Did you read the novel quizzes Razor QUIZ1

Did you read the novel quizzes

Razor QUIZ#1: Identify a)who is talking to whom in this scene and b) why. Explain what happened right before the conversation and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (92) “You see, I thought when it came to a showdown he’d knuckle under. I knew he was weak. ” “Weak? ” I cried. “What made you think that? A man who for a year withstood the disapproval of all his friends and associates because he was determined to go his own way. ” “I could always do anything I wanted with him. I could turn him round my little finger. He was never a leader in the things we did. He just tagged along with the crowd. ”

Razor QUIZ#1: Identify a)who is talking to whom in this scene and b) why. Explain what happened right before the conversation and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (92) “’The taxi rattled off and I put my arms around his neck. “’Won’t you come up and have one last drink? ' I said. “’Yes, if you like, ’ he said. “He’d rung the bell and the door swung open. He switched on the light… I looked into his eyes. They were so trusting, so honest, so – guileless; he so obviously hadn’t the smallest idea that I was laying a trap for him; I felt I couldn’t play him such a dirty trick.

QUIZ 2: Identify who is talking to whom and why. Explain what prompted the conversation and what happens immediately afterward. Describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. ( 208) -“I think it’s idiotic and blasphemous. ” - “I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn’t matter; it may be worthwhile or it may worthless. No wine is so intoxicating, no love so shattering, no vice so compelling. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself. At best he can only sacrifice his only begotten son. ” - “Oh Christ, how you bore, me. ” - I paid no attention.

QUIZ 2: Identify who is talking to whom and why. Explain what prompted the conversation and what happens immediately afterward. Describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (256) “If an all-good and all-powerful God created the world, why did He create evil? … “Those good fathers had no answers that satisfied either my head or my heart to the question that perplexed me. My place was not with them. When I went to say good-by to Father Ensheim didn’t ask me whether I had profited by the experience in the way he had been so sure I would. He looked at me with inexpressible kindness. “I’m afraid I’ve been a disappointment to you, Father, ’ I said. “No, he answered. ‘You are a deeply religious man who doesn’t believe in God will seek you out. You’ll come back. Whether here or elsewhere only God can tell. ’”

QUIZ: Sula Quiz 1: Identify who is narrating in this scene and why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (21) • “He stood there staring at her until she realized that he wanted her move aside. Pulling Nel by the arm, she pressed herself and her daughter into the foot space in front of a wooden seat. Then, for no earthly reason, at least no reason that anybody could understand, certainly no reason that Nel understood then or later, she smiled. Like a street pup that wags its tail at the very doorjamb of the butcher shop he has been kicked away from only moments before, Helene smiled. Smiled dazzlingly and coquettishly at the salmon-colored face of the conductor. ”

QUIZ: Sula Quiz 1: Identify who is narrating in this scene and why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (53) • “Four white boys in their early teens, sons of some newly arrived Irish people, occasionally entertained themselves in the afternoon by harassing black schoolchildren. With shoes that pinched and woolen knickers that made red rings on their calves, they had come to this valley with their parents believing as they did that it was a promised land… What they found was a strange accent, a pervasive fear of their religion and firm resistance to their attempts to find work. ”

QUIZ: Sula Quiz 1: Identify a) who is talking in this scene and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (136) “I didn’t even know his name. And if I didn’t know his name, then there is nothing I did know and I have known nothing ever at all since the one thing I wanted was to know his name so how could he help but leave me since he was making love to a woman who didn’t even know his name. When I was a little girl the heads of my paper dolls came off, and it was a long time before I discovered that my own head would not fall off if I bent my neck…I didn’t hold my head stiff enough when I met him and so I lost it just like the dolls. ”

QUIZ: Good Country People Quiz 1: Identify a) whose POV are we in in this scene and b) how do you know. c) If this is the exposition, climax or denouement of the story. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. • “[She] had a special fondness for the details of secret infections, hidden deformities, assaults upon children. Of diseases, she preferred the lingering or incurable…”

QUIZ: Good Country People Quiz 1: Identify a) whose POV are we in in this scene and b) how do you know. c) If this is the exposition, climax or denouement of the story. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. • “’Woman, do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what your are not? God!’ She had cried sinking down again and staring at the plate, “Malebranche was right: we are not our own light. We are not our own light!’” [276 – h dere na majku)

QUIZ: Good Country People Quiz 1: Identify a) whose POV are we in in this scene and b) how do you know. c) If this is the exposition, climax or denouement of the story. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. • “’I guess a lot of boys come telling you they’re working their way through college, but I don’t want to go to college. I want to devote my life to Chrustian service. See, I got this heart condition. I may not live long. ’”

QUIZ: Sula Quiz 1: Identify who is narrating in this scene and why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (153) • “Then Medallion turned silver. It seemed sudden, but actually there had been days and days of no snow – just frost, when late one afternoon, a rain fell and froze[…] As soon as the silvering began, long before the cider cracked the jugs, there was something wrong. A falling sky, a dislocation was taking place[…] Teapot, for example, went into the kitchen and asked his mother for some sugar-butter-bread. She got up to fix it and found that she had no butter, only oleomargarine. Too tired to mix the saffron –colored powder into the hard cake of oleao, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it. Teapot tasted the difference and refused to eat it. This keenest of insults that a mother can feel, the rejection by a child of her food, bent her into fury and she beat him as she had not done since Sula knocked him down the steps. ”

Flannery O’Connor: Which story is this? How do you know? Whose POV is displayed? Is this the beginning, middle, or end of the story? How do you know? What happened right before and right after? • She said she thought it was going to be a good day for driving, neither too hot nor too cold, and she cautioned [him] that the speed limit was fifty-five miles an hour and that the patrolmen hid themselves behind billboards and small clumps of trees and sped out after you before you had a chance to slow down. She pointed out interesting details of the scenery: Stone Mountain; the blue granite that in some places came up to both sides of the highway; the brilliant red clay banks slightly streaked with purple; and the various crops that made rows of green lace-work on the ground… • “Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!" she said and pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. "Wouldn't that make a picture, now? " she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. He waved.

Flannery O’Connor: Which story is this? How do you know? What “shirt” is being mentioned here and why? Is this the beginning, middle, or end of the story? How do you know? What happened right before and right after? • "Throw me that shirt, Bobby Lee, " [he] said. The shirt came flying at him and landed on his shoulder and he put it on. She couldn't name what the shirt reminded her of. "No, lady, " The Misfit said while he was buttoning it up, "I found out the crime don't matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it. " • The children's mother had begun to make heaving noises as if she couldn't get her breath. "Lady, " he asked, "would you and that little girl like to step off yonder with Bobby Lee and Hiram and join your husband? " • "Yes, thank you, " the mother said faintly.

QUIZ: Dorian Gray Quiz 1: Identify a) the POV and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. 68 “He began to wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us. As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. . . But there was no motive power in experience. …It was clear to him that the experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions. ”

QUIZ: One Flew Quiz 1 (parts 1 and 2): Identify a) the POV and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. 64 “This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. […]We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. He knows his place. ”

Quiz 2: One Flew Quiz 1 (parts 3 to the end): Identify a) the POV and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. 283 “They roll him out on a Gurney, still jerking, face frosted white. Corrosion. Battery Acid. The technician turns to me. Watch that other moose. I know him. Hold him! It’s not a will-power thing any more. Hold him! Damn. No more of those boys without Sectional. The clamps bite my wrists and ankles. The graphite salve has iron filings in it, temples scratching. He said something when he winked. Told me something. Man bends over, brings tow irons toward the ring on my head. The machine hunches on me. AIR RAID. ”

Great Expectations, Chapters 1 -13 • On Christmas Eve, Mrs. Gargery leaves the guests in the dinning room to fetch a “savory pie. ” Pip finally releases the leg of the table and runs “for [his] life. ” 1) Why does Pip clutch the leg of the table throughout Christmas dinner? 2) Why SPECIFICALLY do the soldiers barge into Mrs. Gargery’s house? 3) At Miss Havisham’s, when the pale young gentleman challenges Pip to a duel, who wins and why?

Great Expectations, Chapters 1 -30 1. When Jaggers informs Pip that he, Pip, came into “a handsome property, ” Jaggers also outlines some details of the arrangement requested by Pip’s benefactor. What are they? 2. Who is Matthew Pocket? Why is he important? 3. What’s humorous about Mr. Trab’s boy?

Kafka: The Trial, Quiz on Chapters 1 -5: identify the placement of the following scene as accurately as possible: who, what, when, where + what happened right before and right after. NO analysis necessary. (47) • “They all wore these badges, so far as he could see. They were all colleagues, these ostensible parties of the right and the left, and as he turned round suddenly he saw the same badges on the coatcollar of the Examining Magistrate, who was sitting quietly watching the scene with his hands on his knees. ‘So!’ cried K. , flinging his arms in the air, his sudden enlightenment had to break out, “every man jack of you is an official, I see, you are yourselves the corrupt agents of whom I have been speaking, you’ve all come rushing here to listen and nose out what you can about me, making a pretense of party divisions and half of you applauded merely to lead me on, you wanted some practice in fooling an innocent man. Well, much good I hope it’s done you, for either you have merely gathered some amusement from the fact that I expected you to defend the innocent, or else – keep off or I’ll strike you. ”

Kafka: The Trial, Quiz on Chapters 6 -10: identify the placement of the following scene as accurately as possible: who, what, when, where + what happened right before and right after. NO analysis necessary. (221) “But I can’t find my way alone in this darkness, ” said K. “Turn left to the wall, then follow the wall without leaving it and you’ll come to a door. ” [He] had already taken a step or two away from him, but K. cried out in a loud voice. “Please wait a moment. ” “I am waiting. ” “Don’t you want anything more from me? ” “No. ” “You were so friendly to me for a time, and explained so much to me, and now you let me go as if you cared nothing about me. “You must first see who I am. ” “You are the prison chaplain. ” “That means I belong to the Court. So why should I want anything from you? The Court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and it dismisses you when you go. ”

Great Expectations, Part 3 • When Orlick captures Pip and is about to kill him, what does he (Orlick) uncover about Pip’s sister and Magwitch? • When Herbert and Pip try to smuggle Magwitch out of the country, why do they fail? • Why does Jaggers treat Molly like an animal who needs to be “tamed? ” • Why does Pip lose his right to his money?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Part 1 150 pts 1. How does Chief Bromden describe Big Nurse? Be specific. 2. One morning, Mc. Murphy is heard singing. What happens next? How does he get Big Nurse’s goat? 3. What happens to Chief Bromden when “they turn on the fog machine? ”

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Part 2 1. Mc. Murphy makes a bet which puts him in a contest with Nurse Rathced. Describe the wager and Mc. Murphy’s reasons for suggesting it. 2. Why does Mc. Murphy suddenly begin cooperating with Big Nurse? 3. How does Mc. Murphy misunderstand the patients’ reasons for wanting him to do battle with Nurse Ratched?