English III Mid-Term Review!

True/False 1

100

• When Judge Danforth tries to get John Proctor to give up Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey, he states “I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another.”, a statement which only makes the conflict between Danforth and Proctor grow larger because it highlights Proctor’s stubbornness.

FALSE!

200

• When Reverend Parris is trying to save John’s life, he tells Danforth “It is a weighty name; it will strike the village that Proctor confess!” Parris is implying that signing his confession weighs heavily on Proctor’s conscience.

FALSE! 

300

• The effect of stylized dialogue in “The Crucible” such as “Beguile me not!” is to imitate Puritan speech patterns, which gives the play more authenticity.

TRUE! 

400

Proctor's implication when he says to Danforth "I blacken all of them when this is nailed to the church the very day they hang for silence!" is that the publication of his signed confession would tarnish those who have refused to confess. 

TRUE! 

500

"Tell them I confessed myself; say Proctor broke his knees and wept like a woman..." is an IDIOM that suggests Proctor's emotional weakness.

ABSOLUTELY FREAKING TRUE! 

True/False 2

100

Proctor's action of tearing up his signed confession represents the resolution of the conflict.

FALSE! It represents the CLIMAX of the conflict! 

200

When John says his final goodbye to Elizabeth before being carted off to the gallows to hang, he tells her "Show them a stony heart and sink them with it!", which is a figurative way of telling Elizabeth that by showing a stony heart, she will lose her honor.

False! It shows that by showing no emotion, she will confuse the onlookers. :) 

300

Proctor's dark clothing during the final scenes of the film were chosen to emulate the darkness of Proctor's troubled soul. 

TRUE! WOO HOO! 

400

The third stanza from the poem "To the Fringed Gentian" reads:

Thou waitest late and com'st alone,

When woods are bare and birds are flown,

And frosts and shortening days portend

The aged year is near his end.

From this stanza, one can infer that fringed gentians bloom in the spring. 

FALSE! They bloom in the fall! BAM. 

500

In Proctor's exclamation "LEAVE ME MY NAME!!!!!" the word "name" is referring to John Proctor's actual Christian name that would be found on his birth certificate. 

FALSE! It's referring to his reputation.

ACT 1

100

Just over 100 years ago, one of the most important medical discoveries, in modern times relieved the suffering and saved the lives of untold thousands. 

A. NO CHANGE
B. discoveries in modern, times
C. discoveries, in modern times,
D. discoveries in modern times 

D. discoveries in modern times

200

For several centuries, yellow fever was a scourge upon societies in various parts of the world, striking towns and killing thousands of people. 

F. NO CHANGE
G. was in a societies as a scourge
H. was a scourge and also problematic in societies
J. was freakin' annoying

F. NO CHANGE! 

300

Thanks to the efforts of Major Walter Reed and many courageous volunteers, the mechanisms for contracting and spreading yellow fever were uncovered.

A. NO CHANGE
B. In spite of
C. It was
D. Regardless of 

A. NO CHANGE

400

During Reed's lifetime, it was a common acceptance that yellow fever was spread by contact with infected items such as the clothing or blankets of a person with yellow fever. 

A. NO CHANGE
B. accepted as a common fact
C. commonly accepted
D. accepted in a common way

C. commonly accepted

500

During Reed's lifetime, it was commonly accepted that yellow fever was spread by contact with infected items; such as the clothing or blankets of a person with yellow fever. 

A. NO CHANGE
B. items. Such as
C. items, such as
D. items such as being 

C. items, such as

ACT 2

100

Doubts about the accepted theory's of the fever's spread prompted the U.S. Army to assign Reed and several doctors to the problem. 

A. NO CHANGE
B. theorize
C. theories'
D. theories

D. theories

200

They studied yellow fever in Cuba, where they were infecting soldiers fighting in the Spanish American War at an alarming rate.

A. NO CHANGE
B. the disease was
C. the doctors were
D. the Army was

B. the disease was

300

They studied yellow fever in Cuba, where the disease was infecting soldiers fighting in the Spanish American War at a discouraging rate.

The writer of the above sentence wants to emphasize how quickly yellow fever infected the troops in the war. Which does that best?

A. NO CHANGE
B. a great
C. an alarming
D. a normal

C. an alarming

400

This was enough information to spur General Reed to conduct more comprehensive experiments, so helping his cause.

A. NO CHANGE
B. experiments, which helped his cause.
C. experiments (which helped his cause).
D. experiments. 

D. experiments. 

500

These men were placed in contact with clothing that have been worn by yellow fever victims. 

A. NO CHANGE
B. had been worn
C. has been worn
D. was being worn
E. Had been worn

B. had been worn

ACT 3

100

The experiments began with the construction of a building in which men who did not have yellow fever were housed. These men were placed in contact with clothing that had been worn by yellow fever victims. Not one of these men contracted the fever. A second building was constructed with two sides separated by a screen. 

A. NO CHANGE
B. fever, while a
C. fever, and a
D. fever, a

A. NO CHANGE! 

200

This experiment was repeatable many times, and the volunteers who were protected from mosquitos never contracted the fever.

A. NO CHANGE
B. repeated
C. repeating
D. a repeat

B. repeated! 

300

Eventually, a vaccine was developed, which reduced further the outbreaks of yellow fever incidences.

A. NO CHANGE
B. which further reduced the incidence of yellow fever outbreaks.
C. which is often too expensive for poor residents of tropical countries who are most susceptible to yellow fever.
D. and it was no longer necessary for people to risk their health and lives to determine the cause and spread of yellow fever. 

B. which further reduced the incidence of yellow fever outbreaks.