Unit 01 Lit Review

Question 1

What was the name of the town where Miss Dove taught school for 30 years?

Answer 1

Liberty Hill

Question 2

At what school did Miss Dove teach?

Answer 2

Cedar Grove Elementary School

Question 3

What world event had scattered Miss Dove’s former students?

Answer 3

war (WW2)

Question 4

What part of the war had Thomas Baker been in, and what had happened to him?

Answer 4

Pearl Harbor; his ship had been bombed and he had been stranded on a raft for days without food or water

Question 5

Who wrote the letter that caused such a stir?

Answer 5

Thomas Baker

Question 6

In the letter, what had Thomas asked his brother to do for him?

Answer 6

to give Miss Dove a kiss

Question 7

What is the theme of “Education, Our Own Work?

Answer 7

A disciplined and educated mind (genius) is the result of our efforts.

Question 8

What is the great object of education?

Answer 8

to discipline the mind

Question 9

What is the theme of “A School of Facts?”

Answer 9

It is unrealistic to think that everything in life must be based on facts.

Question 10

According to the government officer, why were pictures of horses not allowed on wall paper?

Answer 10

because horses do not walk on walls, it was not factual to portray them that way.

Question 11

According to the government officer, what is Taste?

Answer 11

Taste is fact. (anything not factual is not tasteful)

Question 12

What was the weather like on the morning of the garden party?

Answer 12

ideal, perfect

Question 13

What is a marquee?

Answer 13

a tent

Question 14

Who went to oversee the workmen assembling the marquee?

Answer 14

Laura

Question 15

Why did Laura want to stop the party?

Answer 15

A man down the lane had died in an accident.

Question 16

What distracted Laura from her concern for the dead man and his family?

Answer 16

a hat

Question 17

What did Mrs. Sheridan send to the widow and her children?

Answer 17

a basket of leftover sandwiches and cream puffs

Question 18

Who came to fetch Laura after she delivered the food?

Answer 18

Laurie, her brother

Question 19

Who said, “I could beat her [Miss Dove] with my littler finger”? and in what work?

Answer 19

Thomas Baker

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Question 20

From which work is, “The first and great object of education is, to discipline the mind.”?

Answer 20

Education, Our Own Work

Question 21

“What is called Taste is only another name for Fact.” Give the work and speaker

Answer 21

A School of Facts

the government officer

Question 22

“Forgive my hat.” Work, speaker, to whom?

Answer 22

The Garden-Party
Laura Sheridan
the dead man

Question 23

Name the character and the work:

Liberty Hill’s renowned geography teacher

Answer 23

Miss Dove

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Question 24

Name the character and the work:

mischievous 6th grader who gives Miss Dove a kiss

Answer 24

Randy Baker

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Question 25

Name the character and the work:

used lessons learned from his teacher to sustain himself as he floated on a raft in the Pacific Ocean

Answer 25

Thomas Baker

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Question 26

Name the character and the work:

red-haired girl who observes that Randy’s kiss was like pinning “a medal on Miss Dove”

Answer 26

Jincey Webb

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Question 27

Name the character and the work:

man of realities; as director of a “model school,” he wants children to learn only facts

Answer 27

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind

A School of Facts

Question 28

Name the character and the work:
girl who is unable to define a horse and would carpet a room with representations of flowers; sentimental figure in the story

Answer 28

Sissy Jupe

A School of Facts

Question 29

Name the character and the work:
interested only in facts; says that horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpet are not tasteful because they are not factual

Answer 29

government official

A School of Facts

Question 30

Name the character and the work:

sentimental girl who wants to cancel the party

Answer 30

Laura

The Garden-Party

Question 31

Name the character and the work:

carter who is killed in an accident

Answer 31

Mr. Scott

The Garden-Party

Question 32

Name the character and the work:

Laura’s brother

Answer 32

Laurie

The Garden-Party

Question 33

Name the character and the work:

Laura’s mother; wants to send party leftovers to the grieving family

Answer 33

Mrs. Sheridan

The Garden-Party

Question 34

Name the author:

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Answer 34

Frances Gray Patton

Question 35

Name the author:

“A School of Facts”

Answer 35

Charles Dickens

Question 36

In what country was Dickens born?

Answer 36

England

Question 37

Many of Dickens’s works deal with the ____ conditions of his day?

Answer 37

social/poor

Question 38

Dickens lived and wrote during which century?

Answer 38

nineteenth (1800s)

Question 39

Name the author:

The Garden-Party

Answer 39

Katherine Mansfield

Question 40

Where was Katherine Mansfield born?

Answer 40

New Zealand