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11A 2026/2027 ACTUAL QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS.
What is the author's main purpose in this excerpt? - correct
answer-It draws a parallel between women to reveal the
disparities faced by enslaved women.
Why is realism said to be a reaction to romanticism? - correct
answer-Unlike the romantics, realists chose to use real-life
situations over idealism.
He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures
fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgettable
lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would
not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim. - correct
answer-realism
In one of the many triumphs given to a Roman general upon his
entering the worlds capital, the bones of a whale, brought all
the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous
object in the cymballed procession. - correct answer-
romanticism
,Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have a small
touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the
sharkish sea. The white whale is their demigorgon. - correct
answer-romanticism
...for of many Southland dogs he had known, not one had
shown up worthily in camp and on trail. They were all to soft,
dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation. - correct answer-
realism
What do the underlined sentences in this excerpt from William
Dean Howells's "Editha" reveal about the speaker?
"I don't want you to feel foolishly bound to my memory. I should
hate that, wherever I happened to be."
("I am yours, for time and eternity—time and eternity." She liked
the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.)
"Well, say eternity; that's all right; but time's another thing; and
I'm talking about time. But there is something! My mother! If
anything happens--" - correct answer-She speaks without
feeling.
, Which two parts of this excerpt from William Dean Howells's
"Editha" idealize patriotism?
"George: I understood—when you left me. But I think we had
better emphasize your meaning that if we cannot be one in
everything we had better be one in nothing. So I am sending
these things for your keeping till you have made up your mind.
"I shall always love you, and therefore I shall never marry any
one else. But the man I marry must love his country first of all,
and be able to say to me,
"'I could not love thee, dear, so much,Loved I not honor more."
"There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour
there is no other honor." - correct answer-But the man I marry
must love his country first of all, and be able to say to me,
"There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour
there is no other honor."
Which sentence in this excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper" by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the use of verbal irony?
I don't like our room a bit.
11A 2026/2027 ACTUAL QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS.
What is the author's main purpose in this excerpt? - correct
answer-It draws a parallel between women to reveal the
disparities faced by enslaved women.
Why is realism said to be a reaction to romanticism? - correct
answer-Unlike the romantics, realists chose to use real-life
situations over idealism.
He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures
fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgettable
lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would
not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim. - correct
answer-realism
In one of the many triumphs given to a Roman general upon his
entering the worlds capital, the bones of a whale, brought all
the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous
object in the cymballed procession. - correct answer-
romanticism
,Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have a small
touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the
sharkish sea. The white whale is their demigorgon. - correct
answer-romanticism
...for of many Southland dogs he had known, not one had
shown up worthily in camp and on trail. They were all to soft,
dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation. - correct answer-
realism
What do the underlined sentences in this excerpt from William
Dean Howells's "Editha" reveal about the speaker?
"I don't want you to feel foolishly bound to my memory. I should
hate that, wherever I happened to be."
("I am yours, for time and eternity—time and eternity." She liked
the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.)
"Well, say eternity; that's all right; but time's another thing; and
I'm talking about time. But there is something! My mother! If
anything happens--" - correct answer-She speaks without
feeling.
, Which two parts of this excerpt from William Dean Howells's
"Editha" idealize patriotism?
"George: I understood—when you left me. But I think we had
better emphasize your meaning that if we cannot be one in
everything we had better be one in nothing. So I am sending
these things for your keeping till you have made up your mind.
"I shall always love you, and therefore I shall never marry any
one else. But the man I marry must love his country first of all,
and be able to say to me,
"'I could not love thee, dear, so much,Loved I not honor more."
"There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour
there is no other honor." - correct answer-But the man I marry
must love his country first of all, and be able to say to me,
"There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour
there is no other honor."
Which sentence in this excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper" by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the use of verbal irony?
I don't like our room a bit.
