Answers MCS English IV Semester 1 BLCentral Ideas and Context: Utopia

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Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.When the King and his knights came into the hall,The chanting in the chapel had come to an endAnd a loud cry went up from the clerics and the othersProclaiming Noel once more, calling out the word again,And then the nobles ran and got the gifts ready . . .

the importance of Christian practices

the acts of warfare over land rights

the proper conduct of knights

the subjects’ loyalty to their lords

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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.

to inform readers about information relating to Queen Elizabeth

to persuade readers that Queen Elizabeth was a worthy sovereign

to entertain readers with exciting tales of royal intrigue

to describe for readers the intricate details of the palace at Westminster

Which chivalric values does Gawain display in the excerpt? Select three options.

intellectual depth

loyalty to his king

bravery despite danger

physical strength

moral integrity

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.

The author wants to describe the time period accurately.

The author wants to create a convincing argument.

The author wants to present factual information effectively.

The author wants to help the reader relate to the subject thoughtfully.

Which can be used as the subject of a sentence?

a gerund

a participle

an adjective

an adverb

guesstheoryinferencestatement

guess

theory

inference

statement

What is the author’s attitude toward a subject called?

structure

tone

organization

description

Which details would help develop the topic sentence? Check all that apply.

It can be very expensive to eat only organic foods.

Fresh fruits and vegetables would be sold at affordable prices.

Time would be set aside each morning for an hour of exercise.

Many health conditions are not improved with diet and activity.

I have found that getting plenty of sleep helps me in my schoolwork.

Read the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry.As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks for the good zeal and loving care you seem to have, as well towards me as to the whole estate of your country.

encouraging an emotional response from the audience.

establishing her credibility as a capable leader.

providing a logical reason for trusting her leadership skills.

demonstrating her ability to speak persuasively.

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?

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to convince the troops of her capabilities as a leader. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to make members feel ashamed of their request.

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to convince the troops of her capabilities as a leader. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to make members feel ashamed of their request.

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to inspire and encourage her army. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to provide rational explanations that convince lawmakers.

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to inspire and encourage her army. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to provide rational explanations that convince lawmakers.

A chronological text structure presents events

from least important to most important.

in a random, unorganized way.

in the order in which they occur.

from most important to least important.

Which statements describe the Middle Ages? Select four options.The Christian Church was a powerful institution.A feudal system of government ruled the land.Land disputes were usually settled through peaceful debate.Men of nobility, such as dukes and barons, controlled areas of land.Knights helped nobles protect their land and their subjects.

The Christian Church was a powerful institution.

A feudal system of government ruled the land.

Land disputes were usually settled through peaceful debate.

Men of nobility, such as dukes and barons, controlled areas of land.

Knights helped nobles protect their land and their subjects.

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

It proves that malaria is spread by mosquitoes in swampy areas.

It gives a detailed description of the area known as Romney Marsh.

It explains Elizabethan misconceptions about the spread of malaria.

It compares common malaria symptoms to influenza symptoms.

Utopia reflects the time in which it was written because

gold had little value in the fifteenth century.

exploration was important in the fifteenth century.

children had expensive toys in the fifteenth century.

poor people were looked after in the fifteenth century.

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 t

The author uses a serious tone and a third-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.

The author uses descriptive details and a first-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.

The author uses a critical tone and a third-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.

The author uses descriptive details and a second-person point of view to effectively describe the experience.

Which sentence contains a participle?

The whole frustrating experience can be blamed on poor planning.

Although studying may seem tedious, it fosters great results.

The park prohibits everyone from skateboarding on weekends.

Great cunning was required to make the surprise party feasible.

Read the excerpt from Utopia.If these metals were laid up in any tower in the kingdom it would raise a jealousy of the Prince and Senate, and give birth to that foolish mistrust into which the people are apt to fall—a jealousy of their intending to sacrifice the interest of the public to their own private advantage. If they should work it into vessels, or any sort of plate, they fear that the people might grow too fond of it, and so be unwilling to let the plate be run down, if a war made it necessary, to employ it in paying their soldiers. To prevent all these inconveniences they have fallen upon an expedient which, as it agrees with their other policy, so is it very different from ours, and will scarce gain belief among us who value gold so much, and lay it up so carefully. They eat and drink out of vessels of earth or glass, which make an agreeable appearance, though formed of brittle materials; while they make their chamber-pots and close-stools of gold and silver, and that not only in their public halls but in their private houses. Of the same metals they likewise make chains and fetters for their slaves, to some of which, as a badge of infamy, they hang an earring of gold, and make others wear a chain or a coronet of the same metal . . .

Utopians use gold and silver chamber pots.

Enslaved people wear chains of gold and silver.

It is not an honor to wear gold jewelry.

Gold and silver are not valued in Utopia.

Which sentence features a present participial phrase functioning as an adjective?

Blushing furiously, the newcomer couldn’t believe he’d been so gullible.

Fatigued after a long day, the woman recuperated with a quiet evening.

Our teacher likes to spring impromptu tests on us so we keep studying.

The heat radiating from the pavement caused the air to ripple and waver.

Characterization is the way an author

unfolds a sequence of events within a story.

describes the features of a physical environment.

illustrates the time period in which a tale takes place.

develops personalities through thoughts, words, and actions.

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?

Both excerpts inform Queen Elizabeth's audience of her strategic plans for engaging and defeating the invading army.

Both excerpts attempt to persuade Queen Elizabeth's audience that she is willing to sacrifice her life for England's well-being.

Both excerpts inform Queen Elizabeth's audience of the reasons she has come to passionately love and defend England.

Both excerpts attempt to persuade Queen Elizabeth's audience that she is the most capable ruler the country has known.

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

Keeping warm and eating onions was the only way to avoid the plague. This treatment was recommended by Nicholas Bownd.

Some Elizabethans believed that diet caused the plague. Nicholas Bownd suggested praying to God as the only cure.

Writer Simon Forman believed that God was the only answer to the plague. He survived the disease and ate warm onions to treat his sores.

While doctors like Simon Forman tried to help, others such as Nicholas Bownd relied on their faith in God.

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.The following examples show how famine hits the Cumberland parish of Greystoke. Here "a poor fellow destitute of succor” is found in the highway and is carried to the constable’s house, where he dies. A miller’s daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food. A beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in agony in the road and dies soon afterward "in great misery.” Another "poor, hunger-starved beggar boy” is found in the street and carried into a house, where he dies. A widow is discovered dead in a barn. A four-year-old local boy dies "for want of food and means,” as does his mother. A total of sixty-two people die in Greystoke in just one year—during which time the parish sees no marriages and only three children conceived. You hear the story of a man leaving his home and walking hundreds of miles in search of work or food and returning after a couple of months with sufficient money only to find that his wife and children have all since died.

death from starvation was common in Elizabethan England.

very few people died of starvation in Elizabethan England.

communities were shocked by the deaths from starvation.

communities tried to prevent the deaths from starvation.

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 . . .

They fight ruthlessly.

They celebrate festively.

They are devout Christians.

They are boastful and vain.

Which details give explicit examples of starvation during Elizabethan times? Select 5 options.

A miller’s daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food.

A beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in agony in the road and dies soon afterward “in great misery.”

Another “poor, hunger-starved beggar boy” is found in the street and carried into a house, where he dies.

A four-year-old local boy dies “for want of food and means,” as does his mother.

You hear the story of a man leaving his home and walking hundreds of miles in search of work or food and returning after a couple of months with sufficient money only to find that his wife and children have all since died.

Now you can see why so many people living in Kent in the 1590s walked there, as we have seen in Chapter Two.

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

Chaucer criticizes the practice of confessing one’s sins to a priest.

Chaucer criticizes the notion that divine forgiveness depends on giving money.

Chaucer criticizes the idea that people go to heaven after death.

Chaucer criticizes the fact that clergymen earn more than peasants.

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.The queen continues to encourage dramatic art, personally attending performances at Gray’s Inn, Greenwich Palace, and Whitehall Palace. In 1583 she establishes her own theater company, the Queen’s Men, and leading actors flock to it. Puritans are enraged, and the following year the city authorities try to outlaw plays altogether, both within and outside the city walls. But now that drama has received royal approval, they don’

New plays were written every year.

The queen visited Whitehall Palace.

The Puritans were outraged.

Drama received royal approval.

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.”

as an adventurer eager to join the youth

as a church leader recruiting the youth

as a sage counselor reproving the youth

as a cruel authority punishing the youth

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.People believe that the balance of the humors is also upset by eating too much or too little of something. As noted in the previous chapter, Thomas Elyot believes that fish and fresh fruit are bad for you, and that white bread is more nutritious than bread with the bran. William Horman maintains that drinking cold liquids after prolonged activity is very dangerous for the health. Richard Carew states that the "eating of fish,

It details how diet could disrupt the balance of humors.

It explains that fresh fish may cause liver disease.

It discourages the use of cold liquids after activity.

It recommends eliminating fresh fruit from a healthy diet.

Central idea: People in Utopia care about the common good.

Extra food and resources are given to poor communities.

More wrote Utopia to encourage more equality in society.

Slavery shows that not everyone in Utopia is treated equally.

Gold and silver chains are worn by enslaved people in Utopia.

Which statements describe the central ideas of a text? Select three choices.They explain helpful details.They are the most important ideas in a text.They give examples of key ideas.They are supported by details.They can be explicitly stated or implied.

They explain helpful details.

They are the most important ideas in a text.

They give examples of key ideas.

They are supported by details.

They can be explicitly stated or implied.

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