Students: Throughout this competition, foreign Indiana Academic Super Bowl names and words may be used. If there are any discrepancies English Round between how a word/phrase should 2017 – Senior Division Coaches Practice be pronounced and what you see A Program of the Indiana Association of School Principals on the screen, the screen supersedes what is spoken. SD-CP-E-1 SD-CP-E-2 The opening sentence of A Tale of Two The epigraph to “Don Juan: Dedication” is “Difficile est proprie communia dicere.” Which of the Cities, offers examples of each of the following BEST translates that sentence? following EXCEPT _______ A. It is appropriate to tell the truth as one laughs. A. antithesis B. It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically. B. metonymy C. It is desirable to use one’s gifts for the good of C. parallelism the community. D. It is sufficient to combine well-chosen words D. polysyndeton in a well-ordered line. 1 SD-CP-E-3 SD-CP-E-4 In Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Jarvis Lorry protests, “Feelings! I have no time for them, no change of them.” In the first stanza of “Don Juan: Dedication,” Byron However, the truth that he does have feelings is BEST says Southey “turned out a Tory.” In fact, he was a supported by the way he ________ Tory Member of Parliament. A Tory is understood to support each of the following EXCEPT _______ A. observes the intricately carved frame of the pier-glass in the room in which Lucie sits A. royal authority B. tells Lucie Manette about her father by creating a story about a Doctor of Beauvais B. parliamentary reform C. adjusts and readjusts the “crisp flaxen wig,” C. the established church attempting to flatten it more than it is D. traditional governmental structure D. explains why he addresses Lucie as a “young English lady” as they converse SD-CP-E-5 SD-CP-E-6 The scene in the courtroom in the Old Bailey The speaker of Blake’s “The Tyger” in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, is is BEST characterized as ______ developed by images of each of the following EXCEPT _______ A. irreverent A. atrophy B. reactionary B. death C. deterministic C. disease D. stench D. philosophical 2 SD-CP-E-7 SD-CP-E-8 That Miss Pross believes her brother to be Consider the following lines from Wordsworth’s poem on the French Revolution: the only worthy suitor for Lucie Manette in Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, can BEST be characterized as somewhat _______ But to be young was very heaven! In this context “dawn” is a metaphor for _____ A. ironic B. peevish A. years of adolescence C. gracious B. first light before battle D. disarming C. early days of the revolution D. initial morning of the people’s uprising SD-CP-E-9 SD-CP-E-10 In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens’ description of the In the first stanza of “Don Juan: Dedication,” Byron Monseigneur in particular and the aristocrats in his rhetorically asks, “And now, my Epic Renegade! home in general characterizes the French What are ye at?/With all the Lakers, in and out of aristocracy as all of the following EXCEPT place?” Who were the Lakers? _______ A. the poets who succeeded Wordsworth and Coleridge A. sumptuous in their manner of living B. an early group of English poets of the B. oblivious to political and social realities Romantic Movement C. bloodthirsty in their dealings with one another C. a group of Augustan poets who resisted D. ignorant of the skills appropriate to their Romantic innovations offices D. a group of proto-Transcendentalists dedicated to nature poetry 3 SD-CP-E-11 SD-CP-E-12 As the Marquis de Evrémonde travels through Careful interpretation of Blake’s “The Tyger” will yield concrete evidence to support each of the following the country to his chateau in A Tale of Two statements EXCEPT _______ Cities, Dickens uses the imagery of _______ A. The “fearful symmetry” of the tiger underscores the A. a dragged man to reflect the revolution primacy of regular form and balanced construction necessary for effective writing. B. the sunset to reflect the soul of the marquis B. The energy attributed to the tiger is akin to that of the C. a crowd to reflect the power of the French Revolution: enlightening but dangerous, aristocracy transformative but perilous. C. The mystery of the tiger exposes the challenge – or D. the fields to reflect the resignation of the the impossibility – of fully comprehending the nature of people God. D. The central question about the tiger – “Who made thee?” – delves into the nature of poetic creativity. SD-CP-E-13 SD-CP-E-14 The poverty of the people in the rural village The central thrust of Wordsworth’s poem where the Marquis St. Evrémonde stops on about the French Revolution is _______ his way to his chateau in Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is most explicitly explained by A. celebration of the ideals of the revolution _______ B. nostalgia for the initial uprising now less meaningful A. the failure of crops C. observation of the ironies of the B. the lack of children rebellion’s aftermath C. a catalogue of taxes D. speculation on the long-term D. the story of the dragged man consequences for artists 4 SD-CP-E-15 SD-CP-E-16 The death of the Marquis St. Evrémonde in In the first stanza of “Don Juan: Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is MOST closely Dedication,” Byron labels Southey, “Epic connected to the coming revolution by _______ Renegade!” In this context, renegade MOST LIKELY means _______ A. the finding of his corpse in his bed B. the manner of his death by stabbing A. traitor C. the signature on the note attached to the knife B. convert D. the response of the peasants gathered in C. maverick the village D. trouble-maker SD-CP-E-17 SD-CP-E-18 In Blake’s “The Tyger,” line 8 – “What The speaker of Wordsworth’s poem on the French the hand dare seize the fire?” – can Revolution characterizes the prevailing traditions most clearly be interpreted as an and laws of the time prior to the rebellion as each of the following EXCEPT _______ allusion to the myth of _______ A. lacking in desirable qualities A. Ganymede B. impaired in vigor or effectiveness B. Icarus C. disagreeable to the point of being repellant D. marked by a desire to maintain the status quo C. Orion D. Prometheus 5 SD-CP-E-19 SD-CP-E-20 In Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, the man In the third stanza of “Don Juan: Dedication,” whose child the Marquis St. Evrémonde’s in saying “Bob [wishes] to supersede all carriage hits and kills is named _______ warblers here below/And be the only Blackbird in the dish” alludes to Southey’s aspiration to _______ A. Gaspard B. Jacques A. earn his living by poetry alone C. Foulon B. become the king’s favorite poet D. Ernest C. be named poet laureate of England D. write an epic on a legend of the birds SD-CP-E-21 SD-CP-E-22 In Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, when asked Consider the following lines from Blake’s “The Tyger”: what she knits, what is Madame Defarge’s What the hammer? what the chain, reply? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! A. shawls The italicized terms belong to which type of figurative language? B. scarves C. shrouds A. simile D. blankets B. apostrophe C. metonymy D. personification 6 SD-CP-E-23 SD-CP-E-24 The image of the tiger appears in both Consider these lines from Wordsworth’s poem about the French Revolution: Blake’s poem of that name and in the Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth,/The speech of which character in Dickens’ A beauty wore of promise, that which sets/(As at some moment might not be unfelt/Among the bowers of paradise Tale of Two Cities? itself)/ The budding rose above the rose full blown. The “favoured spots” may be interpreted as an allusion that A. Sidney Carton includes _______ B. Jerry Cruncher A. the British Empire C. Charles Darnay B. the Russian Empire D. Madame Defarge C. the Spanish Empire D. the United States SD-CP-E-25 SD-CP-E-26 In the fourth stanza of “Don Juan: The ninth stanza of “Don Juan: Dedication,” Dedication,” the biblical allusion includes the following lines: “And although here underscores what quality that Byron and there some glorious rarity/Arise like Titan from the sea's immersion . .” The classical attributes to Wordsworth’s “Excursion”? allusion refers to _______ A. its rhyme scheme A. a ship B. its didactic purpose B. a whale C. its archaic structure C. the sunrise D. an earthquake D. its confusing nature 7 SD-CP-E-27 SD-CP-E-28 In the course of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, The first quatrain of Blake’s “The Tyger” Sydney Carton has private conversations with both magnifies the power of the subject by Lucie and Charles; however, subsequent to the latter conversation, Charles _______ each of the following means EXCEPT _______ A. reveals his own darkness to his immediate rival B. fails to fully appreciate the depth of Sydney’s A. antithesis soul B.