English 11 Midterm Review 2012
True/False (.5 pts each)
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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1. In Gilman‘s ―The Yellow Wallpaper,‖ the narrator‘s husband is treating his wife the best way he
knows how. HONORS
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2. The narrator of Gilman‘s ―The Yellow Wallpaper‖ is not allowed to work. That includes writing.
HONORS
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3. The holiday that has just passed in the story ―The Yellow Wallpaper‖ is Christmas. HONORS
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4. In Gilman‘s ―The Yellow Wallpaper,‖ the narrator‘s husband and her brother are both doctors.
HONORS
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5. In the short story, ―The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,‖ Twain gives the reader a clue as to his
feelings about mankind. He believes that mankind is flawed, but can be better by identifying his
own shortcomings.
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6. In the 1920s, refrigeration helped lead to revolutionize of the local grocery store.
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7. Gatsby was a war hero.
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8. Nick went to the University of New Haven
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9. Daisy claims to love both Tom and Gatsby.
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10. Tom breaks Daisy‘s nose.
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11. Dan Cody is Gatsby‘s mentor.
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12. Jordan is accused of cheating at golf.
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13. George Wilson kills Gatsby.
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14. Gatsby drives Tom‘s car to New York.
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15. Daisy is responsible for Myrtle‘s death.
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16. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream is something that is attainable.
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17. In the film, the final two paragraphs of the novel are said by Gatsby, and not by Nick.
Multiple Choice (.5 pts each)
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. There may be two answers that
appear correct. Chose the best answer.
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(Skip to # 25)
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25. The stranger chooses to corrupt Hadleyburg because
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27. What descibes the ―Nineteen‖?
28. How does Richards believe he helped Goodson?
29. Howard L. Stephenson, the ―author‖ of a letter sent to various townspeople, has recently returned
to the U.S. from
30. What is the message given to the hypothetical man in need?
31. Describe the scene in the town hall.
32. How could one describe the Stranger?
33. At the end of the story, Hadleyburg changes its name. Why?
34. What is the stranger‘s reason for choosing his method of revenge?
35. Who participates in the dramatic monologue of ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖?
36. In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,‖ what two things are compared here: ―When the evening
is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized [asleep] upon a table‖?
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37. Where is repetition used in these lines from ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖: ―… there will
be time/ For the yellow smoke that slides along the street / Rubbing its back upon the window–
panes;/ There will be time, there will be time‖?
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38. Whose thoughts and feelings are expressed in ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖?
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39. What is the poet's view of love in ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖?
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40. What are the women doing who are ―talking of Michelangelo‖ in ―The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock‖?
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41. How do you know that end rhyme is used in these lines from ―The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock‖: ―My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, / My necktie rich and
modest, but asserted by a simple pin—‖?
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42. When the speaker says he is ―pinned and wriggling on the wall‖ in ―The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock,‖ what image does he create?
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43. Why is the speaker afraid of ―the eternal Footman,‖ who is holding his coat in ―The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock‖?
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44. How is repetition used in these lines from ―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖?
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled street,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail / along the floor—
Vocabulary and Grammar
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45. What does digress mean in this sentence: ―I try to focus on one task, but I often digress‖?
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46. Which sentence contains an adjectival modifier that modifies a noun?
a. You and I will leave.
b. I see water that sits in puddles.
c. Women come and go.
d. I have known them well.
47. Which vocabulary word best suggests Mrs. Mallard's emotional state regarding her marriage
before she hears of her husband's death?
a. elusive
b. repression
c. tumultuously
d. importunities
48. What was the result of Josephine's importunities outside her sister's door?
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49. When Kate Chopin refers to the feeling stealing over Louise Mallard as elusive, she means the
feeling is
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50. Readers in Kate Chopin's time must have found ―The Story of an Hour‖ particularly shocking
because of the contrast between Mrs. Mallard's response to her husband's death and
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51. When Mrs. Mallard reflects that, ―It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life
might be long,‖ she becomes aware of the irony that she
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a. had worried about a life that she now knows will be short.
b. has not been punished for such unacceptable thoughts.
c. now desired something she has previously feared.
d. had not valued her husband properly until she lost him.
52. Mrs. Mallard's reflection that she had recently wished for a short life soon has additional irony for
the reader because
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a. the reader knows that she still wants her life to be short.
b. she gets what she wanted after she stopped wanting it.
c. the reader sees her as a less worthy person than her husband.
d. she has too much intensity of feeling to wish for a short life.
53. Why does Mrs. Mallard refuse her sister Josephine's offer to keep her company?
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54. How does Mrs. Mallard ―hear the story‖ of her husband's death?
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55. What is the meaning of the following passage from the story?
A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that
brief moment of illumination.
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56. Under which type of irony would you classify Josephine's fear that her sister will ―make herself
ill‖ by grieving alone in her room?
a. situational
b. dramatic
c. verbal
d. none of the above
57. In ―The Story of an Hour,‖ Kate Chopin is primarily concerned with the
a. sacrilege of rejoicing at someone's death.
b. importance of confirming reports of tragic events.
c. difficulty of distinguishing between illusion and reality.
d. individual's right to self-expression.
58. After the initial storm of tears, Mrs. Mallard's response to the news of her husband's death is
motivated largely by a wave of
a. self-assertion.
b. anger.
c. self-pity.
d. vengeance.
59. Which of the following excerpts from ―The Story of an Hour‖ best illustrates the author's use of
irony?
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a. ―She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.‖
b. ―She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a
certain strength.‖
c. ―And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter!‖
d. ―‗Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door—you will make yourself ill.‘‖
60. Kate Chopin's ―The Story of an Hour‖ is a powerful illustration of the
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a. cruel irony of fate.
b. tragedy of thwarted love.
c. emptiness of marriage.
d. injustice of life.
61. What is the best reason for considering the title ―The Story of an Hour‖ ironic?
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a. The events in the story take much longer than an hour.
b. It is really a story about people.
c. The title is deceptively undramatic compared to the events.
d. The words suggest the opposite of their usual meaning.
62. What word best characterizes this statement about Louise's feeling for her husband?
And yet she had loved him—sometimes.
a. joyful
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b. sorrowful
c. ironic
d. insincere
Which of the following was not a cause of the advent of modernism.
a. The destruction of W.W. I.
c. The horrors of the Great Depression.
b. The destruction of W.W.II.
d. The Civil War.
Which of the following is an example of modernist art?
a. The Romantic Movement
c. The Cubist Movement
b. The Gothic Movement
d. Portraiture
How did poetry change in the modernist movement?
Which of the following best describes modernist poetry?
a. Confident in the human race.
c. Religious
b. No longer confident in the human race. d. Sentimental.
Poet Ezra Pound believed that American readers were
Which of the following is true of Pound‘s work?
a. He required his readers to do
c. He required his readers to be critics.
homework to fully understand his
work.
b. He required his readers to be poets.
d. Nobody liked it.
What was the modernist view of their nations‘ leaders?
To what ―cure‖ is the narrator of ―The Yellow Wallpaper‖ subjected? HONORS
How does the house parallel the main character in ―The Yellow Wallpaper‖? HONORS
Which of the following best describes the room in which the narrator of ―The Yellow Wallpaper‖
stays? HONORS
a. A bright, cheery room.
c. A dark room in the basement.
b. A room that has fallen into disrepair. d. None of the above.
In ―The Yellow Wallpaper,‖ the narrator remains nameless. Why is this? HONORS
In ―The Yellow Wallpaper,‖ why is the husband‘s profession important? HONORS
The short story, ―The Yellow Wallpaper‖ helped spark what movement? HONORS
In ―The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,‖ the town changes its motto in the end of the story.
What was the new motto?
Why did the people of Hadleyburg change their motto?
Which of the following best illustrates the efforts immigrants made to assimilate into American
society?
a. People were fearful of communism.
c. There was a strong anti-Catholic bias.
b. People with German last names began d. Catholic schools were seen as unto change them to sound more anglo.
American.
What did Theodore Roosevelt rail against?
Which of the following was given as a reason for a strong anti-Catholic bias in this country?
a. Catholics had their own schools.
c. Catholic churches were closed.
b. Catholics did not fight in wars.
d. Catholics did not eat meat on Fridays.
Which of the following groups was a radical Communist group?
The Roaring Twenties saw the rebirth of which hate-group?
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83. Which of the following became more commercially available in the 1920s?
a. Automobiles
c. Refrigerators
b. Radios
d. All of the above.
84. Which of the following was a ―domestic appliance‖?
a. Central heating.
c. Airplanes
b. Radios
d. Electric washing machines.
85. What did buying stock ―on margin‖ mean?
86. Which of the following led to the Great Depression?
a. Gambling
c. Real estate speculation
b. The influenza epidemic of 1918.
d. The war.
87. How does the availability of the automobile effect the life of the working man?
88. In the Roaring Twenties, what does the financial boom lead to?
89. For a living, Nick in the ____________ business.
90. How is Nick related to Daisy?
91. What is Nick‘s house like?
92. The eyes that watch over the valley of ashes are those of _______________________
93. The Valley of Ashes is symbolic of
94. Jordan Baker is a
95. What can be said about Jordan Baker‘s character?
96. What is the significance of Jordan Baker‘s name?
97. After the accident, why does Gatsby stand outside of Daisy‘s house for the entire night?
98. It is rumored that Jay Gatsby is the nephew of
99. Tom doesn‘t marry Myrtle because
100. Gatsby uses this familiar greeting:
101. When Gatsby is pulled over by the police, he
102. Gatsby throws his parties because
103. Daisy calls her daughter
104. What is the narrator‘s name?
105. The narrator came East to learn what business?
106. What college did the narrator attend?
107. What fictional village did the narrator live in?
108. Who is the narrator‘s cousin?
109. Who was richer, the narrator or the Buchanans?
110. Who was the Buchanan‘s house guest?
111. Which of the following is true of Tom Buchanan?
a. He hates the word ―hulking‖
c. He is a racist.
b. He is having an affair.
d. All of the above.
112. What were Meyer Wolfsheim‘s cufflinks made of?
113. The Valley of Ashes may have been decimated by
114. In chapter 4, how does Gatsby explain his wealth?
115. How does Jay Gatsby really earn his money?
____ 116. Which of the following best describes Meyer Wolfsheim?
a. He represents the seedy side of New York City with which Gatsby is connected.
b. He represents the growing popularity of the stock market. Both he and Nick sell
bonds.
c. He is a musician who represents the growing influence of jazz music in New York
City.
d. He is a politician in New York. Wolfsheim is living proof that the New York
political system is corrupt.
____ 117. Where is Daisy Buchanan originally from?
____ 118. Gatsby receives a medal of honor from what country?
____ 119. In chapter 5, Daisy and Gatsby meet _________________________
____ 120. What is Gatsby‘s real name?
____ 121. When Gatsby‘s funeral is held, ________________________________
a. Hundreds attend.
c. Nobody attends.
b. Only three people other than the
d. Wolfsheim attends.
servants attend.
____ 122. The attendance at his funeral proves _____________________________.
____ 123. When Gatsby begins seeing Daisy regularly, what happens to Gatsby?
____ 124. Gatsby‘s death is the result of
____ 125. The character of Meyer Wolfsheim is an example of ___________ in the novel.
____ 126. Which of the following is true of Tom Buchanan
a. He hates the word ―hulking.‖
c. He is a racist.
b. He is having an affair.
d. All of the above.
____ 127. At the end of the novel, the Buchanans ________________________________
____ 128. What happens to Nick at the end of the novel?
____ 129. Who says, ―Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is
dead‖?
____ 130. What are some differences between the film version of and the novel The Great Gatsby?
____ 131. What is the importance of the use of mirrors in both the novel and the film of The Great Gatsby?
____ 132. Which of the following is not true about The Great Gatsby?
a. Nick is an innocent, detached narrator. c. Gatsby‘s home is directly across the
bay from Daisy‘s.
b. Gatsby earned his money through
d. Tom owns horses.
illicit means.
Matching
Match the character with the description.
a. Tom Buchanan
b. Nick Carraway
c. Jordan Baker
____ 133. Racist, hulking man
d. Owl Eyes
e. George Wilson
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From a well-to-do Midwestern family. In the bonds business.
Wears glasses and is obsessed with Gatsby‘s books.
Poor, but ―moral‖ man.
Cynical and has the one bad trait of being dishonest.
Match the character with the desciption.
a. James Gatz
b. Daisy Buchanan
c. Meyer Wolfsheim
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d. Myrtle Wilson
e. Dan Cody
Gangster and gambler
Drank a lot. Mentor.
Voluptuous woman. Owns a dog.
Goes by an alias. Former war hero.
Nick‘s cousin from Louisville.
Choose who said (or may have said) each quote.
a. Daisy
e. Gatsby
b. Jordan
f. Klipspringer
c. Tom
g. Wolfsheim
d. Myrtle
h. Nick
____ 143. ―He‘s an Oggsford man...‖
____ 144. ―I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.‖
____ 145. ―Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to
bear an enchanted life.‖
____ 146. ―It makes me sad because I‘ve never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.‖
____ 147. ―I don‘t play well. I don‘t--I hardly play at all.‖
____ 148. ―I hate that word hulking...even in kidding.‖
____ 149. ―Why--Tom‘s got some woman in New York.‖
____ 150. ―I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.‖