Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane has strong visual appeal. Some of the most attractive and ________________ images result from Welle's use of lighting and camera angle.
A.) stereotypical
B.) erroneous
C.) comely
D.) irascible
E.) hypercritical
C.) comely
In The Women Warrior, Kingston ________, or calls forth, the legend of Mu Lan. She tells the story as she remembers it, without ____________.
A.) finalizes...emendation
B.) abridges...finality
C.) invokes...emendation
D.) emends...abridgement
E.) involves...shrews
C.) invokes...emendation
You don't need to know West Indian dialects to understand Jamaica Kincaid's _______ expressions. But a brief history of the West Indies might help you appreciate the stories.
A.) affable
B.) tawdry
C.) idiomatic
D.) wistful
E.) intangible
Although the idea of living in sewers may be _______ to us, the _______ of the turtles is that the sewer suits them just fine.
A.) interminable...ambivalence
B.) beneficient...betrothed
C.) intrepid...consensus
D.) repugnant...consensus
E.) repugnant...sorties
D.) repugnant...consensus
Sometimes, heroes have tragic aspects. A superhero might turn to crime fighting after losing his or her ________ or another loved one, such as a parent.
A.) betrothed
B.) repugnance
C.) ambivalence
D.) beneficence
E.) sortie
A.) betrothed
Kane's luxurious home is probably meant to suggest the Hearst estate, which consisted of four mansions. Many people called Hearst's display of wealth ________.
A.) irascible
B.) stereotypical
C.) hypercritical
D.) erroneous
E.) ostentatious
E.) ostentatious
Kingston wasn't ________ as a child, but she did listen carefully to the talk of adults.
A.) garrulous
B.) shrewish
C.) supercilious
D.) lucrative
E.) impromptu
A.) garrulous
After leaving a West Indian island, you might behave more ________ after your pleasant trip to this exotic place and others may __________ your friendliness.
A.) furiously...bolster
B.) affably...reciprocate
C.) wistful...bolster
D.) tawdry...reciprocate
E.) bolstered...subterfuge
An interesting questions might be, "Do ______ heroes like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a(n) _______ urge to fight evil? That is, are they born heroes?"
A.) intrepid...ambivalent
B.) betrothed...congenital
C.) interminable...ambivalent
D.) repugnant...intrepid
E.) beneficent...congenital
E.) beneficent...congenital
No doubt the native inhabitants of the islands remembered with _______ the era before Columbus's landing.
A.) idioms
B.) bolsters
C.) intangibility
D.) tawdriness
E.) wistfulness
E.) wistfulness
Welles appeals to viewers' ________ notions of mystery stories. The gloomy setting and music lead us to expect a mysterious tale.
A.) miscreant
B.) stereotypical
C.) pretentious
D.) ostentatious
E.) irascible
B.) stereotypical
Many traditional folk tales suggest that women should always be humble, never ___________. In some tales Kingston heard, poor families often made __________ exchanges by selling their daughters as slaves.
A.) lucrative...verbose
B.) impromptu...garrulous
C.) garrulous...supercilious
D.) verbose...impromptu
E.) supercilious...lucrative
E.) supercilious...lucrative
Europeans began settling the West Indies in the 1500s. The islands' agricultural riches soon _______ the European economy.
A.) made tawdry
B.) made wistful
C.) reciprocated
D.) made intangible
E.) bolstered
E.) bolstered
Their _______ quality seems to be natural; no one can imagine that the Ninja Turtles, for example, were ever cowardly.
A.) beneficent
B.) intrepid
C.) repugnant
D.) sallow
E.) ambivalent
A.) intrepid
As a writer, Kingston ________ the courage and determination of the woman warrior by wielding a pen just as Mu Lan wielded her sword.
A.) invokes
B.) finalizes
C.) emends
D.) rejects
E.) abridges
A.) invokes
Lighting is extremely important in films. If a character is a ________, he probably won't be shown in soft, golden light that gives him a ________ appearance.
A.) stereotype...pretentious
B.) miscreant...irascible
C.) decadence...comely
D.) stereotype...irascible
E.) miscreant...comely
E.) miscreant...comely
Kingston got the mistaken idea that her parents might sell her. She started throwing ________ tantrums, dropping dishes without warning, and generally acting ________ to show she would make a bad slave.
A.) impromptu...lucrative
B.) garrulous...verbose
C.) shrewish...lucrative
D.) impromptu...shrewish
E.) lucrative...shrewish
D.) impromptu...shrewish
A _______ resulted when the French tried to seize Santo Domingo from the Spanish. The Spaniards _______ with the counterattack.
A.) subterfuge...bolstered
B.) furor...reciprocated
C.) tawdriness...reciprocated
D.) furor...bolstered
E.) idioms...bolstered
B.) furor...reciprocated
However, like the turtles, many superheroes receive extraordinary powers by accident. Some feel ______ about their powers at first; they're not sure they want to be different from ordinary people.
A.) repugnant
B.) interminable
C.) sallow
D.) beneficent
E.) ambivalent
E.) ambivalent
At the end of the film, Welles gives a last glimpse of Kane's _______ storeroom full of showy, useless treasures. The ________ collection reminds us that Kane was obsessed with material things.
A.) comely...erroneous
B.) ostentatious...pretentious
C.) ostentatious...irascible
D.) decadent...erroneous
E.) stereotypical...flaunted
B.) ostentatious...pretentious
The wrong lighting can give the viewer a misleading, or _______, impression of a character. How might a filmmaker use lighting to show a character's gradual decline from a virtuous life into ___________?
A.) erroneous...decadence
B.) irascible...ostentatious
C.) ostentatious...stereotype
D.) comely...decadence
E.) decadent...pretension
A.) erroneous...decadence
Kingston was inspired by Mu Lan, who rejected the ________ of age-old rules about women and believed that women should have the last word on how they lived.
A.) garrulousness
B.) abridgement
C.) finality
D.) emendation
E.) verbosity
C.) finality
The West Indies inspired ________ longing in European monarchs. Because the spices and sugar from the islands were so valuable, no _________ was too underhanded in the battle for control.
A.) furious...expletive
B.) wistful...subterfuge
C.) tawdry...bolster
D.) affable...reciprocation
E.) reciprocated...wistfulness
B.) wistful...subterfuge
Cartoon villains usually have _______ faces that reflect their evil natures. For example, in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, the villains have a ______, sickly appearance, as if they've breathed too much smog.
A.) sallow...congenital
B.) repugnant...ambivalent
C.) intrepid...repugnant
D.) repugnant...sallow
E.) congenital...intrepid
D.) repugnant...sallow
If you're interested in ________ your knowledge of West Indian language, you can learn some _______ expressions from reading West Indian writers.
A.) bolstering...intangible
B.) reciprocating...intangible
C.) reciprocating...wistful
D.) bolstering...idiomatic
E.) reciprocating...idiomatic
D.) bolstering...idiomatic