Abeka Grade 10 World Literature Test 1

Front 1

Who was the hired man that came "home" to die?

Back 1

Silas

Front 2

What subject did Miss Dove teach?

Back 2

geography

Front 3

The "landlord's black-eyed daughter" was named _____?

Back 3

Bess

Front 4

Katherine Mansfield was born in ____.

Back 4

New Zealand

Front 5

The imaginary persons who carry out the action of the plot are called?

Back 5

characters

Front 6

A highwayman is a ____.

Back 6

robber

Front 7

Mr. Gradgrind was employed in what field?

Back 7

education

Front 8

A marquee is a ____.

Back 8

tent

Front 9

The deacon's masterpiece lasted how long?

Back 9

100 years

Front 10

A neighbor of the Sheridans was killed while ____.

Back 10

riding a horse-drawn cart

Front 11

Who planted a kiss on Miss Dove's cheek?

Back 11

Randy Baker

Front 12

Katherine Mansfield

Back 12

"The Garden-Party"

Front 13

Robert Browning

Back 13

"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"

Front 14

Alfred Noyes

Back 14

"The Highwayman"

Front 15

What did the mother give her son in "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"?

Back 15

clothes

Front 16

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Back 16

"The Deacon's Masterpiece"

Front 17

Charles Dickens

Back 17

"A School of Facts"

Front 18

developed and perfected the dramatic monologue

Back 18

Robert Browning

Front 19

Robert Frost

Back 19

"The Death of a Hired Man"

Front 20

wrote novels describing the life of the poor in early nineteenth-the twentieth century

Back 20

Charles Dickens

Front 21

Which horse carried his rider all the way to Aix?

Back 21

Roland

Front 22

considered by many to be the outstanding American poet of the twentieth century

Back 22

Robert Frost

Front 23

What did Laura take to the grieving family?

Back 23

food

Front 24

known as "Mr. Boston"

Back 24

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Front 25

What event happened on the same day the deacon built his "one-hoss shay"?

Back 25

an earthquake

Front 26

won a Pulitzer Prize for several volumes of poetry

Back 26

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Front 27

conversation between characters

Back 27

dialogue

Front 28

"Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain;

'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest."

Back 28

"The Deacon's Masterpiece"

Front 29

method of presenting the reader with the material of the story

Back 29

point of view

Front 30

"Home is the place where,

when you have to go there,

They have to take you in."

Back 30

"The Death of a Hired Man"

Front 31

an imaginative prose narrative designed to produce a single impression and to be read in one sitting

Back 31

short story

Front 32

"I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris,

and he;

I galloped, Dirck galloped, we

galloped all three"

Back 32

"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"

Front 33

a character who undergoes some change and is different at the end of the story

Back 33

dynamic character

Front 34

"You've need of clothes to cover you,

And not a rag have I."

Back 34

"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"

Front 35

time, place and general backgroun of a story

Back 35

setting

Front 36

ESSAY: Briefly explain some of the character qualities that Miss Dove encouraged her students to develop through her strong classroom discipline.

Back 36

Miss Dove had a long list of rules for her classroom. Some were their work was to be done on time, no hair chewing, no wiggling, and cover your mouth when coughing. Her rules encouraged her students to develop the qualities of fortitude, neatness, punctuality, and industriousness.