English 11B Cumulative Exam: 11b’s Memento, Ernest Hemingway, Great Gatsby – Flashcards

What is universal theme?

Read the excerpt below from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and answer the question that follows. Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the day children went around "ragamuffin" or "slamming gates," wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask. How does Smith use language to reveal setting?

Read the following scene from Trifles. MRS. HALE (abruptly moving toward her.) Mrs. Peters? MRS. PETERS. Yes Mrs. Hale? (At upstage right door.) MRS. HALE. Do you think she did it? MRS. PETERS (in a frightened voice.) Oh, I don't know. What is one possible advantage of hearing the characters' voices as opposed to silently reading the scene?

Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village. Keeping in mind Hemingway's iceberg principle, what feeling is he trying to convey by describing the scene as an "entrance to a circus or a native village"?

Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066". My best friend is a white girl named Denise— we look at boys together. She sat in front of me all through grade school because of our names: O'Connor, Ozawa. In the excerpt, Okita reveals significant details about

Read the sentence from Notes from a Native Son. As we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us. Which best explains why Baldwin chooses to describe the results of the race riot in Harlem with the word "spoils"?

Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. What is the author's purpose for including this sentence?

Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. How does King support this claim in the rest of his letter?

Read the lines from "Harlem." Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Read the lines from "The Weary Blues." He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway. Which best describes the relationship between these lines?

Roosevelt's Executive Order No. 9066 was based on

Because of his journalistic background, Ernest Hemingway's diction tends to be

Read the excerpt from Dispatches. By autumn, what had begun as an adventurous expedition had turned into an exhausting, indecisive war of attrition in which we fought for no cause other than our own survival. Which statement best explains the paradox in the excerpt?

The speaker in "The Weary Blues" is most likely

Read the excerpt below from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and answer the question that follows. After the exercises, the turkey foot and corn were thrown into the wastebasket. Teacher set aside the apples to take home. She asked if anyone wanted the little pumpkin pie. Thirty mouths watered; thirty hands itched to go up into the air but no one moved. Some were poor, many were hungry and all were too proud to accept charitable food. When no one responded, Teacher ordered the pie thrown away. Francie couldn't stand it; that beautiful pie thrown away and she had never tasted pumpkin pie. To her it was the food of covered wagon people, of Indian fighters. She was dying to taste it. In a flash she invented a lie and up went her hand. "I'm glad someone wants it," said Teacher. "I don't want it for myself," lied Francie proudly. "I know a very poor family I'd like to give it to." "Good," said Teacher. "That's the real Thanksgiving spirit." Based on this excerpt, what is the author's purpose in writing?

Which excerpt from The Great Gatsby best indicates that Nick is not fully content with his life?

Which accurately describes a contrast between Wiesel's All Rivers Run to the Sea and Art Spiegelman's graphic novel, Maus?

Read the lines from "The Weary Blues." Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more. The repetition of the word "thump" is an example of what literary device?

Read the excerpt from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "Tenente," Passini said. "We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them the war is made." "I know it is bad but we must finish it." "It doesn't finish. There is no finish to a war." "Yes there is." Passini shook his head. "War is not won by victory. What if we take San Gabriele? What if we take the Carso and Monfalcome and Trieste? Where are we then? Did you see all the far mountains to-day? Do you think we could take all them too? Only if the Austrians stop fighting. One side must stop fighting. Why don't we stop fighting? If they come down into Italy they will get tired and go away. They have their own country. But no, instead there is a war." Which best describes the effect of Passini's long pieces of dialogue?

Which excerpt from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique contains underlined keywords that reflect mainstream society's view of a woman's role in the 1950s and '60s?

Which line from Anthem best illustrates how the author uses a dystopian setting to develop a theme?

Read the paragraph. Several species of geese fly south in the winter to find food and mates. In fact, several geese from canada make their nests at Bartholomew park, which is only minutes from my home. My friends and I often take picnic lunches there to feed them and see their hatchlings. Of course, the number of birds in my area dwindles significantly once the seasons change. Which two words in the paragraph should be capitalized?

What is one advantage of listening to an audio recording as opposed to silently reading a play?

Read the paragraph. Several species of geese fly south in the winter to find food and mate. In fact, several geese from canada make their nests at Bartholomew park, which is only minutes from my home. My friends and I often take picnic lunches there to feed them and see their hatchlings. Of course, the number of birds in my area dwindles significantly once the seasons change. Which sentence from the paragraph contains capitalization errors?

What best describes an element shared by the article "Indicted Her for Murder" and the excerpt from Midnight Assassin?