The victorian age (1832-1901) unit test closed book

1. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“and by the moon the reaper weary,/piling sheaves in uplands airy…”
a. bales of cotton
b. bundles of grain
c. stacks of kindling
d. clusters of insects

2. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“sometimes a group of damsels glad,/an abbot on an ambling pad…”
a. thin, wispy apparitions
b. colorful dancing flames
c. small, delicate snowflakes
d. young unmarried women

3. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“his broad clear brow in sunlight glowed; /on burnished hooves his war horse trode…”
a. covered
b. delicate
c. polished
d. worn

4. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“tho’ much is taken, much abides…”
a. expands
b. remains as is
c. becomes stronger
d. vanishes on its own

5. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“and these are but the shatter’d stalks,/or ruin’d chrysalis of one.”
a. grim warning
b. bright beacon
c. protective shell
d. complex deception

6. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“the count your master’s known munificence/is ample warrant that no just pretense/of mine for dowry will be disallowed…”
a. duplicity
b. generosity
c. honesty
d. hostility

7. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
“all things counter, original, spare, strange…”
a. embracing
b. ignoring
c. opposing
d. uniting

8. read the lines from alfred, lord tennyson’s “the lady of shalott.”
“by the margin, willow-veiled,/slide the heavy barges trailed/by slow horses; and unhailed/ the shallop flitteth silken-sailed/skimming down to camelot…”
to whose home is the ship sailing?
a. beowulf
b. grendel
c. the wife of bath
d. king arthur

9. read these lines from robert browning’s “my last duchess.”
“a heart - how shall i say? - too soon made glad,/too easily impressed; she liked whate’er/ she looked on, and her looks went everywhere.”
how is the poem’s speaker describing its subject?
a. as loving and fearful
b. as flirtatious and naive
c. as beloved and flawless
d. as beautiful and cunning

10. read these final lines from alfred, lord tennyson’s “crossing the bar.”
“for though from out our bourne of time and place/the flood may bear me far,/i hope to see my pilot face to face/when i have crost the bar.”
with which of these does tennyson conclude his poem?
a. the wish that he will meet god when he dies
b. the wish that his sea voyage will be a safe one
c. the longing that the sea will somehow return his love
d. the hope that his love awaits him at the end of his voyage

11. which excerpt from matthew arnold’s “dover beach” most obviously symbolizes the impermanence of life?
a. “ the french coast, the light/gleams and is gone…”
b. “where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,/”
c. “the sea is calm tonight./the tide is full, the moon lies fair…”
d. “ the world, which seems/to lie before us like a land of dreams…”

12. in which excerpt from thomas hardy’s “the darkling thrush” does the speaker most directly acknowledge the forces of nature?
a. “some blessed hope, where of he knew/and i was unaware.”
b. “so little cause for carolings/of such ecstatic sound.”
c. “and all mankind that haunted nigh/had sought their household fires.”
d. “the land’s sharp features seemed to be/the century’s corpse outleant,”

13. either the fishers or their daughter seen the house for sale.
a. have
b. is
c. has

14. here (is, are) the permission slips.
a. is
b. are

15. which of these words has the same denotative meaning as, but different connotative meaning than, the word food?
a. cuisine
b. meat
c. supper
d. vegetable

16. which of these words has the same denotative meaning as, but different connotative meaning than, the word slender?
a. narrow
b. skinny
c. compressed
d. needlelike

17. which of these is a collective noun?
a. colony
b. dogs
c. them
d. cows

18. which sentence contains a collective noun?
a. jim and louis like recess.
b. bella hates recess.
c. sarah and i play kickball at recess.
d. the class loves recess.

19. last night, we sat through a movie was four hours long.
which of these correctly completes the sentence?
a. whom
b. who
c. what
d. that