Unit 4 Review On Level

In paragraphs 12-13 of her essay "On Compassion," Barbara Ascher makes generalizations to suggest that people in New York City--

• do not care about the homeless.

• dislike New York because of the poverty that surrounds them.

• want to ban the homeless from the city.

• want to create safe places for the homeless in the city.

According to the article, what happens when we are faced with raw humanity?

• The conditions give birth to empathy

• We ignore the problems we face

• The less fortunate suffer

• The government removes the unpleasantries

In the end of the essay, Ascher asserts her argument about compassion. Leading up to this assertion, she--

• Provides empirical evidence

• Discusses her views of the homeless

• Provides anecdotal evidence

• Argues that New York City is overrun with poverty

Which sentence best expresses the article's main idea?

• I don't believe that one is born compassionate...It must be learned...

• This play doesn't end--and the players can't go home

• Raw humanity offends our sensibilities.

• We cannot deny the existence of of the helpless as their presence grows.

In paragraph 17 of Guy de Maupassant's "Was it a Dream?," what does the word impenetrable mean?

• Confusing

• Impossible to understand

• Accessible

• Impossible to pass through

What is the effect of the story's point of view?

• The first-person narration conveys a tone of despair

• A third-person narrator reveals the truth about the dead

• The third-person narration provides a limited view of the situation

• The first-person omniscient narration demonstrates the narrator's knowledge of what his lover had done

In paragraph , the simile indicates that the narrator

• was injured

• was confident about making his way through the cemetery

• was unable to see his way through the darkness of the cemetery

• was trying to see his lover

Which sentence from the story supports the theme of love can cause people to believe the best about others and often masks the truth?

• “How queer, it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips.” (Paragraph 2)

• “They were all writing at the same time, on the threshold of their eternal abode, the truth, the terrible and the holy truth of which everybody was ignorant, or pretended to be ignorant, while they were alive.” (Paragraph 22)

• “Happy is the man whose heart forgets everything that it has contained, everything that has passed before it, everything that has looked at itself in it, or has been reflected in its affection, in its love!” (Paragraph 9)

• “Then I saw that it was getting dark, and a strange, mad wish, the wish of a despairing lover, seized me. I wished to pass the night, the last night, in weeping on her grave.” (Paragraph 12)

How does finding the new inscription on his lover's tomb affect the narrator's internal conflict?

• He is thankful to know the truth finally

• His grief suddenly goes away

• He finally knows what he suspected all along

• His despair is intensified by learning the truth of his lover's deception.

Based on the narrator's description of the interaction with the priest, the reader can conclude that

• the priest is empathetic and willing to share in the narrator’s grief.

• the narrator and his lover had been prominent, well-known figures in their community.

• the priest and perhaps others were already aware that the narrator’s lover was unfaithful.

• the narrator and the priest have a past history of negativity.