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Quiz 7

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means 'fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing'?

a)

eloquent

b)

devious

c)

industrious

d)

impetuous

2.

What word means 'able to trick people to achieve your goals'?

a)

melodramatic

b)

didactic

c)

eloquent

d)

devious

3.

What word means 'to control or influence someone or a situation for your own benefit'?

a)

browbeat

b)

manipulate

c)

reform

d)

antagonise

4.

What word means 'to verbally intimidate someone into doing something'?

a)

manipulate

b)

browbeat

c)

symbolise

d)

avenge

5.

Which word means 'a cruel, harsh ruler'?

a)

denigration

b)

tyrant

c)

discord

d)

antithesis

6.

Which word means 'the action of unfairly criticising someone or something'?

a)

denigration

b)

misanthropy

c)

tyrant

d)

ignominy

7.

‘With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these ______’

a)

fences

b)

barriers

c)

walls

d)

people

8.

‘Doth she not count her blest, _________ as she is, that we have wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bride?’

a)

unworthy

b)

baggage

c)

lovely

d)

precious

9.

‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s ________ every twenty-fifth of December!’

a)

money

b)

nose

c)

pocket

d)

coins

10.

‘I can’t afford to make ________ people merry.’

a)

poor

b)

rich

c)

idle

d)

stupid

11.

‘with two more children how can you possibly avoid some of them being put into ________?’

a)

school

b)

prison

c)

jobs

d)

care

12.

‘at least if the child was with me you’d be able to see him every day, as you came to __________’

a)

work

b)

school

c)

visit

d)

worship

13.

‘I gave __________; / Then all smiles stopped together.’

a)

orders

b)

requests

c)

commands

d)

money

14.

‘she liked whate’er she looked on, and her looks went ___________.’

a)

nowhere

b)

anywhere

c)

somewhere

d)

everywhere

15.

What method is a word that adds description to a noun?

a)

pronoun

b)

adverb

c)

adjective

d)

proper noun

16.

What method is a question asked for effect, rather than an answer?

a)

rhetorical question

b)

burning question

c)

interrogative

d)

metaphor

17.

What method is when a writer creates a noticeable difference or opposition between two things?

a)

adjective

b)

repetition

c)

contrast

d)

simile

18.

What method is when a word/phrase is used more than once for deliberate effect?

a)

metaphor

b)

repetition

c)

lexical choice

d)

rhetorical question

19.

Which character manipulates Mrs Johnstone into giving up a child?

a)

Mr Lyons

b)

Mrs Lyons

c)

Sammy

d)

The narrator

20.

Which of these characters could best be described as devious?

a)

Mrs Lyons

b)

Bob Cratchit

c)

The war photographer

d)

Benvolio

21.

Which character browbeats their child?

a)

Mrs Johnstone

b)

Lord Capulet

c)

Lady Montague

d)

The mother in 'Poppies'

22.

Which of these would best be described as a tyrant?

a)

Ozymandias

b)

Mr Lyons

c)

Tybalt

d)

Wilfred Owen

23.

Which of these characters is most eloquent?

a)

The Duke in 'My Last Duchess'

b)

Sammy Johnstone

c)

Mickey Johnstone

d)

The pilot/father in 'Kamikaze'

24.

Scrooge suggests the poor are lazy. Lord Capulet calls his daughter 'baggage'. Both of these are examples of what?

a)

Eloquence

b)

Denigration

c)

Conjecture

d)

Tyranny

25.

In which poem are domestic images mixed with images of war?

a)

Tissue

b)

Checking Out Me History

c)

Poppies

d)

Ozymandias

26.

'The merciless iced east winds' suggests that nature is...

a)

implacable

b)

ephemeral

c)

domestic

d)

eloquent

27.

Juliet attempts to _________ Friar Laurence into finding a solution by threatening to commit suicide.

a)

coerce

b)

abhor

c)

acquiesce

d)

avenge

28.

Which of these characters shows prejudice against the poor?

a)

Bob Cratchit

b)

The portly gentlemen

c)

Fred

d)

Scrooge

29.

Which of these characters avenges their friend's death?

a)

Romeo

b)

Juliet

c)

Tybalt

d)

The Nurse

30.

Which of these texts does NOT suggest that there should be some reform in society, particularly in terms of the class system?

a)

'London' by William Blake

b)

'Blood Brothers' by Willy Russell

c)

'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens

d)

'Poppies' by Jane Weir

31.

Which of these characters is usually presented as hostile?

a)

The Nurse

b)

Friar Laurence

c)

Tybalt

d)

Juliet

32.

‘My child is yet a ________ in the world’

a)

stranger

b)

youth

c)

alien

d)

girl

33.

Who is the speaker in 'My Last Duchess'?

a)

The Duke

b)

The Dutch

c)

The Duchess

d)

Robert Browning

34.

‘on his brow I see that written which is _________, unless the writing be erased’

a)

Doom

b)

Ignorance

c)

Want

d)

Death

35.

Who claims that love has given them wings that they used to get over a wall?

a)

Juliet

b)

Mercutio

c)

Lord Capulet

d)

Romeo

36.

What institutions does Scrooge believe the poor should go to?

a)

prisons and workhouses

b)

schools and nurseries

c)

death camps and mental asylums

d)

the job centre

37.

Who acquiesces to giving their employee the day off work on Christmas Day?

a)

Scrooge

b)

Fred

c)

Mr Lyons

d)

Lord Montague

38.

Who thinks that their child should consider themselves lucky?

a)

Lord Montague

b)

Lord Capulet

c)

Belle

d)

The mother in 'Poppies'

39.

Who works in a 'dismal little cell'?

a)

Benvolio

b)

Edward Lyons

c)

The speaker in 'The Prelude'

d)

Bob Cratchit

40.

Whose power (compared to nature) is presented as ephemeral?

a)

Ozymandias'

b)

The Duke's

c)

Mrs Lyons'

d)

John Agard's