Topic Test Answers

When examining primary sources, it is important to evaluate the creator’s __________.

Two-thirds of those interned in the US between 1942 and 1945 were __________.

Which piece of textual evidence from the short story "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe can be used to defend the claim that violence has not ended despite the end of war?

Read the selections below from "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe and answer the question that follows. He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings—his head, his wife Maria's head and the heads of three out of their four children. As a bonus he also had his old bicycle—a miracle too but naturally not to be compared to the safety of five human heads. . . . It was unbelievable. He rubbed his eyes and looked again and it was still standing there before him. But, needless to say, even that monumental blessing must be accounted also totally inferior to the five heads in the family. This newest miracle was his little house in Ogui Overside. Which claim could use the excerpts given above as textual support?

Read the excerpt below from the short story "The Body" by Stephen King and answer the question that follows. The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you are ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear. Source: King, Stephen. "The Body." Different Seasons. New York: Penguin Group, 1982. Google Books. Web. 16 May 2011. What is the point of view of the passage?

How does voice affect the credibility of a text?

Which excerpt taken from the poem “Birmingham Sunday” by Richard Fariña is an example of sensory language?

What is the historical context of Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic?

Anne Frank lived in __________ during the __________.

Sensory language is also known as __________.

What is figurative language?

An interview is a(n) __________ in which one-on-one or small group question-and-answer sessions are conducted.

Zlata Filipovic lived in __________ during the __________.

Read the excerpt below from the short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King and answer the question that follows. In all my years at Shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom I believed when they told me they were innocent. Andy Dufresne was one of them, although I only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. If I had been on the jury that heard his case in Portland Superior Court over six stormy weeks in 1947-48, I would have voted to convinct, too. Source: King, Stephen. "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." Different Seasons. New York: Penguin Group, 1982. Google Books. Web. 16 May 2011. How does the point of view in the excerpt affect the characterization in the text?

Which point of view acts like a camera and reveals only what can be physically observed through seeing or hearing?

What is an elegiac broadside?

The narrator of a poem is known as the __________.

How does the focus of the poem “Birmingham Sunday” by Richard Fariña differ from the focus of the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall?