W21 Language arts exam

What's the meaning of limited point of view?

• a point of view that only provides the thoughts and feelings of one character
• a narrating technique where two or more characters narrate the story
• the character or voice telling a story
• a point of view when a narrator has an “all-knowing” understanding of characters and events

What's the meaning of multiple points of view?

• a point of view that only provides the thoughts and feelings of one character
• a narrating technique where two or more characters narrate the story
• the character or voice telling a story
• a point of view when a narrator has an “all-knowing” understanding of characters and events

What's the meaning of narrator?

• a point of view that only provides the thoughts and feelings of one character
• a narrating technique where two or more characters narrate the story
• the character or voice telling a story
• a point of view when a narrator has an “all-knowing” understanding of characters and events

What's the meaning of omniscient point of view?

• a point of view that only provides the thoughts and feelings of one character
• a narrating technique where two or more characters narrate the story
• the character or voice telling a story
• a point of view when a narrator has an “all-knowing” understanding of characters and events

Point of view can be defined as: the type of narration used, as in first person, second person, or third person

• True
• False

The following passage (paragraph 7) adds to the development of the narrative mainly by _______ Tom's mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work.

• suggesting how desirable the apple is to Tom when Ben eventually offers it
• showing how much Tom loves whitewashing the fence
• demonstrating how jealous of a person Tom is
• pointing out how silly it is for a steamboat captain to be eating an apple

What does the following passage mainly reveal about Tom? He got out his worldly wealth and examined it—bits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange of WORK, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure freedom. So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys.

• He used to have many more treasures until other boys tricked him into giving them up.
• He is satisfied with the amount of treasures he currently has on him.
• He knows that he doesn’t have enough to bribe the boys into whitewashing the fence.
• He would never figure out a way to get out of his work.

What is most closely the meaning of alacrity as it is used in the following passage? Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

• eagerness
• disappointment
• hesitation
• humbleness

What is most closely the significance of the phrase “the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun” in the following passage? Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

• Ben is finding the fence job to be a lot easier than Tom did.
• A steamboat coming down the Mississippi is running slow due to the heat.
• Ben is no longer pretending to be a boat because he is now whitewashing the fence.
• Tom has taken over the role of captain on the Big Missouri.

Which of the following selections best explains the “law of human action” described in this passage ? Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.

• The harder something is to have, the more likely it is that people will want it.
• Most people don’t appreciate the value of hard work.
• It’s impossible to do most things without money.
• Whether or not a job is desirable depends on how much one is paid.