Analysis

Course Name: Short Stories Course ID: ENGH019059 Submittal: 51
Student: Tania Yamba ID: J35828471
Progress Test 1
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____ 1. In “Sonny’s Blues,” which situation shows that the brother cares about Sonny?
a. He introduces Sonny to a jazz club owner.
b. He asks Sonny to come visit after Sonny got in trouble.
c. He pays for Sonny’s rent.
d. He pleases his mother by saying he will take care of Sonny.
____ 2. Based on the clues provided in “Sonny’s Blues,” how would the brothers have acted towards each other
after the jazz show?
a. The narrator would have treated Sonny with respect.
b. The brothers would have gone on ignoring each other.
c. Sonny would have realized that he didn’t need his brother’s approval.
d. The narrator would have continued to impose his values on Sonny.
____ 3. Which character in “Two Kinds” can be considered a dynamic character?
a. the aunt
b. the daughter
c. Mr. Chong
d. Mrs. Chong
____ 4. What type of characterization is used in this statement by the daughter in “Two Kinds: “I was so determined
not to try”?
a. physical description
b. inner thoughts
c. actions
d. dialogue
____ 5. In “The Lottery,” what did the townspeople use to draw before they used slips of paper?
a. stones
b. colored marbles
c. chips of wood
d. pieces of leaves
____ 6. When Gimpel says that there really are no lies, what does he mean?
a. He can say anything to anyone.
b. The Spirit of Evil is real.
c. The czar really did come to visit Frampol.
d. Incredible things do happen.____ 7. In “Bartleby the Scrivener,” which of the following is a dynamic character?
a. the narrator
b. Ginger-Nut
c. Turkey
d. Nippers
____ 8. In a traditionally told story, what element of plot comes before the denouement?
a. falling action
b. climax
c. denouement
d. exposition
____ 9. The “secret” that is revealed during “The Use of Force” appears during the
a. rising action.
b. resolution.
c. climax.
d. inciting action.
____ 10. What does the doctor have to do in order to get Mathilda’s mouth open in “The Use of Force”?
a. He uses a wooden tongue depressor.
b. He scares her into opening her mouth.
c. He uses a silver spoon.
d. He tickles her.
____ 11. Which quotation helps identify the setting of “The Lottery”?
a. “The people of the village began to gather in the square.”
b. “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones.”
c. “Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”
d. “The children assembled first, of course.”
____ 12. In “The Lottery,” the information about what happens to the winner of the lottery comes during
a. the climax.
b. the denouement.
c. exposition.
d. rising action.
____ 13. Why were the parents embarrassed in “The Use of Force?”
a. Their daughter knocked off the doctor’s glasses.
b. Their daughter used bad language in front of the doctor.
c. Their daughter bit the doctor.
d. Their daughter ran outside when they asked her to open her mouth.
____ 14. Based on what you know about the doctor in “The Use of Force,” what caused him to keep trying to open
Mathilda’s mouth even when she was cut, bleeding and crying?
a. He felt a sense of professional responsibility for the child’s welfare if he couldn’t diagnose her.
b. He felt a sense of cruel joy in trying to make Mathilda open her mouth.
c. He felt the parents would disrespect him if he gave up at the last moment.
d. both answers a and b____ 15. Which of the following examples shows that the daughter in “Two Kinds” can be considered a dynamic
character?
a. At first she took piano lessons, and then she stopped
b. At first she lived in China, and then she moved to America.
c. At first she is excited to learn something new, and then she becomes defiant about it.
d. At first she tried ballet and memorizing capitals, and then she tried other tests and piano lessons.
____ 16. Which of the following stories ends during the climax?
a. “Two Kinds”
b. “Bartleby the Scrivener”
c. “The Use of Force”
d. “The Lottery”
____ 17. Which character(s) does the doctor least admire in “The Use of Force”?
a. the parents
b. Mathilda
c. himself
d. his assistant
____ 18. Based on the information in “The Use of Force,” what would have happened if the doctor had come back
later to get the throat culture?
a. Mathilda’s disease would have gone away on its own.
b. It would have been even harder to force Mathilda and her parents to comply.
c. Mathilda and the doctor would have become friends.
d. Mathilda would have been in a better mood because she would have gone to the circus.
____ 19. In “Gimpel the Fool,” Gimpel was told that the boy that came with Elka to the wedding was her
a. son by a previous marriage.
b. nephew who had been orphaned.
c. little brother.
d. his own son.
____ 20. In “Bartleby the Scrivener,” how is the lawyer similar to Mrs. Hutchinson in “The Lottery”?
a. Both are in a situation of life and death.
b. Both feel as though they can’t state their true feelings.
c. Both are at the mercy of their employees.
d. Both feel as though they are in situations out of their control.
____ 21. Which two characters’ personalities are MOST different?
a. Sonny and his brother in “Sonny’s Blues”
b. Mathilda and the doctor from “The Use of Force”
c. Turkey and Nippers from “Bartleby the Scrivener”
d. Mrs. Hutchinson and Mr. Summers in “The Lottery”____ 22. What is one of the main themes in “The Lottery”?
a. Evil occurs when people blindly follow tradition.
b. Those who complain are likely to be punished for their efforts.
c. People who lead blameless lives shouldn’t be mistreated.
d. People who are late can’t expect to be treated with sympathy.
____ 23. In “The Use of Force,” the doctor is brave because
a. he is breaking the law.
b. he goes to a patient’s home without knowing the family.
c. he realizes that Mathilda is trying to cheat him.
d. he continues with Mathilda even when she is cut and bleeding.
____ 24. In “The Use of Force,” the phone call to the doctor is which part of the plot?
a. climax
b. exposition
c. rising action
d. denouement
____ 25. In “The Lottery,” the drawing of names is part of the
a. denouement.
b. rising action.
c. exposition.
d. falling action.
____ 26. Why does Mrs. Hutchinson initially declare that the picking of slips isn’t fair in “The Lottery”?
a. She doesn’t like the slip she’s been given.
b. She thinks that someone marked her slip on purpose.
c. She thinks that her husband didn’t have enough time to choose his slip.
d. None of the above.
____ 27. In “Gimpel the Fool,” which character helps bring Gimpel’s presents to Elka while the two are separated?
a. the rabbi
b. the apprentice
c. Gimpel
d. Rietze
____ 28. Using the following quotation from “Bartleby the Scrivener,” determine which statement seems most likely:
“Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more
fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for the flame?”
a. The lawyer believes that Bartleby’s illness was not as a result of becoming a scrivener.
b. He believes that Bartleby could have chosen another profession that would have better suited his
temperament.
c. He believes that burning letters led to Bartleby’s physical sickness.
d. He believes that Bartleby was destined to depression and death because of the hopelessness of his
job.____ 29. Which helps determine the setting of “Two Kinds”?
a. The mother told her daughter what her schedule would be for piano lessons.
b. The mother thought her daughter could be a Chinese Shirley Temple.
c. The mother moved to America in 1949.
d. The mother offered her daughter the piano.
____ 30. Characterization is the
a. chain of events in a story.
b. technique writers use to create participants in stories.
c. underlying mood of a story.
d. time and place in which a story occurs.
____ 31. In “Two Kinds,” the author uses what technique of characterization to help us picture the type of character
the narrator is?
a. location of the setting
b. inner thoughts
c. description of the house
d. physical descriptions
____ 32. What word best describes the lawyer’s attitude toward Bartleby in “Bartleby the Scrivener”?
a. charity
b. fury
c. indifference
d. love
____ 33. How does Shirley Jackson use setting to interest the reader in the beginning of “The Lottery”?
a. She begins with a positive setting but weaves in negative clues.
b. She begins with a negative setting but weaves in positive clues.
c. She states that the townspeople are preparing for a human sacrifice.
d. She tricks the reader by providing no clues about what is happening.
____ 34. In “Two Kinds,” Mr. Chong is what type of character?
a. square
b. round
c. flat
d. dynamic
____ 35. In “Gimpel the Fool,” what does Elka demand in order to marry her?
a. She wants his love.
b. She wants to help run his business.
c. She wants a dowry of fifty guilders.
d. She wants him to adopt her child.____ 36. In “The Use of Force,” the lengths to which Mathilda goes to hide her secret from her parents and the doctor
suggests that she is
a. wanting to be in control.
b. sick to the point of doing harm to herself.
c. afraid of medical diagnosis and treatment.
d. spoiled by her parents.
____ 37. When building realistic characters, which elements do authors use?
a. inner thoughts and setting
b. conversation and falling action
c. physical description and behavior
d. hair color and rising action
____ 38. How do Sonny and his brother differ in “Sonny’s Blues”?
a. Sonny is less reliable because he doesn’t have a steady job.
b. The brothers have different ideas about how to get through life.
c. Sonny knows more deeply what life is about.
d. The brother doesn’t have a plan for his life.
____ 39. In “Two Kinds,” which statement suggests that the daughter has changed her feelings toward her mother?
a. She failed her mom many times.
b. She liked the “Peter Pan” haircut her mom got her.
c. She looked at the piano and actually thought it was a very good piano.
d. She whined and kicked her foot when her mother told her she would be starting piano lessons.
____ 40. Which of the following events occurs during the exposition at the beginning of the story in “Sonny’s Blues”?
a. Sonny tells his brother about his dreams of being a jazz musician.
b. Sonny disappears from Isabel’s.
c. The narrator hears of Sonny’s arrest for peddling drugs.
d. Sonny plays at the jazz club.
____ 41. In “Bartleby the Scrivener,” the narrator’s confrontation with Bartleby at his old office is an example of
a. rising action.
b. resolution.
c. climax.
d. denouement.
____ 42. Which of the following characters is the most rounded?
a. Mr. Chong from “Two Kinds”
b. Mrs. Hutchinson from “The Lottery”
c. Gimpel from “Gimpel the Fool”
d. Turkey from “Bartleby the Scrivener”
____ 43. In “The Lottery,” what does Old Man Warner think of villages that have given up the lottery?
a. He thinks they are a bunch of fools.
b. He thinks that they are driven by greed.
c. He thinks that they are wiser than his own village.
d. He thinks they are modern.____ 44. How are Mrs. Hutchinson, from “The Lottery,” and Mathilda, from “The Use of Force,” alike?
a. Both despise their families.
b. Each fights fate until the very end.
c. Both of them create problems that can’t be solved.
d. Both complain of unfairness.
____ 45. Identify the literary technique used in this quote from “Bartleby the Scrivener:”
“Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman, of about my own age—that is, somewhere not far from sixty.”
a. dialogue
b. internal monologue
c. physical description
d. setting
____ 46. What would you cite to defend the decision of Gimpel to “believe” what the villagers said even when he knew
they were lying to him?
a. He had been told by the rabbi that he must get along with others.
b. He had read that everything is possible in the Wisdom of the Fathers.
c. He had decided that life didn’t matter to him and so he “believed.”
d. He had been threatened by his wife with divorce if he didn’t go along with her and the other villagers.
____ 47. In “Gimpel the Fool,” what does Gimpel do with the contaminated bread?
a. He buries it.
b. He sells it to the villagers.
c. He burns it in the oven.
d. He scatters it in the river.
____ 48. Sonny, in “Sonny’s Blues,” is what kind of character?
a. flat
b. static
c. round
d. filled out
____ 49. In “Gimpel the Fool,” a good example of a sympathetic character is
a. the rabbi.
b. Elka.
c. the Spirit of Evil.
d. Wolf-Lieb the thief.
____ 50. “Bartleby the Scrivener” makes which statement about human motivation?
a. Greed is a more powerful motivation than pride.
b. People are motivated only by greed and selfishness.
c. People are content if they have easy, predictable jobs.
d. Frustration and discouragement motivate people in negative ways.
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