ENGL 102Liberty University Test complete questions with well answered answers

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 Question 1 1.6 out of 1.6 points That little Davy Hutchinson, the small son of the victim, is given a few pebbles to throw at his mother suggests that __________. Selected Answer: Everyone, ... including the victim’s family, participates in the tradition  Question 2 1.6 out of 1.6 points How the story opens and how it ends ________________. Selected Answer: Shock its readers  Question 3 1.6 out of 1.6 points The setting of the story is ironic because __________. Selected Answer: a ritual murder takes place on a beautiful summer (June) day  Question 4 1.6 out of 1.6 points How the excerpt opens and how it ends ___________. Selected Answer: Exemplifies irony  Question 5 1.6 out of 1.6 points Which of the following is NOT true? The story uses the symbol of the lottery to communicate ____________. Selected Answer: an anti-tradition message  Question 6 0 out of 1.6 points The mother in "The Rocking Horse Winner" is truly lucky in many ways: she's beautiful, married for love, had bonny children, and "started with all the advantages." Selected Answer: Fals e  Question 7 1.6 out of 1.6 points Which of the following terms identifies the falling action? Selected Answer: denoueme nt  Question 8 1.6 out of 1.6 points In "The Prodigal Son," the story/plot of the angry older son develops after the return of the younger son. Selected Answer: Tru e  Question 9 1.6 out of 1.6 points In "The Rocking Horse Winner," the irony of situation is manifested when Hester thinks she's lucky because she "married for love" and "had bonny children." Selected Answer: Fals e  Question 10 1.6 out of 1.6 points A character's point of view is always reliable. Selected Answer: Fals e  Question 11 1.6 out of 1.6 points "The Lottery" can be interpreted via biblical hermeneutics. Selected Answer: Tru e  Question 12 1.6 out of 1.6 points The following characters, Mr. Summers, Old man Warner, and Mrs. Hutchinson, appear in Selected Answer: "The Lottery"  Question 13 1.6 out of 1.6 points The term used to describe information presented in an earlier part of the story that tends to make us accept as probable an event occurring in a later part is Selected Answer: Foreshadowi ng  Question 14 1.6 out of 1.6 points These are actual (historical) persons that appear in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," and were executed at the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692. Selected Answer: Goody Cloyse, Goody Cory, and Martha Carrier  Question 15 1.6 out of 1.6 points The moment of greatest tension in the action of a short story is called Selected Answer: clima x  Question 16 1.6 out of 1.6 points “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! Selected Answer: The Prodigal Son  Question 17 1.6 out of 1.6 points Mr. Summers, Old Man Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Hutchinson are characters in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." Selected Answer: Fals e  Question 18 1.6 out of 1.6 points The short story produces a single impression. Selected Answer: Tru e  Question 19 1.6 out of 1.6 points In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," Hester is Paul's Selected Answer: moth er  Question 20 1.6 out of 1.6 points One of the characters in this story believes that luck is "what causes you to have money." Selected Answer: "The Rocking-Horse Winner"  Question 21 1.6 out of 1.6 points The term used to describe a situation where the author tells the story using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks…. Selected Answer: Third-person limited point of view  Question 22 1.6 out of 1.6 points Who wrote one hundred ribald stories of the Roman priesthood? Selected Answer: Boccacc io  Question 23 1.6 out of 1.6 points In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors,” the statement that T’s words “were almost confined to voting ‘Yes’ or ‘No’” suggests that he is __________. Selected Answer: quie t  Question 24 0 out of 1.6 points Plot is about cause and effect. Selected Answer: Fals e  Question 25 1.6 out of 1.6 points Read this excerpt from “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: “Blackie lumbered nearer the saw and the sledge-hammer. Perhaps after all nobody had turned up; the plan had been a wild invention; they had woken wiser. But when he came close to the back door he could hear a confusion of sound hardly louder than a hive in swarm; a clickety-clack, a bang bang bang, a scraping, a creaking, a sudden painful crack. He thought; it’s true, and whistled.” Why is confusion an effective choice? Selected Answer: Shows intense effort  Question 26 1.6 out of 1.6 points In this story, the protagonist blurs the distinction between "luck" and "lucre" Selected Answer: "The Rocking-Horse Winner"  Question 27 1.6 out of 1.6 points Read this excerpt from “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and answer the question that follows: “The loo stood like a tomb in a neglected graveyard. The curtains were drawn. The house slept. Blackie lumbered nearer the saw and the sledge-hammer. Perhaps after all nobody had turned up; the plan had been a wild invention; they had woken wiser. But when he came close to the back door he could hear a confusion of sound hardly louder than a hive in swarm; a clickety-clack, a bang bang bang, a scraping, a creaking, a sudden painful crack.” References to “tomb,” “graveyard,” and “bang bang bang” suggest imminent doom. This is an example of __________. Selected Answer: foreshadowi ng  Question 28 1.6 out of 1.6 points An example of a plot pattern is metaphysical structure. Selected Answer: Fals e [Show More]

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