English IV Final Exam Review

Question 1

What modernist idea postulates that people are trapped by conditions imposed on by human nature, society, and the world?

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determinism

Question 2

Which of the devices is not present in “Lake Isle of Innisfree”?“There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow"

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simile

Question 3

An Irish poet, novelist, theologian, and literary critic, this traditionalist Christian writer engaged with culture.

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C. S. Lewis

Question 4

All of the following were present in Yeats’s writing except

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traditional Christianity

Question 5

perspective when narrator stands outside the story, refers to characters in third person, “gets inside” one character

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third-person limited point of view

Question 6

Postcolonial literature often explores the effects of British culture on formerly British (now independent) colonies.

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True

Question 7

Modernists focused primarily on the group, not the individual, in their writing.

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False

Question 8

The reader and speaker never learn what the mark on the wall is.

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False

Question 9

a sudden revelatory insight into some aspect of life or reality that springs from an ordinary person, object, or event

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epiphany

Question 10

Which of the following terms does not characterize Joyce?

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literary nationalist

Question 11

What genre of literature resulted from increasing interest in psychology’s exploration of human perception of reality?

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stream-of-consciousness

Question 12

What genre of theatre emphasized that life has no clear meaning?

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absurdist

Question 13

a pattern in which words come close to perfect rhyme but do not achieve it

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slant rhyme

Question 14

Woolf develops the symbol of “The Mark on the Wall” indirectly and thus obscures the meaning of it for the reader.

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True

Question 15

D. H. Lawrence had all of the following in common with James Joyce except

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a prosperous family background.

Question 16

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish-"

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epiphany

Question 17

Modernism, at its core, offered a realistic perspective on life, separate from the hope of the gospel.

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True

Question 18

Even though Lewis’s Perelandra is in the science-fiction genre, its focus is nearly entirely on theological themes.

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True

Question 19

Mansfield’s stories focus on characters’ perceptions, and often feature emotionally fragile, yet complex, females

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True

Question 20

What two adjectives best describe Rosemary in A Cup of Tea?

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materialistic and vain

Question 21

the agreement of words’ sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward

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W. B. Yeats

Question 22

Distinctions between social classes became less defined after the world wars.

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True

Question 23

This Irish novelist and short-story writer was estranged from his homeland but wrote copiously of it.

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James Joyce

Question 24

In “Araby” who does the boy fantasize about?

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Mangan's sister

Question 25

Ulysses and Finnegans Wake were well-received by the general public despite the novels’ unconventional natures.

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False

Question 26

Knighted by the queen of England and awarded the Nobel Prize for literary achievements, and a famous prime minister

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Winston Churchill

Question 27

The dominant rhetorical appeal in “Be Ye Men of Valor” is

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pathos

Question 28

World War I contributed to the British disillusionment with a traditional worldview except which of the developments?

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The war exposed the British to the more attractive worldview of Germans.

Question 29

In Joyce’s “Araby,” the boy is prevented from leaving for the bazaar because

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his uncle is late.

Question 30

a poetic form that is a lyric poem or song greeting the dawn and often expresses the regret of two lovers at parting

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aubade

Question 31

The action of Joyce’s Ulysses takes place in what time frame?

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one day

Question 32

A master of the short-story form, this author from New Zealand focused on communicating the complexities of human nature

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Katherine Mansfield

Question 33

stream-of-consciousness narration in which the speaker’s inner thoughts tumble on the page as they do in his head

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interior monologue

Question 34

a hint at events that will occur later within the story

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foreshadowing

Question 35

According to John F. Kennedy, whose speeches “mobilized the English language and sent it into battle”?

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Winston Churchill’s

Question 36

Which Act empowering elected officials was a key victory for the common man?

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Parliament Act of 1911

Question 37

a form of shock humor derived from treating grotesque, serious, or morbid situations comically

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black humor

Question 38

D. H. Lawrence used autobiographical material in his short stories and novels.

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True

Question 39

Which monarch was the first to voluntarily abdicate and was later proven to have Nazi sympathies?

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Edward VIII

Question 40

Yeats reflected the modernists’ search for meaning, yet he offered no alternative system of explanation in his poetry.

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False

Question 41

Besides the mine accident, what event brings financial difficulty for Willy and Lucy?

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the miners’ strike

Question 42

All of the following are true of the Irish nationalist movement except

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Great Britain supported southern Ireland in the Easter Uprising of 1916.

Question 43

What biblical scene is alluded to in this unit’s excerpt from Perelandra?

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Satan’s temptation of Eve

Question 44

Which of the following is the theme of “Sailing to Byzantium”?

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the timelessness of great art

Question 45

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” communicates Yeats’s common tone of despair.

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False

Question 46

Joyce’s portrayal of the Roman Catholic Church in “Araby” is mostly positive.

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False

Question 47

What is the solution that Ransom provides to the dilemma in the excerpt from Perelandra?

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The Green Lady should “walk out of [her own] will.”

Question 48

What literary group formed by Virginia Woolf and her sister was characterized by blatant disregard for Victorian mores?

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Bloomsbury Group

Question 49

What philosophy maintaining that people must create their own meaning dominated much postwar literature?

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existentialism

Question 50

Who was Britain’s first female prime minister?

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Margaret Thatcher

Question 51

Willy is not proud to have Lucy as his wife.

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False

Question 52

A main conflict and theme of “Araby” is

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reality vs. fantasy.

Question 53

What symbol does Yeats use in “Sailing to Byzantium” and “The Second Coming” to show history’s progression as cyclical?

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a gyre

Question 54

a type of writing in which the author attempts to reproduce the flow of thoughts in a character’s mind

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stream of consciousness

Question 55

Unlike the modernist poets and novelists, the postwar writers had optimism and certainty resulting from the end of WWII

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False

Question 56

Yeats pursued spare diction, concrete images, and complex symbolism in his poetry.

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True

Question 57

In “The Mark on the Wall,” the speaker questions a traditional worldview with which illustration?

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Whitaker’s Almanack

Question 58

Lucy’s fears are unresolved at the end of “A Sick Collier.”

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True

Question 59

In A Cup of Tea Rosemary resembles the Good Samaritan in helping Miss Smith.

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False

Question 60

In “A Sick Collier” Willy and Lucy have a shared vision of home life.

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False

Question 61

the emotion pervading a work

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mood

Question 62

This English novelist, short-story writer, and poet wrote content focusing on fragmented nature of human experience

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D. H. Lawrence

Question 63

A series of lectures Woolf gave on the restrictive legal and moral codes for women became what published work?

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A Room of One’s Own

Question 64

This English novelist, essayist, and publisher strongly influenced both literary modernism and second-wave feminism.

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Virginia Wolff

English IV Final Exam Review

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English IV Final Exam Review

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