Multiple Choice Questions

Read the passage from Ozymandias.And on the pedestal these words appear:"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.Which word from the poem best summarizes the overall mood of the poem?
  • Love is.
  • sneer
  • XXX decay
  • emotion
Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."Whereas the maintainance of an hundred thousand children, from two years old, and upwards, cannot be computed at less than ten shillings a piece per annum, the nation's stock will be thereby encreased fifty thousand pounds per annum, besides the profit of a new dish, introduced to the tables of all gentlemen of fortune in the kingdom, who have any refinement in taste. And the money will circulate among our selves, the goods being entirely of our own growth and manufacture.Which sentence best paraphrases the excerpt?
  • He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers
  • Swift argues that his proposal would increase the circulation of money and strengthen England's economy.
  • Gulliver encounters an architect who builds houses from the top down.
  • Passage 1 explains his central idea, while passage 2 supports it.
Read the sentence from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients.They say then that Love was the most ancient of all the gods; the most ancient therefore of all things whatever, except Chaos, which is said to have been coeval with him; and Chaos is never distinguished by the ancients with divine honour or the name of a god.To correctly paraphrase this sentence, Tamar should
  • XXX gain perspective on a topic.
  • XXX Nature is the original creator of melody.
  • XXX show that Cupid is real.
  • restate it in her own words.
Read the sentence from a paper on Gulliver's Travels.Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels so he could humorously criticize the government.This statement describes Swift's
  • Purpose
  • a paraphrase
  • bare
  • April's
Read the passage from "Ozymandias."Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fedThen _________ in this passage is a common characteristic of the romantic movement.
  • emotion
  • Love is.
  • sneer
  • XXX decay
Read the haiku.Many flowers bloomBut no fruit follows in timeBare vines remain.Which word reveals the idea of disappointment?
  • April's
  • Purpose
  • bare
  • foreboding tone.
Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels.He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me "to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers."Which phrase from the passage best helps the reader to identify the passage as a satire?
  • Swift argues that his proposal would increase the circulation of money and strengthen England's economy.
  • He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers
  • Passage 1 explains his central idea, while passage 2 supports it.
  • Gulliver encounters an architect who builds houses from the top down.
Read the passage from "Ozymandias."I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich word from the passage indicates that the face on the statue is showing contempt?
  • quiet
  • XXX decay
  • emotion
  • sneer
Read the passage from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients.This Love is introduced without any parent at all; only, that some say he was an egg of Night. And himself out of Chaos begot all things, the gods included. The attributes which are assigned to him are in number four: he is always an infant; he is blind; he is naked; he is an archer. There was also another Love, the youngest of all the gods, son of Venus, to whom the attributes of the elder are transferred, and whom in a way they suit.Bacon's purpose is to explain what
  • emotion
  • sneer
  • Love is.
  • XXX decay
When Bacon changes the definition of love in Of the Wisdom of the Ancients, he is
  • refining the term
  • the message in the poem
  • identify the topic
  • foreboding tone.
Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels.There was a man born blind, who had several apprentices in his own condition: their employment was to mix colours for painters, which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling. It was indeed my misfortune to find them at that time not very perfect in their lessons, and the professor himself happened to be generally mistaken. This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity.Which analysis does the passage support?
  • XXX a name for the thing rather than a description of it
  • Swift uses a false premise to create humor.
  • it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement
  • XXX show that Cupid is real.
Read the passage from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients.Let us now consider his [Cupid's] attributes. He is described with great elegance as a little child, and a child for ever; for things compounded are larger and are affected by age; whereas the primary seeds of things, or atoms, are minute and remain in perpetual infancy.Most truly also is he represented as naked: for all compounds (to one that considers them rightly) are masked and clothed; and there is nothing properly naked, except the primary particles of things.Bacon lists Cupid's attributes in order to
  • XXX a name for the thing rather than a description of it
  • XXX gain perspective on a topic.
  • XXX show that Cupid is real.
  • Swift uses a false premise to create humor.
Read the first haiku.Mountain-rose petalsfalling, falling, falling now . . .waterfall musicNow, read the second haiku.By that fallen housethe pear-tree stands full-blooming . . .an ancient battle-siteWhat theme do both haiku have in common?
  • Swift uses a false premise to create humor.
  • XXX Nature is the original creator of melody.
  • XXX gain perspective on a topic.
  • XXX a name for the thing rather than a description of it
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