Dr. Prinsky
English 1102
Quiz on Assigned Material from Ch. 5 (Point of View) of RJ7
Directions: adhere to the previous instructions on my Quiz Directions.
Chapter Material
1. According to R& J in Ch. 5, the voice telling the story should be called any of the following except which one? (a) narrator (b) speaker (c) persona (d) protagonist
2. As explained by R& J in Ch. 5, the paintings by Claude Lorraine and Henri Matisse mainly illustrate, with reference to point of view or perspective: (a) deep vs. flat (b) ancient vs. modern (c) colorful vs. colorless (d) perpendicular vs. diagonal
3. In the visual example (cartoon) used in Roberts-Jacobs to discuss point of view, the numbering of differing points of view is up to: (a) three (b) four (c) five (d) six
4. As explained in Ch. 5, in first-person narrations, especially by a major or minor character, the narrator's remarks should be: (a) considered authoritative (b) often disbelieved (c) constantly evaluated (d) compared with second-person point of view
5. As explained in Ch. 5, the third-person point of view analogous to a hovering or tracking motion-picture camera, nearly complete and impartial, is called: (a) omniscient (b) limited omniscient (c) dramatic or objective (d) authorial
6. As explained in Ch. 5, the third-person point of view reporting what the characters are thinking is called: (a) omniscient (b) limited omniscient (c) dramatic or objective (d) authorial
7. As explained in Ch. 5, the third-person point of view that focuses on a point-of-view character is called: (a) omniscient (b) limited omniscient (c) dramatic or objective (d) authorial
8. As explained in Ch. 5, the use of dialogue within fiction principally using past tense helps: (a) bring present tense within the narration (b) retard the narrative (c) reveal female character more than male (d) create a sense of historical accuracy
Questions on Shirley Jackson’s Short Story “The Lottery”
9. If the point of view in the first sentence of paragraph 1 of the story was omniscient point of view, then the narrator would have known, and had to tell: (a) the exact temperature (b) the significance of June 27 to the town (c) what happened on June 26 (d) what the spring season had been like
10. By not revealing the information referred to in the immediately preceding question, the narrator and narration help set up the motif in the story of the day’s events seeming to the villagers: (a) normal (b) festive (c) tragic (d) religious
11. The first time the story is read, a reader is likely to suppose that the gathering of stones by the boys referred to at the story’s beginning (par. 2; also, par. 3) is for: (a) helping to rebuild the village’s post office (b) adding to their home rock and mineral collections (c) playing “war” by throwing stones at each other from make-believe forts (d) engaging in the semiannual town cleanup and beautification program
12. The emphasis on the villagers’ mispronunciation of Dickie Delacroix’s last name in the description of the young boys’ gathering for an assembly (par. 2) helps convey the story’s idea about: (a) general public backwardness through elementary schools’ not teaching foreign languages (b) other countries’ residual hostility toward the French because of the Vichy government’s cooperation in France with the Nazis in World War II (c) the villagers’ informality in using almost exclusively first names rather than surnames in daily affairs (d) distortion through custom, because of ignorance about origins
13. The etymology of Dickie Delacroix’s surname (from French de + la [“the”] + Croix ; look up in your collegiate dictionary the term Croix de Guerre to find out the meanings of de and croix in French) helps convey (unknown to the villagers) the notions in the story of all the following except which one: (a) martyrdom (b) heroism in holy wars (c) religion (d) victimization of an innocent person
14. The name of the main conductor of the lottery (the owner of a coal business) [pars. 4, 5, et seq.] points to — unknowingly to him or the villagers — (a) the seasonal origin of the lottery (b) the inevitability of dealing in a fuel for power leading to gaining political power (c) the lottery having been originated by Satan himself (d) the need for human beings to have warm reciprocal relations
15. The onomastic symbolism (that is, symbolism conveyed by a name) of the co-official of the lottery, the postmaster of the village (pars. 4, 6, et seq.), helps convey the notions relevant to the short story of all of the following except which one: (a) seriousness (b) oral tradition straying from original purpose through lack of knowledge from written sources (c) death (d) leaders becoming mean-spirited toward those below them
16. The color of the lottery box (pars. 4, 5, 6) helps convey the idea in the story of: (a) death or funeral (b) a townspeople minority being discriminated against because of skin color (c) something precious (diamonds) eventually coming from something dirty (coal) (d) work or commerce
17. The condition of the lottery box, materials used to make the lottery box, and the change of what the lottery “slips” are made of (pars. 5-6), all help convey the notions in the story of all of the following except which one: (a) tradition (b) spirituality (c) deterioration (d) primordial vs. modern times
18. From how lists are made up for the lottery (pars. 7 and 19) as well as other details, a Biblical portion suggested, beyond Leviticus 16 (often cited in study questions on the story) is Joshua 6-7 because of all of the following except which one: (a) death (b) lottery by tribe, clan, family, and individual (c) theft (d) stoning
19. The time period in which the story’s action takes place is established to be modern because of an early reference to: (a) trucks (b) telephones (c) televisions (d) tractors
20. A second (or later) reading of the short story suggests that the reason that the last person arrives late at the lottery — with emphatic noting of the lateness of the arrival — is not just forgetfulness but: (a) laziness (b) marital infidelity (c) premonition (d) suavity
21. A survey of all the names of the villagers mentioned, from A through Z, suggests that the village is American or Anglo-American because of the names’: (a) diverse national origins (b) uniformity (c) lack of reference to any European countries (d) shortness
22. The comments of Mrs. Delacroix and Mrs. Graves about the interval between lotteries (pars. 22-23) suggest an attitude toward the lotteries of: (a) indifference and boredom (b) veiled anxiety and aversion (c) religiosity or spirituality (d) open ardor and anticipation
23. With reference to the immediately preceding question, the size of the stone Mrs. Delacroix picks up (par. 74) and the position of Mrs. Graves in the crowd (par. 78) at the short story’s end suggest in connection with their earlier interchange: (a) contemplation (b) consonance (c) conceitedness (d) contradiction
24. With reference to the two immediately preceding questions, one suggestion of why the lottery continues is a combination of all of the following except which one: (a) human instinctive violence (b) euphoria (c) relief (d) positive reinforcement
25. The slang expression of wives for their husbands repeated in the story (pars. 8, 14, 25) obliquely connects to the importance in the story of: (a) female independence (b) the Electra complex (c) female disrespect of males (d) ancient origins
26. The comments of Mr. and Mrs. Adams about the lottery (pars. 31-34) could best be characterized as all of the following except which one: (a) negative (b) diffident (c) vacillating (d) circuitous
27. An implied social or psychological force that Mr. and Mrs. Adams are responding to in how they make their comments about the lottery (pars. 31-34) is: (a) national pride (b) conformity (c) xenophobia (d) social stratification
28. The onomastic symbolism and allusion of the names of the husband-and-wife couple talking about the lottery in other villages (pars. 31-34), as connected to the immediately preceding two questions, is that like their Biblical namesakes, they are in their attitude toward the lottery: (a) immorally disobedient (b) parentally solicitous (c) notably naive and innocent (d) among the first
29. The person with whom the husband-and-wife couple converse about the lottery (pars. 31-34) has a name with the onomastic symbolism suggestive of all the following except which one: (a) tactfulness (b) cautionary (c) the primordial (d) conservatism
30. The conversation referred to in the immediately preceding four questions strongly suggests, along with the particular date in the year, that the origin of the lottery, no longer realized by the villagers, had to do with: (a) European conquest of indigenous American peoples (b) Manifest Destiny (c) primitive religious vegetation rites (d) conflict between Eastern and Western mentalities
31. With reference to his attitudes expressed in his earlier conversation (pars. 31-34), where Mr. Adams stands in the group at the end of the story (par. 78) shows: (a) contemplation (b) consonance (c) conceitedness (d) contradiction
32. Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson’s repeated remark about the lottery not being fair (pars. 45, 51, 58, 77, 79) is false in one way because: (a) Tessie has a habit of prevarication (b) all the villagers followed the same procedure and took the same chance (c) the lottery is supervised by the local churches (d) all other villages conduct the lottery and run it the same way as Tessie’s
33. Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson’s repeated remark about the lottery not being fair (pars. 45, 51, 58, 77, 79) is true in one way because: (a) the two most powerful villagers — the co-conductors of the lottery — are given special favoritism in the drawing (b) children and seniors are exempted from the drawing (c) the original purpose of the lottery is known to be erroneous in modern times (d) nearly all other villages have abandoned the lottery
34. The reference to how “someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles” (par. 76) suggests that one reason that the lottery continues is what in anthropology and sociology would be known as, respectively: (a) cultural diffusion and cultural relativism (b) endogamy or exogamy (c) social class or social stratification (d) acculturation (or enculturation) and socialization
35. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word profusely (par. 1) means: (a) abundantly (b) efficiently (c) explosively (d) harmoniously
36. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word boisterous (par. 2) means: (a) masculine (b) noisy (c) sweet (d) romantic
37. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word reprimands (par. 2) means: (a) orders (b) second attempts (c) fundamentals (d) disapprovals
38. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word jovial (par. 4) means: (a) distant (b) supreme (c) merry (d) experienced
39. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word murmur (par. 4) means: (a) quiet talk (b) strong wall (c) tasty food (d) cow noises
40. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word perfunctory (par. 7) means: (a) faultless (b) effective (c) artificial (d) unnecessary
41. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word duly (par. 7) means: (a) unintelligently (b) darkly (c) fitly (d) angrily
42. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word interminably (par. 7) means: (a) meaningfully (b) successfully (c) thoughtfully (d) unendingly
43. In Jackson's "The Lottery," the word petulantly (par. 32) means: (a) lovingly (b) animal-like (c) irritably (d) showily
Chapter Material
44. The sample or demonstrative essay on Jackson's "The Lottery" explains how the story makes good use of the point of view: (a) first person limited (b) second person major character (c) third person omniscient (d) third person dramatic
45. The sample or demonstrative essay on Jackson's "The Lottery" explains how the point of view used helps convey: (a) the main character's ignorance (b) the reader's warm involvement with the townspeople (c) the contrast between ordinariness and violence (d) the great wisdom of the common people