WorksheetsEnglish ASB Quiz #1
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
In Moliere’s drama, Orgon is married to ___________.
a)
Elmire
b)
Dorine
c)
Mariane
d)
Damis
2.
The speaker in Autumn is ___________.
a)
narrative
b)
objective
c)
omniscient
d)
first person
3.
In The Apparition, upon entering the bedroom, the narrator discovers all EXCEPT ______.
a)
a musty odor in the room
b)
the disordered furniture
c)
rusted shutters on the window
d)
a wooden bed with yellowed sheets
4.
The Social Contract argues that the oldest and most natural political society is the ___________.
a)
power of wealth
b)
basic family unit
c)
hereditary royals
d)
church heirarchy
5.
The Verne novel begins with Phileas Fogg’s firing his man servant because he _______.
a)
overcooked breakfast eggs by 32 seconds
b)
was discovered napping at 2:00 in the afternoon
c)
delivered shaving water 2 degrees too hot
d)
pressed evening shirts with too hot an iron
6.
Phaedra takes her own life by ________.
a)
hanging herself
b)
ingesting poison
c)
jumping from city walls
d)
using Hippolytus’ sword
7.
The train service in India came to a very sudden stop when _______.
a)
an elephant stood between the rails
b)
the train was attacked by local tribesmen
c)
an engineer underestimated coal needs
d)
tracks to their destination simply ended
8.
In Hymn to Beauty, Baudelaire calls Beauty his only __________.
a)
lover
b)
queen
c)
angel
d)
consort
9.
In Tartuffe, the most outspoken and honest of the characters is _____.
a)
Mariane
b)
Valere
c)
Dorine
d)
Orgon
10.
The setting of A Piece of String is __________.
a)
an inner city slum
b)
a rural French village
c)
the Paris suburbs
d)
an isolated Spanish plaza
11.
In style and tone, The Apparition stands close to the writing of _________.
a)
Charles Dickens
b)
Jean Racine
c)
Edgar Allan Poe
d)
William Shakespeare
12.
The woman described in the first stanza of the Dance of Death wears all EXCEPT _________.
a)
a handkerchief and gloves
b)
flower-like shoes
c)
a floating robe
d)
diamonds and gems
13.
Even though Hippolytus pretends otherwise, he admits that he loves ___________.
a)
Phaedra
b)
Oenone
c)
Aricia
d)
Ismene
14.
Ironically, Passepartout took employment with Phileas Fogg because he expected ____________.
a)
quiet, uneventful routines
b)
evening hours to himself
c)
time with royal bankers
d)
unique, meaningful voyages
15.
The peasants, as they travelled to market, brought with them animals to sell that include all EXCEPT ________.
a)
calves
b)
chickens
c)
ducks
d)
piglets
16.
Baudelaire concludes in Hymn to Beauty, that Beauty makes his life _______.
a)
more tragic and tedious
b)
abundant and worthwhile
c)
painful and difficult
d)
less hideous and trite
17.
Baudelaire writes, “My mind is like a tower that slowly succumbs…” He uses a ________.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
symbol
d)
paradox
18.
In order to prove Tartuffe’s treachery, Elmire hides her husband ______.
a)
in the closet
b)
outside the door
c)
under the table
d)
by a large plant
19.
The structure that gives unity to The Apparition is called a _________.
a)
a framework technique
b)
mythical device
c)
historical integrity
d)
poetic license
20.
In interviewing a new man servant, Phileas Fogg discovered that Passepartout had experience as all EXCEPT a _________.
a)
fireman in Paris
b)
sometime singer
c)
chef to the French king
d)
gymnastics professor
21.
The structure and format of The Social Contract is essentially _________.
a)
expository
b)
descriptive
c)
persuasive
d)
narrative
22.
The Ganges River, according to the beliefs of the Indians, ________.
a)
will never dry, even in drought
b)
provides life to all living things
c)
begins in heaven and flows to Earth
d)
cannot be navigated to its end
23.
In rejecting and condemning Hippolytus, Theseus asks the aide of the god ______.
a)
Zeus
b)
Apollo
c)
Poseidon
d)
Persephone
24.
The final bit of evidence that condemns Passepartout and Fogg in court is ______.
a)
Fogg’s unending cache of money
b)
the testimony of the Buddhist priests
c)
Passepartout’s recovered shoes
d)
the fees paid to the elephant guide
25.
The Dance of Death is structured with a series of _________.
a)
unrhymed quatrains
b)
tercets with end rhyme
c)
couplets with masculine rhyme
d)
quatrains with end rhyme
26.
Mr. Fogg’s group of travelers journeyed by all means EXCEPT _________.
a)
steamers
b)
elephants
c)
dog sleds
d)
wind sledges
27.
The character of Matre Hauchecome can best be described as ________.
a)
ambitiously inept
b)
cautiously silly
c)
decently honest
d)
guilefully deceitful
28.
The setting of Tartuffe is _________.
a)
Calais, France
b)
Madrid, Spain
c)
London, England
d)
Paris, France
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