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Remembering and Reflecting on the Holocaust — Unit test Answers

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Read the excerpt from part two of Trifles.COUNTY ATTORNEY (as one turning from serious things to little pleasantries). Well, ladies, have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or knot it?MRS. PETERS. We think she was going to--knot it.COUNTY ATTORNEY. Well, that’s interesting, I’m sure. (Seeing the birdcage.) Has the bird flown?MRS. HALE (putting more quilt pieces over the box.) We think the--cat got it.Which idea is suggested by this excerpt?

The women are beginning to feel superior to the men because they do not think the men are capable of solving the case.

The women still have no idea about what really happened between Mr. and Mrs. Wright.

The women are going to hide what they have discovered to protect Mrs. Wright.

The women believe that the men should be taught a lesson in sensitivity, so they keep information from the men.

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Which excerpt from part one of Trifles contains a stage direction that contributes to the character development of Mrs. Hale?

MRS. HALE (shaking her head). I’ve not seen much of her of late years. I’ve not been in this house—it’s more than a year.

MRS. HALE (looking about). It never seemed a very cheerful place.

MRS. HALE. I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing. (She arranges the pans under sink which the Lawyer had shoved out of place.)

MRS. HALE (eyes fixed on a loaf of bread beside the breadbox, which is on a low shelf at the other side of the room. Moves slowly toward it.) She was going to put this in there.

Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066".My best friend is a white girl named Denise—we look at boys together. She sat in front of meall through grade school because of our names:O’Connor, Ozawa.In the excerpt, Okita reveals significant details about

religion and culture.

race and friendship.

internment and prison.

youth and love.

Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. “Tenente,” Passini said. “We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made.” “I know it is bad but we must finish it.” “It doesn’t finish. There is no finish to a war.” “Yes there is.” Passini shook his head. “War is not won by victory. What if we take San Gabriele? What if we take the Carso and Monfalcome and Trieste? Where are we then? Did you see all the far mountains to-day? Do you think we could take all them too? Only if the Austrians stop fighting. One side must stop fighting. Why don’t we stop fighting? If they come down into Italy they will get tired and go away. They have their own country. But no, instead there is a war.”Which best describes the effect of Passini’s long pieces of dialogue?

They indicate that Passini is naive about the ways of war.

They indicate that Passini is guided by his emotions.

They indicate that Passini feels passionately about his beliefs.

They indicate that Passini is the main protagonist.

Because of his journalistic background, Ernest Hemingway’s diction tends to be

a combination of formal and informal.

neither formal nor informal.

only formal.

only informal.

In part two of Trifles, what symbolic impact is made when Susan Glaspell includes quilting as a part of Mrs. Wright’s lifestyle?

It reinforces the idea that Mrs. Wright fulfilled many of the roles considered common for women during this time.

It characterizes Mrs. Wright as someone who truly enjoyed the domestic duties expected of women during this time.

It casts doubt on the idea that Mrs. Wright could have killed her husband by making her appear innocent and content.

It heightens the tension by creating a scene of domestic bliss that would conflict with the murder being investigated.

Read the following scene from Trifles.MRS. HALE (abruptly moving toward her.) Mrs. Peters? MRS. PETERS. Yes Mrs. Hale? (At upstage right door.)MRS. HALE. Do you think she did it? MRS. PETERS (in a frightened voice.) Oh, I don’t know. What is one possible advantage of hearing the characters’ voices as opposed to silently reading the scene?

It helps readers visualize what each woman is wearing.

It helps listeners keep track of which woman is speaking.

It helps listeners envision the movements of each woman.

It helps readers conclude what each woman is thinking.

Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village.Keeping in mind Hemingway’s iceberg principle, what feeling is he trying to convey by describing the scene as an “entrance to a circus or a native village”?

a feeling of unease as the narrator is driving into a peculiar and alien location

a feeling of sadness at the devastation that has been caused by violence of war

a feeling of joy as the narrator realizes that he is alive despite all the carnage

a feeling of defeat about a war that has taken so many lives and still continues on

Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066 was based on

evidence that all Japanese Americans were plotting to fight the US within its borders.

past experiences of Japanese Americans causing civil unrest in the United States.

the assumption that Japanese Americans posed a threat to national security.

written reports that Japan was recruiting American citizens to spy for them.

Read the excerpt from The Great Gatsby.Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They were not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.The use of words such as “fashionable,” “superficial,” “bizarre,” and “sinister” provide

a truthful and vivid description of the West Egg and East Egg.

a sense of artificiality in the world the narrator finds himself in.

an idea of mischief that surrounds the narrator and his friends.

a meaningful portrayal of life on the Long Island Sound in the 1920s.

Read the following scene from Trifles.COUNTY ATTORNEY. Let’s talk about that later, Mr. Hale. I do want to talk about that, but tell now just what happened when you got to the house. HALE. I didn’t hear or see anything; I knocked at the door, and still it was all quiet inside. I knew they must be up, it was past eight o’clock. So I knocked again, and I thought I heard somebody say, “Come in.” I wasn’t sure, I’m not sure yet, but I opened the door—this door (indicating the door by which the two women are still standing), and there in that rocker—(pointing to it) sat Mrs. Wright. (They all look at the rocker.) What would be one advantage of watching this scene as opposed to reading it?

The audience would not have to infer the characters’ moods, which could make the characters seem more genuine.

The audience would actually see what the characters look like, which could alleviate unnecessary mystery.

The audience would not have to interpret the setting, which could make the conflict of the story more evident.

The audience would actually watch all of the characters turn to stare at the rocker, which could enhance the mood of the scene.

What best describes an element shared by the article "Indicted Her for Murder" and the excerpt from Midnight Assassin?

Both address the desires of Mrs. Hossack’s attorneys to have as speedy a trial as possible.

Both address the fact that Mrs. Hossack was in the house at the time of her husband’s murder.

Both address details about Mrs. Hossack’s bail and the fact that she would likely have to await trial in jail.

Both address the impact of the case upon journalist Susan Glaspell and the role she played in relating it.

Read the excerpt from part two of Trifles.COUNTY ATTORNEY. Oh, I guess they’re not very dangerous things the ladies have picked up. (Moves a few things about, disturbing the quilt pieces which cover the box. Steps back.) No, Mrs. Peters doesn’t need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff’s wife is married to the law. Ever think of it that way, Mrs. Peters?Which of the following most accurately describes this excerpt?

It is verbal irony because the County Attorney means precisely the opposite of what he is actually saying.

It is dramatic irony because the audience knows that the County Attorney does not actually mean what he is saying.

It is situational irony because the County Attorney has actually issued a relevant warning to Mrs. Peters without realizing it.

It is not an example of any type of irony because the County Attorney is simply making a statement.

By signing Executive Order No. 9066, President Roosevelt assumed that

no one would actually be interned in camps.

he was doing what was best for his nation.

his direction and command would end the war.

the internment camps would be permanent.

Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life?

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.

Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.

Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.

I had a dog—at least I had him for a few days until he ran away—and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.

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