That was Impromptu
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 Woman 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...abridgment
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
c.) idiomatic
At the end of the film, Welles gives us 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
She makes careful ______ in the revision stage of writing until she is satisfied with the story.
a.) invocations
b.) emendations
c.) finality
d.) abridging
e.) verbosity
b.) emendations
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
b.) affably...reciprocate
Kane's efforts at accumulating wealth seem ironic, since at the end of the film he is no longer alive to _____ his riches.
a.) pretend
b.) criticize
c.) flaunt
d.) deteriorate
e.) stereotype
c.) flaunt
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
Welle's 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
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 island's agricultural riches soon _______ the European economy.
a.) made tawdry
b.) made wistful
c.) reciprocated
d.) made intangible
e.) bolstered
e.) bolstered
It may be too harsh to say that Welles was a _______ director who judged his own work too severely. But like any serious director, he had high standards and grew _______ when people didn't meet them.
a.) decadent...irascible
b.) hypercritical...decadent
c.) pretentious...erroneous
d.) hypercritical...irascible
e.) irascible...ostentatious
d.) hypercritical...irascible
Movies often present _______ images of West Indian life. These films exaggerate the showy aspects of the culture.
a.) laconic
b.) bolstered
c.) wistful
d.) tawdry
e.) intangible
d.) tawdry
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 a counterattack.
a.) subterfuge...bolstered
b.) furor...reciprocated
c.) tawdriness...reciprocated
d.) furor...bolstered
e.) idioms...bolstered
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
The complexity of Caribbean cultures can't be captured in a brief description. Writers like Jamaica Kincaid have devoted whole books to explaining that ________, undefinable quality of the West Indies.
a.) tawdry
b.) affable
c.) intangible
d.) idiomatic
e.) reciprocal
c.) intangible
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...ostentation
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
a.) lucrative...garrulous
b.) verbose...invoked
c.) garrulous...abridged
d.) impromptu...verbose
e.) supercilious...emended
d.) impromptu
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