ENGLISH MIDTERM REVIEW
ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM: What is the central idea of the following passage (paragraph 13)? So where's the romance? American Romanticism and Transcendentalism are not about romance, per se, but they do have something to do with love—the love of truth, the love of beauty, and the love of nature. Like romantic love, Romanticism is characterized by optimism, idealism, and intuition. Romanticism and Transcendentalism, however, direct all of this love and optimism not toward another person, but toward the natural world and the divine within ourselves. The ideals of "big R" Romanticism, as well as Transcendentalism, are woven into the fabric of the American psyche. We can see their effects in movies about people who retreat to nature to become closer to themselves or reassess their life's purpose. We see these themes played out in stories about rugged individualists.
The principles and values of Romanticism are still present in modern America and everyday life.
OLAUDAH EQUIANO: Equiano includes the story of a white man beaten to death because it is the best detail for explaining what?
The sailor's cruelty towards the captives
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The arrows that the man brings to the girl represent what?
The twins
SATIRE-POWTOON: What does Satire mean?
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of politics and other topical issues.
PIECE OF STRING: How do the townspeople respond to Maitre Hauchecorne's explanation of the incident of the piece of string?
They continue to think that he stole the wallet
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: According to the narrator, Tom refuses at first to make a deal with the devil because?
To spite his wife
PIECE OF STRING: In the story, the incident of the piece of string eventually becomes a ---
Town joke laughed over by many
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: When Tom first meets the devil, the devil shows him what?
Trees that represent the souls of colonists
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: In the story, a supernatural event causes the girl to be pregnant with twins. True or False?
True
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The Great Tree was not supposed to be marked or mutilated by any of the beings who dwelt in the sky world. True or False?
True
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The grandmother's head represents the moon. True or False?
True
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The left-handed twin was responsible for making briars, poison ivy, "bad animals". He also ruled over war. True or False?
True
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The right-handed twin was responsible for making man, berries and fruits, and what was considered the "good" animals. True or False?
True
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The woman took some of the bark from the Great Tree. True or False?
True
ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM: Which of the following statements most closely summarizes the central idea of the following passage (paragraph 10)? Whitman's personal beliefs most closely resembled Transcendentalism and he was well versed in the work of Emerson, but he also had a broad understanding of American and European religious traditions, language, and symbolism, which he used stylistically in his poetry. He employed traditional symbols such as the stars, moon, and earth, but also created his own symbology, which included lilacs, the calamus plant, and, of course, grass. Whitman's tone was exuberant and his diction, or word choice, is notable for its eccentricities; he used colloquial words, foreign words, technical words, and sometimes even made up his own words.
Walt Whitman was a revolutionary American poet who embodied the characteristics of the Romantic movements through his work.
DEVIL AND TOM WLAKER: Tom begins praying and reading the Bible because he?
Wants to escape the devil
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: What is the author making a satire of in the following passage? "Tom was a hard-minded fellow, not easily daunted, and he had lived so long with a termagant wife that he did not even fear the devil."
Wives
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: "The Devil and Tom Walker" takes place where?
50 years before the American Revolution
SATIRE-POWTOON: What is a hyperbole?
An exaggerated figurative language
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: When the woman falls from the Sky-World, the birds' actions show that animals what?
Care about the gods
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The twins battle in ice hockey and a foot-race. True or False?
False
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACKS: The man and the woman were allowed to eat from the Great Tree as long as it was for pure reasons. True or False?
False
SATIRE-POWTOON: Exaggeration is when a ________ or vice is exaggerated and emphasizes how far it is from a reasonable standard.
Folly
LA RELACION: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca attributes the fact that his barge survived the storm to?
God's great mercy
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: This story is about what?
Greed, good versus evil, and hypocrisy
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: Tom is so successful at working for the devil because Tom is what?
Greedier than the devil
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: The author most likely uses the image of Tom's green spectacles to show that Tom is?
Greedy and obsessed with wealth
PIECE OF STRING: Why does Maitre Hauchecorne take the trouble to pick up a bit of string lying on the ground?
He thinks it might come in handy sometime
OLAUDAH EQUIANO: Why did Equiano spend most of his time on deck instead of below deck?
He was too weak to survive below deck
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: Reread the statement that Tom makes after he finds his wife's apron. What does Tom's comment reveal about him? "Let us get hold of that property,' said he consolingly to himself, 'and we will endeavor to do without the woman."
He worries about his property more than about his wife
PIECE OF STRING: Why does Maitre Hauchecorne's health begin to suffer as the story comes to an end?
He worries himself sick over his reputation
PIECE OF STRING: Which conflict eventually causes Maitre Hauchecorne's demise?
His obsession with the incident concerning the string
SATIRE-POWTOON: What is a parody?
It is an exaggerated copy of a person, song, film, etc
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The right-handed twin is angry because the left-handed twin did what?
Kills their mother
LA RELACION: What did the Spaniards try to do after they received food and supplies from the Karankawas?
Leave the island on their barge
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: What quality do Tom Walker and his wife have in common?
Miserliness
OLAUDAH EQUIANO: The sailors whipped Equiano because he?
Refused to eat anything
LA RELACION: When the Native Americans saw the two drowned Spaniards, they felt?
Sad
OLADUAH EQUIANO: Which part of the narrative has details that most effectively explain why Equiano feared the sailors?
The anecdote of the beating and death of a white sailor.
DANCING PLAGUE: What is the author's point of view on the dancing plague in "The Dancing Plague of 1518"?
The author think the incident. is bizarre and does not think there is a theory that can completely explain the dancing.
THE RAVEN: What is most likely the author's reason for putting the poem into stanzas of five octameter lines, each ending with a short and flat statement?
The author wants to build an ominous mood through repetition
THE RAVEN: What most closely does the raven perching on the bust of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, symbolize in the following passage? Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door — Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
The nature powers over the strongest of human knowledge
OLADUAH EQUIANO: What did Equiano find most disturbing about the slave markets?
The separation of families
ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM: Which of the following statements about Unitarians is best supported by the text?
They were positive about the possibility of human beings.
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The twins create balance in nature-good/evil. True or False?
True
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: What does the woman do to grow the earth?
Walks in the direction of the sun
ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM: Which selection from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to which of the following statements about Unitarians is best supported by the text?
"... Unitarianism, which perceived God as a singular being and had an optimistic view of human nature."
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: Which phrase from the following excerpt (Paragraph 33) most closely supports the meaning of the term scapegoat? "STEVE. [Interrupting] Charlie, don't tell me what I can afford! And stop telling me who's dangerous and who isn't and who's safe and who's a menace. [He turns to the group and shouts.] And you're with him, too—all of you! You're standing here all set to crucify—all set to find a scapegoat—all desperate to point some kind of finger at a neighbor! Well now look, friends, the only thing that's gonna happen is that we'll eat each other up alive—"
"Desperate to point some kind of finger at a neighbor."
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: Which line from the excerpt most strongly supports the correct answer to the previous Question about theme?
"He comes walking out of the darkness-how am I supposed to know who he was?"
DANCING PLAGUE: Which piece of evidence best supports the central idea of "The Dancing Plague of 1518"?
"In July of 1518, in full view of her neighbors, Frau Troffea began to violently dance in the streets of the city of Strasbourg, France...she appeared unable to stop herself from her frenzy." (Paragraph 2)
Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to why free verse was a popular poetic form during the Romantic period mainly because romanticism rejected structure and established customs?
"It is not surprising that free-verse poetry rose to popularity during the American Romantic period when artists sought to reject the restrictive customs of the past in order to embrace liberation, individualism, imagination, intuition, and spiritual transcendence."
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: Which line of Steve's from the excerpt most strongly supports the correct answer to Question about Steve's feelings towards Goodman?
"You could go home and keep your mouth shut."
PIECE OF STRING: What event calls the diners to the inn's door and windows during lunch?
A drumroll calls their attention to an announcement
PIECE OF STRING: What becomes of the wallet?
A laborer returns it to its owner
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: What convinces Tom that what the devil has told him in the swamp is true?
A salon Crowninshield's death
OLADUAH EQUIANO: Equiano says that the separation of family members what?
Added more horror to slavery
OLADUAH EQUIANO: What idea from the slave narrative helps you understand the culture shock that Equiano experienced?
An explanation of how the ship stopped led Equiano to believe that the sailors were spirits
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: I his deal with the devil, Tom refuses to what?
Become a slave trader
LA RELACION: Cabeza de Vaca explains in his primary source account that the Spaniards went to the Karankawas' village because he?
Begged the Karankawas to take him and his men to their village
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: What does the devil do to Tom at the end of the tale?
Carries Tom away on a horse
LA RELACION: What did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his men do first when they landed on the island?
Cooked food and drank rain water
ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM: The following passage (paragraph 3) mainly adds to the development of the text by . When Romantic ideals reached America in the early nineteenth century, the nation was caught up in a massive westward expansion and was simultaneously trying to define what it was to be American, both to itself and to the world. As American cities and towns grew, people had more time for philosophical and creative endeavors and began to write original works of fiction and poetry, as well as contemplative essays.
Describing the conditions under which Romanticism gained popularity in America
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: What does the left-handed twin want the mountain lion to do?
Eat the deer
SATIRE-POWTOON: There are many types of satiric techniques, including: ________ and __________?
Exaggeration/Irony
SATIRE-POWTOON: What is narcissism?
Extreme selfishness, deluded belief in one's own importance, attractiveness, and talent.
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: Animals do not play an important role in the story. True or False?
False
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: In the story, a supernatural event takes place. A man lays two feathers across the girl. True or False?
False
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The right-handed twin cut out his grandmother's heart. True or False?
False
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The twin's mother symbolizes the Sky World. True or False?
False
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: Which of the following selections best expresses a theme of the excerpt?
Fear of the unknown and paranoia can lead to disaster
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: Tom and his wife are unhappy because they what?
Fight about money.
SATIRE-POWTOON: Similes, metaphors, and other comarisons and non-literal language in language is known as what?
Figurative Language
SATIRE-POWTOON: What does Irony emphasize?
How very far the target is from the accepted standard.
DANCING PLAGUE: Which of the following statements best describes a central idea of the text "The Dancing Plague of 1518"?
In the early 1500's, a group of townspeople began dancing for no apparent reason and, even more troubling, they could not stop.
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: The tone of the story can be best describes as?
Ironic
OLADUAH EQUIANO: Read the following excerpt about the sailors' actions. Why does Equiano most likely include this passage in his slave narrative? "...to our astonishment who were on deck, rather than give any of them to us to eat, as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into the sea again..."
It focuses criticism on slave traders
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: The narrator describes the devil's face as "begrimes with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among the fires and forges." Irving most likely chose this imagery because
It increases the dark mood of the scene
SATIRE-POWTOON: What is a caricature?
It is a visual exaggeration of a person's features
SATIRE-POWTOON: What is Verbal Irony?
It is a way of emphasizing folly(stupidity) or vice by deliberately describing it in a way that is different to the actual meaning.
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: Why does the myth say the left-handed twin "died and he didn't die"?
It is impossible to totally destroy evil
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: What was the former use of the place where Tom first meets the devil?
It was an Indian refuge
PIECE OF STRING: What probably motivates Maitre Malandain to acccuse Maitre Hauchecorne of stealing the wallet?
Maitre malandain is angry over a recent argument with Maitre Hauchecorne
LA RELACION: Cabeza de Vaca's role during the first meeting between his men and the Karankawas was to?
Make peace with the Karankawas
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: Who are most likely the "suspects" Steve refers to in the following passage (Paragraph 24)? STEVE. Go ahead, what's my wife said? Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every idiosyncrasy of every man, woman, and child on the street. And then we might as well set up some kind of kangaroo court. How about a firing squad at dawn, Charlie, so we can get rid of all the suspects? Narrow them down. Make it easier for you.
Neighbors who appear different from other neighbors
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: What does Tom leave behind him when he dies?
Nothing
THE RAVEN: "The Raven" is delivered mainly in_____________ tense, from a_______________ point of view.
Past and first person
DEVIL AND TOM WALKER: Who is Irving creating a satire of in the following passage from the end of the story? "The good people of Boston shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders, but had been so much accustomed to witches and goblins, and tricks of the devil, in all kinds of shapes, from the first settlement of the colony, that they were not so much horror-struck as might have been expected."
People who pretend to be good but are really bad
PIECE OF STRING: What words best describe the peasants who come to town for market day?
Poor but proud
WORLD ON THE TURTLES BACK: The Iroquois would be most likely to honor the left-handed twin when?
Preparing for war
SATIRE-POWTOON: What does Ironic mean?
Pretending that morally bad things are morally good (virtuous) is
SATIRE-POWTOON: What is Irony?
Pretending that silly things are sensible or valuable
LA RELACION: Which action shows that religious faith is part of the author's historical context?
Reciting a Pater nester and an Ave Maria
ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM: Which of the following statements best explains why Romanticism and Transcendentalism rejected industrialism?
Romanticism and Transcendentalism highly valued the power of nature and industrialism was a threat to the natural world.
ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM: Free verse was a popular poetic form during the Romantic period mainly because____________ ?
Romanticism rejected structure and established customs, in favor of individualism and creativity
SATIRE-POWTOON: Satire is a way of making us realize how _______ or _______ things are - often by making us laugh at them
Silly/Bad
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: Which inference can be best made about how Steve feels about Goodman?
Steve feels protective of Goodman
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: What does the following dialogue (Paragraphs 27-28) mainly reveal about Steve? "CHARLIE. Go ahead, Steve. What kind of 'radio set' you workin' on? I never seen it. Neither has anyone else. Who you talk to on that radio set? And who talks to you? STEVE. I'm surprised at you, Charlie. How come you're so dense all of a sudden? [A pause.] Who do I talk to? I talk to monsters from outer space. I talk to three-headed green men who fly over here in what look like meteors."
Steve is showing that he finds Charlie's questions ridiculous
PIECE OF STRING: As Maitre Hauchecorne lies dying, he ---
Still tries to convince people of his innocence
MONSTERS ON MAPLE STREET: What mainly does the final line (Paragraph 53) reveal about what has happened over the course of the excerpt? GOODMAN. That's what I'd like to know.
The accused has become an accuser among the group of people.
LA RELACION: Cabeza de Vaca's men were anxious about going to the Native American village. This reflects the Spaniards' knowledge of which aspect of their historical context?
The practice of human sacrifice among Aztecs
