END OF SEMESTER TEST: ENGLISH 11B TEST WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. which of the following lines from "In Another Coun- we were all a lit-
try" by Ernest Hemingway contribute to the prevailing tle detached, and
mood of apathy in the story? there was nothing
that held us to-
gether except that
we met every af-
ternoon at the hos-
pital
2. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. withered
detachedness
resignation
baseball
3. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. ominous
melancholy
sinuous
profane
4. read this excerpt from F Scott Fitzgeralds "Winter 1 and 3
Dreams"
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?
5. which of these excerpts from Dr Suess's book 2. As he ran he
Bartholomew and the Ooobleck uses onomatopoeia? could hear the
"plop! plop!" of the
oobleck on the
windowpanes.....
6. what sound device is used in this excerpt from "how repetition
the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling
from philadelphia to medicine hat"?
7. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. bibliography
contradict
literary
manuscripts
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VERIFIED ANSWERS
8. Here is an excerpt from Marianne Moore's "Poetry" in poets must be able
which Moore expresses her dislike for poorly written to inject real emo-
poems. tion into abstract
What does Moore mean when she says "imaginary concepts
gardens with real toads in them" in this excerpt?
9. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. sustenance
austere
transmute
obscure
10. what effect does Ezra pound achieve by excluding the it reflects the imag-
phrase "are like" in favor of a semicolon in this poem, ist ideal separate
turning the lines into a metaphor instead of a simile? images that over-
lap to present one
clear idea
11. Which excerpt represents the call-and-response for- Island by Langston
mat derived from jazz music? Hughes
Black and white,
Deferred Gold and brown--
by Langston Hughes (excerpt) Chocolate-custard
Maybe now I can have that white enamel stove I Pie of a town.
dreamed about when we first fell in love eighteen Dream within a
years ago. But you know, rooming and everything dream,
then kids, cold-water flat and all that. But now my Our dream de-
daughter's married And my boy's most grown--quit ferred.
school to work--and where we're moving there ain't no Good morning,
stove--Maybe I can buy that white enamel stove! daddy!
Ain't you heard?
Island
by Langston Hughes (excerpt)
Black and white, Gold and brown--Chocolate-custard
Pie of a town. Dream within a dream, Our dream de-
ferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard?
Harlem
by Langston Huges (excerpt)
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like
2/6
VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. which of the following lines from "In Another Coun- we were all a lit-
try" by Ernest Hemingway contribute to the prevailing tle detached, and
mood of apathy in the story? there was nothing
that held us to-
gether except that
we met every af-
ternoon at the hos-
pital
2. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. withered
detachedness
resignation
baseball
3. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. ominous
melancholy
sinuous
profane
4. read this excerpt from F Scott Fitzgeralds "Winter 1 and 3
Dreams"
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?
5. which of these excerpts from Dr Suess's book 2. As he ran he
Bartholomew and the Ooobleck uses onomatopoeia? could hear the
"plop! plop!" of the
oobleck on the
windowpanes.....
6. what sound device is used in this excerpt from "how repetition
the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling
from philadelphia to medicine hat"?
7. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. bibliography
contradict
literary
manuscripts
1/6
, END OF SEMESTER TEST: ENGLISH 11B TEST WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
8. Here is an excerpt from Marianne Moore's "Poetry" in poets must be able
which Moore expresses her dislike for poorly written to inject real emo-
poems. tion into abstract
What does Moore mean when she says "imaginary concepts
gardens with real toads in them" in this excerpt?
9. select the correct answer from each drop down menu. sustenance
austere
transmute
obscure
10. what effect does Ezra pound achieve by excluding the it reflects the imag-
phrase "are like" in favor of a semicolon in this poem, ist ideal separate
turning the lines into a metaphor instead of a simile? images that over-
lap to present one
clear idea
11. Which excerpt represents the call-and-response for- Island by Langston
mat derived from jazz music? Hughes
Black and white,
Deferred Gold and brown--
by Langston Hughes (excerpt) Chocolate-custard
Maybe now I can have that white enamel stove I Pie of a town.
dreamed about when we first fell in love eighteen Dream within a
years ago. But you know, rooming and everything dream,
then kids, cold-water flat and all that. But now my Our dream de-
daughter's married And my boy's most grown--quit ferred.
school to work--and where we're moving there ain't no Good morning,
stove--Maybe I can buy that white enamel stove! daddy!
Ain't you heard?
Island
by Langston Hughes (excerpt)
Black and white, Gold and brown--Chocolate-custard
Pie of a town. Dream within a dream, Our dream de-
ferred. Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard?
Harlem
by Langston Huges (excerpt)
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like
2/6
