Question

Question 1
Question 2
A) Which statement best describes what happens in the climax of a story? Select the two correct
answers. (1 point)
Plot elements that remain open are tied up, and the story is concluded.
The peak of the story’s tension and the height of the action are reached.
The characters confront the conflict head-on and fully address it.
Subplots and plot twists are introduced and dealt with by the characters.
The characters are introduced, and the setting of the story is established.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
With that reflection Gortsby rose to go; as he did so an exclamation of concern escaped him.
Lying on the ground by the side of the bench was a small oval packet, wrapped and sealed with
the solicitude of a chemist’s counter. It could be nothing else but a cake of soap, and it had
evidently fallen out of the youth’s overcoat pocket when he flung himself down on the seat.
Which component of the plot structure of this story is described in this excerpt?
(1 point)
the climax
the rising action
the falling action
the resolution
Question 3
Dusk
by H.H. Munro (Saki)
Norman Gortsby sat on a bench in the Park,
with his back to a strip of bush-planted sward,
fenced by the park railings, and the Row
fronting him across a wide stretch of carriage
drive. Hyde Park Corner, with its rattle and hoot
of traffic, lay immediately to his right. It was
some thirty minutes past six on an early March
evening, and dusk had fallen heavily over the
scene, dusk mitigated by some faint moonlight
and many street lamps. There was a wide
emptiness over road and sidewalk, and yet
there were many unconsidered figures moving
silently through the half-light, or
dotted unobtrusively on bench and chair,
scarcely to be distinguished from the
shadowed gloom in which they sat.
The scene pleased Gortsby and harmonised
with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was
the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who
had fought and lost, who hid their fallen
fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible
from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in
this hour of gloaming, when their shabby
clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy
eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate,
unrecognised.
A king that is conquered must see strange
looks, So bitter a thing is the heart of man.
The wanderers in the dusk did not choose to
have strange looks fasten on them, therefore
they came out in this bat-fashion, taking their
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which best describes the type of plot
structure used by the author in this story?
(1 point)
flashback
parallel
foreshadowed
linear
Question 4
A)
Use paragraph 1 from “The Interlopers” to answer the question.
In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one
winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come
within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so
keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsman’s calendar as lawful and proper for the
chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.
Which phrase most establishes tension?
(1 point)
as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision
Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy
a man stood one winter night watching and listening
a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians
Question 5
A)
Use paragraph 2 from “The Interlopers” to answer the question.
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of
precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the
shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions.
A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a
neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the
judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered
the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a
personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world
whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the
tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest.
Which phrase is a signal that the story has moved backward in time?
(1 point)
in the days of his grandfather
if there was a man in the world whom he detested
poaching affrays and similar scandals
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent

Answer 1

Here are the answers:

Question 1 (Which two describe the climax?)
- The peak of the story’s tension and the height of the action are reached.
- The characters confront the conflict head-on and fully address it.

Passage about Gortsby and the soap (Which plot component?)
- Rising action. (The discovery builds the story’s tension and leads toward later events.)

Question 3 (Type of plot structure in “Dusk”)
- Linear.

Question 4 (Which phrase most establishes tension?)
- "Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy."

Question 5 (Which phrase signals a move backward in time?)
- "in the days of his grandfather."