Engaging in a Group Literary Discussion — Unit test Answers

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.When the trumpets sound, most people quieten down, waiting for the play to begin. If you are sitting in the gallery you will have a clear view of the stage as it projects out from the far side of the round enclosure. Leading actors will come right out along this platform and deliver their soliloquies directly to the crowd. So too will a clown like Will Kempe, when he wishes to extemporize and make "a scurvy face.” There are two large columns, both elaborately painted, which support the roof that covers the back of the stage.

Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.The men charged in tournaments again and again,Noble knights jousting in high spirits;Then they rode to the court and danced to carols,And the feast went on like that a full fifteen days,With all the food and entertainment anyone could imagine.The laughter and merrymaking were a glory to hear . . .

Which statements describe the Middle Ages? Choose four answers.

Characterization is the way an author

Read the excerpt from a book written by Jacob Abbott about Queen Elizabeth.The members of the Parliament went forth immediately to proclaim the new queen. There are two principal places where it was then customary to proclaim the English sovereigns. One of these was before the royal palace at Westminster, and the other in the city of London.

Read the excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's speeches.Which best describes a difference in the types of rhetorical appeals used by Queen Elizabeth in these excerpts from her Address to the Troops at Tilbury and Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry?

Read the sentence.We laughed when we read the writing from that TV show.

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.Another familiar disease is malaria, which Elizabethans refer to as ague or fever. You might associate this with more tropical countries of the modern world but in marshy areas in sixteenth-century England, such as the Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Fens, the Norfolk Broads, and Romney Marsh in Kent, it kills thousands. No one suspects that it has anything to do with mosquitoes; rather people believe it is the corrupted air arising from the low-lying dank marsh (hence the term mal-aria). As a result, you will have no chance of getting proper treatment for the disease.

Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.Dear brethren, God forgive you your trespass,And keep you from the sin of avarice;My holy pardon here can save you all,And will, so long as you make offeringsOf gold and silver coin, spoons, brooches, rings—Bow down your heads before this holy bull!Come, ladies, make an offering of your wool!I’ll put your name down on my prayer-roll,And you shall enter to the bliss of heaven

Read the excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's speeches.How does the purpose of the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Address to the Troops at Tilbury compare to the excerpt from Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry?

Read the paragraph.As the mountain climbers prepared for their final day of climbing, they were careful to allocate enough oxygen canisters to each person. The closer they got to the peak, the thinner the air would become. By deciding ahead of time what to assign to each person, the climbers were more likely to reach their goal.Which word is a synonym for allocate?

Which statements describe the central ideas of a text? Select three choices.

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.Sir Thomas Elyot is worth listening to on this subject. Although he is a layman and not a physician, his book, The Castel of Health, proves hugely influential—it goes into its sixteenth edition in 1595. He declares that mutton is the most wholesome meat you can eat and that fish is not so good because it thins the blood. He also thinks that spices and vegetables are bad for you.

Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales."But, sirs, it is not courteous of youTo speak so roughly to an old man, whoHas not offended you by word or deed.It’s there in Holy Writ for you to read:"Thou shalt rise up before the hoary headOf an old man”—and therefore do no harm,I warn you, to an old man while you’re young,Any more than you’d like to have it doneTo you in old age, should you live so long.Now God be with you! I go where I must go.”

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.Simon Forman, who does attend plague sufferers, is a rare exception: this is because he has himself survived the disease and believes he cannot catch it again. However, his remedy amounts to little more than avoiding eating onions and keeping warm. He has a recipe for getting rid of the plague sores that will afflict you afterward if you survive the disease; but that is a very big "if.” It seems the best advice is provided by Nicholas Bownd in his book Medicines for the Plague: "In these dangerous times God must be our only defense.”