English Teat

Question 1

What is one plausible explanation for H.H. Munro’s pen name, Saki?

Answer 1

It may be based on a character from a poem

Question 2

What became of Munro and his siblings after his mother’s death?

Answer 2

He and his siblings lived with grandmother and aunts in a strict household.

Question 3

A struggle between a character and an opposing force” is the definition of what term?

Answer 3

Conflict

Question 4

Very steep or perpendicular” is the definition of what vocabulary word?

Answer 4

Precipitous

Question 5

To make the subject of verbal controversy” is the definition of what vocabulary word?

Answer 5

Disputed

Question 6

One who moves into a place without permission; an intruder” is the definition of what vocabulary word?

Answer 6

Interloper

Question 7

What is the setting for the story?

Answer 7

Ulrichs forest

Question 8

What is the name of one of the characters and what does the reader learn about him?

Answer 8

Georg is an interloper and has hated Ulrich for three generations over a piece of land

Question 9

What is the name of one of the characters and what does the reader learn about him?

Answer 9

Ulrich is rich and has hated Georgfor three Generations
Over a piece of land

Question 10

A long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations” (Saki 4).

14. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?

Answer 10

Part of the Exposition

Question 11

The roebuck, which usually kept in the sheltered hallows during a storm-wind, were running like driven things” (Saki 5).
15. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what kind of literary device?

Answer 11

Imagery and a simile

Question 12

“[Ulrich]…wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling wind” (Saki 5).
16. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what kind of literary device?

Answer 12

Imagery

Question 13

“[Ulrich] strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill” (Saki 5).
17. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?

Answer 13

Rising action

Question 14

A]s he stepped around the trunk of a huge beech and he came face to face with the man he sought” (Saki 5).

18. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?

Answer 14

Inciting event

Question 15

19. (RL 9-10.1) How does the narrator describe the moment when the two characters meet?

Answer 15

Hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind

Question 16

20. (RL 9-10.1) What event occurs that causes the two men to stay together and talk?

Answer 16

The tree fell and they were pinned down.

Question 17

The descending twigs had slashed the skin of his face, and he had to wink away some drops of blood from his eyelashes” (Saki 6).
21. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what literary device?

Answer 17

Imagery

Question 18

22. (RL 9-10.1) Initially when the two men find themselves stuck with one another, what does each man say he will instruct his men to do when they arrive?

Answer 18

Ulrich said his men will release them and told George he should wish that he was stuck I stead of getting caught in someone’s land. Saying shame on you

Georg said that their men would roll the trunk on the other man.

Question 19

As the two men realize they will be together for a while, what does the wealthy land-owning man offer to the other?

Answer 19

He offer wine from his flask

Question 20

In the pain and languor that Ulrich himself was feeling, the old fierce hatred seemed to be dying down” (Saki 8).
24. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?

Answer 20

Rising action

Question 21

How does Georg suggest everyone in the area would react if they saw the two men together?

Answer 21

He says “How the whole region would stare and gabble if we rode into the market square together.

Question 22

And you offered me your wine flask… Ulrich von Gradwitz, I will be your friend” (Saki 8). 26. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?

Answer 22

Climax

Question 23

In the cold, gloomy forest, with the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the tree-trunks” (Saki 9).
27. (L 9-10.5) The above passage includes an example of what kind of literary device?

Answer 23

Imagery

Question 24

28. (RL 9-10.1) What do the two men do together to try to resolve their predicament?

Answer 24

They have decided to become friends.

Question 25

“I can see figures coming through the woods. They are following in the way I came down the hillside” (Saki 9).
29. (RL 9-10.2) If an English teacher analyzes the pattern of events in this story, what label would that teacher give to the above passage?

Answer 25

Falling action

Question 26

Wolves” (Saki 9).
30. (RL 9-10.4) The above passage is an example of what kind of figurative language?

Answer 26

Non-normative

Question 27

Ulrich von Gradwitz found himself stretched on the ground, one arm beneath him … in a tight tangle of forked branches, while both legs were pinned beneath the fallen mass” (Saki 6).
31. (RL 9-10.3) What type of characterization is Saki using in the above passage?

Answer 27

Direct

Question 28

Georg, who was nearly blinded with the blood which trickled across his eyes, stopped his struggling for a moment to listen, and then gave a short, snarling laugh” (Saki 6).
32. (RL 9-10.3) What type of characterization is Saki using in the above passage?

Answer 28

Indirect

Question 29

To derive as a conclusion from facts or premises” is the definition of what term?

Answer 29

Inferred

Question 30

When reality is different from what happens or what is anticipated” is the definition of what term?

Answer 30

Irony

Question 31

According to the biographical information, how is H.H Munro’s writing characterized and to whom is he compared ?

Answer 31

Dorothy Parker and O. Henry