Question

1. Read the Australian dialogue below. Then answer the question that follows. "My flatmate is a bludger. He leaves his dirty clothes everywhere." What can you assume the word bludger means?

a-busy person
b-lazy person
c-helpful person
d-charming person

2. Read the passage from Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome. Which characteristic of naturalism is most clearly shown in this passage? “He felt all the more sorry for the girl because misfortune had, in a sense, indentured her to them. Mattie Silver was the daughter of a cousin of Zenobia Frome's, who had inflamed his clan with mingled sentiments of envy and admiration by descending from the hills to Connecticut, where he had married a Stamford girl and succeeded to her father's thriving
"drug" business. Unhappily Orin Silver, a man of far-reaching aims, had died too soon to prove that the end justifies the means. His accounts revealed merely what the means had been; and these were such that it was fortunate for his wife and daughter that his books were examined only after his impressive funeral. His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.”
a-Nature is indifferent.
b-Characters have no free will.
c-Humans are controlled by heredity, instinct, environment, and chance.
d-Scientific principles are applied to the study of human nature.

3. Which type of context clue is used in the following sentence to communicate the meaning of the italicized word? “Harriet felt her sister's comment was fatuous; however, her father took it seriously.”
a-series
b-description
c-comparison and contrast
d-synonym

4. Which of the following can be considered the start of the Harlem Renaissance?
a-the publishing of The New Negro
b-the Civil Rights Movement
c-white Americans began to see inequalities
d-an end of segregation

5. Which of the following did NOT help to shape modernism?
a-jazz poetry
b-socialist and populist ideas
c-the Great Depression
d-the stability of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

6. In fiction writing, variations in Standard English___.
a-is never positive
b-makes a story less believable
c-create more realistic characters
d-makes characters difficult to understand

7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Harlem Renaissance?
a-end of segregation
b-a newfound appreciation for the talents of African Americans
c-an introduction to some of America's most famous artists
d-a window into black America

8. Readers may be able to tell they are reading a modernist piece because of its___.
a-traditional topics
b-simplicity
c-structure
d-fragmentation

9. What is the meaning of the italicized word in the sentence below? Use context clues to find the meaning. “She thought her boss was a solicitous, thoughtful man for giving her an extra week off when she had her baby.”
a-serious
b-rude
c-ignorant
d-considerate

10. Which of the following is not a characteristic of realism?
a-slow moving plot
b-objective view points
c-humans are controlled by heredity
d-plausible plots

11. Which type of context clue provides a working definition of another word in a sentence?
a-synonym
b-comparison and contrast
c-description
d-series

12. ___is void of dialect variations.
a-Standard English
b-Informal language
c-Regionalism
d-Vernacular

13. While most voices of the Harlem Renaissance desired to create a movement that positioned the African American as an artistic and intellectual equal to white Americans, others believed they would not be considered equal until they were ____.
a-economically strong
b-religiously strong
c-politically strong
d-socially strong

14. Which of the following is not a characteristic of modernism?
a-Irony and satire were often used.
b-Literature was represented by a clear structural pattern.
c-A stream of consciousness form of poetry was common.
d-Emphasis was placed on mechanism and machine.

15. Which of the following is a characteristic of both naturalism and realism?
a-the belief that humans are in control of their destiny
b-scientific view
c-focus on elements that were not idealized, showing them in objective ways
d-the idea that humans have no free will

Answer 1

1-b

2-c

3-c

4-a

5-d

6-c

7-a

8-d

9-d

10-c

11-c

12-a

13-c

14-b

15-c

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

b-lazy person

c-Humans are controlled by heredity, instinct, environment, and chance.

d-synonym

a-the publishing of The New Negro

d-the stability of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

c-create more realistic characters

a-end of segregation

d-fragmentation

d-considerate

c-humans are controlled by heredity

a-synonym

a-Standard English

c-politically strong

b-Literature was represented by a clear structural pattern.

c-focus on elements that were not idealized, showing them in objective ways