Liberty University ENGL 102 Test 1

Liberty University ENGL 102 Test 1 ENGL 102 – Test 1 Instructions • Time limit: 1 hour and 30 minutes • 50 multiple-choice, true/false, and reading comprehension questions • ...

Liberty University ENGL 102 Test 1 ENGL 102 – Test 1 Instructions • Time limit: 1 hour and 30 minutes • 50 multiple-choice, true/false, and reading comprehension questions • Open-book/open-notes • Do not hit the BACK button as this will lock you out of the test. • The timer will continue if you leave this test without submitting it. • Please use the following passage to answer the first 5 questions: The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner. The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix-- the villagers pronounced this name "Dellacroy"--eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys…. … "[The winner of the lottery is] Tessie," Mr. Summers said, and his voice was hushed. "Show us her paper. Bill." Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd. "All right, folks." Mr. Summers said. "Let's finish quickly." Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box. Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. "Come on," she said. "Hurry up." Mrs. Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said, gasping for breath. "I can't run at all. You'll have to go ahead and I'll catch up with you." The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles. Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. "It isn't fair," she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, "Come on, come on, everyone." Steve Adams was in the front of the crowd of villagers, with Mrs. Graves beside him. "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. (From “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson) Results Displayed Submitted Answers, Feedback • Question 1 1.6 out of 1.6 points Which of the following is NOT true? The story uses the symbol of the lottery to communicate ____________. Selected Answer: • Question 2 1.6 out of 1.6 points That little Davy Hutchinson, the small son of the victim, is given a few pebbles to throw at his mother suggests that __________. Selected Answer: • Question 3 1.6 out of 1.6 points What human characteristic is thematized in the excerpt? Selected Answer: . • Question 4 1.6 out of 1.6 points The fact that most of the villagers participate in the lottery suggests that ____________. Selected Answer: • Question 5 1.6 out of 1.6 points One can conclude from the passage that ____________. Selected Answer: • Question 6 1.6 out of 1.6 points Any force arranged against the protagonist is the antagonist. Selected Answer: • Question 7 1.6 out of 1.6 points A flat character and round character are synonymous. Selected Answer: • Question 8 1.6 out of 1.6 points The moment of greatest tension in the action of a short story is called Selected Answer: • Question 9 1.6 out of 1.6 points Hawthorne's perspective is that all men are potentially evil and potentially good. Selected Answer: • Question 10 1.6 out of 1.6 points These are actual (historical) persons that appear in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," and were executed at the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. Selected Answer: • Question 11 1.6 out of 1.6 points A "flat" character is one dimensional. Selected Answer: • Question 12 1.6 out of 1.6 points "The Rocking Horse Winner" ends after the death of Selected Answer: • Question 13 1.6 out of 1.6 points According to the Lesson presentations and outlines, an example of escapist literature is the story Selected Answer: • Question 14 1.6 out of 1.6 points In “The Prodigal Son,” the Father's final act exemplifies love, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Selected Answer: • Question 15 1.6 out of 1.6 points The term used to describe the angle of vision from which a story is told Selected Answer: • Question 16 1.6 out of 1.6 points "Dearest heart," whispered she softly and rather sadly when her lips were close to his ear, "prithee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight." Selected Answer: • Question 17 1.6 out of 1.6 points Pre-eighteenth century men are regarded as having gathered particulars to formulate universal. Selected Answer: • Question 18 1.6 out of 1.6 points The longest part of a short story, or the part that develops the conflict(s) that will lead to the climax, is termed Selected Answer: • Question 19 1.6 out of 1.6 points Old Misery's occupation in "The Destructors" was Selected Answer: • Question 20 1.6 out of 1.6 points A pre-Reformationist, Chaucer was highly supportive of the state faith. Selected Answer: • Question 21 1.6 out of 1.6 points The use of repetition is a vital signal because the author is drawing the reader's attention to something of significance. Selected Answer: • Question 22 1.6 out of 1.6 points Trevor and Blackie are minor characters in "The Rocking Horse Winner." Selected Answer: • Question 23 1.6 out of 1.6 points Arguments can be made to study literature as a legitimate Christian pursuit, as a wealth of insight into the plight of our world and the needs of our contemporaries. Selected Answer: • Question 24 1.6 out of 1.6 points Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the question that follows: "Be a good sport, Tessie." Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, "All of us took the same chance." If the word Delacroix (the name of one of the characters in “The Lottery”) means “of the cross,” which of the following figures of speech is used? Selected Answer: • Question 25 1.6 out of 1.6 points The antonym (word with opposite meaning) for a round character is Selected Answer: • Question 26 1.6 out of 1.6 points Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the question that follows: “Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly, Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. ‘You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!’ ‘Be a good sport, Tessie.’ Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, ‘All of us took the same chance.’ Considering the dire consequences for winning “The Lottery,” which of the following statements is ironic and out of place? Selected Answer: • Question 27 1.6 out of 1.6 points "One moment the house had stood there with such dignity between the bomb-sites like a man in a top hat, and then, bang, crash, there wasn't anything left-not anything." Selected Answer: • Question 28 1.6 out of 1.6 points The telling of tales is as old as mankind, and was in existence before written records. Selected Answer: • Question 29 1.6 out of 1.6 points In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors,” the statement that T’s words “were almost confined to voting ‘Yes’ or ‘No’” suggests that he is __________. Selected Answer: • Question 30 1.6 out of 1.6 points In "The Rocking-Horse Winner" the whispers are symptoms, not causes. And Paul only makes them worse. Selected Answer: • Question 31 1.6 out of 1.6 points Another possible name for a character who undergoes no change. Selected Answer: • Question 32 1.6 out of 1.6 points "My love and my Faith,…of all nights in the year this one must I tarry away from thee." Who made this statement? Selected Answer: • Question 33 1.6 out of 1.6 points A few early American authors were the first masters of the short story form. Selected Answer: • Question 34 1.6 out of 1.6 points The term used to describe information presented in an earlier part of the story that tends to make us accept as probable an event occurring in a later part is Selected Answer: • Question 35 1.6 out of 1.6 points Read this excerpt from “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: “There was no sign of anybody anywhere. The loo stood like a tomb in a neglected graveyard. The curtains were drawn. The house slept.” “The house slept” is a metaphor for __________. Selected Answer: • Question 36 1.6 out of 1.6 points Poe was the first to make a systematic effort to define the short story. Selected Answer: • Question 37 1.6 out of 1.6 points In "The Rocking Horse Winner," Paul's mistake of confusing "luck" with "lucre" causes the unhappiness and tragedy in the story. Selected Answer: • Question 38 1.6 out of 1.6 points Blackie said uneasily, "It's proposed that tomorrow and Monday we destroy Old Misery's house." This quotation appears in Selected Answer: • Question 39 1.6 out of 1.6 points Fables are stories about animals that are often used to teach a moral. Selected Answer: • Question 40 1.6 out of 1.6 points Edgar Allan Poe operated from a viewpoint of a personal relationship with GOD