1. ENGL 102 FINAL EXAM 1
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1) How the excerpt opens and how it ends ___________.
2) How the story opens and how it ends ________________.
3) That little Davy Hutchinson, the small son of the victim, is given a few pebbles
to throw at his mother suggests that __________.
4) One of the most notable ironies about the characters is that __________.
5) The setting of the story is ironic because __________.
6) Trevor and Blackie are minor characters in "The Rocking Horse Winner."
7) The author of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," "The Ambitious Guest," and "The
8) "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box,
they still remembered to use stones."
9) The use of repetition is a vital signal because the author is drawing the
reader's attention to something of significance.
10) Perhaps the most famous recorder of fables was
11) In the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire and Rousseau hold that whatever one
finds in nature is morally correct.
12) In Graham Greene‟s “The Destructors,” the statement that T‟s words “were
almost confined to voting „Yes‟ or „No‟” suggests that he is __________.
13) Sir Christopher Wren designed St. Margaret's Cathedral.
14) "The Lottery" can be interpreted via biblical hermeneutics. Answer
15) The civic-minded, progressive character in "The Lottery" was
16) A pre-Reformationist, Chaucer was highly supportive of the state faith.
17) A page of symbols may be called a digital code.
18) T. or Trevor is the protagonist of Greene's "The Destructors."

2. 19) An example of a plot pattern is metaphysical structure.
20) Sir Christopher Wren designed many structures in England in the early
1500s.
21) These are actual (historical) persons that appear in Hawthorne's "Young
Goodman Brown," and were executed at the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692.
22) The longest part of a short story, or the part that develops the conflict(s) that
will lead to the climax, is termed
23) Pre-eighteenth century men were rationalists who believed in induction-
deduction.
24) Old Misery was too mean to spend money on his property.
25) Short fiction began in America, and Nathaniel Hawthorne added an interest
in people's personalities, emotions, and attitudes.
26) In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," Hester is Paul's
27) "Young Goodman Brown" was authored by
28) The official for the lottery was
29) Climax is when a character must choose between two courses of action, both
desirable.
30) The mother in "The Rocking Horse Winner" is truly lucky in many ways: she's
beautiful, married for love, had bonny children, and "started with all the
advantages."
31) In "The Rocking Horse Winner," the irony of situation is manifested when
Hester thinks she's lucky because she "married for love" and "had bonny
children."
32) At the end of the story, he is identified as "a tiger and a child."
33) Plot can be manipulated to offer a surprise ending such as Poe did.
34) Read this excerpt from “The Destructors” by Graham Greene and answer the
question that follows: “Blackie lumbered nearer the saw and the sledge-hammer.
Perhaps after all nobody had turned up; the plan had been a wild invention; they
had woken wiser. But when he came close to the back door he could hear a
confusion of sound hardly louder than a hive in swarm; a clickety-clack, a bang
bangbang, a scraping, a creaking, a sudden painful crack. He thought; it‟s true,
and whistled.” Why is confusion an effective choice?

3. 35) The plot is the same as the work's content.
36) A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a work as at the
beginning.
37) Close to the beginning of Graham Greene‟s “The Destructors,” this
information is given about the gang:
The gang met every morning in an impromptu car park, the site of the last bomb
of the first blitz. The leader, who was known as Blackie, claimed to have heard it
fall, and no one was precise enough in his dates to point out he would have been
one year old and fast asleep on the down platform of Wormsley Common
Underground station. On one side of the car park leant the first occupied house,
No.3. T, whose words were almost confined to voting „Yes‟ or „No‟ to the plan of
operations proposed each day by Blackie…”
From the passage, the evidence is given that members are disinclined to:
38) Read this excerpt from “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
and answer the question that follows:
"Dearest heart," whispered [Faith], … "pray thee, put off your journey until
sunrise, and sleep in your own bed to-night. A lone woman is troubled with such
dreams and such thoughts, that she's afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry
with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year!"
"My love and my Faith," replied young Goodman Brown, "of all nights in the year,
this one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and
back again, must needs be done 'twixt now and sunrise.
Which of the following phrases best explains how Goodman Brown feels about
his departure?
39) "I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose.
Everybody saw that."
40) Church history provides much evidence for an antipathy and hostility on the
part of Christians (the church) toward literature.
41) The part of the plot that shows how the conflict is settled is called
42) In this story, the protagonist blurs the distinction between "luck" and "lucre"
43) Diction is one element in determining style.
44) A character's point of view is always reliable.

4. 45) According to the lectures (PointCast), A Thousand and One Arabian
46) "Modern man is on a bus going nowhere" may be said to be the
theme of
47) The term used to describe the position from which details in a narration/short
story are perceived and related is
48) Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the
question that follows: “Mr. Summers called his own name and then
stepped forward precisely and selected a slip from the box. Then he
called, „Warner.‟ „Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery,‟ Old Man
Warner said as he went through the crowd. „Seventy-seventh time.‟
One can infer from this excerpt that not less than _____________ have
“won” and fallen victim to the lottery.
49) Mr. Summers, Old Man Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Adams, and Mrs.
Hutchinson are characters in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."
50) The Greeks did little to develop literature with the notable exception
of Virgil's Aeneid.
ENGL 102 TEST 1 VERSION 2
1) Mrs. Hutchinson is representative of the whole community because
______________. Answer
Selected Answer: she does not question the lottery until it falls on
her, and then she complains that it is not fair
2) What human characteristic is thematized in the excerpt?
3) One can conclude from the passage that ____________.
4) "He sat down calmly on the bank and, as quietly as if he were seated on his
cot in an Army barracks, he unlaced his shoes, took them off, placed them
together neatly at his side, and then stood up like a soldier, erect, in his bare
bleeding feet. . . ."

5. 5) The short story produces a single impression.
6) The religious persuasion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestors was
7) According to your online lessons, three perceptions can often be assigned to
modern man: Determinism, Behaviorism, and Reductionism.
8) "That's right, son!" said Uncle Oscar. "Don't you stop till you get there. What's
the horse's name?" This quotation appears in
9) "The Lottery" was authored by
10) The four basic types of point of view are
11) An example of verbal irony in "The Rocking Horse Winner" is the opening
statement that the mother "had no luck."
12) Another possible name for a character who undergoes no change.
13) "It's got a staircase two hundred years old like a corkscrew. Nothing holds it
up." This quotation appears in
14) Plot is about cause and effect.
15) Arguments can be made to study literature as a legitimate Christian pursuit,
as a wealth of insight into the plight of our world and the needs of our
contemporaries.
16) "There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages,
yet she had no luck."
17) "The Lottery" can be interpreted via biblical hermeneutics.
18) Read this excerpt from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and answer the
question that follows: “Mr. Summers called his own name and then stepped
forward precisely and selected a slip from the box. Then he called, „Warner.‟
„Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery,‟ Old Man Warner said as he went
through the crowd. „Seventy-seventh time.‟ „Watson‟ The tall boy came awkwardly
through the crowd. Someone said, „Don't be nervous, Jack,‟ and Mr. Summers
said, „Take your time, son.‟
This passage suggests that “The Lottery” uses ________ as an organizational
frame. Answer
19) The author of "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," "The Ambitious
Guest," and "The Birthmark" was

6. 20) Another name for the exposition of a story is denouement.
21) Probability of action can be presented via motivation.
22) Pre-eighteenth century men are regarded as having gathered particulars to
formulate universal.
23) According to the online lessons, there are four kinds of conflict: Emotional,
Physical, Spiritual, and Metaphysical.
24) A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant is
called
25) According to the Lesson presentations and outlines, an example of escapist
literature is the story
26) Church history provides much evidence for an antipathy and hostility on the
part of Christians (the church) toward literature.
27) Another name for a round character is
28) "She married for love, and the love turned to dust." Who does this quotation
identify?
29) Hawthorne's perspective is that all men are potentially evil and potentially
good.
30) A person whose character contrasts that of the main character, thus
emphasizing those of the main character is the
31) A character who is sympathetic with a main character, thus revealing the
main character's thoughts, is
32) Onomatopoeia, Cacophony, and Euphony are examples of sound clues.
33) The author of a technically adept story uses no idle language.
34) Some attributes of Poe's short stories include unity of impression, unity of
purpose, and goal to entertain.
35) In "The Rocking Horse Winner," Paul's compulsive efforts to satisfy his
mother's insatiable quest for money finally kill him.
36) "The Child by Tiger" continues for several pages (about 3-4-pages) after the
death of
37) A flat character and round character are synonymous.

7. 38) "Young Goodman Brown" was authored by
39) The telling of tales is as old as mankind, and was in existence before written
records.