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 2020 – 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 At the outset of the novel, Nick Carraway, 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 The Great Gatsby 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 soprano 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. Jay Gatsby 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.