Unit Test — Cumulative exam Answers

What do the words partial, palatial, and potential have in common?

Read the passage from a letter that President Jimmy Carter wrote to Congress in 1977.This message brings together a great variety of programs. It deals not only with ways to preserve the wilderness, wildlife, and natural and historical resources which are a beautiful and valued part of America's national heritage: it deals also with the effects of pollution, toxic chemicals, and the damage caused by the demand for energy. Each of these concerns, in its own way, affects the environment; and together they underscore the importance of environmental protection in all our lives.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is attempting to persuade Macbeth to carry out their plan to murder the king.Lady Macbeth. Was the hope drunk,Wherein you dress’d yourself? hath it slept since,And wakes it now, to look so green and paleAt what it did so freely? From this timeSuch I account thy love. Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act and valourAs thou art in desire?

What reasons can Hannah use to support her claim? Select two options.

Read the excerpt from Pygmalion and Galatea by Josephine Preston Peabody.Now there once lived in Cyprus a young sculptor, Pygmalion by name, who thought nothing on earth so beautiful as the white marble folk that live without faults and never grow old. Indeed, he said that he would never marry a mortal woman, and people began to think that his daily life among marble creatures was hardening his heart altogether.Read the excerpt from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.HIGGINS [tempted, looking at her] It’s almost irresistible. She’s so deliciously low—so horribly dirty—LIZA [protesting extremely] Ah—ah—ah—ah—ow—ow—oooo!!! I ain’t dirty: I washed my face and hands afore I come, I did.

Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth has just seen the ghost of Banquo take a seat at Macbeth’s celebratory coronation banquet. Lady Macbeth takes Macbeth aside to find out what is wrong.Lady Macbeth. [Privately, to MACBETH.] Are you a man?Macbeth. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on thatWhich might appal the devil.

Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Scottish nobles leading the army against Macbeth discuss Macbeth’s mental state and the fortification of Macbeth’s castle.Menteith. What does the tyrant?Caithness. Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:Some say he’s mad; others that lesser hate himDo call it valiant fury; but, for certain,He cannot buckle his distemper’d causeWithin the belt of rule.Angus. Now does he feelHis secret murders sticking on his hands;Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;Those he commands move only in command,Nothing in love: now does he feel his titleHang loose about him, like a giant’s robeUpon a dwarfish thief.Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macduff is on the battlefield, looking for Macbeth.Macduff. That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!If thou be’st slain and with no stroke of mine,My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose armsAre hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,Or else my sword with an unbatter’d edgeI sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;By this great clatter, one of greatest noteSeems bruited. Let me find him, fortune!And more I beg not.

Read the final two paragraphs from "Money to Us Is of No Value."You have talked to us about concessions. It appears strange that you should expect any from us, who have only been defending our just rights against your invasions. We want peace. Restore to us our country, and we shall be enemies no longer.We desire you to consider, brothers, that our only demand is the peaceable possession of a small part of our once great country. Look back and review the lands from whence we have been driven to this spot. We can retreat no farther, because the country behind hardly affords food for its present inhabitants, and we have therefore resolved to leave our bones in this small space to which we are now confined.

Read the excerpt from "Money to Us Is of No Value."We know that these settlers are poor, or they would never have ventured to live in a country which has been in continual trouble ever since they crossed the Ohio. Divide, therefore, this large sum of money which you have offered us among these people: give to each also a proportion of what you say you would give to us annually (over and above this very large sum of money), and we are persuaded they would most readily accept of it in lieu of the lands you sold them. If you add, also, the great sums you must expend in raising and paying armies with a view to force us to yield you our country, you will certainly have more than sufficient for the purpose of repaying these settlers for all their labor and their improvements.

Read the excerpt from Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington. I believe that in time, through the operation of intelligence and friendly race relations, all cheating at the ballot-box in the South will cease. It will become apparent that the white man who begins by cheating a [Black man] out of his ballot soon learns to cheat a white man out of his, and that the man who does this ends his career of dishonesty by the theft of property or by some equally serious crime. In my opinion, the time will come when the South will encourage all of its citizens to vote. It will see that it pays better, from every standpoint, to have healthy, vigorous life than to have that political stagnation which always results when one-half of the population has no share and no interest in the Government.

Read the excerpt from Pygmalion and Galatea by Josephine Preston Peabody.Now the festival of Venus was at hand, and Pygmalion, like all who loved Beauty, joined the worshippers. In the temple victims were offered, solemn rites were held, and votaries from many lands came to pray the favor of the goddess. At length Pygmalion himself approached the altar and made his prayer."Goddess,” he said, "who hast vouchsafed to me this gift of beauty, give me a perfect love, likewise, and let me have for bride, one like my ivory maiden.” And Venus heard.Read the excerpt from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.THE GENTLEMAN [returning to his former place on the note taker’s left] How do you do it, if I may ask?THE NOTE TAKER. Simply phonetics. The science of speech. That’s my profession; also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby! You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue. I can place any man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets.

Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Malcolm is speaking with Macduff about the slaying of his family.Malcolm. Be this the whetstone of your sword: let griefConvert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.

Why does Roosevelt use repetition in his request for a declaration of war?

Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.MAMA: Lord have mercy, baby. You done gone and bought your grandmother a hat?TRAVIS (very proud): Open it!She does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it.RUTH: Travis, honey, what is that?TRAVIS (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): It's a gardening hat! Like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens.BENEATHA (giggling fiercely): Travis—we were trying to make Mama Mrs. Miniver—not Scarlett O'Hara! MAMA (indignantly): What's the matter with you all! This here is a beautiful hat! (Absurdly.) I always wanted me one just like it!

Read the passage from act 1, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? the Thane of Cawdor lives,A prosperous gentleman; and to be kingStands not within the prospect of beliefNo more than to be Cawdor. Say, from whenceYou owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our wayWith such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish.] Banquo. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,And these are of them. Whither are they vanish’d? Macbeth. Into the air, and what seem’d corporal meltedAs breath into the wind. Would they had stay’d! Banquo. Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is speaking to Lady Macbeth before a feast. He tells her to flatter Banquo.[Macbeth.] [To LADY MACBETH.] Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:Unsafe the while, that weMust lave our honours in these flattering streams,And make our faces vizards to our hearts,Disguising what they are.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Enter MACBETH and BANQUO. Macbeth. So foul and fair a day I have not seen. Banquo. How far is ’t call’d to Forres? [Sees the WITCHES.] What are these,So wither’d and so wild in their attire,That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ the earth,And yet are on ’t? Live you? or are you aughtThat man may question? You seem to understand me,By each at once her [chappy] finger layingUpon her skinny lips: you should be women,And yet your beards forbid me to interpretThat you are so.

Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms” speech.That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3 of The Tragedy Macbeth.Macbeth. [Aside.] Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:The greatest is behind. [To ROSS and ANGUS.] Thanks for your pains.[To BANQUO.] Do you not hope your children shall be kings,When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to mePromis’d no less to them?

Review the photo. This image depicts Macbeth hearing the witches’ prophecy about his future reign.Photo by Manuel Harlan (c) RSC