Cumulative Exam Review Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Which piece of textual evidence from the story "Civil Peace" defends best the analysis that the
main protagonist, Jonathan, is optimistic?
A. "'I count it as nothing,' he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying. 'What is
egg rasher? Did I depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things that went with the
war?'"
B. "Jonathan and his family were now completely paralysed by terror. Maria and the children
sobbed inaudibly like lost souls."
C. "He was normally a heavy sleeper but that night he heard all the neighborhood noises die
down one after another."
D. "At first he went daily, then every other day and finally once a week, to the offices of the Coal
Corporation where he used to be a miner, to find out what was what." ✔✔A. "'I count it as
nothing,' he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying. 'What is egg rasher? Did I
depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things that went with the war?'"
Arrive early to enter the Swim a Lap Day contest.
What is the form of the underlined verb arrive?
A. indicative
, B. subjunctive
C. imperative
D. passive ✔✔C. imperative
How does diction affect theme in a story?
A. It determines the syntax used, which affects how the theme is structured.
B. It affects the mood, which affects how theme is interpreted by the reader.
C. It doesn't affect theme at all because it has to do only with language choice.
D. It creates a struggle that advances the plot, which creates the theme. ✔✔B. It affects the
mood, which affects how theme is interpreted by the reader
"To My Ex"
by Stephanie Harris
Don't chew with your mouth open.
Don't tell me we're as close
as sand and water on the beach.
Now it's war: broken glass.
With gift after gift you set me up,
Answers 100% Pass
Which piece of textual evidence from the story "Civil Peace" defends best the analysis that the
main protagonist, Jonathan, is optimistic?
A. "'I count it as nothing,' he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying. 'What is
egg rasher? Did I depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things that went with the
war?'"
B. "Jonathan and his family were now completely paralysed by terror. Maria and the children
sobbed inaudibly like lost souls."
C. "He was normally a heavy sleeper but that night he heard all the neighborhood noises die
down one after another."
D. "At first he went daily, then every other day and finally once a week, to the offices of the Coal
Corporation where he used to be a miner, to find out what was what." ✔✔A. "'I count it as
nothing,' he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying. 'What is egg rasher? Did I
depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things that went with the war?'"
Arrive early to enter the Swim a Lap Day contest.
What is the form of the underlined verb arrive?
A. indicative
, B. subjunctive
C. imperative
D. passive ✔✔C. imperative
How does diction affect theme in a story?
A. It determines the syntax used, which affects how the theme is structured.
B. It affects the mood, which affects how theme is interpreted by the reader.
C. It doesn't affect theme at all because it has to do only with language choice.
D. It creates a struggle that advances the plot, which creates the theme. ✔✔B. It affects the
mood, which affects how theme is interpreted by the reader
"To My Ex"
by Stephanie Harris
Don't chew with your mouth open.
Don't tell me we're as close
as sand and water on the beach.
Now it's war: broken glass.
With gift after gift you set me up,
