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SD-CP-E-1 SD-CP-E-2 At the outset of the novel, , the Of the finance books to which Nick refers in the first narrator, characterizes Gatsby as chapter of the novel, he says they promise “to overwhelmingly ______. unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.” These three names allude to each of the following EXCEPT A. naive ______. B. corrupt A. an American financier C. hopeful B. a mythological king of Phrygia D. practical C. an early leader in organized crime D. a wealthy Roman patron of the arts SD-CP-E-3 SD-CP-E-4 In the novel, Nick says of Jordan Baker, “Her grey Color plays a significant role in the style of The sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite Great Gatsby, as in Chapter 1 where the color red reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming recurs frequently as represented in each of the discontented face.” In this context, the word wan following EXCEPT in the color of ______. most likely means ______

A. the wine the Buchanans serve at dinner A. dim B. the dresses worn by both Daisy and Jordan B. sickly C. the porch where the Buchanans serve dinner C. feeble D. the room where Daisy reads a magazine to D. languid Tom

SD-CP-E-5 SD-CP-E-6 The one thing exempt from the dust that In the novel, the tawdriness of Tom’s relationship pervades the valley of ashes in the novel is with Myrtle is emphasized by each of the following ______. EXCEPT ______.

A. taking a lavender taxi to the apartment A. Myrtle Wilson B. Tom’s treatment of, and attitude toward, B. George Wilson George C. the oculist’s billboard C. the conversation surrounding the purchase D. the Ford in Wilson’s shop of the puppy D. references to copies of Town Tattle in Myrtle’s apartment SD-CP-E-7 SD-CP-E-8 The event involving Owl Eyes at the Consider this sentence from The Great conclusion of Nick’s first evening at one Gatsby: “There was the boom of a bass drum, of Gatsby’s parties is an example of and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out ______. suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.” What does the word echolalia mean?

A. paradox A. reverberation of amplifiers B. flashback B. confusion arising from babbling C. exposition C. speaking in a variety of languages D. foreshadowing D. repetition of what is said by others

SD-CP-E-9 SD-CP-E-10 Nick’s list of party guests in Chapter IV In Wolfsheim’s story of Katspaugh which Nick of includes surnames hears him tell Gatsby, Katspaugh’s name is that evoke identification with each of the appropriate because a cat’s-paw is ______. following EXCEPT ______. A. an opalescent gemstone B. one used by another as a tool A. trees C. something intricate or elaborate B. flowers D. a whip made of usually nine knotted lines C. animals D. minerals SD-CP-E-11 SD-CP-E-12 The symbolic color most associated with When Gatsby arrives at Nick’s house on the Daisy in the novel is demonstrated by each day Daisy is to come for tea, the white flannel of the following EXCEPT ______. suit he wears – in connection with his boyish nervousness – symbolizes his ______. A. the name of her daughter B. Tom’s pre-wedding gift to her A. wealth C. at least two of the dresses she wears B. innocence D. the roadster she had before she was C. absolution married D. determination

SD-CP-E-13 SD-CP-E-14 When Gatsby inspects Nick’s house before Daisy From under a tree, Nick stares at Gatsby’s mansion arrives for tea, he looks “a little reproachfully at the “like Kant at his church steeple” while Gatsby and Finn.” Specifically, what does this mean? Daisy talk inside his cottage. The allusion suggests that Nick might be thinking about Gatsby’s A. Gatsby looks upon foreigners with contempt. ______. B. Gatsby thinks of the projecting counters as odd. C. Gatsby sees Nick’s kitchen as uncomfortably A. past small. B. wealth D. Gatsby regards Nick’s housekeeper with C. morality disapproval. D. romance SD-CP-E-15 SD-CP-E-16 When Gatsby, Daisy, and Nick enter The time lost with Daisy until Gatsby’s Gatsby’s mansion, they do so by the reconnection with her are BEST symbolized “postern.” What is a postern? by ______.

A. the mantel clock Gatsby knocks over A. an iron gateway B. the English shirts Gatsby displays B. a concealed portal C. Gatsby’s expansive and elaborate library C. a private entrance D. the maid’s spitting “meditatively” from a window D. the principal access

SD-CP-E-17 SD-CP-E-18 Each of the following is true of At Gatsby’s party, Nick describes Daisy’s Gatsby EXCEPT ______. voice as being that of a contralto. In other words, he says her voice has a range between ______. A. his birth name is James B. his uncle was the Kaiser A. baritone and C. he was a college drop-out B. tenor and mezzo-soprano D. his family was from the Midwest C. countertenor and soprano D. mezzo-soprano and soprano SD-CP-E-19 SD-CP-E-20 Nick’s calling Gatsby’s self-image In the opening of Chapter VII of the novel, platonic frames the protagonist of the Nick says, “. . . as obscurely as it had begun, novel as someone or something [Gatsby’s] career as Trimalchio was over.” ______. Who is Trimalchio?

A. an Italian gangster A. ignoble B. a character in a Roman play B. idealized C. a figure in ancient mythology C. illegitimate D. a Greek gourmet and entertainer D. inaccessible

SD-CP-E-21 SD-CP-E-22 Each of the following events in Chapter VII of The What two colors connected to Gatsby’s Great Gatsby contributes to the intense climax of car lend it the symbolism of wealth? the novel EXCEPT ______.

A. Daisy’s introducing Pammy to Gatsby A. gold and pink B. Myrtle’s noticing Jordan in the car with Tom B. silver and gold C. Nick’s investigation into Gatsby’s background C. green and silver D. George Wilson’s announcing his plans to go West D. yellow and green SD-CP-E-23 SD-CP-E-24 At the crime scene in the novel and in Wilson’s In the novel, on the morning after the garage, the person acting most suspiciously is accident, Nick’s description of Gatsby’s ______. mansion can BEST be described as having shifted from ______. A. Nick B. Tom A. circus to theater C. Wilson B. party to clean-up D. Michaelis C. fairy tale to Gothic tale D. spectacle to disorganization

SD-CP-E-25 SD-CP-E-26 In relating his first meetings with Daisy, Gatsby describes her Louisville home as “fresh and From the time he spends with Daisy in breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motor Louisville, Gatsby regards himself as cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely ______. withered.” What does redolent mean in this context? A. married to her A. opposite B. waiting for her B. imitative C. evocative C. engaged to her D. comparable D. unworthy of her SD-CP-E-27 SD-CP-E-28 Gatsby’s military experience includes each of Of all the other characters in The Great the following EXCEPT ______. Gatsby, Henry Gatz is MOST like ______. A. winning the Legion of Honor from France B. achieving a captaincy before entering A. combat C. commanding the divisional machine-guns B. Nick Carraway D. being made a major after the Battle of the C. George Wilson Argonne D. Tom Buchanan

SD-CP-E-29 SD-CP-E-30 In the novel, the schedule in the back fly-leaf of In Chapter IX of the novel, Nick says, “I see Hopalong Cassidy evokes the self- now that this has been a story of the West, improvement regimen of Benjamin Franklin. after all . . .” With that in mind, of the Which character’s name evokes the history of characters Nick identifies as central to the the American presidency? story, who is NOT from the Midwest?

A. James Gatz A. Jay B. Nick Carraway B. Tom C. George Wilson C. Nick D. Tom Buchanan D. Daisy SD-CP-E-31 SD-CP-E-32 Langston Hughes’ stylistic choices in In Langston Hughes’ “The Weary “The Weary Blues” include each of the Blues,” the musician is a following EXCEPT ______. ______.

A. simile A. bassist B. metonymy B. pianist C. end rhyme D. visual imagery C. guitarist D. saxophonist

SD-CP-E-33 SD-CP-E-34 The final line of “The Weary Blues” – Through such diction as “rocking back “He slept like a rock or a man that’s and forth” and “rickety stool” in “The dead.” – actually expresses Weary Blues,” Hughes expresses the ______. essential ______.

A. a paradox A. aspiration of the blues B. a solipsism B. source of spiritual strength C. an antithesis C. poverty of Harlem’s residence D. an ambiguity D. instability felt by people of color SD-CP-E-35 SD-CP-E-36 The line from “The Weary Blues” – “With The diction of the singer in Langston Hughes’ his ebony hands on each ivory key” – “The Weary Blues” characterizes him as a evokes Langston Hughes’ concern member of ______. regarding ______. A. the middle class A. arts funding B. the working class C. the intellectual class B. free expression D. the aristocratic class C. racial segregation D. economic opportunity

SD-CP-E-37 SD-CP-E-38 In “Cross” Hughes employs the places where The rhyme scheme of Hughes’ “Cross” can his parents died as symbols of ______. be expressed as ______.

A. estate A. axax bxbx cxcx B. disparity B. xaxa xbxb xcxc C. mortality C. abab cdcd efef D. lamentation D. abab xcxc xdxd SD-CP-E-39 SD-CP-E-40 Though the meter of Hughes’ “Cross” is Given the lines that follow the speaker’s irregular, which of the following metrical feet revoking his curse on his mother and now – in lines such as “I'm sorry for that evil wishing her well, that well-wishing is BEST wish/And now I wish her well” – understood as ______. predominates? A. ironic A. iambic B. forced B. dactylic C. robust C. trochaic D. sincere D. anapestic

SD-CP-E-41 SD-CP-E-42 The seventh line of “If We Must Die” – The concluding thought of McKay’s “If “So that our precious blood may not be We Must Die” is expressed in shed” – resonates with a ______. ______.

A. scientific evaluation A. a sestet B. mythological allusion to Troy B. a couplet C. Christian image of sacrifice C. an octave D. historical reference to enslavement D. a quatrain SD-CP-E-43 SD-CP-E-44 In McKay’s “If We Must Die,” the The speaker in McKay’s “If We Must speaker’s tone may BEST be described Die” proposes to his listeners that their as ______. central decision is ______.

A. bucolic A. how to die B. inspiring B. when to die C. truculent C. where to die D. sepulchral D. whether to die

SD-CP-E-45 SD-CP-E-46 The fact that the Justice Department at the In the list of fruits in the first stanza of time McKay published “If We Must Die” “The Tropics of New York,” under what regarded the poem as seditious suggests name is the avocado included? that the conflict McKay addresses is ______. A. mangoes A. World War I B. grape fruit B. racial tension C. ginger-root C. the Depression D. alligator pears D. veterans’ rights SD-CP-E-47 SD-CP-E-48 The list of fruits in the first stanza of The meter of McKay’s “The Tropics of McKay’s “The Tropics of New York” New York” is essentially ______. provides an example of ______. A. iambic A. simile B. dactylic B. paradox C. trochaic C. metaphor D. anapestic D. metonymy

SD-CP-E-49 SD-CP-E-50 The BEST one-word theme of In McKay’s “The Tropics of New York,” the McKay’s “The Tropics of New York” fact that the produce in the first stanza is ______. appears in a window, as established at the beginning of the second stanza, produces ______. A. hunger B. poverty A. a stylized effect C. homesickness B. an abstract effect C. a photographic effect D. friendlessness D. an architectural effect SD-CP-E-51 SD-CP-E-52 The main structural element of In Bennett’s “Sonnet 2,” the speaker Bennett’s “Sonnet 2,” aside from the mentions “the iridescence of a gem.” What elements that define the sonnet form, is iridescence? is ______. A. a milky play of color A. cataloguing B. a shining, pearly luster B. extended metaphor C. reflection of varied shades D. a lustrous rainbow-like play of color C. beginning in medias res D. sustained elevated language

SD-CP-E-53 SD-CP-E-54 In Bennett’s “Sonnet 2,” the speaker is In Bennett’s “Sonnet 2” the things dear MOST LIKELY addressing ______. to the speaker include each of the following EXCEPT ______. A. a new student B. a fellow worker A. gems C. a white stranger B. rivers D. a long-time husband C. insects D. flowers SD-CP-E-55 SD-CP-E-56 In “Sonnet 2” Bennett’s stylistic choices The tone of “The Weary Blues” is BEST include each of the following EXCEPT characterized as ______. ______.

A. bilious A. masculine rhyme B. sanguine B. concrete imagery C. phlegmatic C. familiar metonymies D. melancholy D. punctuation indicating long pauses

SD-CP-E-57 SD-CP-E-58 The presence of gas lighting in “The In addition to the racial identity theme Weary Blues” is somewhat of Hughes’ “Cross,” the contrast ______. between his parents is also ______. A. glaring B. musical A. regional C. jazz-like B. religious D. anachronistic C. personal D. economic SD-CP-E-59 SD-CP-E-60 Hughes’ stylistic choices in “Cross” In stanza one of “The Tropics of New York, include each of the following EXCEPT the speaker says the produce he sees is “fit for the highest prize at parish fairs.” What is ______. a “parish fair”?

A. alliteration A. an urban block party B. irregular meter B. a church-sponsored festival C. irregular rhyme C. a neighborhood produce contest D. extended metaphors D. a local competition for vegetables

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