Unit Test — Cumulative exam Answers

Read the passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and yet it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer’s notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind.

Read the graph.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey . . .

A ________ is a struggle between opposing forces.

recreates a historical eventrealistically represents lifedoes not depict the real worlddoes not include mythical creatures

Read the excerpt from "Address to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women” by Hillary Clinton.I have met women in South Africa who helped lead the struggle to end apartheid and are now helping to build a new democracy. I have met with the leading women of my own hemisphere who are working every day to promote literacy and better health care for children in their countries.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty. But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete. Think of it—I did not even exist! Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or two to mix and swallow the draught that I had always standing ready; and whatever he had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of breath upon a mirror; and there in his stead, quietly at home, trimming the midnight lamp in his study, a man who could afford to laugh at suspicion, would be Henry Jekyll.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.What he told me in the next hour, I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer. My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous. As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I can not, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.

Which literary device attaches human qualities or actions to animals, objects, or abstract concepts?

Read the excerpt from a literary blog.While many scholars make powerful and convincing arguments for the literary genius of Zora Neale Hurston, Edgar Allan Poe, or John Steinbeck, Willa Cather is arguably the best novelist ever known to American readers. Her most famous novel, My Ántonia, is a work of pure genius. Written in 1918, the autobiographical masterpiece tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of immigrant parents. Told through the eyes of her childhood friend, Jim Burden, Ántonia’s story chronicles the hardships of living as a pioneer in the prairielands of the American Midwest. Surprisingly, Cather was able to remember her experience of moving from Virginia to Nebraska as a nine-year-old child and use her pain and happiness from those times to create the most beautiful novel ever written. No one has ever been able to capture life on the Western plains as Cather did. At the time of its publication, Cather’s unmistakable talent was lauded throughout the world. Cather rightfully gained her place among the esteemed writers of the modern literary movement.

Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.The slit drum began its life in Central Africa, in the region where Sudan and the Congo share a frontier, and it would have been part of the court orchestra of a powerful chief... The flanks of the drum have been carved to different thicknesses, so that a skilled drummer with a traditional drumstick can produce at least two tones and as many as four distinct pitches.

Which location is most likely to be the setting in a work of gothic fiction?

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."Well, it was this way,” returned Mr. Enfield: "I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street and all the folks asleep—street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church—till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman.”

compoundmodifyingnonrestrictiverestrictive

Read the sentence.The phone call, from the admissions office, made me ecstatic.