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Progress Test 2
This Progress Test covers the course materials that were assigned in Units 3 and 4. Although the progress test is
similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test. You may not have access to
notes or any of the course materials while you are taking the test. It is important that you do your own work. Select
the response that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1.
Where did Winston Churchill deliver his “Wartime Speech”?
a.
b.
c.
____ 2.
In “God’s Grandeur,” what is the “grandeur of God”?
a.
b.
c.
____ 3.
All living things die.
You are only young once.
Spring is a time of hope.
In the stream-of-consciousness narrative “The Lady in the Looking Glass,” what literary element is mostly
missing?
a.
b.
c.
____ 7.
first person
omniscient third person
objective second person narrator
What is the main idea of “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”?
a.
b.
c.
____ 6.
freedom and timelessness
stars and the moon
sorrow and despair
What point of view is used in Mrs. Dalloway?
a.
b.
c.
____ 5.
people
nature
poetry
What do the swans symbolize in “The Wild Swans at Coole”?
a.
b.
c.
____ 4.
on the radio
on television
from the battlefield
a conflict
a narrator
a plot
Why does Eliot use the word “we” in the line “We are the hollow men” from “The Hollow Men”?
a.
b.
c.
to show that he is referring to all modern people
to show that he is a member of a large family
to show that people should all believe as he does
____ 8.
“Wirers” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” share what attitude toward war?
a.
b.
c.
____ 9.
prideful
bitter
positive
What is Diamelen’s fate in “The Lagoon”?
a.
b.
c.
She disappears.
She falls in love with Armat’s brother.
She dies.
____ 10. In the poem “Remembrance,” the speaker appears
a.
b.
c.
furious and scared.
youthful and carefree
resigned and reflective
____ 11. In the poem “The Darkling Thrush,” what mood change happens from the beginning to the end?
a.
b.
c.
joyous to hopeless
hopeful to sad
hopeless to hopeful
____ 12. What is the theme of “Musée des Beaux Arts”?
a.
b.
c.
Tragedy means nothing to those who are unaffected by it.
Society should do more to help the unfortunate.
There are as many interpretations of a painting as there are viewers.
____ 13. “The Demon Lover” reflects the British government’s wartime request that people leave London in what
way?
a.
b.
c.
Mrs. Drover receives a notification.
All the houses on the street are empty.
The house has bomb damage.
____ 14. Yeats’s belief in a cyclic theory of world history reveals itself in “The Second Coming” through
a.
b.
c.
images of circling and completion.
references to stone and violence.
allusions to art and music.
____ 15. What is the fate of Arsat’s brother in “The Lagoon”?
a.
b.
c.
He is left on a lonely island.
He runs away with a girl he loves.
He is killed as Arsat leaves.
____ 16. Rudyard Kipling believed the British needed to colonize the world to
a.
b.
c.
bring “civilized” ways to the world.
accumulate more power.
find more natural resources.
____ 17. What do Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen all have in common?
a.
b.
c.
They refused to go to war.
They were soldiers in WWI.
They were authors of novels.
____ 18. What is the theme of “The Widow at Windsor”?
a.
b.
c.
The queen’s greatness was paid for with the lives of English soldiers.
Most British rulers care about the well-being of their people.
Great rulers achieved greatness through courage and self-sacrifice.
____ 19. Which symbol from “A Shocking Accident” best supports the theme that things are out of place?
a.
b.
c.
the pig
the album
the school
____ 20. What is one thing Graham Greene is saying about life with the story “A Shocking Accident”?
a.
b.
c.
It can be absurd.
It can be serious.
It can be hard.
____ 21. In “Sailing to Byzantium,” Yeats concentrates on spiritual matters, myths and the afterlife, which differs from
Modernist tradition and more closely resembles __________ tradition.
a.
b.
c.
Romantic
Victorian
Postmodernist
____ 22. What action is urged in the Evacuation Scheme memorandum?
a.
b.
c.
that England is facing a grave danger in the war.
that children leaving their homes should take their gas masks.
that many should leave their homes in an orderly manner.
____ 23. How could the following lines from “Carrick Revisited” be rewritten without losing any meaning? ” . . . Our
past we know / But not its meaning–whether it meant well.”
a.
b.
c.
Memories of childhood are painful.
One should live in the present, not the past.
We can never truly understand how past experiences have shaped us.
____ 24. The main idea of “To an Athlete Dying Young” is glory does not last forever. Which lines from the poem
illustrate this idea.
a.
b.
c.
“Eyes the shady night has shut / Cannot see the record cut.”
“The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the marketplace;”
“And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose.”
____ 25. The poem “Preludes” is filled with the Modernist technique of imagery. What mood is created in the following
lines from the poem? “Of withered leaves about your feet / And newspapers from vacant lots; / The showers
beat / On broken blinds and chimney-pots,”
a.
b.
c.
anger
happiness
gloominess
____ 26. According to Eliot, events of the early twentieth-century created “hollow men.” In “The Hollow Men,” how are
men of the time period compared to men that came before?
a.
b.
c.
They are better educated.
They are stronger.
They are less passionate.
____ 27. In “When I was One-and-Twenty,” the speaker’s tone is ____.
a.
b.
c.
angry
sarcastic
regretful
____ 28. Which line helps to create an eerie atmosphere at the beginning of “The Demon Lover”?
a.
b.
c.
“The part-time caretaker she shared with some neighbors was away this week.”
“She stopped dead and stared at the hall table–on this lay a letter addressed to her.”
“Shifting some parcels under her arm, she slowly forced round her latchkey.”
____ 29. The narrator’s feelings change from __________ in the story, “Araby.”
a.
b.
c.
lonely to hopeful and excited
hopeful to miserable and angry
angry to satisfied
____ 30. Gerard Manley Hopkins believed in the ____ of all things, which he called inscape.
a.
b.
c.
individuality
importance
rhythms
____ 31. What essential message can you infer about the speaker’s attitude toward war in “The Soldier”?
a.
b.
c.
He will fight any war for England.
He wants to earn glory in war.
He fears war above all else.
____ 32. What information in the flashback in “The Demon Lover” is most important for the story’s ending?
a.
b.
c.
Mrs. Dover was engaged to a soldier who went missing in WWI.
Mrs. Dover was very young when she had a relationship with a soldier.
Mrs. Dover and her fiancé had never actually kissed each other.
____ 33. “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” begins with a child grieving over
a.
b.
c.
severe illness.
nature changing.
the loss of a friend.
____ 34. In the excerpt from Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway thinks it is __________ for people to love life.
a.
b.
c.
wise
foolish
natural
____ 35. Thomas Hardy’s writing reflected his ____ outlook on life.
a.
b.
c.
positive
pessimistic
exaggerated
____ 36. Why does Paul begin to bet on horse races in the story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”?
a.
b.
c.
because he has a gambling problem
to pay for his schooling at Eton
to get money to help his mother
____ 37. World War I and other twentieth-century challenges were reflected in Modernist writing. What Modernist
concern is reflected in “Journey of the Magi”?
a.
b.
c.
apathy
questioning authority
spiritual distress
____ 38. The final lines from “Wirers” describe a young soldier who has been shot. Then the poet remarks, “But we
can say the front-line wire’s been safely mended.” Why is the speaker’s tone so bitter?
a.
b.
c.
because the wirers died doing something so meaningless
because the wirers have such a hard time repairing the fence
because the wires on the fence are not always fixed
____ 39. How is the mood affected in the last two lines of the following stanza from “Recessional”? “God of our
fathers, known of old– / Lord of our far-flung battle-line– / Beneath whose awful Hand we hold / Dominion
over palm and pine– / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet / Lest we forget– lest we forget!”
a.
b.
c.
They reveal the speaker’s sense of abandonment and anger.
They create an old-fashioned experience.
They create a sense of sincere desperation.
____ 40. In “Wartime Speech,” what is the effect of the phrase, “. . . we are ready to face it; to endure it; and to
retaliate against it”?
a.
b.
c.
inspiring
depressing
frightening
____ 41. Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling brought what new themes to Victorian literature?
a.
b.
c.
cynicism and doubt
vengeance and scorn
happiness and hope
____ 42. The speaker in “When You Are Old” is addressing
a.
b.
c.
all readers as they consider the future.
his mother.
a woman he one loved.
____ 43. Gerard Manley Hopkins creates a contrast between ________ in “God’s Grandeur”.
a.
b.
c.
the wisdom of age with the inexperience of youth
the flame of poetry with the oil of commerce
the splendor of creation with the dullness of mankind
____ 44. What point is Kipling making about the British Empire in “Recessional”?
a.
b.
c.
The British Empire is the most powerful nation in history.
The British Empire will not last forever.
The British Empire will always be remembered.
____ 45. What advice does the wise man give the speaker in “When I was One-and-Twenty”?
a.
b.
c.
Friends last forever.
Do not fall in love.
Be careful with your money.
____ 46. Rupert Brooke uses a __________ tone in the poem “The Soldier.”
a.
b.
c.
fearful
bitter
hopeful
____ 47. In “Araby,” the narrator hopes to go to Araby and
a.
b.
c.
be with his friends.
buy a gift for his uncle.
buy a gift for a girl.
____ 48. The island in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is a symbol for
a.
b.
c.
contentment.
mystery.
loneliness.
____ 49. In “Sailing to Byzantium,” the speaker wants to go to Byzantium and find __________.
a.
b.
c.
hope in love
hope in religion
hope in art
____ 50. How does Woolf disagree with the bishop in “Shakespeare’s Sister”?
a.
b.
c.
Woolf believes that a woman’s basic nature, not society, kept women from writing great works in
Shakespeare’s time.
Woolf believes that there were many great, but unknown, writers in the age of Shakespeare.
Woolf believes that the society in Shakespeare’s time kept women from writing great works, not the
inherent abilities of women.
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Progress Test 3
This Progress Test covers the course materials that were assigned in Units 5 and 6. Although the progress test is
similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test. You may not have access to
notes or any of the course materials while you are taking the test. It is important that you do your own work. Select
the response that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1.
What value does the author of “I’m Like a Bird” argue pop music has?
a.
b.
c.
____ 2.
What does Hughes mean when he writes “Then the sun / Orange, red, red erupted” in the poem “The
Horses”?
a.
b.
c.
____ 3.
that human life has no meaning and no purpose
that everything is really funny and crazy
that all of life can be compared to a stage
Nick Hornby describes girls dancing and singing to the song “I’m Like a Bird” at the end of his essay “I’m
Like a Bird.” What comment about music is he making with this description?
a.
b.
c.
____ 6.
a wineglass filling with rain water
a family dinner on the patio
one man looking up at the stars
What attitude about life did writers in the literary movement called the Theater of the Absurd have?
a.
b.
c.
____ 5.
It grew lighter and suddenly the sun rose.
A volcano exploded against the horizon.
A horse burst out of a barn into the sunlight.
What is “On the Patio” about?
a.
b.
c.
____ 4.
It is enduring.
It is entertaining.
It is disposable.
It works for all age groups.
It is a source of human connection.
It is our only inspiration.
What character trait do the characters in “Come and Go” and “That’s All” (Flo, Vi, Ru, Mrs. A., and Mrs. B.)
share?
a.
b.
c.
strong relationships
unique personalities
lack of individuality
____ 7.
The author of “We’ll Never Conquer Space” gives a prediction about space travel and also
a.
b.
c.
____ 8.
The theme of cultural conflict in “No Witchcraft for Sale” is developed in the relationship differences between
Gideon and Teddy because
a.
b.
c.
____ 9.
casts doubt on the existing laws of physics.
explaining why we will never develop the ability to communicate between planets.
paints a picture of humanity’s place in the universe.
Gideon has knowledge of healing, and Teddy needs his help.
Gideon is an adult, and Teddy is a child.
Gideon is a native, and Teddy’s family is English.
In “B. Wordsworth,” what does “crying like a poet, for everything [he] saw” suggest about being a poet?
a.
b.
c.
The core of a poet is emotion and feeling.
A poet must be able to look at things reasonably.
Poets must not ignore anything around them.
____ 10. What does the title “That’s All” suggest about the play?
a.
b.
c.
It foreshadows the insignificance of events.
It sets up the sense of closure presented in the end.
It makes the reader question the content.
____ 11. What is meant by “the price of Space is Time” in “We’ll Never Conquer Space”?
a.
b.
c.
The technology for travel through space will be costly.
It will take much time to travel vast distances through space.
People will have to be paid a great amount to travel into space.
____ 12. Which sentence most appropriately represents a possible theme of “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good
Night”?
a.
b.
c.
People should not regret how they act.
Society treats poets as outsiders.
Life is short, and we should hold onto it.
____ 13. In the essay “We’ll Never Conquer Space,” why does Clarke argue that colonies established around other
stars would be independent of Earth?
a.
b.
c.
Aliens on other planets would quickly take over these colonies.
They would be too distant in time and space for Earth to control them.
People who travel in space would be independent by nature and rebel.
____ 14. How is the relationship between the Farquars and Gideon in “No Witchcraft for Sale” similar to the
relationship between Orwell and the Burmese in “Shooting an Elephant”?
a.
b.
c.
Both relationships are those of “masters” and “subjects” in a colonial society.
Both relationships involve the English treating the native people with inhumanity.
Both relationships involve brotherly love.
____ 15. The simile “walking bent, like performing animals” is used to describe the Africans in “The Train from
Rhodesia.” Why is this simile used?
a.
b.
c.
It explains the effects of colonialism on Africans.
It helps describe the setting.
It indicates how the African vendors perceive the tourists.
____ 16. In “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” what does “night” symbolize?
a.
b.
c.
death
society
faith
____ 17. The vendor in “The Train from Rhodesia” is described as “still smiling, not from the heart, but at the
customer.” This is a comment on
a.
b.
c.
the friendliness of both the Africans and the tourists.
the greed of the African vendors.
the true relationship between the Africans and the tourists.
____ 18. What disaster occurs in “The Explosion”?
a.
b.
c.
Men die in a mine explosion.
A family dies because of a homemade bomb.
A miner falls and is seriously injured.
____ 19. What is the prominent feature of the tomb in “An Arundel Tomb”?
a.
b.
c.
a crown and sword
a knight on horseback
a husband and wife
____ 20. In “A Devoted Son,” what does Varma think about Veena? Use the following sentence to guide you: “Veena
slipped silently out of the room with a little smirk that only the old man saw, and hated.”
a.
b.
c.
She is mocking him and his weakness.
She is friendly, and he resents it.
She disapproves of her husband.
____ 21. In “That’s All,” the conversation between Mrs. A. and Mrs. B. reflects drama of the absurd because
a.
b.
c.
it portrays a realistic conversation.
it reflects the pointlessness of life.
its reaction to war reflects the genre.
____ 22. Consider the following quote from the essay “I’m Like a Bird.” “It’s true that in our early relationship with, and
courtship of, a new song, there is a stage which is akin to a sort of emotional puzzlement.” What is the
author comparing liking a song to?
a.
b.
c.
having dinner
dating
being upset
____ 23. Which of the following quotes is an example of direct characterization?
a.
b.
c.
“The mother said, “‘Look, darling, there are some of the boys.'”
“The child, staring sideways, read black lettering on a white board.”
“The child had black hair, slicked down smooth to his head.”
____ 24. In the poem “Fern Hill,” what catches the reader off guard in the following lines? “All the sun long . . . / All the
moon long . . . ”
a.
b.
c.
The poet feels it necessary to explain that he wants “all” the “sun” and “moon.”
The word choice is in opposition to the nature images throughout the poem.
Ordinarily, “sun” and “moon” would be replaced by “day” and “night”
____ 25. In the poem “Follower,” what feeling toward the speaker’s father do the following lines present? “His
shoulders globed like a full sail strung / between the shafts and the furrow.”
a.
b.
c.
bitterness
awe
discomfort
____ 26. “Naming of Parts” is a poem that lists the parts of a
a.
b.
c.
bee.
flower.
gun.
____ 27. In “Shooting an Elephant,” the elephant
a.
b.
c.
destroyed a rice field.
knocked down a temple.
killed a man.
____ 28. The conflict in “A Devoted Son” is between
a.
b.
c.
Rakesh and his father about his father’s care.
Rakesh and his mother over whom he should marry.
Rakesh staying in his village or moving to America.
____ 29. In “Vergissmeinicht,” what theme is suggested by the lines, “For here the lover and killer are mingled/who
had one body and one heart”?
a.
b.
c.
Love and violence are both powerful impulses in the human soul.
All soldiers have a loved one that they had to abandon.
War killed the German soldier and his lover.
____ 30. The following lines are taken from “A Devoted Son.” What does the signboard symbolize? “The gate that
opened onto the dusty and rubbish-heaped lane still bore, proudly, a newly touched-up signboard that bore
his son’s name and qualifications, his own name having vanished from the gate long ago.”
a.
b.
c.
the cleanliness of the house even though the road is dirty
the level of professionalism the son tries to keep
the son taking over his father’s house
____ 31. How does Rakesh show respect to his father at the beginning of “A Devoted Son”?
a.
b.
c.
thanking him for all the support
bowing down and touching his feet
telling him he wants to follow in his footsteps
____ 32. What do references to “the old way” and “the playground at Miss Wade’s” suggest about the relationship of
Vi, Ru, and Flo in “Come and Go”?
a.
b.
c.
They don’t like one another very much.
They have known one another a long time.
They are all related.
____ 33. Flo, Vi, and Ru are holding hands “in the old way” at the end of “Come and Go.” Flo says, “I can feel the
rings.” The rings likely refer to
a.
b.
c.
the rings on the characters’ fingers.
the connection that binds the women.
the circles the characters’ hands make.
____ 34. What is indirectly stated in the line “Pray for us now” in the poem “Prayer”?
a.
b.
c.
The speaker is hopeless in the face of her feelings of loss and regret.
The speaker knows we are faithless, yet understands that faith is what we need.
The speaker knows only to pray when considering the loss of childhood.
____ 35. In the story “Next Term, We’ll Mash You,” What does the parents’ motivation for sending Charles to St.
Edward’s say about their character?
a.
b.
c.
Their decisions are driven by social climbing.
They want only the best for their son.
They put a large emphasis on education.
____ 36. In “A Devoted Son,” why do Rakesh and his wife live with his father and mother?
a.
b.
c.
Rakesh is too lazy to leave home.
They are old-fashioned and follow custom.
Rakesh’s wife needs help raising their first baby.
____ 37. In the poem “In the Kitchen,” what is the speaker attempting to do by “trying to love the world / and all its
8000 identifiable languages”?
a.
b.
c.
The speaker is trying to learn a new language.
The speaker is trying to change the way the world works.
The speaker is trying to accept life as it is.
____ 38. The following description of Charles is an example of indirect characterization: “he stands in the middle of
them with shoulders humped, staring down at feet.” What does the description say about the character?
a.
b.
c.
He is self-assured.
He is intimidated.
He wants more attention.
____ 39. Review the following quote from “I’m Like a Bird.” / “I felt as though we all lived in the same world, and that
doesn’t happen so often.” What perception of life is being suggested?
a.
b.
c.
We need to be more appreciative.
People lack connection.
We know how to communicate.
____ 40. Penelope Shuttle’s husband was very ill and dying when she wrote “In the Kitchen.” Considering that
context, what might the following lines represent? “I am trying to love the world / back to normal / I’m trying to
get the seas back on the maps / where they belong.”
a.
b.
c.
Penelope Shuttle’s desire for there to be more love in the world and less hatred.
Penelope Shuttle’s desire for her husband to get better and life to return to normal.
Penelope Shuttle’s desire for someone to fix the world because it is broken.
____ 41. In the essay “We’ll Never Conquer Space,” what is Clarke’s main point?
a.
b.
c.
The vastness of space prevents us from conquering it.
We don’t have the technology to conquer space.
Humans are intimidated by the vastness of space.
____ 42. In the poem “Prayer,” what does our inability to pray suggest?
a.
b.
c.
our loss of faith
the insignificance of humanity
our expression of hopefulness
____ 43. At the end of “No Witchcraft for Sale,” Gideon looks sadly at Teddy and says, “Soon you will be grown up
with a farm of your own . . . ” Thinking about the cultural conflict, why is Gideon sad while saying this?
a.
b.
c.
Gideon knows the boy will one day be rich with servants, and Gideon’s children never will.
Gideon knows the boy may not want a farm, so Gideon is sad for the boy.
Gideon knows that growing up is hard, and Gideon is saddened knowing the boy will be an adult.
____ 44. The title “No Witchcraft for Sale” refers to
a.
b.
c.
Gideon’s willingness to sell magic healing to white people.
Gideon’s unwillingness to tell the scientist where the healing root is found.
Gideon and his people not telling the white people which natives are witches.
____ 45. In “Next Term, We’ll Mash You,” how does Charles suffer at the hands of his parents’ classism?
a.
b.
c.
Their social status is placed before his welfare.
They push him to gain a better education to improve his status.
He does not live up to the values of his parents.
____ 46. The excerpt from Omeros is the story of
a.
b.
c.
how West Indians came to England in search of opportunity.
enslaved Africans who were brought to the West Indies.
the lives Africans once had before they were slaves.
____ 47. The plight of the Trinidadians is expressed in the story “B. Wordsworth” by
a.
b.
c.
the description of the yard surrounding B. Wordsworth’s house.
the destruction of B. Wordsworth’s house.
the emotions the boy feels about B. Wordsworth’s death.
____ 48. What is the best interpretation of the following lines from Omeros? “Now each man was a nation / in
himself, without mother, father, brother.”
a.
b.
c.
Every African was proud of his or her country.
Everyone is alone in life and has only himself or herself to rely on.
The enslaved Africans were entirely alone, without a family or country.
____ 49. Orwell’s primary purpose of writing “Shooting an Elephant” is to
a.
b.
c.
describe life in Burma in the early 1900s.
expose the evils of imperialism.
argue for conservation of elephants.
____ 50. In “Postscript: For Gweno,” what does the following metaphor say about death: “And Death the wild beast is
uncaught, untamed”?
a.
b.
c.
Death is a very serious thing.
Death can not be controlled.
Death is hard to find.
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- Click “CREATE ACCOUNT & SIGN IN” to enter your registration details and get an account with us for record-keeping and then, click on “PROCEED TO CHECKOUT” at the bottom of the page.
- From there, the payment sections will show, follow the guided payment process and your order will be available for our writing team to work on it.