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The Big Year 10 EOY Quiz

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many questions do you have to answer in the Reading section of Language Paper 1?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

2.

How many questions do you answer in the Writing of section Language Paper 1?

a)

2

b)

1

c)

Both questions

3.

How many marks are there for content and organisation in the Writing section of Language Paper 1?

a)

20

b)

16

c)

24

4.

How many marks are there for technical accuracy in the Writing section of Language Paper 1?

a)

8

b)

12

c)

14

d)

16

5.
When analysing language, you should always look for...
a)
Words/phrase
b)
Language features or techniques
c)
Sentence forms
d)
All of the above
6.

When analysing structure, you should always look for...

a)

Narrator point of view

b)

Shift in focus

c)

Sentence lengths/types to achieve a specific purpose

d)

All of the above

7.
Which of these is an example of a simile?
a)
The children ran like ripples through water
b)
The wizened woman wrote rhymes.
c)
The thunder roared.
8.
Which of these is an example of alliteration?
a)
All the world's a stage.
b)
My alarm clock yells at me every morning.
c)
Menacing sounds of mashing metal machines emanated from the mines.
d)
He is as brave as a lion.
9.
What is a metaphor?
(Example: What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.)
a)
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
b)
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).
c)
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
d)
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
10.
What is a discourse marker?
a)
A comma with a full stop over the top of it.  Like this ;
b)
A discourse marker is a word or phrase that plays a role in managing the flow and structure of a piece of writing.
c)
A paragraph's opening sentence.
d)
A sort of bookmark.
11.
How did Marley get the chain that he wears?
a)
It was given to him by the Ghost of Christmas Past.
b)
It wrapped itself around him when he first screamed.
c)
He created it to present to Scrooge as a gift.
d)
He made it with his own greed during his lifetime.
12.

Scrooge does not believe that the vision he sees is really Marley. How does he explain the vision?

a)

He says that he is seeing not Marley but a picture on the wall.

b)

He says that someone is trying to frighten him or fool him.

c)

He says that an undigested bit of food (bad food; food poisoning) has affected his senses.

d)

He says that someone who is dead could not appear before him.

13.
What is revealed about Scrooge’s childhood when he is returned to his schoolhouse with the Ghost of Christmas Past?
a)
He was lonely and spent much time lost in books.
b)
He was his father’s favorite.
c)
He cared only about money.
d)
He was afraid of ghosts.
14.
Why is Scrooge's fiance ending their engagement?
a)
He has replaced love with his desire for money.
b)
She thinks they are too young to marry.
c)
She believes he loves another woman.
d)
He calls her a mindless loon.
15.
Servants and scoundrels have access to Scrooge's belongings because...
a)
Scrooge died alone with no one to take care of his things.
b)
Scrooge left his things to anyone who might need them.
c)
Scrooge did not get around to making a will before he died.
d)
Scrooge left his door unlocked on the last night he was alive.
16.
How does Scrooge's nephew feel about Christmas?
a)
“Don’t be cross, Uncle.”
b)
[Christmas is] a good time… when men and women seem to open their shut-up hearts freely.”
c)
“Don’t be angry, Uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”
d)
“I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”
17.

What type of poem is 'Ozymandias'?

a)

Haiku

b)

Sonnet

c)

Ballad

d)

Narrative

18.
Who wrote the poem "Ozymandias"?
a)
Edgar Allan Poe
b)
William Shakespeare
c)
Saki
d)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
19.
Who is the speaker of the poem?
a)
Ozymandias
b)
One could argue that the traveller, Ozymandias, and the poet are all speakers of the poem.
c)
the traveller
d)
the poet
20.
What is the poem mainly about?
a)
an ancient and cruel ruler's statue destroyed by the effects of time
b)
a lost traveller who finds safety in the ruins of a statue
c)
a pharaoh who meets a traveller in the middle of nowhere
d)
a poet who finds a pedestal that used to belong to a great king
21.
What did the sculptor do well?
a)
The sculptor really captured Ozymandias's harsh character as shown in the face of the statue.
b)
He or she carved tiny, intricate details on the pedestal.
c)
The sculptor was able to build a weak-enough statue that would crumble over time.
d)
He or she met the traveller and showed him how to dig up the ruins of his masterpiece.
22.

Who is the poem based on?

a)

King Henry

b)

Tutankhamun

c)

Ramesses II

d)

Percy Shelley

23.

What type of rhythm does the poem take?

a)

Iambic Tetrameter

b)

Haiku

c)

Iambic Pentameter

d)

Limerick

24.
'And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered
which had been the better way to die.'
a)
War photographer
b)
Kamikaze
c)
London
d)
Remains
25.
'In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.'
a)
Kamikaze
b)
Checkin Out Me History
c)
War Photographer
d)
Exposure
26.
'We watch them wandering up and down the wind's
nonchalance,
But nothing happens.'
a)
Exposure
b)
The Emigree
c)
Charge of the Light Brigade
d)
Tissue
27.
'How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every black'ning church appals'
a)
Ozymandias
b)
Storm on the Island
c)
My Last Duchess
d)
London
28.

"Will't please you sit and look at her?" is from which poem?

a)

My Last Duchess

b)

Ozymandias

c)

Charge of the Light Brigade

d)

Remains

29.

"Sun-stunned, sand-smothered land" is from which poem?

a)

Bayonet Charge

b)

Remains

c)

The Prelude

d)

Poppies

30.

What war did Wilfred Owen fight in?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

Cold War

31.

What war did Alfred Lord Tennyson fight in?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

He didn't fight in a war

32.

What war did Ted Hughes fight in?

a)

He didn't fight in a war

b)

WW2

c)

WW1

d)

Cold War

33.
Who (what) did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
a)
The tree witches laughing at him
b)
Banquo's Ghost
c)
Blood from the daggers in his wine cup
d)
The image of Duncan's beating heart
34.
Macbeth most likely brings the bloody daggers to Lady Macbeth because he . . .
a)
needs to show how easy the deed was for him
b)
has to prove that he has murdered Duncan
c)
wants to frighten her for encouraging him
d)
feels distressed and shocked at his actions
35.
One of the images or themes that runs throughout the play is that of
a)
ships at sea
b)
battle armor
c)
brotherly love
d)
blood
36.
What does Lady Macbeth say stopped her from killing Duncan?
a)
She believes Macbeth must do the murder
b)
The shriek of an owl frightened her
c)
Duncan reminds her of her father
d)
She fears the king's guards
37.
Macbeth says, "Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires." What are Macbeth's desires?
a)
He wants to go home to see Lady Macbeth
b)
He wants to raise the taxes in the lands he rules
c)
He is very tired.  He wants the stars to stop shining so he can sleep
d)
He wants to be king
38.
What revolution happened in England during the 19th Century?
a)
French
b)
Industrial
c)
American
d)
Capitalist
39.

Priestley uses Sheila as a vehicle to represent....

a)

Materialism

b)

The changing role of women,

c)

How the younger generation can become more socialist.

d)

Capitalism

40.
Socialism is the belief that everyone should be treated....
a)
unfairly
b)
cruelly
c)
kindly
d)
equally
41.
Complete the quote from Sybil: 'I blame the young man who was....'
a)
...there at the time,'
b)
...the dad of the kid.'
c)
...the fool who got her pregnant.'
d)
...the father of the child she was going to have.' 
42.
'We are members of ____   _______. 
We are ___________ for ______   _______'
Which words are missing from the Inspector's key quote near the end of the play? 
a)
one group, responsible, every, body
b)
one body, responsible, each, other
c)
a community, here, caring, one
d)
a collective, accountable, each, other
43.

Mrs Birling is described as a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior. Why would a woman marry a man socially inferior?

a)

Because she thought he was incredibly attractive and she was a rebel

b)

At the time women would marry lower class men to help their social status

c)

Upper class had to marry men in the middle classes to secure their status as the upper classes were losing money and the middle classes making money

d)

She didn't realise he was of a different class to her until it was too late

44.
'A man has to _________'
a)
'....mind his business, look after himself and his own.'
b)
'...mind his own business and look after himself and his family.'
c)
'...mind his own business and look after himself and his own.'
d)
'..mind his own business, look after himself and his own.'
45.
'Un________'
a)
'...sinkable. Absolutely, utterly, unsinkable.'
b)
'...sinkable. Absolutely unsinkable.'
c)
'...sinkable. Utterly unsinkable'
d)
'...sinkable. Totally unsinkable.'
46.
Who reacts to seeing the image of Eva Smith with 'a little cry...a half stifled sob'?
a)
Eric Birling
b)
Sybil Birling
c)
Sheila Birling
d)
Gerald Croft