The Human Experience — Test Answers

Which lines from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of a rhyme?

Read the line from Rita Dove’s poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors,” then study Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot . the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. Expand Image How does this line relate to the artwork?

Read the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove. This is for the woman with one black wing perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, who painted herself a present— wildflowers entwining the plaster corset her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— this priestess in the romance of mirrors. Each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead, Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead. And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, Diego’s love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. What structural element is apparent in this poem?

Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion?

Which scenario is an example of intrinsic motivation?

What are the characteristics of fixed poetry? Choose three correct answers.

Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own . She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers . They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter. Which rhetorical devices are used in the underlined portion of this text? Choose two correct answers.

Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own. To have lived a free life in London in the sixteenth century would have meant for a woman who was poet and playwright a nervous stress and dilemma which might well have killed her. Had she survived, whatever she had written would have been twisted and deformed , issuing from a strained and morbid imagination. How do the connotations of the underlined words emphasize the author’s point of view?

Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own . Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it, as Alf, Bert or Chas. must do in obedience to their instinct, which murmurs if it sees a fine woman go by, or even a dog, Ce chien est a moi. And, of course, it may not be a dog, I thought, remembering Parliament Square, the Sieges Allee and other avenues; it may be a piece of land or a man with curly black hair. What text structure is used in this passage?

Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own . And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confession and self-analysis that to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer's mind whole and entire. Generally material circumstances are against it. Dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down . What is the purpose of the rhetorical device used in the underlined sentence?

Read the passage from A Doll’s House. Nora: Well, then I have found other ways of earning money. Last winter I was lucky enough to get a lot of copying to do; so I locked myself up and sat writing every evening until quite late at night. Many a time I was desperately tired; but all the same it was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man. Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager—a fat, looselipped man—guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting—no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. He hinted—you can imagine what. She could get no training in her craft. What central idea is explored in both passages?

Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without singing them, was often a woman. It was a woman Edward Fitzgerald, I think, suggested who made the ballads and the folk-songs, crooning them to her children, beguiling her spinning with them, or the length of the winter's night. How do the underlined words emphasize the author’s ideas?

Which excerpt from the poem "Girl Powdering Her Neck” by Cathy Song is an example of a simile?

Read the lines from "Girl Powdering Her Neck” by Cathy Song, then look at the artwork by Kitagawa Utamaro. Her hair is black with hints of red, the color of seaweed spread over rocks. Morning begins the ritual wheel of the body, the application of translucent skins. She practices pleasure: the pressure of three fingertips applying powder. Fingerprints of pollen some other hand will trace. The peach-dyed kimono patterned with maple leaves drifting across the silk, falls from right to left in a diagonal, revealing the nape of her neck and the curve of a shoulder like the slope of a hill set deep in snow in a country of huge white solemn birds. Her face appears in the mirror, a reflection in a winter pond, rising to meet itself. Expand Image Which statement best compares the use of imagery and color in the poem and artwork to portray the woman?

Read the passage from A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Helmer: To desert your home, your husband and your children! And you don't consider what people will say! Nora: I cannot consider that at all. I only know that it is necessary for me. Helmer: It's shocking. This is how you would neglect your most sacred duties. Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. That refuge she would have sought certainly. It was the relic of the sense of chastity that dictated anonymity to women even so late as the nineteenth century. Currer Bell, George Eliot, George Sand, all the victims of inner strife as their writings prove, sought ineffectively to veil themselves by using the name of a man. Thus they did homage to the convention, which if not implanted by the other sex was liberally encouraged by them (the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man), that publicity in women is detestable. What literary elements do the authors use to support and develop the central idea of women's autonomy?

Which excerpts from "Two Kinds” show a connection between conflict and culture? Choose two correct answers.

Which statement best supports the author’s purpose in "Children of the Drug Wars,” which is to persuade readers that the United States should do more to help immigrant children from Honduras?

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." He also asked Congress to grant powers that could eliminate legal protections for children from Central America in order to expedite removals, a change that Republicans in Congress have also advocated. This would allow life-or-death decisions to be made within hours by Homeland Security officials, even though studies have shown that border patrol agents fail to adequately screen Mexican children to see if they are being sexually exploited by traffickers or fear persecution, as the agents are supposed to do. Why would they start asking Central American children key questions needed to prove refugee status? Which element of the excerpt indicates that it is an editorial?

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.” By sending these children away, "you are handing them a death sentence,” says José Arnulfo Ochoa Ochoa, an expert in Honduras with World Vision International, a Christian humanitarian aid group. This abrogates international conventions we have signed and undermines our credibility as a humane country. It would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since October, many of them legitimate refugees. Which phrase from the excerpt contains words with strong connotations that help describe the seriousness of the situation?

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.” By sending these children away, "you are handing them a death sentence ,” says José Arnulfo Ochoa Ochoa, an expert in Honduras with World Vision International, a Christian humanitarian aid group. This abrogates international conventions we have signed and undermines our credibility as a humane country. It would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since October, many of them legitimate refugees. The underlined words and phrases have strong negative connotations. How do they support the author’s purpose?