END OF SEMESTER TEST ENGLISH 11B
Questions and Answers
1.Which of the following lines from "In Another Country" by Ernest Heming-
way contribute to the prevailing mood of apathy in the story?
Answer We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held
us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.
2.Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Answer withered detachedness
resignation
baseball
3.Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Answer ominous melancholy
sinuou
s
profan
e
4.Read this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams"
"I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be
happy?" Her moist eyes tore at his stability—her mouth turned slowly down-
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, ward with an exquisite sadness; "I'd like to marry you if you'll have me,
Dexter. I suppose you think I'm not worth having, but I'll be so beautiful for
you, Dexter."
What important statement or statements are made in the excerpt about the
upper-class world that Judy grew up in and that Dexter aspires to join?
Answer 1 and 3
5.Which of these excerpts from Dr. Seuss's book Bartholomew and the
Ooobleck uses onomatopoeia?
Answer As he ran he could hear the "Plop! Plop!" of the oobleck on the
windowpanes. It was pelting against the palace walls as big as
greenish cup-cakes now!
6.What sound device is used in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost
Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine
Hat"?
Answer repi- tition
7.Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Answer bibliography contradict
literary
manuscripts
8.Here is an excerpt from Marianne Moore's "Poetry" in which Moore
express- es her dislike for poorly written poems.
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8
Questions and Answers
1.Which of the following lines from "In Another Country" by Ernest Heming-
way contribute to the prevailing mood of apathy in the story?
Answer We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held
us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.
2.Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Answer withered detachedness
resignation
baseball
3.Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Answer ominous melancholy
sinuou
s
profan
e
4.Read this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams"
"I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be
happy?" Her moist eyes tore at his stability—her mouth turned slowly down-
1/
8
, ward with an exquisite sadness; "I'd like to marry you if you'll have me,
Dexter. I suppose you think I'm not worth having, but I'll be so beautiful for
you, Dexter."
What important statement or statements are made in the excerpt about the
upper-class world that Judy grew up in and that Dexter aspires to join?
Answer 1 and 3
5.Which of these excerpts from Dr. Seuss's book Bartholomew and the
Ooobleck uses onomatopoeia?
Answer As he ran he could hear the "Plop! Plop!" of the oobleck on the
windowpanes. It was pelting against the palace walls as big as
greenish cup-cakes now!
6.What sound device is used in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost
Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine
Hat"?
Answer repi- tition
7.Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Answer bibliography contradict
literary
manuscripts
8.Here is an excerpt from Marianne Moore's "Poetry" in which Moore
express- es her dislike for poorly written poems.
2/
8
