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1. “Kugler, Ferdinand was a thief before his tenth year and an inveterate liar.”

a.habitual
b.believable
c.undetectable
d. entertaining

2. “But really, why don’t You…why don’t You Yourself do the judging?” Kugler asked pensively.
a.regretfully
b.eagerly
c.happily
d. thoughtfully

3. “The council has forbidden itinerant entertainers to stop on municipal property.
a.acrobatic
b.acting
c.country
d.traveling

5. [We] … began to talk about the weather again, … and other banal and insoluble questions.
a.trite
b.critical
c.controversial
d.unexpected

6. "Though another of Mohammed’s commandments—the one on alcoholic drinks—was broken (and without constraint, as I know now) no latitude was allowed with regard to pork."

a.argument
b.sharing
c.leeway
d.expense

7. The people in Eugene Ionesco’s story start to turn into _________
a. wingspanroaches.
b. monkeys.
c. rhinoceroses.
d. giraffes.

8. The “black sheep” in Italo Calvino’s fable causes problems because he is __________
a. honest.
b.gullible.
c.dishonest.
d. cruel.

9. Andrei Voznesensky compares a young girl’s first disappointment to “First _______”
a.Spring.
b.Raindrops.
c.Frost.
d.Skylark.

10. The Muslim narrator in “Forbidden Fruit” prides himself on his _______
a.appetite.
b.driving.
c.handwriting.
d.abstinence.

True or False
11. In “The Last Judgment,” a murderer learns that he will receive not divine but human justice.
12. Boris Pasternak was allowed to accept the Nobel Prize for Doctor Zhivago when it was awarded.

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(The first 5 questions: "Choose the word that defines the word in bold.") 1)a "Inveterate" means having a rooted habit, whcih is "habitual". 2)d "Pensively" means being in deep thought, meditating about an issue: "thoughtfully" is therefore the right word. 3)d "Itinerant" comes from the latin "itinerari", to travel or to journey. 5)a "Banal" is the oppposite of the other choices, since it means a trifle, superficial or simple issue. 6)c "Latitude" in this case means a freedom, space for (re)action, so the only right term is "leeway". 7)c The play which the question is asking about is entitled "Rhinoceros", symbol of the hidden irrational beast inside human beings. 8)a He is honest (explicitly depicted as such), creating problems in a criminal environment; he is not gullible as he is aware of the consequences of his decision, his honesty was what altered the system. 9)c First frost or first ice, in the last stanza the girl's disappointment is explicitly called "first frost". 10)d (Referring to Iskander's Forbidden Fruit)The narrator faithfully abstains himself from eating pork, and is proud about this. 11)True (Referring to Karel Capek's The Last Judgement) This story is a serious "parody" in which God is depicted not as a judge, but as a witness; human justice is therefore still ironically observed. 12)False The Soviet Union forbid him from receiving the reward (although he did initially accept it).
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Europe II Unit Test multiple choice: 1. defied 2. habitual 3. thoughtfully 4. traveling 5. trite 6. leeway 7. rhinoceroses 8. honest 9. Frost 10. abstinence 11. true 12. false 13. simple sentence 14. complex sentence 15. compound sentence 16. adverbial clause 17. noun clouse 18. independent clause 19. adjectival clause

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