WorksheetsEnglish II Honors Trimester 3 Final Review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 39mins
Charlotte Bronte...
Used the pseudonym Currer Bell
Was a feminist
Never married
All of the above
How did Charlotte Bronte feel about teaching?
She wanted to open her own school.
She hated it and complained about it to her sisters.
She was so moved by the plight of poor school girls she wrote JANE EYRE.
She loved teaching, especially literature.
What made Jane Eyre revolutionary? (You may select more than one answer)
It was from the POV of a strong woman who did not "need" a man.
It said that women had the same thoughts/feelings as men and should be treated as equals.
Conservatives were worried that Jane Eyre’s demands for personal freedom and the her defiance of authority would foster a rebellion.
The voice of Jane Eyre spoke of erotic passion, lower-caste aspiration, and female rage in a period when political radicalism threatened the boundaries of stable order.
How did audiences initially response to Jane Eyre? (You may select more than one answer.)
They praised it's "demure womanly tone."
Many critics were appalled by the novel’s “fierce unwomanly tone,” it’s “incendiary message,” and its “emotional nakedness.”
It was an instant bestseller.
Charlotte Bronte was universally worshipped for "speaking truth to power."
What was happening in the Victorian Age?
In the 1840’s, petitions began circulating for the advocation of women’s suffrage. The Married Women's Property Acts in 1882 secured women’s rights to maintain property ownership after marriage.
The Industrial Revolution opened doors for lower class women to take jobs in factories, most of which paid low wages and offered terrible working conditions.
There was increased literacy.
All of the above
Women in gothic literature... (select all that apply)
Have no "voice."
Have no agency.
Are always rescued by a man.
Are typically like Jane Eyre.
A Byronic Hero is... (select all that apply)
A man who is honorable and intelligent, but one who has
made a mistake in the past and still carries that burden.
Mr. Rochester
Usually ugly
Usually very appealing, despite being a jerk.
Which of the following is NOT a trait of the Byronic Hero?
Intelligent
Arrogant
Happy
Cunning
What is important about this quote: “Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex” (129-130). SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
It's revolutionary thinking for its time period
It says women are equal to men.
It says men are less than women.
It says that women may be less intelligent, but that's due to their schooling.
Who is being described here: “I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high…” (162)
Helen Burns
Blanche Ingram
Jane Eyre
Bertha Mason
Who is being described here? “You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you. You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach, nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you” (228). Remember, you also need to know WHEN this quote was said!!!!
Mr. Rochester
St. John
Jane Eyre
Helen Burns
What is happening when Jane says this quote? SELECT ALL THAT APPLLY. “Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? – a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you—and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!” (292).
Rochester is about to send her to America.
Jane is finally coming clean about her feelings for Rochester, despite the impropriety.
Jane is declaring herself Rochester's equal.
Rochester is about to send Jane to India
Who is saying this? "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you” (293).
Helen Burns
Blanche Ingram
Mrs. Rochester
Jane Eyre
What motif is being used to describe Jane in the quote below? “I think I may confess...I should make you a little indignant, Jane -- and I have seen what a fire-spirit you can be when you are indignant. You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal” (303).
Bird
Automaton
Fire
Fairy
Who says this quote:
“How it will answer, I cannot tell: I really don’t know. Equality of position and fortune is often advisable in such cases; and there are twenty years of difference in your ages. He might almost be your father” (305).
“Is it really for love he is going to marry you?” (305)
Adele
Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Fairfax
Rochester's grandma
Who says this quote (and, once again, don't forget-- you need to know WHEN they say these quotes in the plot): “...not I, but one Jane Rochester, a person whom as yet I knew not…. Mrs. Rochester! She did not exist” (316).
The first Mrs. Rochester
Blanche Ingram
Mrs. Fairfax
Jane Eyre
What is important about this quote: “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad - as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?...” (365)
This quote shows Jane's real inner passion.
Jane is standing her ground as a feminist and self-sufficient human who will not be tempted by love to give up her morals.
Jane admits that she cares about Mr. Rochester so much that she can't stand to have him hurt.
Jane is saying she needs no one.
Who says this: “I recognized a soul that reveled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice. In the tractability with which, at my wish, you forsook a study in which you were interested, and adopted another because it interested me; in the untiring assiduity with which you have since persevered in it -- in the unflagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficulties -- I acknowledge the complement of qualities I seek. Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous…” (465)
Mr. Rochester
Mr. Brocklehurst.
Mr. Reed
St. John
What is Jane saying here: “And I will give the missionary my energies -- it is all he wants -- but not myself: that would be only adding the husk and shell to the kernel. For them he has no use: I retain them” (468). SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.
She will go as St. John's friend and fellow missionary, but not as his wife.
She retains the right to own herself, she will not give him her inner spark.
She believes she can learn to love St. John.
Jane is willing to die.
The chestnut tree... SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Can be seen as a symbol for Mr. Rochester.
Can be seen as a symbol for Jane and Rochester's relationship.
Is a symbol for Jane's indomitable spirit.
Is a symbol for religion.
A dystopia... (select all that apply)
Is where the ills of society, individual or collectively, run riot.
It is the opposite of a utopia.
A society in which the ills of society thrive and virtue is crushed.
Is Gilead
Speculative Fiction... SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
An umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with magical/supernatural or futuristic elements.
This includes, but not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, science fantasy, horror, utopian and dystopian fiction, supernatural fiction as well as their combinations.
The Handmaid's Tale
Macbeth
An epigraph... select all that apply
A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
The tiny writing at the bottom of the page inside the novel
Little appetizers to the great entree of a story. They illuminate important aspects of the story, and they get us headed in the right direction.
Are useless
Feminism is:
Man-hating
The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
The belief that women are better than men.
The belief that men should be treated as "less than."
Direct address is when... select all that apply
You give someone your address so they can get to you directly.
A construction in which a speaker or writer communicates a message directly to another individual or group of individuals. The person who is addressed may be identified by name, nickname, the pronoun you, or an expression that's either friendly or unfriendly.
When Offred and Jane refer to us as "you"
Stupid
An unreliable narrator... select all that apply
A narrator we cannot completely trust
Offred
Holden Caulfield
A narrator who finds others unreliable
An epilogue is... select all that apply
The tiny appetizers at the beginning of the book.
Usually written in the form of a letter.
The Historical Notes in The Handmaid's Tale
A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.
Toxic Masculinity
Refers to the socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive, and so forth.
Belief in the equality of the sexes
Belief in the inequality of the sexes
Is a great way to raise boys
The color red in THE HANDMAID'S TALE... select all that apply
The Handmaids are required to wear long, loose red dresses that cover their bodies and indicate their function in Gilead: to have intercourse once a month with the high-ranking Commanders in the hopes of conceiving and giving birth to a child that will be turned over the Commanders’ Wives.
The color red indicates the Handmaids’ fertility, echoing the color of menstrual blood.
Historically, red has been seen as a symbol of power, worn by kings and religious leaders, yet the Handmaids’ only power is their presumed ability to bear children.
Red has also been associated with women who commit sexual sins.
It was also worn by WWII prisoners of war in Canada, and so inspired Margaret ATwood.
Who says: “There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it” (24). REMEMBER, You also need to understand when they said it and WHY IT IS IMPORTANT.
Serena Joy
The Commander
Aunt Lydia
Janine
What does Nolite te bastardes carborundorum mean?
Don't let the bastards bring you down.
Don't let the bastards get to you.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Don't let the bastards wear you down.
What just happened to make Offred say this: “I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph...You can see it in her eyes. I am not there... Still, I can’t bear it, to have been erased like that. Better she’d brought me nothing” (228).
Offred realizes her mother is in the Colonies.
Offred realizes her daughter no longer remembers her.
Offred realizes Moira no longer has the will to fight.
Offred realizes all her friends are dead.
Who says: "It's lack of love we die from." REMEMBER YOU MUST ALSO KNOW WHEN/WHY IMPORTANT
Offred
Moira
Serena Joy
Aunt Lydia, strangely enough
What is happening when Offred says: "“It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space” (225).
She is explaining to the Commander the importance of sex
She is explaining to the Commander the importance of self-expression.
She is explaining to the Commander the importance of individuality.
She is explaining to the Commander the importance of love.
Fill in the blank: “This is a ____________________…. When I get out of here, if I'm ever able to set this down, in any form, even in the form of one voice to another, it will be a _________________ then too, at yet another remove. It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many” (134).
falsehood
reconstruction
memory
half-truth
Who is being discussed: "She is frightening me now, because what I hear in her voice is indifference, a lack of volition. Have they really done it to her then, taken away something -- what? -- that used to be so central to her? And how can I expect her to go on, with my idea of her courage, live it through, act it out, when I myself do not?"
Offred
Serena Joy
Moira
Janine
Fill in the blank: “I would like to be ________________. Then I would not know how ________________ I was” (263).
Ill-informed
Mute
Ignorant
Clueless
What is this an example of? “Nevertheless, it hurts me to tell it over, over again. Once was enough: wasn’t once enough for me at the time? But I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if I escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they’re not here. By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. Because I’m telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are” (267-268).
That Offred is losing her mind
Direct Address
Offred's loss of hope
Offred's rage
