Directions: (1) Use pencil for your answers on the Scantron form; (2) be sure your name is on the form; (3) be sure to indicate which section (A, B, C, etc.) of Engl. 1101 you are in; (4) be sure that your test is labelled with the name of this test ("Test on Joseph Addison's Spectator 15").

1. The overall and main purpose of Addison's Spectator 15 is to: (a) describe current clothing fashions in London (b) narrate some stories of unhappy romantic relationships (c) explain the criteria of successful marriages (d) persuade people, especially women, to avoid superficial attractions

2. The nonfiction prose form or genre that Addison explicitly identifies that he is writing in Spectator 15 is: (a) paper (b) essay (c) article (d) chapter (e) sonnet

3. The first paragraph in the essay to explicitly state the essay's thesis is: (a) paragraph 1 (b) paragraph 2 (c) paragraph 3 (d) paragraph 4 (e) paragraph 5

4. In the last sentence of par. 1 ("Just before the lady were . . . the coach"), the word their refers to the: (a) horses (b) ladies (c) pages (d) boys

5. In the last sentence of par. 1 ("Just before the lady were . . . the coach"), the "little boys" referred to are: (a) horses (b) pages (c) elder brothers (d) cupids

6. As implied in par. 2, Addison's attitude toward France is: (a) favorable (b) neutral (c) unfavorable (d) apathetic

7. The coach in which Cleanthe rides has a relevant symbolism (as revealed in the essay) in its decoration suggesting: (a) love (b) youth (c) death (d) knowledge

8. The tone of the last sentence of paragraph 2 (particularly in how it ends) is: (a) earnest (b) ironic (c) cheerful (d) admiring

9. The end of the last sentence of paragraph 2 ("partly by the loss . . . another") makes use of all the following stylistic components except which one: (a) balance (b) antithesis (c) parallelism (d) metaphor

10. The illustration cited in paragraph 3 suggests that what finally attracts the young lady is innately: (a) trivial (b) expensive (c) important (d) cheap

11. The focus in paragraph 4 is on: (a) parties (b) clothes (c) marriage (d) food

12. The last sentence of paragraph 4, with its reference to the "airy coquette" and her "wildest . . . flights" (par. 4) makes use of the stylistic component: (a) metaphor (b) simile (c) personification (d) understatement

13. Paragraph 5 is structured or organized primarily by: (a) process (b) cause and effect (c) analogy (d) comparison and contrast

14. The function of paragraphs 6-7 together is primarily: (a) narration (b) cause and effect (c) analogy (d) comparison and contrast

15. As implied in paragraphs 6-7, a husband would be happier with: (a) Aurelia (b) Fulvia (c) neither Aurelia or Fulvia (d) a combination of Aurelia and Fulvia

16. Addison's last example in his essay (paragraph 8), Camilla, is meant to illustrate a woman who is: (a) admirable (b) defective (c) both admirable and defective (d) neither admirable or defective

17. In the essay, Addison links the subject of clothing with all the following except which one: (a) susceptibility to materialism (b) social education, especially of the genders (c) psychological sources--inner or outer--of happiness (d) superiority of English to French society

18. The word gilded means: (a) physiologically deprived of being able to have offspring (b) covered with a thin layer of gold (c) joined to a professional group of craftsmen (d) planted in fields of lillies

19. Venus is the goddess of: (a) love (b) the hunt (c) battle (d) art

20. Adonis was Venus's: (a) teacher (b) husband (c) lover (d) son

21. The word melancholy means: (a) colorfully (b) gloomy (c) youthfully (d) nightly

22. The word pageantry means: (a) careful building (b) humble obedience (c) intent study (d) grand show

23. The word pomp means: (a) dignified display (b) mechanism to draw water (c) having great appeal (d) attractive hairstyling

24. The word importunate means: (a) downfallen (b) unlucky (c) nagging (d) foreign

25. The word complacency means: (a) continually striving (b) self-satisfied (c) acting together (d) firmly positioned

26. The word supernumerary means: (a) huge (b) infinite (c) mathematical (d) extra

27. The noun discourse means: (a) speech or talk (b) track for horses (c) field of study (d) hobby or pastime

28. The word coquette means: (a) mallet-and-ball game (b) flirtatious woman (c) poultry food dish (d) dress design

29. The adjective consummate means: (a) exhausted (b) agreed upon (c) perfected (d) restrained