English -2nd Qtr. Exam Review for Gr.10

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1. It involves the reading, interpretation, and commentary of a specific text or texts which have been designated as literature.

• Literary Criticism

• Literary Analysis

• Literary Approach

• Literary Theory

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2. It is a kind of literary approach which sees a literary work as a reflection of the author’s life and times or the life and the times of the characters in the work.

• Historical-Biographical Approach

• Formalist Approach

• Marxist Approach

• Moral Philosophical Approach

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3. It determines whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.

• Historical Criticism

• Moralist Criticism

• Feminist Criticism

• Reader-Response Criticism

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4. It focuses on female representation in literature, paying attention to female points-of-view, concerns, and values.

• Formalist

• Psychological

• Feminist

• Archetypal

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5. It holds that true meaning of a text can be determined only by analyzing the literary elements of the text and by understanding how these elements work together to form up a cohesive whole.

• Humanist

• Formalist

• Moralist

• Psychosocial

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6. This is more of the readers own reaction to the text upon reading it that may be influenced by his/her own experiences; hence two different readers may derive completely different interpretations of the same literary text.

• Formalist

• Marxist

• Structuralism

• Reader-Response

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7. It tries to understand how power, politics, and money play a role in literary texts and how these elements impact the society and characters in the text.

• Post colonial Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• New Criticism

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1. Which literary criticism is the best choice to examine the poem “The Man with the Hoe”?

• Formalist

• Historical-Biographical

• Marxist

• Reader-Response

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2. Which of the following literary criticism questions is appropriate based on the answer you have chosen in Question no. 1?

• What emotion does the poem elicit in you for the man with the hoe?

• How does the poem describe the ruling class and the working class?

• What literary devices are used in the poem? Cite lines to support your answer.

• What was the plight of the workers during Edwin Markham’s time in 1898?

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3. What imagery is used in 'The Man with the Hoe' to emphasize the man's labor?

• Pictures of nature and beauty

• Images of wealth and success

• Descriptions of a worn and tired body

• Scenes of joyful celebration

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4. Which inference best explains why Markham uses the image of a man “with the hoe” rather than naming a specific occupation?

• To universalize the laborer as a symbol of all exploited workers

• To emphasize agricultural techniques over people

• To show that only farm laborers suffer

• To glorify manual labor as a noble pursuit

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5. Markham’s diction often dehumanizes the laborer (e.g., “a thing,” “like a beast”). What is the most likely purpose of this strategy?

• To entertain readers with shocking language

• To suggest the laborer’s actual animal nature

• To provoke moral outrage in readers toward the social order

• To praise the efficiency of factory systems

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6. Which synthesis best captures the poem’s implied solution for social change?

• Greater individual prayer and patience among laborers

• Isolation of rural communities to preserve tradition

• Technological improvement to make labor more efficient without changing ownership

• Structural reform that redistributes power and alleviates systemic exploitation

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1. Dr. Frankl describes 'Capos’ as _______.

• Low-level German guards who were relatively friendly.

• S.S. officers who were cruel and inhumane.

• Prisoners who acted as trustees, having special privileges.

• Prisoners who did anything they could to survive.

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2. What was the one thought that Frankl says controlled every prisoner?

• Consider moral or ethical issues while trying to survive.

• Keep yourself alive for the family waiting at home.

• Do anything to survive, regardless of moral and ethical issues.

• Find ways to bribe the Capos and S.S. officers for easier treatment.

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3. What does Frankl mean when he says prisoners often experienced a "delusion of reprieve"?

• They thought Germany would win the war and the horrors would never end.

• They lost their ability to feel emotions and felt neither happy nor sad.

• They had nightmares that were worse than their actual lives.

• They remained hopeful that they would survive somehow, up until the very last second.

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4. Initially, what did Frankl tell another prisoner was his primary motivation for surviving?

• To live to tell other people what he experienced

• To make sure that the people working in the concentration camp would be served justice in court after the war ended.

• To preserve the manuscript that contained his life's work

• To collaborate with Freud on a new book about psychology

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5. Which of the following is NOT one of the three phases of camp life as described by Frankl?

• Admission

• Entrenchment in camp life

• Reunion

• Release and liberation

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6. What did Frankl say prisoners dreamed about the most?

• Their own deepest fears

• Their childhoods

• Bread, cake, cigarettes, and warm baths

• Family, friends, home, and holiday celebrations

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7. What job did Frankl do outside in freezing temperatures?

• He worked on train tracks.

• He worked in the sewage pits.

• He worked in an open-air hospital.

• He worked on the roof of the director's building.

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8. What does Frankl call "the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire"?

• Love

• Faith

• Hope

• Peace

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9. Frankl argues that the ultimate human freedom is the ability to:

• choose one's actions in any given set of circumstances

• choose one's beliefs in any given set of circumstances

• choose one's physical surroundings

• choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances

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10. According to Frankl, what is the "will to meaning"?

• The 'will to meaning' refers to the pursuit of fame and recognition.

• The 'will to meaning' refers to the innate human desire to find purpose and meaning in life.

• The 'will to meaning' refers to the desire to accumulate wealth and material possessions.

• The 'will to meaning' refers to the belief that life has no inherent purpose or meaning.

Open Ended

Describe the three psychological phases that the Jewish prisoners had experienced in the concentration camps based on the observation of Dr. Frankl.

•The period of admission to camp: shock

•The period of camp routine: apathy

•The period of liberation: depersonalization

Open Ended

Compose a five-line poem reminding you to practice honesty and integrity during the exam.

Draw

Draw the first thing that you will do after the English exam on Saturday. :D