Unit 6 Honors Test PDF

Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ ID: A Unit 6 - Honors Test Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the essay?...

Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ ID: A Unit 6 - Honors Test Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the essay? a. It is a short prose composition. b. It discusses a particular topic in a nontechnical way. c. It expresses the thoughts and opinions of the writer. d. It demands precision in form and content. ____ 2. Informal and formal essays differ in all except which of the following areas? a. voice b. subject c. structure d. tone ____ 3. What two types of irony are found in Benchley’s “How to Get Things Done”? a. verbal and structural b. structural and situational c. situational and dramatic d. dramatic and verbal ____ 4. The title “A Miserable Merry Christmas” can best be described as exemplifying __________. a. paradox b. allusion c. understatement d. pun ____ 5. The tone of Engle’s essay “An Old-Fashioned Iowa Christmas” is best described as __________. a. humorous b. nostalgic c. satiric d. sad ____ 6. In “An Old-Fashioned Iowa Christmas,” what type of imaginative comparison does Engle use in his statement that the previous summer the goose was “hissing and darting out its bill at the end of its curving neck like a feathered snake”? a. personification b. metonymy c. simile d. synecdoche 1 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 7. In “An Old-Fashioned Iowa Christmas,” Engle’s repeated use of the statement, “There are no such... any more” shows his use of __________. a. parallelism b. metonymy c. chiasmus d. metaphor ____ 8. The climax of “A Miserable Merry Christmas” comes when __________. a. Lennie discovers that his stocking is empty b. Lennie’s sisters cry with him c. Lennie’s pony is delivered to the house d. Lennie decides to forgive his father ____ 9. The major turning point of a story is its __________. a. climax b. dénouement c. inciting incident d. crisis ____ 10. A secondary strand in the plot is known as __________. a. a branch plot b. a subplot c. an arcplot d. a supporting plot ____ 11. The final outcome of the story is known as the __________. a. dénouement b. subplot c. falling action d. exposition ____ 12. The crisis of Doyle’s story occurs in which of the following incidents? a. the death of Helen’s sister b. Holmes’s decision to take on the case c. Holmes’s fight with the snake d. the death of Dr. Roylott ____ 13. What device does Doyle use in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” to explain Helen Stoner’s reasons for meeting Holmes? a. plot twist b. suspense c. flashback d. foreshadowing 2 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 14. The point of view in which the narrator, one of the story’s characters, refers to himself as I throughout the piece is the __________. a. omniscient point of view b. limited-omniscient point of view c. first-person point of view d. second-person point of view ____ 15. The point of view in which the narrator tells the story in third person but “gets inside” only one of the characters, usually the central character, is the __________. a. omniscient point of view b. limited-omniscient point of view c. first-person point of view d. second-person point of view ____ 16. “A Miserable Merry Christmas” is written from __________. a. the first-person point of view b. the limited-omniscient point of view c. the omniscient point of view d. none of the above ____ 17. The point of view in which the narrator tells his story in third person and, as the storyteller, “knows all” is the __________. a. omniscient point of view b. limited-omniscient point of view c. first-person point of view d. second-person point of view True/False Indicate whether the statement is true or false. ____ 1. The two short prose genres most often used today are the short story and the article. ____ 2. Short stories contain the same basic elements as the novel. ____ 3. The title “A Miserable Merry Christmas” is an example of a pun. ____ 4. Doyle succeeds in creating a high level of suspense throughout his story. Short Answer 1. In what way must the elements of a short story differ from those of a novel? 3 Name: ________________________ ID: A 2. In “An Old-Fashioned Iowa Christmas,” Engle uses syntactically parallel sentences to list four areas of comparison between older and more recent Christmases. Identify two of those areas. 3. Define the literary term plot. 4. What information diverts both readers and Holmes from the real culprit? 5. What are the three major divisions of literature? 6. Who wrote “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”? 7. How is the first-person point of view limited in its viewpoint? Short Answer 1. Choose two of the three ways in which formal and informal essays differ and explain how they tend to differ in those areas. 2. List the plot stages in the order they usually fall within a story. Which stage has no set place in this order? 3. What point of view does Doyle use in “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”? How does that choice help the story? 4. Read the following short story. Chart out the plot points on a diagram. 4 Name: ________________________ ID: A Other 1. The Story of the Bad Little Boy By Mark Twain 1875 Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), recognized by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist, perhaps best known for his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Once there was a bad little boy whose name was Jim—though, if you will notice, you will find that bad little boys are nearly always called James in your Sunday-school books. It was strange, but still it was true that this one was called Jim. He didn’t have any sick mother either—a sick mother who was pious and had the consumption, and would be glad to lie down in the grave and be at rest but for the strong love she bore her boy, and the anxiety she felt that the world might be harsh and cold towards him when she was gone. Most bad boys in the Sunday-books are named James, and have sick mothers, who teach them to say, “Now, I lay me down,” etc. and sing them to sleep with sweet, plaintive voices, and then kiss them good-night, and kneel down by the bedside and weep. But it was different with this fellow. He was named Jim, and there wasn’t anything the matter with his mother—no consumption, nor anything of that kind. She was rather stout than otherwise, and she was not pious; moreover, she was not anxious on Jim’s account. She said if he were to break his neck it wouldn’t be much loss. She always spanked Jim to sleep, and she never kissed him good-night; on the contrary, she boxed his ears when she was ready to leave him. Once this little bad boy stole the key of the pantry, and slipped in there and helped himself to some jam, and filled up the vessel with tar, so that his mother would never know the difference; but all at once a terrible feeling didn’t come over him, and something didn’t seem to whisper to him, “Is it right to disobey my mother? Isn’t it sinful to do this? Where do bad little boys go who gobble up their good kind mother’s jam?” and then he didn’t kneel down all alone and promise never to be wicked any more, and rise up with a light, happy heart, and go and tell his mother all about it, and beg her forgiveness, and be blessed by her with tears of pride and thankfulness in her eyes. No; that is the way with all other bad boys in the books; but it happened otherwise with this Jim, strangely enough. He ate that jam, and said it was bully, in his sinful, vulgar way; and he put in the tar, and said that was bully also, and laughed, and observed “that the old woman would get up and snort” when she found it out; and when she did find it out, he denied knowing anything about it, and she whipped him severely, and he did the crying himself. Everything about this boy was curious—everything turned out differently with him from the way it does to the bad James in the books. Once he climbed up in Farmer Acorn’s apple-tree to steal apples, and the limb didn’t break, and he didn’t fall and break his arm, and get torn by the farmer’s great dog, and then languish on a sick bed for weeks, and repent and become good. Oh! no; he stole as many apples as he wanted and came down all right; and he was all ready for the dog too, and knocked him endways with a brick when he came to tear him. It was very strange—nothing like it ever happened in those mild little books with marbled backs, and with pictures in them of men with swallow-tailed coats and bell-crowned hats, and pantaloons that are short in the legs, and women with the waists of their dresses under their arms, and no hoops on. Nothing like it in any of the Sunday-school books. 5 Name: ________________________ ID: A Once he stole the teacher’s pen-knife, and, when he was afraid it would be found out and he would get whipped, he slipped it into George Wilson’s cap—poor Widow Wilson’s son, the moral boy, the good little boy of the village, who always obeyed his mother, and never told an untruth, and was fond of his lessons, and infatuated with Sunday-school. And when the knife dropped from the cap, and poor George hung his head and blushed, as if in conscious guilt, and the grieved teacher charged the theft upon him, and was just in the very act of bringing the switch down upon his trembling shoulders, a white-haired improbable justice of the peace did not suddenly appear in their midst, and strike an attitude and say, “Spare this noble boy—there stands the cowering culprit! I was passing the school-door at recess, and unseen myself, I saw the theft committed!” And then Jim didn’t get whaled, and the venerable justice didn’t read the tearful school a homily and take George by the hand and say such a boy deserved to be exalted, and then tell him to come and make his home with him, and sweep out the office, and make fires, and run errands, and chop wood, and study law, and help his wife to do household labors, and have all the balance of the time to play, and get forty cents a month, and be happy. No; it would have happened that way in the books, but it didn’t happen that way to Jim. No meddling old clam of a justice dropped in to make trouble, and so the model boy George got thrashed, and Jim was glad of it because, you know, Jim hated moral boys. Jim said he was “down on them milk-sops.” Such was the coarse language of this bad, neglected boy. But the strangest thing that ever happened to Jim was the time he went boating on Sunday, and didn’t get drowned, and that other time that he got caught out in the storm when he was fishing on Sunday, and didn’t get struck by lightning. Why, you might look, and look, all through the Sunday-school books from now till next Christmas, and you would never come across anything like this. Oh no; you would find that all the bad boys who go boating on Sunday invariably get drowned; and all the bad boys who get caught out in storms when they are fishing on Sunday infallibly get struck by lightning. Boats with bad boys in them always upset on Sunday, and it always storms when bad boys go fishing on the Sabbath.13 How this Jim ever escaped is a mystery to me. This Jim bore a charmed life—that must have been the way of it. Nothing could hurt him. He even gave the elephant in the menagerie a plug of tobacco, and the elephant didn’t knock the top of his head off with his trunk. He browsed around the cupboard after essence of peppermint, and didn’t make a mistake and drink aqua fortis. He stole his father’s gun and went hunting on the Sabbath, and didn’t shoot three or four of his fingers off. He struck his little sister on the temple with his fist when he was angry, and she didn’t linger in pain through long summer days, and die with sweet words of forgiveness upon her lips that redoubled the anguish of his breaking heart. No; she got over it. He ran off and went to sea at last, and didn’t come back and find himself sad and alone in the world, his loved ones sleeping in the quiet churchyard, and the vine-embowered home of his boyhood tumbled down and gone to decay. Ah! no; he came home as drunk as a piper, and got into the station-house the first thing. And he grew up and married, and raised a large family, and brained them all with an axe one night, and got wealthy by all manner of cheating and rascality; and now he is the infernalist wickedest scoundrel in his native village, and is universally respected, and belongs to the Legislature. So you see there never was a bad James in the Sunday-school books that had such a streak of luck as this sinful Jim with the charmed life. 6  ID: A Unit 6 - Honors Test Answer Section MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: Page 220 2. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Page 220 3. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Page 225 4. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Page 231 5. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Pages 233–237 | Page 294 6. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: Page 238 7. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Page 238 8. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: Page 243 9. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: Page 243 10. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Page 243 11. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Page 243 12. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: TE Page 264 13. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: Page 279 14. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: Page 293 15. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: Page 293 16. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Page 294 17. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: Page 294 TRUE/FALSE 1. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: Page 220 2. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: Page 221 3. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: Page 231 4. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: Page 261 SHORT ANSWER 1. ANS: They must all be compressed and streamlined. PTS: 1 REF: Page 221 2. ANS: Engle compares departures, streets, arrivals, and Christmas dinners. PTS: 1 REF: Page 238 3. ANS: A plot is a series of events arranged to produce a definite sense of movement toward a specific goal. PTS: 1 REF: Page 243 1  ID: A 4. ANS: the band of gypsies PTS: 1 REF: Page 279 5. ANS: poetry, prose, drama PTS: 1 6. ANS: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle PTS: 1 7. ANS: it is unreliable and cannot be completely trusted PTS: 1 ESSAY 1. ANS: Possible answers include the following: First, formal essays use an impersonal but authoritative voice while informal essays are more relaxed, using the voice of the writer himself. Second, formal essays take a serious tone while informal essays can take a wide range of tones, from humorous to reflective to reminiscent and more. Third, formal essays tend to be very structured and organized in order to methodically present a logical argument in favor of the writer’s position. On the other hand, informal essays have a more relaxed structure and may even seem to wander about in a chatty way. PTS: 1 REF: Pages 220–221 2. ANS: The plot stages generally occur in the following order: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, crisis, falling action, dénouement. The climax can fall at various places within the plot, though it most often occurs near or with the crisis. PTS: 1 REF: Page 243 3. ANS: The first-person point of view as provided by Watson aids suspense in the mystery. Since Watson lacks Holmes’s abilities, he sees the action of the story but does not understand the significance. Thus readers also do not understand the mystery until Holmes explains it to Watson. PTS: 1 REF: Page 293 4. ANS: answers vary PTS: 1 2  ID: A OTHER 1. ANS: answers vary PTS: 1 3 Unit 6 - Honors Test [Answer Strip] ID: A A _____ 7. C _____14. D 1. _____ C 8. _____ B _____15. B _____ 2. D 9. _____ A _____16. A _____ 3. B _____10. A _____17. A _____ 4. A _____11. B _____ 5. F _____ 1. C _____12. T _____ 2. C 6. _____ F _____ 3. C _____13. T _____ 4.