Abeka Grade 10 World Literature Test 4

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"If you truly would understand Christ's words fully and taste them truly, you must strive to form your whole life after His pattern."

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Of the Imitation of Christ

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"Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see,And what I do in any thing,To do it as for Thee."

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"The Elixir"

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" 'This is my work; my blessing, not my doom;

'Of all who live, I am the one by whom

'This work can best be done in the right way.' "

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"Work"

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eminent detective

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Ben Price

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Bank Robber

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Jimmy Valentine

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bootmaker

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Mr. Gessler

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wanted to go to the High Places

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Much-Afraid

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rescued her neighbor from her relatives

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Mrs. Valiant

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statesman

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Old Stony Phiz

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heroic military leader

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Old Blood-and-Thunder

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wealthy merchant

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Mr. Gathergold

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fulfilled the prophecy of the Great Stone Face

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Ernest

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In "My Father's Hands" father never learned to ____.

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read and write

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Author considered the greatest of all German dramatists

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Friedrich von Schiller

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Believed that to despise the world and aim at the Kingdom of Heaven is the highest wisdom.

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Thomas a Kempis

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What country was Hawthorne from?

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America

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means "still higher" or "ever upward"

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excelsior

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the three words of strength

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faith, hope, love

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Jimmy Valentine's changed name in "A Retrieved Reformation"

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Ralph Spencer

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The miracle of genius is the miracle of what according to "Pleasures of Knowledge"

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Labor (work)

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Only American poet to receive the honor of having his bust placed in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey .

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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What were Much-Afraid's two physical defects?

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crooked face and crooked legs

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Of the Imitation of Christ

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Thomas a Kempis

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"The Practice of the Presence of God"

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Brother Lawrence

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"Excelsior"

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"The Great Stone Face"

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"Work"

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Henry Van Dyke

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"The Elixir"

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George Herbert

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"A Retrieved Reformation"

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O. Henry

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saying the opposite of what it means

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verbal irony

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is the manner in which the writer deals with his subject and the general effect it is meant to have on an audience

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tone

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the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it

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satire

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a narrative or description in which characters, places, and other items are symbols

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allegory

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is the central idea which gives the story meaning

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theme

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ESSAY: Briefly explain the symbols of sunshine, frost, storm, and calm in the poem "After St. Augustine."

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In the poem "After St. Augustine," sunshine symbolizes a time of prosperity, frost symbolizes a time of difficulty, the storm symbolizes trials, and the calm symbolizes peace.