Unit Four Summative Four

Which of the following sentences best explains the main idea of the text, A Story of Vengeance?

• Vengeance is tempting when wronged by a loved one.

• Vengeance is justified when it is enacted upon a person or group of people who have done something objectively terrible.

• Vengeance offers false hope to those who seek it—ultimately it leaves the perpetrator as wounded as the victim.

• Vengeance should only occur if there are no illegal acts committed.

The following passage (paragraph 13 of A Story of Vengeance) adds to the development of the text mainly by showing .

For a while I was content, there were daily letters from him to read; his constant admonitions to practice; his many little tokens to adore—until there came a change,—letters less frequent, more mention of Blanche and her love for him, less of his love for me, until the truth was forced upon me. Then I grew cold and proud, and with an iron will crushed and stamped all love for him out of my tortured heart and cried for vengeance.

• that Bernard’s betrayal ultimately inspires the narrator’s act of vengeance

• that the narrator is naive in thinking that Bernard will choose to be with her

• how much Bernard loves the narrator

• that Blanche steals Bernard away from the narrator

Which of the following statements is best supported by the excerpt below (paragraph 15 of A Story of Vengeance)?

So I threw off my habits of seclusion and mingled again with men and women, and took up all my long-forgotten plans. It's no use telling you how I succeeded. It was really wonderful, wasn't it? It seems as though that fickle goddess, Fortune, showered every blessing, save one, on my path. Success followed success, triumph succeeded triumph. I was lionized, feted, petted, caressed by the social and literary world. You often used to wonder how I stood it in all those years. God knows; with the heart-sick weariness and the fierce loathing that possessed me, I don't know myself.

• The narrator is thrilled when Bernard leaves because she is able to fulfill all of the ambitions he prevented her from pursuing.

• The narrator finds her way to celebrity status through lies and deceit.

• The narrator’s social and literary successes are a result of her bargaining with the goddess Fortune.

• During the time when Bernard is away, the narrator is heartbroken but also experiences greater successes in the public sphere.

Which passage from the text (A Story of Vengeance) most strongly supports the idea that the narrator is more successful when she is no longer seeing Bernard?

• A. “So I threw off my habits of seclusion and mingled again with men and women, and took up all my long-forgotten plans.”

• “It seems as though that fickle goddess, Fortune, showered every blessing, save one, on my path.”

• “Success followed success, triumph succeeded triumph. I was lionized, feted, petted, caressed by the social and literary world.”

• "It's no use telling you how I succeeded.”

Which of the following statements is best supported by the excerpt below (paragraph 18 in A Story of Vengeance)?

Eleanor, to my dying day, I shall never forget his face as he rose from his knees, and with one awful, indescribable look of hate, anguish and scorn, walked from the room. As he neared the door, all the old love rose in me like a flood, drowning the sorrows of past years, and overwhelming me in a deluge of pity. Strive as I did, I could not repress it; a woman's love is too mighty to be put down with little reasonings. I called to him in terror, "Bernard, Bernard!" He did not turn; gave no sign of having heard.

• The narrator has no empathy for Bernard’s pain given how much pain he inflicted upon her.

• The narrator feels conflicted between her love for Bernard and her desire for success.

• The narrator realizes, after rejecting Bernard, that it doesn’t matter what he did to her in the past—she still loves him.

• The narrator finds it difficult to remember the good times with Bernard.

What does the speaker of the Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi most likely mean when he says that “ ...out of that divine fire many of us also took a small spark which strengthened and made us work to some extent on the lines that he fashioned”?

“After all, that glory that we saw for all these years, that man with divine fire, changed us also—and such we are, we have been molded by him during these years; and out of that divine fire many of us also took a small spark which strengthened and made us work to some extent on the lines that he fashioned.”

• Gandhi left people feeling abandoned.

• Gandhi inspired people to action.

• Gandhi did what other people wanted of him.

• Gandhi gathered around a fire to speak.

Which sentence from the Eulogy of Mahatma Gandhi best supports the speaker’s view that Mahatma Gandhi affected all types of people?

• “To praise him we are not worthy—to praise him whom we could not follow adequately and sufficiently.”

• “It will judge of the success and the failures—we are too near it to be proper judges and to understand what has happened and what has not happened.”

• “He spread out in this way all over India, not just in palaces, or in select places or in assemblies, but in every hamlet and hut of the lowly and those who suffer.”

• “Yet ultimately things happened which no doubt made him suffer tremendously, though his tender face never lost its smile and he never spoke a harsh word to anyone.”

What does the speaker of the Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi mostly ask of the people listening?

• That people should influence the way history judges Gandhi by writing about him

• That people remember Gandhi for the good he did rather than the conflicts he caused

• That people carry out specific requests Gandhi made in a letter read at the eulogy

• That people honor Gandhi by continuing to perform the kind of deeds he performed

Which statement from the Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi most strongly supports the idea that Gandhi's legacy continues after his death?

• “It is almost doing him an injustice just to pass him by with words when he demanded work and labor and sacrifice from us…”

• “Yet he would not have us feel this way.”

• “Long ages afterwards history will judge of this period that we have passed through.”

• “Yet he must have suffered—suffered for the failing of this generation whom he trained…”

Which of the following is a possible meaning of this quote from A Story of Vengeance? “Vengeance is an arrow that often falleth and smiteth the hand of him that sent it.”

• Vengeance is a necessary action in order to secure justice when someone has been wronged.

• Vengeance can make a wronged person feel vindicated.

• Vengeance is the only thing that can right some wrongs.

• Vengeance ends up hurting the person who undertakes it just as much as the person who has wronged them.