TEST #2 - Character

Question 1

Collier makes an allusion to what?

Answer 1

Bible

Question 2

When a writer tells us what a character is like it is what type of characterization?

Answer 2

Direct

Question 3

For characters to be believable they must be consistent?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

What is the point of view of this story?

Answer 4

1st person

Question 5

The kids thought annoying Ms. Lottie was fun?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Characters in fiction often seem more interesting than who we meet in real life because we know them better?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

This story is full of contrasts. What are some contrasts in this story?

Answer 7

Youth and age
Dust and marigolds
Innocence and compassion

Question 8

Eugenia Collier worked several years in the Baltimore Department of Public Welfare?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

The marigolds represent wealth and good fortune for children?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

The writer shows us what each character does, says, thinks, or feels, and we draw our own conclusions about the character is what type of characterization?

Answer 10

Indirect

Question 11

Was Ms. Lottie not outraged with Lizabeth’s actions when she tore up the marigolds?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

A reason why fiction allows us to see more deeply into the inner nature of a character than we usually can in real life is because fiction places characters in situations to test them.

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Name the conflicts presented in the story.

Answer 13

Person vs society
Person vs person
Person vs self

Question 14

The setting of this story is in rural Maryland during what period of time?

Answer 14

the Depression

Question 15

When Lizabeth hears her father crying over poverty, does her rage and confusion cause her to tear up the marigolds?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

Does the climax of this story occur when the narrator wakes up her brother to go to Ms.Lottie’s house?

Answer 16

No

Question 17

After the narrator apologized, what does Lottie do?

Answer 17

Never planted marigolds

Question 18

How does the narrator describe Ms. Lottie’s house?

Answer 18

Rickety
A monument to decay
Sun and rain faded

Question 19

Joey and Lizabeth grew up in poverty but didn’t realize the difficulties of life?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

What did the narrator realize the moment she looked into Ms. Lottie’s face after the marigolds were trampled?

Answer 20

Childhood ended and womanhood began

Question 21

One cannot have compassion and what else?

Answer 21

Innocence

Question 22

Why did the children hate the marigold flowers?

Answer 22

They interfered with the ugliness of Lottie’s house
They made a statement the children didn’t understand
They were too beautiful

Question 23

What was Ms. Lottie to the children?

Answer 23

A witch

Question 24

Was John Burke, Lottie’s son, even tempered and never go upset?

Answer 24

No

Question 25

Ms Lottie never found out who destroyed her marigolds?

Answer 25

No

Question 26

Was destroying the marigolds an accident?

Answer 26

No

Question 27

Did Lizabeth’s father provide for his family?

Answer 27

No

Question 28

What city does the story take place?

Answer 28

Minneapolis

Question 29

The point of view for “The Beginning of Grief” is what?

Answer 29

3rd person limited

Question 30

The climax of the story is when Kevin’s father kicks him?

Answer 30

No

Question 31

The theme of the story is life changes quickly, without reason, and people close to you can slip away quickly?

Answer 31

Yes

Question 32

Who are the 2 main characters in the story?

Answer 32

Father and Kevin

Question 33

Who was the youngest son and the most lost within the family?

Answer 33

Jim

Question 34

When William Stanton wife died, she was left with 5 children to raise?

Answer 34

Yes

Question 35

Why were the Stanion children unhappy and upset at dinner?

Answer 35

One of them brutally treated his brother’s friend.

Question 36

How long has it been since Stanion’s wife died?

Answer 36

A year

Question 37

What is an accurate description of Kevin?

Answer 37

He abuses the younger children

Question 38

Who was the oldest son and most reliable?

Answer 38

Carl

Question 39

Kevin is the most obedient and gentle of all the children?

Answer 39

No

Question 40

Who was Stanion’s favorite child?

Answer 40

Jim

Question 41

How does Stanion feel after 9 months being self employed?

Answer 41

Desperate and despairing

Question 42

did Stanion consider suicide?

Answer 42

Yes

Question 43

What was Stanion’s most distasteful responsibility?

Answer 43

Handling family discipline

Question 44

What was symbolic of Kevin shaving his head?

Answer 44

The naked hurt he feels

Question 45

What does the title of the story refer to?

Answer 45

The torments of being a widower Stanion’s anger toward his unruly children The unhappiness felt by Stanion’s children

Question 46

Who was the mother’s favorite child when she was alive?

Answer 46

Kevin

Question 47

What was the big thing Kevin did wrong?

Answer 47

Kicked Marvin

Question 48

At the end of the story, Kevin and Stanion are closer and Stanion takes his son’s hand and asks for forgiveness?

Answer 48

Yes

Question 49

Because of the argument at the dinner table, Kevin gets kicked by Stanion?

Answer 49

Yes

Question 50

Was Eric Knight born in England?

Answer 50

Yes

Question 51

What is the presentation of an idea or an abstract quality as a human being?

Answer 51

Personification

Question 52

What are characters that are well rounded, complex, and are more lifelike figures called?

Answer 52

Round characters

Question 53

Does the “Rifles and Regiment” take place in England?

Answer 53

No

Question 54

During WWII, was Knight a major in the US Army?

Answer 54

Yes

Question 55

What is used in the story in that the reader knows why the colonel really kept the rifles and that he knew fear?

Answer 55

Dramatic irony

Question 56

What is a character that conforms to a conventional pattern and tends to be types rather than individuals?

Answer 56

Stock characters

Question 57

Does the Colonel order his regiment to take all rifles with them?

Answer 57

Yes

Question 58

Who is the most famous character that Knight created and has appeared in a novel, movies, and television?

Answer 58

Lassie

Question 59

Does the Colonel hold to his belief in the importance of the regiment and that it must survive even though the men may not in the entire story?

Answer 59

Yes

Question 60

What was the main problem with the colonel’s men marching to the Channel?

Answer 60

They were tired

Question 61

What was the point of view of the Knight’s story?

Answer 61

3rd person limited

Question 62

What are characters sketched in one dimension?

Answer 62

Flat characters

Question 63

How did the signal officer communicate with the navy?

Answer 63

Used Morse code

Question 64

What was the sin conflict in the story?

Answer 64

Person vs self

Question 65

The English are fighting the Germans?

Answer 65

Yes

Question 66

Colonel Heathergall never feels fear during this story?

Answer 66

No

Question 67

What does fear try to make the colonel do?

Answer 67

Surrender

Question 68

Does Colonel Heathergall become a legend in the regiment?

Answer 68

Yes

Question 69

How are “the Rifles of the Regiment” and “Appointment in Samaria” similar?

Answer 69

They both us personification

Question 70

What was the main reason the soldiers weren’t allowed to jettison their rifles?

Answer 70

It was regimental tradition

Question 71

Why was the colonel called “old glass eye”?

Answer 71

He wears a monocle

Question 72

Why did the soldiers have to carry 2 rifles?

Answer 72

They picked up rifles of their own slain comrades

Question 73

What made it possible for the troops to escape?

Answer 73

Rifle slings

Question 74

When does fear come to visit the colonel?

Answer 74

After he learns his regiment is surrounded with no apparent way to escape.

Question 75

When does fear flee?

Answer 75

After they are told the regiment is bigger than fear