Did you read the novel quizzes

1. Did you read the novel quizzes

2. QUIZ: Identify a)who is talking to whom in this scene and b) why. Explain what happened right before the conversation and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader.(92) “You see, I thought when it came to a showdown he’d knuckle under. I knew he was weak.” “Weak?” I cried. “What made you think that? A man who for a year withstood the disapproval of all his friends and associates because he was determined to go his own way.” “I could always do anything I wanted with him. I could turn him round my little finger. He was never a leader in the things we did. He just tagged along with the crowd.”

3. QUIZ: Identify who is talking to whom and why. Explain what prompted the conversation and what happens immediately afterward. Describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader. (208) -“I think it’s idiotic and blasphemous.” • “I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn’t matter; it may be worthwhile or it may worthless. No wine is so intoxicating, no love so shattering, no vice so compelling. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself. At best he can only sacrifice his only begotten son.” • “Oh Christ, how you bore, me.”

4. QUIZ: Sula Quiz 1: Identify who is narrating in this scene and why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader.(53) • “Four white boys in their early teens, sons of some newly arrived Irish people, occasionally entertained themselves in the afternoon by harassing black schoolchildren. With shoes that pinched and woolen knickers that made red rings on their calves, they had come to this valley with their parents believing as they did that it was a promised land… What they found was a strange accent, a pervasive fear of their religion and firm resistance to their attempts to find work.”

5. QUIZ: Sula Quiz 1: Identify a) who is talking in this scene and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader.(136) “I didn’t even know his name. And if I didn’t know his name, then there is nothing I did know and I have known nothing ever at all since the one thing I wanted was to know his name so how could he help but leave me since he was making love to a woman who didn’t even know his name. When I was a little girl the heads of my paper dolls came off, and it was a long time before I discovered that my own head would not fall off if I bent my neck…I didn’t hold my head stiff enough when I met him and so I lost it just like the dolls.”

6. QUIZ: Dorian Gray Quiz 1: Identify a) the POV and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader.68 “He began to wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us. As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes... But there was no motive power in experience. …It was clear to him that the experimental method was the only method by which one could arrive at any scientific analysis of the passions.”

7. QUIZ: One Flew Quiz 1 (parts 1 and 2): Identify a) the POV and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader.64 “This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. […]We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. He knows his place.”

8. Quiz 2: One Flew Quiz 1 (parts 3 to the end): Identify a) the POV and b) why. Explain what happened right before the scene below and what happens next. In other words, describe the placement of this scene as accurately as possible. Prove you’re a good reader.283 “They roll him out on a Gurney, still jerking, face frosted white. Corrosion. Battery Acid. The technician turns to me. Watch that other moose. I know him. Hold him! It’s not a will-power thing any more. Hold him! Damn. No more of those boys without Sectional. The clamps bite my wrists and ankles. The graphite salve has iron filings in it, temples scratching. He said something when he winked. Told me something. Man bends over, brings tow irons toward the ring on my head. The machine hunches on me. AIR RAID.”

10. Great Expectations, Chapters1-13 • On Christmas Eve, Mrs. Gargery leaves the guests in the dinning room to fetch a “savory pie.” Pip finally releases the leg of the table and runs “for [his] life.” • Why does Pip clutch the leg of the table throughout Christmas dinner? • Why SPECIFICALLY do the soldiers barge into Mrs. Gargery’s house? • At Miss Havisham’s, when the pale young gentleman challenges Pip to a duel, who wins and why?

11. Great Expectations, Chapters 1-30 • When Jaggers informs Pip that he, Pip, came into “a handsome property,” Jaggers also outlines some details of the arrangement requested by Pip’s benefactor. What are they? • Who is Matthew Pocket? Why is he important? • What’s humorous about Mr. Trab’s boy?

12. Great Expectations, Part 3 • When Orlick captures Pip and is about to kill him, what does he (Orlick) uncover about Pip’s sister and Magwitch? • When Herbert and Pip try to smuggle Magwitch out of the country, why do they fail? • Why does Jaggers treat Molly like an animal who needs to be “tamed?” • Why does Pip lose his right to his money?

13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Part 1 150 pts • How does Chief Bromden describe Big Nurse? Be specific. • One morning, McMurphy is heard singing. What happens next? How does he get Big Nurse’s goat? • What happens to Chief Bromden when “they turn on the fog machine?”

14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Part 2 • McMurphy makes a bet which puts him in a contest with Nurse Rathced. Describe the wager and McMurphy’s reasons for suggesting it. • Why does McMurphy suddenly begin cooperating with Big Nurse? • How does McMurphy misunderstand the patients’ reasons for wanting him to do battle with Nurse Ratched?