Monday, February 3, 2025 11th Grade Homework

Based on this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," what is the contextual meaning of the word resign?

 

"I am sorry," he said, and patted me on the shoulder with his good hand. "I would not be rude. My wife has just died. You must forgive me."

"Oh-" I said, feeling sick for him. "I am so sorry."

He stood there biting his lower lip. "It is very difficult," he said. "I cannot resign myself."

He looked straight past me and out through the window. Then he began to cry. "I am utterly unable to resign myself," he said and choked. And then crying, his head up looking at nothing, carrying himself straight and soldierly, with tears on both cheeks and biting his lips, he walked past the machines and out the door.

• accept it

• assume it

• explain it

• defend it

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Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word invalided in this sentence from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country"?

 

The doctor told me that the major's wife, who was very young and whom he had not married until he was definitely invalided out of the war, had died of pneumonia.

• to be promoted with medals or honors

• to be tortured in prisoner of war camps

• to be discharged in disgrace for not reporting to duty

• to be removed from service due to injury or illness

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Which of the following excerpts from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" exemplifies Dexter's disillusionment with love?

Note: Disillusionment in literature is a feeling of disappointment or loss of trust that arises when reality doesn't match expectations. It can also refer to the process of taking away false beliefs or illusions. 

• He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving—but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

• It took place in New York, where he had done well—so well that there were no barriers too high for him. He was thirty-two years old, and, except for one flying trip immediately after the war, he had not been West in seven years.

• Dexter looked closely at Devlin, thinking wildly that there must be a reason for this, some insensitivity in the man or some private malice.

• He was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of tangled emotion.

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What is significant about the following excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams"?

[Judy] swung her mashie impatiently and without interest, pitching the ball into a sand-pit on the other side of the green. With a quick, insincere smile and a careless "Thank you!" she went on after it. 

• Judy's actions on the golf course are similar to the way she treats men.

• Judy is a professional golfer, which impresses other golfers at the club.

• Judy tends to have a violent temper, which is evident when she plays golf.

• Judy is a bad golfer and used the wrong club when trying to hit the ball.

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What element of literary nonsense is present in this excerpt from "How the Animals Lost Their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" by Carl Sandburg? 

He was from Massachusetts, born near Chappaquiddick, this old flongboo, and he lived there in a horse chestnut tree six feet thick halfway between South Hadley and Northampton. And at night, before he lost his tail, he lighted up the big hollow cave inside the horse chestnut tree with his yellow torch of a tail.

• using only imaginary animals and places

• combining imaginary animals and real places

• writing by only using sound devices

• eliminating all sound devices from writing

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Which excerpt from Carl Sandburg’s "Three Boys with Jugs of Molasses and Secret Ambitions" includes both alliteration and onomatopoeia?

• "And I like you because you got some wishes and some suspicions and you look mixed up," he said to Miney Mo, sticking handfuls and handfuls of fleems into the pockets of Miney Mo.

• All three got to the grocery at the same time. And all three went out of the door of the grocery together, each with a jug of molasses together and each with his secret ambition creeping around in his heart, all three together.

• Whenever the secret ambition crept in their hearts and made them too sad, so sad it was hard to live and stand for it, they would all three put their hands on each other's shoulder and sing the song of Joe.

• They did not know it was Mr. Sniggers putting paris green on the potato plants. A big drop of paris green spattered down and fell onto the heads and shoulders of all three, Eeta Peeca Pie, Meeny Miney and Miney Mo.

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