English Summer 2020 TRIO UB

Mandy failed to beat her final opponent, _____ she practiced karate every day

• though

• that

• if

• where

Which phrase best defines mood in literature?

• the location of a story

• the atmosphere of a story

• the attitude of the writer

• he traits of the characters

What paradox of social injustice is presented in these lines from Countee Cullen's “From the Dark Tower”?

We shall not always plant while others reap

The golden increment of bursting fruit,

Not always countenance, abject and mute

That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;

• The hearing and speaking impaired are routinely victimized by others in American society.

• Those who today enjoy power and prosperity may one day become subordinate to those they deem inferior.

• The natural system of justice is unbiased, and all people are given equal opportunity to grow and flourish.

• Those who enforce racial segregation are typically isolated groups in society.

Who is the featured character in an earth diver story?

• a character who dives into water and brings up a small amount of mud or sand

• a character who travels to the center of Earth and lives there

• a character who dives into the ocean and creates a new world underwater

• a character who comes from another world and teaches humans important skills

Which word or phrase is a synonym for the word doctrine?

• a group of friends or family

• moral judgment

• attitude

• a declaration or set of rules

Read the passage from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book I, excerpted from "The Arrival in Kent of the missionaries By Pope Gregory the Great."

Categorize the new behavior of recently converted Britons.

As soon as they entered the dwelling place assigned them, they began to imitate the course of life practiced in the primitive church: applying themselves to frequent prayer, watching, and fasting; preaching the word of life to as many as they could; despising all worldly things, as not belonging to them; receiving only their necessary food from those they taught; living in all respects conformably to what they prescribed to others, and being always disposed to suffer any adversity, and even to die for that truth which they preached. In short, several believed and were baptized, admiring the simplicity of their innocent life and the sweetness of their heavenly doctrine.

There was on the east side of the city a church dedicated to St. Martin, built whilst the Romans were still in the island, wherein the queen, who, as has been said before, was a Christian, used to pray. In this they first began to meet, to sing, to pray, to say mass, to preach and to baptize, till the king, being converted to the faith, allowed them to preach openly and to build or repair churches in all places.

• inappropriate

• sinful

• pious

• secular