1. Who is the tall soldier who, in the first chapter, “developed virtues and went resolutely to wash (1 point) a shirt”?
a) Jim Conklin
b) Henry Fleming
c) The author does not give his name.
2. Which of the following indicates that the story is told in the third-person limited? (1 point)
a) The narrator is outside the story, all-knowing, and uses the pronouns he, she, and they.
b) The narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronouns I, me, and we.
c) The narrator is outside the story, limited in knowledge, and uses the pronouns he, she, and they.
3. With what fear was Henry largely preoccupied for much of the beginning of the novel? (1 point)
a) the fear that he would die in battle
b) the fear that he would run away in battle
c) the fear that he would be defeated in battle
4. What is the setting of the novel? (1 point)
a) Nature is uncaring.
b) a Civil War battle near the Rappahannock River in Virginia
c) The author never specifies it.
5. Name the type of figurative language in this sentence from the text: “Th’ boys fight like hell- roosters.”
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) personification
(1 point)
6. “Maturity is reached by the road of experience” is an example of what? (1 point)
a) exposition
b) theme
c) characterization
7. What is a major example of the type of conflict found in the novel? (1 point)
a) Man vs. Nature
b) Man vs. Self
c) Man vs. Society
8. Choose the best description of Stephen Crane. (1 point)
a) He was a young man when he wrote The Red Badge of Courage and had never actually been in a war
b) His book was not famous until after his death at the young age of 28.
c) He was a renowned Civil War veteran whose book became a success both in America and abroad.
9. “Mebbe, it wa’t’d all his fault—not all together. He did the best he knowed” is an example of what?
a) dialect
b) alliteration
c) conflict
10. What is an essential element of plot? (1 point)
a) characterization
b) setting
c) conflict
(1 point)
11. When Crane speaks of a vociferous altercation, he means ______________________. (1 point)
a) a deadly change
b) a vehement shouting fight
c) a verbal difference
12. Debauch is to virtue as succor is to ________________. (1 point)
a) banshee
b) yokel
c) scorn
13. Identify the best definition of battery as it is used in the novel. (1 point)
a) a group of artillery pieces
b) assault
c) a cell that produces energy
14. Which pair of words could both describe the youth? (1 point)
a) urchin, facetious
b) yokel, introspective
c) specter, debauched
15. Choose the most appropriate vocabulary term to fill in the blank for the sentence below: (1 point) “The juvenile delinquent ____________ at the judge as his sentence was read."
a) glowered
b) taunted
c) conjured
16. Choose a word with the opposite meaning of the underlined word in the sentence below: (1 point) “Shame hung around his neck.”
a) Pathos
b) Derision
c) Laurels
17. The officer who called the youth’s comrades “mule drivers” _____________ them. (1 point
a) clamored
b) deprecated
c) lauded
18. If your principal uses stentorian tones, she is ___________. (1 point)
a) loud
b) jaunty
c) prodigious
19. As used in the novel, if you cuff your brother, you are _________________ him. (1 point)
a) arresting
b) gesticulating
c) hitting
20. “The soldiers moved with celerity” means they moved with __________. (1 point)
a) reluctance
b) stiffness
c) speed
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1. Jim Conklin
2. The narrator is outside the story, limited in knowledge, and uses the pronouns he, she, and they
3. The fear that he would run away in battle
4. A Civil War battle near the Rappahannock River in Virginia
5. Simile
6. Theme
7. Man vs. Self
8. He was a young man when he wrote The Red Badge of Courage and had never actually been in a war
9. Dialect
10. Conflict
11. A vehement shouting fight
12. Scorn
13. A group of artillery pieces
15. Yokel, Introspective
15. Glowered
16. Laurels
17. Deprecated
18. Loud
19. Hitting
20. Speed
21. Essay
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