Final Review

Question 1

tumultuous

Answer 1

noisy

Question 2

impertinence

Answer 2

defiance

Question 3

subterfuges

Answer 3

deceptive strategies

Question 4

sanguine

Answer 4

outgoing

Question 5

libel

Answer 5

unjust defamation of character

Question 6

voluble

Answer 6

loud and talkative

Question 7

imperiously

Answer 7

with authority; in a commanding way

Question 8

penitence

Answer 8

sorrow over wrongdoing

Question 9

placid

Answer 9

peaceful; calm

Question 10

ignominiously

Answer 10

in a degrading way

Question 11

carousing

Answer 11

partying wildly

Question 12

incorrigible

Answer 12

unable to be reformed

Question 13

portentous

Answer 13

overdone; showy

Question 14

“___ all this frosty tide, Let your doors swing open wide …”

Answer 14

Villagers

Question 15

“Here we stand in the cold and the sleet, blowing ___ and stamping feet …”

Answer 15

fingers

Question 16

“Raining ___ and benison — Bliss to-morrow and more anon, Joy for every morning.”

Answer 16

bliss

Question 17

“___ Joseph toiled through the snow — Saw the star oer a stable low;”

Answer 17

Goodman

Question 18

“And then they heard the angels tell ‘Who were the first to cry ___? ‘ Animals all, as it befell …”

Answer 18

Nowell

Question 19

How has Toad’s character changed by the end of the story?

Answer 19

He learned to stop boasting and be humble.

Question 20

According to Ratty, “There is nothing, absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply ___.”

Answer 20

messing about in boats

Question 21

What literary technique is used in the following quote: “So spoke the Badger, not knowing what the future held in store, or how much water, and of how turbid a character, was to run under bridges before Toad should sit at ease again in his ancestral hall.”

Answer 21

foreshadowing

Question 22

After whom in Kenneth Grahame’s world is Toad’s character patterned?

Answer 22

Grahame’s son Alistair

Question 23

At one point in the story, Ratty changes his opinion about something in a significant way. What is it?

Answer 23

He goes from being disinterested in the Wide World to long to go to sea and experience it.

Question 24

Which characters are most like Kenneth Grahame himself?

Answer 24

combination of Ratty, Mole, and Badger

Question 25

Give an example of personification in The Wind in the Willows?

Answer 25

“while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world.”

Question 26

Give some examples of metaphor in The Wind in the Willows.

Answer 26

“Their old haunts greeted them again…”; “the whole mass of the Wild Wood, dense, menacing, compact”

Question 27

To whom did Toad say, “Save me, only save me … I will confess everything!”

Answer 27

The engine driver

Question 28

What historical period are the following words (describing Toad’s prison) meant to bring to mind? minions, portcullis, casquet and corselet of steel, scaffold, keep

Answer 28

The Middle Ages

Question 29

What was Toad’s epiphany?

Answer 29

His life-changing vision of the motor-car

Question 30

At the end of Chapter 4: Mr. Badger, where has Mole learned that he belongs?

Answer 30

in domesticated, civilized places of tilled field and hedgerow

Question 31

Name Toad’s character flaws

Answer 31

talks too much; greedy and covetous; impulsive - acts without thinking first; lack of self-control

Question 32

Give an example of alliteration from The Wind in the Willows?

Answer 32

“the diffident and delaying dog-rose”

Question 33

Describe Pan

Answer 33

“Helper and healer, I cheer small waifs in the woodland wet”

Question 34

Describe Badger

Answer 34

serious, unchanging, stern but kind

Question 35

Describe Ratty’s character quality.

Answer 35

loves to party

Question 36

What clever thing does Mole do in Chapter 11?

Answer 36

He disguises himself as a washerwoman and feeds false information to the stoats, ferrets, and weasels.

Question 37

About whom does Ratty say, “That’s just the sort of fellow he is! Simply hates Society!”

Answer 37

Badger

Question 38

Describe the way Mole changes from the beginning of the story to the end.

Answer 38

He “grows up” and becomes a brave leader.