ENGL 102 Pre-Test 1

Question 1 

1. “Malabar! Malabar! Did I say      Malabar, Mother?”

 

Scofield

 

Wesley

 

O.T.

 

Paul

1 points

Question 2 

1. Poe felt that death of a beautiful      woman was the highest form of beauty:

True

False

1 points

Question 3 

1. The main or central character in a      narrative:

 

Round character

 

Foil

 

Antagonist

 

Protagonist

1 points

Question 4 

1. The new recruit had been with the      gang since the beginning of the summer holidays, and there were      possibilities about his brooding silence that all recognized. He never      wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the      rules. When he said “Trevor” it was a statement of fact, not as it would      have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. Nor did anyone      laugh except Mike, who finding himself without support and meeting the      dark gaze of the newcomer opened his mouth and was quiet again. There was      every reason why T., as he was afterward referred to, should have been an      object of mockery—there was his name (and they substituted the initial      because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it), the fact that      his father, a former architect and present clerk, had “come down in the      world” and that his mother considered herself better than the neighbors.      What but an odd quality of danger, of the unpredictable, established him      in the gang without any ignoble ceremony of initiation?
   (From “The Destructors” by Graham Greene)
   From the above passage, one can characterize Trevor or T as      _______________.

 

naïve

 

indifferent

 

different

 

brave

1 points

Question 5 

1. Compiled A Thousand and One      Arabian Nights:

 

Boccaccio

 

Dante

 

Homer

 

Scheherezade

1 points

Question 6 

1. ______________ is the basic      material out of which most plots are made.

 

denouement

 

crisis

 

climax

 

conflict

1 points

Question 7 

1. . . . .destruction after all is a form of creation. A      kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become.

 

“Destructors”

 

“Greenleaf”

 

“Child by Tiger”

 

“The Rocking-Horse Winner”

1 points

Question 8 

1. Wrote “The Rocking-Horse Winner”:

 

Boccaccio

 

Poe

 

D. H. Lawrence

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1 points

Question 9 

1. He had taken a dreary road,      darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood      aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.      It was all as lonely as could be.

 

“Young   Goodman Brown”

 

“Greenleaf”

 

“The   Lottery”

 

“The Most   Dangerous Game”

1 points

Question 10 

1. In the ______________, the scene      is set, the protagonist is introduced, and the author discloses any other      background information necessary for the reader to understand the events      that follow:

 

denouement

 

exposition

 

complication

 

climax

1 points

Question 11 

1. Flashback is the term used to      refer to events to come in a narrative:

True

False

1 points

Question 12 

1. Point of view in which the      narrator knows everything about all of the characters and events in the      story is called total omniscience:

True

False

1 points

Question 13 

1. “Poor little Faith!” thought he,      for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an      errand! She talks of dreams, too”

 

Mrs.   May

 

Young   Goodman Brown

 

Hester

 

Mrs.   Hutchinson

1 points

Question 14 

1. Felt that death of a beautiful      woman was the highest form of beauty:

 

Hawthorne

 

Shakespeare

 

Poe

 

Irving

1 points

Question 15 

1. An indication of events to come in      a narrative:

 

Foreshadowing

 

Epiphany

 

Flashback

 

Foresight

1 points

Question 16 

1. The most significant character or      force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative is called the      antagonist:

True

False

1 points

Question 17 

1. The point of highest tension in a      short story is its:

 

denouement

 

exposition

 

complication

 

climax

1 points

Question 18 

1. “Faith! Faith!” cried the husband.      “Look up to heaven, and resist the Wicked one!”

 

“Young Goodman   Brown”

 

“The Rocking Horse   Winner”

 

“The Lottery”

 

“The Most Dangerous   Game”

1 points

Question 19 

1. There was a woman who was      beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck.

 

“Destructors”

 

“Greenleaf”

 

“Child by Tiger”

 

“The Rocking-Horse Winner”

1 points

Question 20 

1. Point of view in which the      narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of the characters:

 

Total Omniscience

 

Limited Omniscience

 

Editorial Omniscience

 

Objective point of view