Question 1

Question

A)Which statement best describes what happens in the climax of a story? Select the two correct answers.(1 point)
Responses

The peak of the story’s tension and the height of the action are reached.
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.
The characters confront the conflict head-on and fully address it.

Subplots and plot twists are introduced and dealt with by the characters.
Subplots and plot twists are introduced and dealt with by the characters.

The characters are introduced, and the setting of the story is established.
The characters are introduced, and the setting of the story is established.

Plot elements that remain open are tied up, and the story is concluded.
Plot elements that remain open are tied up, and the story is concluded.
Question 2
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)
Responses

the resolution
the resolution

the climax
the climax

the falling action
the falling action

the rising action
the rising action
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.

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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)
Responses

flashback
flashback

foreshadowed
foreshadowed

parallel
parallel

linear
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)
Responses

Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy
Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy

a man stood one winter night watching and listening
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
as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision

a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians
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)
Responses

in the days of his grandfather
in the days of his grandfather

The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent

if there was a man in the world whom he detested

Answer 1

Question 1
A) The two correct answers are:

1. The peak of the story’s tension and the height of the action are reached.
2. The characters confront the conflict head-on and fully address it.

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Question 2
A) The component of the plot structure described in this excerpt is:

• the rising action.

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Question 3
A) The type of plot structure used by the author in this story is:

• linear.

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Question 4
A) The phrase that most establishes tension is:

• Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.

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Question 5
A) The phrase that signals the story has moved backward in time is:

• in the days of his grandfather.