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The Road / The Handmaid's Tale / Persepolis

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which novel was this quote taken from? “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”

a)

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

2.

Which book was the following quote taken from?

"Are there any questions?"

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

3.

Which text was the following quote taken from?

"In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid."

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

4.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“One can forgive but one should never forget.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

5.

Which text was this quote taken from?

"God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner."

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Perspolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

6.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

7.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

8.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

9.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

10.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

11.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

12.

Which text was this quote taken from?

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”

a)

The Road - McCarthy

b)

Persepolis - Satrapi

c)

The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood

13.

Which literary device is used in the following quote from The Handmaid's Tale? "His skin is pale and looks unwholesomely tender, like the skin under a scab."

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

14.

Which literary device is used in this quote taken from The Road? “What the boy had seen was a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit. He bent and picked the boy up and started for the road with him, holding him close."

a)

Imagery

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

15.

Which literary device is used here?

(Pick the best one!)

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?"

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Imagery

d)

Symbol

16.

Which literary device is used here?

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Alliteration

d)

Symbol

17.

Which literary device is used here?

“To want is to have a weakness.”

a)

Simile

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor

d)

Oxymoron

18.

Which literary device is used here?

"He descended into a gryke in the stone and there he crouched coughing and he coughed for a long time."

a)

Neologism

b)

Kenning

c)

Assonance

d)

Alliteration

19.

Which literary device is NOT used in this quote? “I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.”

a)

Alliteration

b)

Simile

c)

Allusion

d)

Sibilance

20.

Which two literary devices are used here? "Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."

a)

Tricolon

b)

Simile

c)

Polysyndeton

d)

Synecdoche