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1
Colonel Morris is from ______.
The Uninhabited House
Street Haunting
On Bear Ridge
Miss Prime of Jean Brodie
2
Which authors mark the beginning of material AFTER the midterm?
Riddell
Austen
Seacole/Moodie
Dickens
3
What was the catalyst to the Great War (WWI)?
The Troubles
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Easter Rising
Queen Victoria's Death
4
Identify: "She stood behind her bench in her white linen coat with both hands on a glass jar full of dark grey powder."
Muriel Spark, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
Ben Okri, "Secret Source"
H.G. Wells, "Empire of the Ants"
Saki, "Tobermory"
5
Identify the author: "Secret by the unmourning water / of the riding Thames. After the first death, there is no other."
WH Auden
Dylan Thomas
William Butler Yeats
Virginia Woolf
6
Which war was primarily fought between England and Russia from 1853-1856?
Crimean War
The Land War
The Great War (WWI)
Anglo-Russian War
7
Which writer had an unrequited love for the actress Maud Gonne?
Virginia Woolf
Ed Thomas
Dylan Thomas
William Butler Yeats
8
When did Queen Victoria die?
1905
1910
1901
1902
9
The final exam is...
Wednesday, Dec 6th 7 - 7:10am (write FAST)
Wednesday, Dec 6th 10:30am - 12:30pm in your Haley Discussion Classroom
Wednesday, Dec 6th 10:30am - 12:30pm in MELL
Wednesday, Dec 6th 12 - 2pm in MELL
10
A major characteristic of Woolf's Street Haunting is...
Stream of Consciousness
Anachronism
Monologue
Epigraph
11
Monica was known for _____, while Eunice was known for ________.
Gymnastics, Mathematics
Painting, History
Mathematics, Gymnastics
Swimming, Gymnastics
12
Which author is primarily known for their works of fantasy and science fiction?
Virginia Woolf
William Butler Yeats
Mary Seacole
H.G. Wells
13
The MAIN goal of Pt. 2: Passage Analysis on the Final Exam is to...
to explain what happens in the passage
connect themes to larger cultural context
to summarize the text
to explain characterization
14
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie took place in______ and On Bear Ridge was an imagined version of ______.
Northern Ireland, Wales
Wales, Scotland
Scotland, Wales
Scotland, Northern Ireland
15
T or F: Modernist writers questioned ideas of certainty, truth, and stability.
True
False
16
In a novel, "prolepsis" is when:
a word or phrase is applied to an object to create symbolism
the order of events are disrupted, to reveal a future plot point early on
a person's thoughts are read in continuous flow
all the characters die at the end
17
“To question the water you drink,” the philosopher said, “is to question the very foundation of the society you live in"
The Uninhabited House
The Secret Source
The Lazy River
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
18
What was the name of the uprising that occured in 1916 Dublin on Easter Monday?
Bloody Monday
The Easter Rising
The Irish Rising
The Troubles
19
Brexit was ________ and it launched in _____
the exit of Britain from the EU, 2016
The split of Northern Ireland, 2017
the exit of Britain from the UK, 2015
The exit of Britain for the UN, 2016
20
Which section includes information from BEFORE the midterm?
Short Answer
Objective/ID
Essay
Passage Analysis
21
T or F? Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) did NOT write about politics in his poetry!
True
False
22
"Those masterful images ... Grew in pure mind but out of what began? / A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street.."
H.G. Wells, "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
Dylan Thomas, "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
William Butler Yeats, "The Circus Animal's Desertion"
WH Auden, "The Circus Animal's Desertion"
23
The Land War was...
the way of reviving the Irish national identity
a precursor to The Great War
the Irish Civil War
the period of civil unrest over who had the right to Irish land
24
Which narrative and poetic form emerged out of Modernism?
stream-of-consciousness writing
dramatic monologue
slam poetry
haikus
25
"Whilst they were alive I made the animals as comfortable as possible. The secret of good butchery in my opinion is...."
The Empire of the Ants
On Bear Ridge
The Uninhabited House
Tobermory
26
Virginia Woolf was a...
Gothic writer
Irish poet
Modernist writer
literary queen!
27
Which was NOT a theme of On Bear Ridge?
Language
Memory
Loss
Betrayal
28
"For in this hotel we are all British, we are en masse, we are unashamed. We enjoy one another's company."
The Circus Animals' Desertion
The Lazy River
The Secret Source
Loose Change
29
Seacole is ______ by birth and her father is ______
Jamacian, Welsh
Bahamian, Irish
Jamacian, English
Jamacian, Scottish
30
Who was "especially known for their tales of the supernatural, which fed into the Victorian vogue for ghost stories"?
William Butler Yeats
Susanna Moodie
Charlotte Riddell
Mary Seacole
31
Modernism was.....
The break with tradition- a result of instability in wake of the Great War
A return to more traditional creative forms
The break with tradition as a result of Brexit
The revival of Irish literature
32
"For a long time now, his generation hadceased reading the newspapers or trusting them..."
Virginia Woolf, "Street Haunting"
H.G. Wells, "Empire of the Ants"
Ben Okri, "Secret Source"
Saki, "Tobermory"
33
T or F? The poet WH Auden became a joint citizen of the US -AND- Great Britain.
False
True
