Semester+1+Final


 * Semester 1 Final-Summer 2006**


 * Section 1: Grammar and Writing**

Part 1-Directions: Match the term on the left to its definition on the right.
 * 1. tone || a. word choice used to influence tone ||
 * 2. diction || b. writer's attitude ||
 * 3. syntax || c. arrangement of words and sentences ||
 * 4. mood || d. writer's style ||
 * 5. voice || e. reader's feelings or emotions ||
 * 6. noun || a. modifies a noun ||
 * 7. verb || b. modifies a verb ||
 * 8. adjective || c. expresses action or state of being ||
 * 9. adverb || d. takes the place of a noun ||
 * 10. pronoun || e. person, place, or thing ||
 * 10. pronoun || e. person, place, or thing ||

Part 2-Directions: Select the best possible answer for each of the following questions.

//Questions 11 through 14 refer to the following poem//.


 * WHO LIVES IN THE GRASS?**

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides— You may have met Him—did you not His notice sudden is—

The Grass divides as with a Comb— A spotted shaft is seen— And then it closes at your feet And opens further on—

He likes a boggy Acre A Floor too cool for Corn— Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot— I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun When stooping to secure it It wrinkled, and was gone—

Several of Nature’s People I Know, and they know me— I feel for them a transport of cordiality—

But never met this Fellow Attended, or alone Without a tighter breathing And Zero at the Bone—

Emily Dickinson, "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"

11. What is the speaker’s **//tone//** toward "Nature’s People" in the fourth stanza? a. hatred b. fear c. jealousy d. kindness e. excitement

12. What is the "narrow Fellow in the Grass?" a. an evil young boy b. a whip c. a snake d. a grasshopper e. a stalk of corn

13. Why are several words within some lines capitalized? Because they: a. refer to a specific place b. refer to the “Fellow”, to the speaker, or to nature c. are more important than other words d. should be emphasized when spoken e. are being used for comparison

14. What is the effect in terms of **//syntax//** of leaving out all end punctuation until the last line of the poem? a. the reader becomes confused b. the reader must find a point to pause for breath, recreating the feeling the author has in coming upon the snake c. the lines run together like the twisting, joined segments of a snake. d. the reader is led to think of the narrator as young and unlearned e. the reader places the proper end punctuation in each stanza

//Questions 15 and 17 refer to the following excerpt from a play.// WHAT WILL BECOME OF LIZA? I'll offer myself as an assistant to Professor Nepean. //(rising in a fury)// What! That imposter! That humbug! That toady ignoramus! Teach him //my// methods! //My// discoveries! You take one step in his direction and I'll wring your neck. //(He lays hands on her.)// Do you hear? //(defiantly nonresistant)// Wring away. What do I care? I knew you'd strike me someday. //(He lets her go, stamping with rage at having forgotten himself, and recoils so hastily that he stumbles back into his seat on the ottoman.)// Aha! Now I know how to deal with you. What a fool I was not to think of it before! You can't take way the knowledge you gave me. You said I had a finer ear than you. And I can be civil and kind to people, which is more than you can. Aha! That's done you, Henry Higgins, it has. Now I don't care //that (snapping her fingers)// for your bullying and your big talk. I'll advertise it in the papers that your duchess is only a flower girl that you taught, and that she'll teach anybody to be a duchess just the same in six months for a thousand guineas. Oh, when I think of myself crawling under your feet and being trampled on and called names, when all the time I had only to lift up my finger to be as good as you, I could kick myself. //(wondering at her)// You impudent hussy, you. But it's better than sniveling: better than fetching slippers and finding spectacles, isn't it? //(Rising)// By George, Eliza. I said I'd make a woman of you; and I have. I like you like this. Yes, you turn 'round and make up to me now that I'm not afraid of you, and can do without you. Of course I do, you little fool. Five minutes ago you were like a millstone round my neck. Now you're a tower of strength, a consort battleship. You and I and Pickering will be three old bachelors together instead of only two men and a silly girl.
 * LIZA.**
 * LIZA.**
 * HIGGINS.**
 * LIZA.**
 * HIGGINS.**
 * LIZA.**
 * HIGGINS.**

George Bernard Shaw, excerpted from //Pygmalion//, 1916

15. Prior to this scene, how did Liza feel about herself when she compared herself to Higgins? She felt she was: a. not as good as he b. an equal of his c. more foolish than he d. more knowledgeable than he e. a better teacher than he

16. In his last lines in the passage, Higgins compares Liza to a "millstone" and a "consort battleship." What does this indicate about his feelings toward Liza? He : a. thinks Liza has no feelings of her own b. had thought Liza was a pushy disagreeable woman but now thinks she is terrifying c. has no feelings for Liza d. would rather not see her again e. had regarded Liza as a burden but now regards her as his equal

17. If Higgins were the president of a company, which of the following policies would he practice? He would: a. treat all his employees fairly b. hire women as executives c. think of all his employees as equals d. think of himself as better than most of his employees e. be willing to listen to his employees' complaints

//Questions 18 through 20 refer to the following excerpt.// HOW LONG WILL THIS MAN SURVIVE?** The man flung a look back along the way he had come. The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice-jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hairline that curved and twisted from around the spruce-covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce-covered island. This dark hairline was the trail—the main trail—that led south five hundred miles to the Chilcoot Pass, Dyea, and salt water; and that led north seventy miles to Dawson, and still on to the north a thousand miles to Nulato, and finally to St. Michael on Bering Sea, a thousand miles and a half thousand more. But all this—the mysterious, far reaching hairline trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all—made no impression on the man. It was not because he was long used to it. He was a newcomer in the land, a cheechako, and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in things, not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate on his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man’s frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man’s place in the universe. Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, ear flaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head.

Jack London, "To Build a Fire," 1910

18. In the first paragraph, what does the dark line cutting through the snow represent? a. a river b. a row of spruce trees c. the horizon d. a path e. the timberline

19. In the second paragraph the narrator says, "He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in things, not in the significances." What is the narrator suggesting about the man in these lines? The man: a. can handle any situation b. cannot see the danger he was in c. believes material things are more important than values d. is good at analyzing a situation e. believes that the cold could really hurt him

20. Why does the author describe the weather conditions in detail? In order to: a. make the reader feel cold b. show the difference between northern and southern climates c. emphasize the importance that weather will play in the man’s life d. point out the man’s exceptional capabilities e. describe the normal weather conditions in the Yukon


 * Section 2: Vocabulary**

Part 1-Roots:

Directions: Match the root on the left to the matching definition on the right.


 * 21. ence || * || a. state of ||
 * 22. ten || * || b. know ||
 * 23. clud || * || c. born ||
 * 24. gnosi || * || d. shut ||
 * 25. nat || * || e. hold ||
 * 26. fort || * || a. all ||
 * 27. omni || * || b. wrong ||
 * 28. mis || * || c. excessive ||
 * 29. hyper || * || d. earth ||
 * 30. hum || * || e. strong ||
 * 31. para || * || a. beside ||
 * 32. auto || * || b. call ||
 * 33. voc || * || c. law ||
 * 34. post || * || d. after ||
 * 35. leg || * || e. self ||
 * 36. ago || * || a. love ||
 * 37. germ || * || b. turn ||
 * 38. vert || * || c. vital part ||
 * 39. epi || * || d. move ||
 * 40. phil || * || e. among ||
 * 38. vert || * || c. vital part ||
 * 39. epi || * || d. move ||
 * 40. phil || * || e. among ||

Part 2: Terms

Directions: Match the term on the left to its definition on the right.


 * 41. hamper || * || a. wages ||
 * 42. providence || * || b. give voting rights ||
 * 43. enfranchise || * || c. foresight ||
 * 44. remuneration || * || d. symbolic representation ||
 * 45. allegory || * || e. hinder ||
 * 46. infernal || * || a. obvious ||
 * 47. belligerence || * || b. fighting spirit ||
 * 48. factious || * || c. awful ||
 * 49. manifest || * || d. side-by-side arrangement ||
 * 50. juxtaposition || * || e. argumentative ||
 * 51. compulsory || * || a. turn aside ||
 * 52. miscreant || * || b. call out ||
 * 53. deflect || * || c. look down upon ||
 * 54. supercilious || * || d. evil-doer ||
 * 55. evoke || * || e. required ||
 * 56. maladroit || * || a. awkward ||
 * 57. sophisticated || * || b. essence ||
 * 58. epitome || * || c. nagging ||
 * 59. acrimonious || * || d. socially wise ||
 * 60. affinity || * || e. attraction ||
 * 58. epitome || * || c. nagging ||
 * 59. acrimonious || * || d. socially wise ||
 * 60. affinity || * || e. attraction ||


 * Section 3: The Novel**

Part 1-Directions: Select the best possible answer for each of the following questions.

61. Huck was living with the Widow Douglas because - a. she was taking care of his money b. she wanted to civilize him c. he wanted to belong to a family d. he was jealous of Tom Sawyer

62. The hair-ball oracle incident shows us that - a. Huck is not superstitious b. Jim is not superstitious c. both of them are superstitious d. Jim is superstitious, but Huck isn't

63. When Pap first comes back, he is - a. angry about Huck's new life b. proud of Huck's recent change c. sad about what he's done to Huck d. hoping to turn over a new leaf

64. Huck escapes from his father by - a. wearing a disguise b. getting help from Judge Thatcher c. burning down his father's house d. pretending he has been murdered

65. When Jim admits running away, Huck's first reaction is - a. shock b. amusement c. puzzlement d. disinterest

66. Which of these tests did Huck not fail when he tried to pass himself off as a girl? a. threading a needle b. walking in high heels c. throwing a heavy object d. catching something in his lap

67. Jim's feeling about King Solomon is that he - a. had a sense of humor b. was a wise man c. was anything but wise d. was a good ruler

68. After Jim and Huck are separated in a fog - a. Huck decides never to leave Jim again b. Jim makes fun of Huck for being afraid c. they leave the raft for good d. Huck tells Jim it was all a dream

69. Huck thinks the Grangerfords are - a. a fine, cultured family b. a family with no taste c. dishonest in business d. enemies of religion

70. Stephen Dowling Bots died by - a. being caught in a burning building b. getting pneumonia c. standing up to a man with a gun d. falling down a well

71. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as: a. an epic b. an abolitionist novel c. a humor novel d. a social commentary

72. Mark Twain's approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that: a. he attacks it directly. b. he does not deal with the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn. c. he supports it. d. he sarcastically denounces it.

73. The river best serves as a symbol of which of the following? a. freedom b. slavery c. commerce d. equality

74. “Temperance” refers to the movement designed to abolish which of the following? a. Drinking alcohol b. Slavery c. School segregation d. Income taxes

75. What image or episode best serves to reinforce the novel’s pastoral themes? a. Tom Sawyer’s Gang b. Huck’s life with Widow Douglas c. Huck’s time with Jim on the river d. Jim’s escape from the Phelp’s farm.

Section 4: Short Answer
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