Unit 7 Exam

Question 1

incorrect vocab

Answer 1

• we could hardly get a word out of him on the subject, he being quite a garrulous chap
• talin was shocked to learn that he had the winning number and had just won the legacy
• if you don’t finish your homework there will be trepidation from the teacher
• jay was at the point of coerce when he realized his mistake
• since the word was so long, she decided to use an aberration

Question 2

according to simon wheeler’s account in mark twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county,” jim smiley had a horse he used to bet on that the boys called

Answer 2

the “fifteen-minute nag”

Question 3

in the extended simile of the underlined passage from paragraph 15 of “a wagner matinee,” the narrator makes an observation about the sould – that

Answer 3

it is like a strange moss on a dusty shelf that, with excruciating suffering, can wither and die

Question 4

in paragraph 6 of willa cather’s “a wagner matinee,” that narrator said he owed to his aunt “most of the good that ever came way in boyhood.? he is talking about

Answer 4

his love of classical music and literature

Question 5

in paragraph 206 of “the open boat,” crane describes the shore the dinghy is approaching in naturalist terms as

Answer 5

indifferent

Question 6

in paragraph 10 of “the open boat,” why does the narrator describe the grace of the waves of the ocean as “terrible”?

Answer 6

each wave could be the one that swamps the boat - and the men’s chances of survival