ASSIGNMENT 1:
Multiple-Choice Test on General Comprehension of the Film
(taken from “Teacher’s and Student’s Aide to the Topic ‘Arts of the USA’:
with the focus on the American feature film “Dead Poets’ Society”/ укл. доц. І.Е. Подолян)
After your first screening of the film complete each of the following sentences with
the most appropriate ending.
1) The plot of the movie is set in:
a) the early 60s of this century;
b) 1950;
c) 1959.
2) Many of Wilton Academy graduates enrolled in:
a) preparatory schools;
b) the Ivy League;
c) London Chester School.
3) On the first day of the school semester Neal’s father insisted on his son:
a) going to a medical school after graduation from Wilton:
b) dropping a school annual;
c) taking up more exra-curricular activities.
4) At his first literature class conducted in the lobby Mr. Keating:
a) made a critical remark about Wilton Academy;
b) never pointed at deficiencies of Wilton;
c) talking mockingly about Wilton authorities.
5) Mr. Keating ordered his class to rip the pages of the Introduction out of
their text-books because:
a) the author’s view was obsolete;
b) the author’s language was too academic up to being incomprehensible for
students;
c) it was a far-fetched, artificially sounding theory.
6) At dinner the teacher of Latin reproached Keating for:
a) his connivance at the students’ artistic impression;
b) his instigation of the students’ disregard for the school authorities;
c) putting himself on equal terms with the students.
7) The boys had the first encounter with the name of Dead Poet’s Society in:
a) their talk with Mr. Keating;
b) an old University annual;
c) the students’ rumor.
8) At one of his classes Mr. Keating was citing Shakespeare:
a) to demonstrate various interpretations of Shakespeare by actors and
critics;
b) to remind the students of Shakespeare’s masterpieces;
c) to persuade the students of the importance to hold one’s personal view on
a literary piece.
9) In order to get the part of Puck in the school amateur play “Midsummer
Night’s Dream” Neil:
a) asked Mr. Keating for an intercession letter to his father;
b) pleased his father for permission;
c) submitted to Mr. Norman a forged letter of permission on behalf of his
father.
10) As an illustration of non-conformity Mr. Keating used at his class:
a) the exercise of individual striding styles;
b) the students’ recitation of their own poem;
c) poetic introduction to the football game.
11) After contributing the article about the Dead Poets’ Society to the school
annual Charlie:
a) confirmed his authorship at the general school meeting;
b) mentioned Mr. Keating’s name in his talk with Mr. Norman;
c) was immediately expelled from school without any time for deliberation.
12) Charlie’s deed was viewed by Mr. Keating as:
a) undaunted;
b) indiscreet;
c) challenging.
13) On the eve of Neil’s performance Mr. Keating was persuading the boy:
a) to give up his part;
b) to play his part despite his father’s forbiddance;
c) to secure his acting with his father’s permission.
14) Neil’s father withdrew his son from Wilton Academy because:
a) he could not pay the tuition any longer;
b) he decided to transfer Neil to a school preparing for Medical University;
c) otherwise Niel could not have enrolled in Harvard.
15) Cameron’s report to Mr. Norman:
a) pinpointed Charlie-“Newunda” as the ring-leader of the Dead Poets’
Society;
b) described Mr. Keating as inspirer and instigator of the Dead Poets’
Society;
c) revealed the name of Mr. Keating and Charlie in connection with the
Dead Poets’ Society and Neal’s death.
ASSIGNMENT 2:
In the film there were several poems recited or quoted by the characters.
With most of the poems their titles and authors were named. Match the
corresponding quotations and authors in the table below.
AUTHORS
QUOTATIONS
Walt Whitman
1. “Most men lead lives of quite desperation.”
http://bagumyan.at.ua/index/walt_ 2. “Two roads diverged in a wood,
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and I – I took the one less travelled by.”
3. “I too am not a bit tamed,
I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over
the roofs of the world.”
4. “She walks in beauty like the night
Robert Herrick
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
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And all that’s best of dark and bright
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Meeting’ the aspect and her eyes.”
5. “O me! O life! of the question of
these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless,
of cities fill’d with the foolish
What good amid these O me, O life?
Answer
That you are here –
that life exists and identity,
Alfred Lord Tennyson
That the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.”
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d_Tennyson,_1st_Baron_Tennyso 6. “Gather ye rose-buds, while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
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And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.”
7. “O Captain! My Captain!”
8. “Come, my friends,
Tis not purpose bold to sail beyond the
sunset.
William Shakespeare
And know: we’re not now that strain
which
in old days moved earth and heaven.
Not which we are we are.
One equal temper of heroic hearts.
Made weak by time and fate but strong in
will.
To strive, to seek, to find and not to
Robert Frost
yield.”
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Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumb’red here,
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
George Gordon Byron
Henry David Thoreau
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call:
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends
And Robin shall restore amends.”
10. “Oh, Titus, bring your friend Caesar”
11. “Well, is this a dagger I see before me …”
12. “I went to the woods because I wish to live
Deliberately … and not, when I came to
die,
Discover that I had not lived. I did not
wish
to live what was not life, I wanted to live
deep and suck out all the marrow of life
…”