Prose Practice "Clytie"

Prose Practice

"Clytie"

Multiple Choice

The portion of the narrative involving Lethy (lines 11-21) serves primarily to

• characterize Lethy's motivations

• show what Octavia is like

• suggest a mutual dislike between Lethy and the father

• underscore the importance of Lethy to the family

• present a memory of Clytie's as a flashback

Multiple Choice

What does the cooking of three separate meals primarily reveal about Clytie?

• How unlike Lethy she is

• The high priority she gives to her own needs

• Her position as the head of the family

• Her comical reaction to her ailing family

• Her acquiescence to a seemingly unreasonable requirement

Multiple Choice

In lines 43-50, the description of Clytie's lingering attention to her father's face suggests her

• growing realization of his impending death

• remorse about her past lack of concern for him

• disgust as his gaunt and deathly appearance

• need for some sign of affection from him

• repressed antagonism for the years he neglected her

Multiple Choice

Clytie's behavior in lines 43-47 suggests that she

• is revealing an undefined hatred of her father

• is overcome by a sense of powerlessness

• has remembered an extremely painful experience

• fears for her safety

• realizes her attachment to Lethy

Multiple Choice

By describing Clytie's "words" (line 44) rather than quoting them, the author primarily

• reveals the sense of peace that follows Clytie's release

• conceals Clytie's rebellious plans

• suggests a conspiracy between Clytie and Octavia

• emphasizes Clytie's anguished emotions

• shows Clytie's growing sense of self-awareness

Multiple Choice

In lines 52-56 ("The thick...breathed"), the physical description of Octavia primarily conveys

• her coarse vitality

• her hidden vulnerability

• her mature beauty

• apparent wealth

• a family resemblance

Multiple Choice

Octavia's dialogue with Clytie is characterized by

• a repetitiousness that conveys forgetfulness

• a discursiveness that conveys distractedness

• a brevity that conveys insecurity

• an ardor that conveys imagination

• a terseness that conveys dominance

Multiple Choice

In the passage, Clytie's character is best described as

• affectionate

• cruel

• independent

• dutiful

• jealous

Multiple Choice

The passage features all of the following contrasts EXCEPT

• speech and restraint

• joy and despondence

• kindness and cruelty

• duty and devotion

• control and compliance

Multiple Choice

The passage primarily focuses on the

• dying father's last relationships with family and servants

• tyranny of Octavia over her father and brother

• mental and physical worlds of Clytie as her father is dying

• vengeance visited on the family by those they wronged

• relationship of the family to the outside world during the father's illness