Test 1

How the story opens and how it ends ________________.

What human characteristic is thematized in the excerpt?

Which of the following is NOT true? The story uses the symbol of the lottery to communicate ____________.

That little Davy Hutchinson, the small son of the victim, is given a few pebbles to throw at his mother suggests that __________.

How the excerpt opens and how it ends ___________.

According to your online lessons, modern man is a dichotomy; he often holds belief in the cosmic machine.

"It's Malabar!" he screamed, in a powerful, strange voice. "It's Malabar."

"Wren built that house, father says." "The man who built St. Paul's." This quotation appears in

A pre-Reformationist, Chaucer was highly supportive of the state faith.

The technical term "protagonist" is preferable to the popular term "hero" because it is less ambiguous.

An example of the earliest manuscripts of narrative fiction is

"When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

Apotheosis means raising to the level of a god.

At the end of the story, he dies.

Edgar Allan Poe operated from a viewpoint of a personal relationship with GOD, yet felt that man was divine in his own right.

The civic-minded, progressive character in "The Lottery" was

The where, when, and what of a story is the...

Read this excerpt from "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and answer the question that follows: "The night before the lottery, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made up the slips of paper and put them in the box, and it was then taken to the safe of Mr. Summers' coal company and locked up until Mr. Summers was ready to take it to the square next morning."This excerpt shows a certain incongruity. Which of the following best illustrates this?

The plot is both action and the way the author arranges the action toward a specific end.

The following characters, Mr. Summers, Old man Warner, and Mrs. Hutchinson, appear in

Probability of action can be presented via motivation.

Old Misery was too mean to spend money on his property.

Trevor and Blackie are minor characters in "The Rocking Horse Winner."

Plot can be manipulated to offer a surprise ending such as Poe did.

In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," Malabar is

"I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that."

A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a work as at the beginning.

The opening sentence of this story suggests that the mother "had no luck."

"Young Goodman Brown" was authored by

"She married for love, and the love turned to dust." Who does this quotation identify?

In "The Rocking Horse Winner," Paul's mistake of confusing "luck" with "lucre" causes the unhappiness and tragedy in the story.

"The Lottery" ends with the death of

The protagonist is simply the central character.

Mr. Summers, Old Man Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Hutchinson are characters in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."

The narrative frame starts to emerge in The Canterbury Tales.

In "The Rocking-Horse Winner" the whispers are symptoms, not causes. And Paul only makes them worse.

What is an allegory?

Mr. Summers, Old Man Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Hutchinson are characters in "The Lottery."

An example of verbal irony in "The Rocking Horse Winner" is the opening statement that the mother "had no luck."

The American author who added an interest in people's personalities, emotions, and attitudes to the writing of short narrative fiction was the

A person whose character contrasts that of the main character, thus emphasizing those of the main character is the

The three major areas in examining any story are character, plot, and setting.

A dynamic character and developing character are synonymous, meaning they both undergo a permanent change.

The short story produces a single impression.

"Dearest heart," whispered she softly and rather sadly when her lips were close to his ear, "prithee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight."

Nathaniel Hawthorne added interest in personality, psychological motivation, and intense emotion.

Plot is about cause and effect.