Math
Literary English
From the reading: A Doll’s House
Biology
Ethics
Literature
100

The tangent of the angle of inclination is called:

Slope of a line

100

When Nora points out that she and Helmer had not had a serious conversation in eight years of marriage, Helmer asks, “What do you mean by serious?” What does Nora mean? Base your answer on her words in the text.

Nora means that they had never discussed serious topics “in earnest.” She means that her husband arranges everything to his preferences, and she “got the same tastes” as his “or pretended to.”

100

Structure that surrounds the outside of all cells

Cell Membrane

100

How does Saint Thomas Aquinas define Truth?

As the adequation of intellect and reality.

100

They are the three great literary genres.

Narrative, lyrical and dramatic

200

What is the value of the slope of a horizontal line?

zero

200

Nora tells Helmer, “No, I have never been happy. . . . Only merry.” What does she mean by this?

She means that they have never been serious but have only played at life. She says their life together has been “nothing but a playroom,” and that she has been his “doll-wife.”

200

It contains genetic material

Nucleus

200

What do you call a philosophical current that suggests that knowledge, truth, and morality are not absolute but dependent on specific cultural, historical, linguistic, and subjective aspects?

Relativism.

200

Novels, stories, fables belong to the genre...

Narrative

300

What is the name of the point where a line intersects the "y" axis?

y-intercept

300

Based on what you learn in the text, what does the title of the play—A Doll’s House—likely refer to?

The title of the play likely refers to Nora and Helmer’s married life. Nora feels strongly that they are going through the motions of family life like children playing with dolls in a doll house.

300

Organelle whose function is to decompose dead matter

Lysosomes

300

In which book of the Bible do we find the story of Creation?

In the book of Genesis.

300

What is known as meter in a verse?

The number of syllables that make it up

400

What is the ordinary form of the equation of the line?

y = mx + b

400

Nora claims that she concealed her opinions from her father if her opinions differed from his. Based on context clues, what does concealed mean? Write your definition here.

I think concealed must mean “hid” because she’s talked about how she mostly had the same opinions as her father. But when she disagreed with him, he did not like it, so she concealed, or hid, her true feelings.

400

Where photosynthesis occurs

Chloroplasts

400

What is the name Belloc gives to the application of human mental and physical energy, applied to the forces of nature toward the matter they conform, aimed at the production of wealth?

Work

400

A characteristic of the lyrical subgenre known as "hymn"

The theme of hymns is usually joy, celebration, heroism and praise.

500

The equation of the line y = 2x + 3 crosses the "y" axis at the point:

(0, 3)

500

How does Nora’s realization about her role in her marriage and her past influence her decision to leave Torvald?

Nora’s realization about her role in her marriage is a turning point in A Doll’s House, as she comes to understand that she has been living as a “doll-wife,” much like she was her father’s “doll-child.” She recognizes that she has never had the opportunity to form her own opinions or develop her own identity, as both her father and her husband have dictated her thoughts and actions.

500

Cell division is also known as

Mitosis

500

What consequence of the expulsion from Eden were studied in class?

Suffering and struggling at work.

500

What was dramatic art (theater) associated with in its origins?

With religious worship