famous line, "All right, then I'll go to hell." True or False: In other words, a narrator may be unreliable but also morally superior to the society in which he lives.

TRUE

Marx believed that humans, unlike animals, were poorly adapted to the natural world. In other words, if humans lived in nature alone, or on a deserted island, they would not survive.

TRUE

Michael Scott (Steve Carrell), the boss of Dunder Mifflin from the TV show The Office, is a type of unreliable narrator who gives a skewed perspective of reality.

TRUE

The Catcher in the Rye is told as a confessional.

TRUE

According to "The Beat Generation Characteristics," Jack Kerouac coined the term "Beat" because he felt figuratively "beat down" by the conformity of the military and business cultures.

True

In Mean Girls, we have this scene: REGINA GEORGE: I love your skirt! Where did you get it?GIRL IN PLAID SKIRT: It was my mom's in the 80s.REGINA GEORGE: Vintage! So adorable.[A beat, after the Girl in Plaid Skirt leaves...to CADY HERON]REGINA GEORGE: That is the ugliest, effin' skirt I have ever seen. REGINA GEORGE is using_____

Verbal irony

What is the one question that Holden wants to ask adults in New York City but is too afraid to ask? Select one: a. Will it be okay to flunk out of school? b. Will it be okay being an adult? c. Will it be okay if I don't get a job? d. Will it be okay if I don't like my family all that much?

Will it be okay being an adult?

This is what those without power become: nothing more than a tool or possession for the owner or person with power, a means to an end, alienated, with a loss of self and identity Select one: a. service-oriented b. a commodity c. goods-oriented d. laborers

a commodity

What were American teens of the late-1940s and early-1950s either afraid of or rebelling against?

conformity / societal norms, nuclear war / another world war, Cold War / Communism, suburbia / materialism

What are the main topics of beat poetry?

controversy, nature, free love

Holden uses the word yellow a lot in the novel: What does he mean? "It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves." Select one: a. angry b. depressed c. cowardly d. sarcastic

cowardly

Identify the meaning of the underlined word: "Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell." Select one: a. favored b. depressed c. angry d. materialistic

depressed

The Beats were heavily influenced by the writings of the Romantics of the 18th Century and modern,_______

improvisational Jazz music

Forrest Gump is an example of the_____type of unreliable narrator.

innocent

The unlikeability of evil narrators, such as Montressor from Edgar Alan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Humbert Humbert from Nabokov's Lolita, and the alternating dysfunctional narrators in Gone Girl, suggest that authors of these works use unreliability to _____ the audience

manipulate, or trick

A comment about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech from an unknown author at the bottom of a personal blog is a: Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source

not a credible source

To read a work from a Marxist perspective, one must understand that Marxism asserts that literature is a reflection of culture, and that culture can be affected by literature. Marxism is linked to Freudian theory by the subconscious—Freud dealt with the individual subconscious, while Marx dealt with the _______ subconscious. Marx believed that oppression exists in the political subconscious of a society—social pecking orders are inherent to any group of people.

political

A copy of the Minneapolis Spokesman newspaper from April 1968 on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but published a day after the event is a: Select one: a. secondary sources b. primary source c. tertiary sources d. not credible sources

primary source

Jackie Robinson's letters about breaking the color barrier in baseball were published as a book in 2007 well after his death. The book is a: Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. primary source d. not a credible source

primary source

This source may provide the most credible, first-hand information at the time but may not be as reliable over time because of subjectivity or bias. Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source d. primary source

primary source

Daily news stories, original maps, government records, art, and films are considered: Select one: a. primary sources b. secondary sources c. tertiary sources d. not credible sources

primary sources

Matthew Little, a Civil Rights activist, attended Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Little's notes, letters, and photos of the event are considered: Select one: a. secondary sources b. primary sources c. not credible sources d. tertiary sources

primary sources

Marxist Theory: These are the "working or lower classes oppressed or controlled through economic and political policy" Select one: a. bourgeoisie b. clergy c. nobility d. proletariat

proletariat

What literary device is Salinger using in this exchange between Ackley and Holden? He kept standing there. He was exactly the kind of a guy that wouldn't get out of your light when you asked him to..."What the hellya reading?" he said. "Goddam book." He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the name of it. "Any good?" he said. "This sentence I'm reading is terrific." Select one: a. situational irony b. overstatement, or hyperbole c. sarcasm d. dramatic irony

sarcasm

A book about the Civil Rights movement written by a history professor (not a participant) in 1990, after the time period, is a: Select one: a. primary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source d. secondary source

secondary source

A review or critique of a primary source that is published well after the fact is known as a... Select one: a. primary source b. secondary source c. tertiary source d. not a credible source

secondary source

A Wikipedia page about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which has a Works Cited, is considered a: Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. primary source d. not a credible source

tertiary source

This source uses many primary and secondary sources to give a general or topical overview Select one: a. secondary source b. tertiary source c. not a credible source d. primary source

tertiary source

An unreliable narrator is one who perceives and/or presents the events of a story in a way that is either skewed or disconnected from _____

the shared reality of the author and reader

Marxist Theory: These are "all the social and legal institutions, all political and educational systems, and all religion and art" affected by economic reality Select one: a. the means of production b. the bourgeoisie c. the infrastructure d. the base e. the superstructure

the superstructure

According to the video lesson "Who Can You Trust?": "In a way, the narrator's skewed perspective crystalizes what it is about the true perspective that makes it true." So, an author's choice is using an unreliable narrator provides the reader with_____________

two lenses: our (the reader's) and the narrator's

In an era of propaganda, fake news, and Twitter bots, reading a novel with a(n) ___________ can help us distinguish between what is real and what is a biased account or reality. Select one: a. unreliable narrator b. dystopian setting c. romantic complication d. tragic plot

unreliable narrator

Holden's family is part of which socio-economic class? Select one: a. lower class (proletariat) b. upper class (bourgeoisie) c. military class d. government workers

upper class (bourgeoisie)

The Catcher in the Rye is a Bildungsroman, or a novel dealing with one's ________ and it is told in a(n) ________ structure.

1. formative years or spiritual education 2. episodic (loosely connected)