Quiz
1. Which of the following statements was made by the author?
_____ a. “Until I became an adult, I spoke only black English.”
_____ b. “I was taught throughout childhood to loathe black English.”
_____ c. “Black English is more powerful than regular English.”
_____ d. “Black English should be honored by grammarians.”
2. According to the author, black English is
_____ a. demeaning to Blacks.
_____ b. an aspect of the English language that should be abolished.
_____ c. gang-related.
_____ d. respectable and has enriched the fabric of American English.
3. Which of these did NOT bewilder older teachers:
_____ a. “def”
_____ b. “dis”
_____ c. “for the heck of it”
_____ d. “hit the skins”
4. How does the author use black English in his composition classes?
_____ a. To point out how multilingual the students are
_____ b. To point out how creative and inventive their culture is
_____ c. None of the above
_____ d. Both of the above
5. One conclusion drawn in the essay is that
_____ a. usage should be appropriate to the circumstance.
_____ b. black English users will remain powerless in life.
_____ c. the English language needs complete reformation.
_____ d. the university should teach more grammar.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Comparison/Contrast
The Dream House
Anthony C. Winkler
QUIZ
1. After moving from Jamaica to California, Jessie’s family
_____a. became extremely poor and remained poor.
_____b. eventually became quite wealthy.
_____c. contracted asthma from the Los Angeles smog.
_____d. made a decent living when the father became a car mechanic.
2. It took Mr. Peterson only two weeks to build
_____a. a vacation cabin in the mountains.
_____b. a computer for Josh.
_____c. a vacuum for his wife.
_____d. a deck off the kitchen.
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Jessie’s dad’s house was made of
_____a. imaginary ingredients.
_____b. birch twigs.
_____c. materials borrowed from a neighbor.
_____d. bricks and mortar.
4. How many people could see Jessie’s playhouse?
_____a. ten people
_____b. three people
_____c. nobody
_____d. everybody
5. When summer ended, Mr. Peterson
_____a. had a heart attack.
_____b. built another playhouse.
_____c. filed for a divorce.
_____d. became a stock broker.
The Twins
Charles Bukowski
Quiz
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The speaker’s father died
_____ a. in a hotel room.
_____ b. on the kitchen floor.
_____ c. in a hospital bed.
_____ d. on a ship at sea.
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He left his money to
_____ a. his son.
_____ b. the American Cancer Society.
_____ c. a woman in Duarte.
_____ d. the church.
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The speaker stands in front of a mirror wearing
_____ a. hippy clothes.
_____ b. a tennis outfit.
_____ c. a blue jogging suit.
_____ d. his father's suit.
Diogenes and Alexander
Gilbert Highet
Quiz
1. Diogenes lives like a typical
_____ a. monk.
_____ b. king.
_____ c. beggar.
_____ d. soldier.
2. Diogenes believed that privacy was not necessary because
_____ a. natural acts were not shameful.
_____ b. privacy inevitably caused strife and war.
_____ c. it alienated human beings from each other.
_____ d. it promoted aristocracy.
3. Who was Alexander the Great’s teacher?
_____ a. Plato
_____ b. Sophocles
_____ c. Diogenes
_____ d. Aristotle
4. Alexander was in Corinth to
_____ a. study the Odyssey and the Iliad.
_____ b. learn Greek.
_____ c. find an appropriate wife.
_____ d. take command of the League of Greek States.
5. When Diogenes saw Alexander, Diogenes said,
_____ a. “Stand to one side. You’re blocking the sunlight.”
_____ b. “You won’t be happy until he wipes your nose for you.”
_____ c. “I am trying to find a man.”
_____ d. “You must restamp the currency.”
Grant and Lee
Bruce Catton
QUIZ
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Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?
_____ a. At the White House in Washington, D.C.
_____ b. At the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
_____ c. At the court house in Atlanta, Georgia
_____ d. At Appomattox, Virginia
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How did Grant and Lee differ in social background?
_____ a. Lee was an aristocrat, Grant a western frontier man.
_____ b. Lee had traveled all over the world, Grant only the U.S.
_____ c. Lee suffered from asthma; Grant was healthy.
_____ d. Lee was a poor military strategist, Grant a brilliant one.
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The men who followed Grant believed that
_____ a. Napoleon was their great model to emulate.
_____ b. life was competition, and everyone had a chance to win.
_____ c. victory was more important than truth.
_____ d. no slaves should be liberated.
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The men who followed Lee believed that
_____ a. the landed nobility justified itself.
_____ b. Lee was not tough enough on northerners.
_____ c. money was more important than land.
_____ d. the Confederacy offered a miserably restricted life.
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What did both men share in common? They both
_____ a. believed that the end justified the means.
_____ b. were unfaithful husbands.
_____ c. wanted peace and reconciliation.
_____ d. loved animals.
Priest and Pagan
Arthur Grimble
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