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Retort, from the people yes test

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tress

a)

A synonym for the word hair

b)

Excersise

c)

To wrap a gift

d)

To stress

2.

Thou art

a)

Artist

b)

The art

c)

You are

d)

You

3.

Fair

a)

Okay

b)

Fine

c)

Ugly

d)

Beautiful

4.

rational thought vs. desire for love

a)

Retort

b)

The people, yes

c)

Brain vs heart

d)

Poem

5.

alliteration

a)

Jesse Jumped Gingerly

b)

how art he siad

c)

obama

d)

The Greatest Fools Thou Art

6.

Free verse

a)

Having complex thyme and rythm

b)

Effortless poem

c)

no regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm

7.

Formal verse

a)

A synonym for the word hair

b)

Effortless poem

c)

regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm

d)

Obama

8.

Assonance

a)

Jesse jumped gingerly

b)

The fool got lost going to the pool at the school.

c)

the fools thou art

d)

Mille del portal

9.

Consonance

a)

Jesse jumped gingerly

b)

The fool got lost at the pool in school

c)

Obama

d)

The running back attacked the quarterback after he got sacked.

10.

Eaten by mosquitoes, we wished that we had made hotel, not campsite, reservations. What is the participial?

a)

Eaten

b)

Reservations

c)

Thou art

d)

Wished

11.

I like to visit the gym. "To visit" is called an...

a)

Dative

b)

Accusative

c)

Infinitive

d)

Verbal phrase

12.

He spoke with a confident air. What does "air" mean?

a)

Breeze

b)

Air

c)

manner

d)

Temptation

13.

In the poem from The People Yes, the white man believes he is more _______________ than the Indian.

a)

Intellegent

b)

Superior

c)

wiser

d)

Dumber

14.

A verb phrase acting as an adjective.

a)

Participial

b)

Verbal phrase

c)

Noun

d)

Adverb

15.

Having been a pole vaulter, Gale knew the importance of exercise. What is the participial?

a)

Having

b)

Pole

c)

Importance

d)

Excersise

16.

In the poem "Retort" this is the speaker's love interest

a)

Phyllis

b)

The speaker

c)

Narrator

d)

Indian man

17.

In the poem "Retort" how is Phyllis described by the speaker?

a)

Beautiful

b)

Awesome

c)

Ugly

d)

Irritable

18.

What vowel displays assonance in the following sentence: I I can see the tree from my knees.

a)

A

b)

U

c)

I

d)

E

19.

What constant is repeated int he following sentence: The man dribbled the basketball by doubling up his habits.

a)

A

b)

B

c)

E

d)

D

20.

In the following participial phrase, identify the noun modified? Walking on the beach, Delores dodged jellyfish that had washed ashore.

a)

Delores

b)

Jellyfish

c)

Yonni

d)

Ashore

21.

In the following participial phrase, identify the noun modified? Waking to the buzz of the alarm clock, Freddie shook his head at the arrival of another Monday.

a)

Monday

b)

Buzz

c)

Freddie

d)

Arrival

22.

In the poem, from The People, Yes the main conversation between the white man and the Indian centers around

a)

Knowledge

b)

Land

c)

indians

d)

Superiority

23.

The white man thinks he is ______________ to the Indian.

a)

Superior

b)

Anterior

c)

Below

d)

Wiser