ENGL 102 Test 1. Questions With Answers-Liberty University

Liberty University - ENGL 102 Test 1. Questions With Answers.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