Unit Test

Question 1

How does Wilde poke fun at Victorian society in the passage? Select three answers.

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Question 2

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B: epigram

Question 3

Miss Prism. . . . The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.How does the epigram affect this scene?

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A: It suggests the serious idea that tidy endings are uncommon in real life.

Question 4

Read the statement from a paper on The Importance of Being Earnest.The Importance of Being Earnest contains the features of a comedy of manners.

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C: Miss Prism. No married man is ever attractive except to his wife.

Question 5

Read the beginning of The Importance of Being Earnest.Title: The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeThe Persons in the PlayJohn Worthing, J.P.Algernon MoncrieffRev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.Merriman, ButlerLane, ManservantLady BracknellHon. Gwendolen FairfaxCecily CardewMiss Prism, GovernessFirst ActSCENEMorning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?Lane. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.

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C: The title is helpful in establishing the play as a comedy of manners because it makes use of witty wordplay.

Question 6

Read the passage from The Importance of Being Earnest.Lady Bracknell. . . . I think some preliminary inquiry on my part would not be out of place. Mr. Worthing, is Miss Cardew at all connected with any of the larger railway stations in London? I merely desire information. Until yesterday I had no idea that there were any families or persons whose origin was a Terminus.

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D: “whose origin was a Terminus.”

Question 7

Read the poems.Which statement best describes the differences between these poems?

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A: The haiku shares a distinct event in nature, while the Romantic poem relays a personal experience with nature.

Question 8

Consider these versions of The War of the Worlds.Excerpt 1, from H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds:Then came the night of the first falling star. It was seen early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for an ordinary falling star. Albin described it as leaving a greenish streak behind it that glowed for some seconds. Denning, our greatest authority on meteorites, stated that the height of its first appearance was about ninety or one hundred miles. It seemed to him that it fell to earth about one hundred miles east of him.Excerpt 2, from Howard E. Koch's script for Orson Welles's radio adaptation:ANNOUNCER TWO: Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. At twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity.Which statement best describes the difference between these versions?

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A: The radio adaptation's tone is more urgent than the novel's tone.

Question 9

One characteristic of the Romantic period was

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D: the use of imagination.

Question 10

Read the statement from a paper comparing Keats's poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles."While the message in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is that art is an eternal and unchanging truth, the message in "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" is that art changes over time.

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B: themes.

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