1. Which of Yeats's poem opens with the symbol of a gyre, a spiral
spinning out of control? (1 point)
a. "Sailing to Byzantium"
b. "The Second Coming"(My Answer)
c. "When You Are Old"
d. "A Prayer For My Daughter"
2. Which of the following lines reflects the narrator's epiphany in
"Araby"? (1 point)
a. "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven
and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and
anger."
b. "I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the
bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through the
turnstile..."
c. "—If I go, I said, I will bring you something."(My Answer)
d. "My uncle said he was very sorry he had forgotten."
3. Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” refers to a bishop who
said that cats do not (1 point)
a. write great plays.
b. dance with dogs.
c. compose symphonies.
d. go to heaven.(My Answer)
4. What mood is reflected in T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"? (1 point)
a. uncertain and tentative
b. bright and hopeful
c. dark and somber(My Answer)
d. confused and frustrated
5. Which of these lines reflects of internal rhyme in "Do Not Go Gentle
into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas? (1 point)
a. "And you, my father, there on the sad height."
b. "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray."(My
Answer)
c. "Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay"
d. "Do not go gentle into that good night."
6. How does Thomas describe fire in "Fern Hill"? (1 point)
a. green as grass
b. flashing into the dark
c. lovely and watery
d. dancing in the night(My Answer)
7. Which of these is an example of humor of character in “A Shocking
Accident” by Graham Greene? (1 point)
a. Jerome’s father being killed by a falling pig
b. Jerome's asking if his father was shot through the heart(My
Answer)
c. the aunt's explaining how careful her brother was by giving the
example of his carrying the water filter
d. the schoolmaster holding back laughter as he tells Jerome about
his father's accident.
8. What poetic device is Sigfried Sassoon using in "Dreamers" when the
following phrases begin his lines?
Soldiers are citizens…
Soldiers are sworn to action…
Soldiers are dreamers…
(1 point)
a. figurative language
b. parallelism
c. symbolism
d. imagery(My Answer)
9. The tone of “Dreamers” by Siegfried Sassoon can best be described as
(1 point)
a. hopeful.
b. courageous.(My Answer)
c. desolate.
d. ironic.
Read this excerpt from “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell.
“They had not shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely
ravaging their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot.”
10. This excerpt is an example of (1 point)
a. understatement.
b. humor of situation.
c. epiphany.(My Answer)
d. symbolism.
11. Choose the word with the same denotative meaning as formidable in
the following passage:
…these difficulties were infinitely more formidable... (1 point)
a. unexpected
b. insignificant(My Answer)
c. discouraging
d. measurable
12. In “A Sunrise on the Veld” by Doris Lessing, why does the boy decide
not to shoot the buck? (1 point)
a. It was already dead.
b. It could no longer feel any pain.
c. He was out of bullets.(My Answer)
d. He didn’t want to make any noise.
13. Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is a fixed
form poem. What type of poem is it? (1 point)
a. a free verse poem(My Answer)
b. a ballad
c. a sonnet
d. a villanelle
14. In "Dulce et Decorum Est," what had some men lost? (1 point)
a. gas maks
b. boots
c. weapons(My Answer)
d. friends
15. In "Dreamers," soldiers think of ____ when the battle begins. (1 point)
a. clean beds
b. foul dugouts
c. brave deeds(My Answer)
d. simple death