Analyzing Fiction
1. How can the mood in the beginning of the story BEST be described?
A) Sad and Gloomy
B) Empty and Vacant
C) Hopeful and Renewing
D) Mechanic and Industrial
B) Empty and Vacant
9. Read the following line from the story: “The dinner dishes manipulated like magic tricks.” This sentence is an example of
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Allusion
B) Simile
When Queen Elizabeth addresses her troops as her “faithful and loving people” throughout the first paragraph, she is primarily establishing which rhetorical appeal?
B) Pathos
22. According to this myth, the reader can infer that the Native Americans believed:
A. That the Earth relied on the people to survive
B. That people relied on the Earth to survive
C. That there is no connection between the Earth and its people
D. None of the Above
B. That people relied on the Earth to survive
30. The word “stoop” in the context of this poem explicitly means
A. Shrink one’s egotistical mindset
B. Hunch over or crouch
C. Lower one’s expectations
D. Travel down from a higher place
B. Hunch over or crouch
2. Word and Phrases from the beginning that help to establish this mood are
A) “voice-clock sang” and “warm interior”
B) “sounds into the emptiness” and “echoing”
C)“sunny-side up” and “hissing sigh”
D) “garage chimed” and “like stone”
B) “sounds into the emptiness” and “echoing”
8. The author’s purpose for including the dog’s scene was most likely to:
A) Add an emotional element to the story
B) Personify the house and its technology
C) Provide a climactic scene to increase tension
D) Showcase the house’s inability to show sympathy
D) Showcase the house’s inability to show sympathy
Why would Queen Elizabeth want to start by establishing this appeal?
A) She wants to elicit fond emotions in her audience so they will be more receptive to her speech
B) She wants to establish her own credibility as a leader who thinks fondly of her people
C) She wants to begin with very factual information to make the rest of her speech sound more reasonable.
D) She is setting the stage for her audience by placing herself above them to establish power.
A) She wants to elicit fond emotions in her audience so they will be more receptive to her speech
A possible theme for “How the World was Made” is
A. Sometimes mistakes can have purposeful outcomes
B. The Earth and the people do not rely on each other to survive
C. Survival only depends on one’s inner strength and not on the elements of nature
D. None of the Above
A. Sometimes mistakes can have purposeful outcomes
31. Read the excerpt from the poem carefully: “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing” How do these lines relate to the poem and its message as a whole?
A) It contains a much more negative tone than the previous portions of the poem
B) It provides a resolution to the previous uncertainties revealed in the rest of the poem
C) It shifts the main idea of the poem from focusing on the downfall of religion to its possible benefits
D) It serves as a counterargument to the ideas focused on it the rest of the poem
B) It provides a resolution to the previous uncertainties revealed in the rest of the poem
A) Middle-class and hardworking
B) Upper-class and overindulged
C)Lower-class and impoverished
D) Upper-class and average
B) Upperclass and overindulged
11. The BEST relationship between the poem by Teasdale and Bradbury’s short story is:
A) The story depicts a specific and dramatic situation to exemplify the poem’s universal message
B) The poem’s more positive message directly contradicts the negative one expressed in the story
C) The poem provides concrete examples, as evidence, to support the overall plot elements of the story
D) The poem provides a much more simplistic rendition of the story’s convoluted exposition and setting
A) The story depicts a specific and dramatic situation to exemplify the poem’s universal message
Queen Elizabeth’s overall purpose and goal by giving this speech before battle is to
A)Threaten and bully her audience into submission
B)Inspire her audience to fight for her and their country
C) Bribe her audience with false rewards
D Expose the weaknesses of their enemy
B) Inspire her audience to fight fo rher and their country
24. Who/What is responsible for the creations described in this myth?
A. The animals
B. The “conjurers”
C. The Sky Spirits
D. We are never told
A. The animals
. 32. A possible theme for this poem is
A. God is evil and twisted for creating pain and suffering in the world that humans can’t understand
B. Mankind does not understand everything about life, but should approach the unknown with awe
C. Even though God is cruel at times, he is still in control of everything and deserves man’s respect
D. Man might not know everything about life yet, but should make it a point to figure it out
B. Mankind does not understand everything about life, but should approach the unknown with awe
6. The BEST theme statement for this story is?
A) If humans perish, the earth will never be the same
B) Death and Rebirth
C) If humans perish, nature will flourish and our existence will not be missed
D) Nature versus the Mechanistic world
C) If humans perish, nature will flourish and our existence will not be missed
5. The quote from the story that BEST explains what happened to the McClellan family is?
A) “The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places.”
B) “The five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the children, the ball—remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer.”
C) “But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”
D) “How carefully it had inquired, "Who goes there? What's the password?"
B) “The five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the children, the ball—remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer.”
The rhetorical appeal that Queen Elizabeth relies on the MOST throughout her speech is
A) Ethos
B) Logos
C) Pathos
D) All of the Above
A) Ethos
28. Which two animals in the myth have the most important roles?
A. The owl and the panther
B. The water-beetle and the red crawfish
C. The water-beetle and the vulture
D. The panther and the vulture
C. The water-beetle and the vulture
33. Countee develops this theme predominantly through
A. Alternating rhyming patterns
B. Juxtaposing images
C. Emotional and powerful word pairings
D. Different types of allusions and references
D) Different types of allusions and references
7. The author predominantly establishes the theme of the story by
A) Including the poem by Sarah Teasdale
B) Including images of the radioactive glow
C) Intricately describing the technological functions of the house
D) Including the death of the dog
A) Including the poem by Sarah Tisdale
3. All of the following are technological functions of the house EXCEPT:
A) Robotic cleaning mice
B) Voice/Sound auto-recognition
C) Self-cooking appliances
D) Automatic Lawn Mower
D) Automatic Lawn Mower
. The main idea of her speech can BEST be described as
A) Though they face a terrible enemy, she, with all of her courageous qualities, will lead her loving and deserving people to victory
B) The enemy they face is not that great of a threat and will be defeated easily, resulting in rewards for everyone
C) She does not need their help to defeat the enemy and can win on her own because of the qualities she possesses
D) She does not think that they can defeat the enemy because she is a weak queen that does not possess the necessary qualities to lead them to victory
A) Though they face a terrible enemy, she, with all of her courageous qualities, will lead her loving and deserving people to victory
29. The main idea of this myth is that the world was created through
A. Step-by-step procedures
B. Extensive pre-planning
C. Accidents and mishaps
D. We do not have enough information to know
C. Accidents and mishaps
Which of the following character traits best describe the speaker?
A. Questioning, but optimistic
B. Joyful, but ill-tempered
C. Peaceful, but agitated
D. Frustrated, but persistent
A) Questioning but optomisitic