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1) Select the correct form of the titles below in items a-j: a) "The Importance of Being Earnest" [a play by Oscar Wilde]    The Importance of Being Earnest   b)  "Hogwash" [a poem by Robert Francis]   Hogwash   c) "Star Wars" [the movie]   Star Wars   d) "The Battle over the Battle Flag" [an essay] The Battle over the Battle Flag   e) "Getting Out of Reverse" [season premier of the TV show, "La Femme Nikita"] "Getting Out of Reverse" [season premier of La Femme Nikita] Getting Out of Reverse [season premier of La Femme Nikita] Getting Out of Reverse [season premier of "La Femme Nikita"]   f) "A Ninth to Remember" [an article in "The Macon Telegraph" {newspaper}] "A Ninth to Remember" [an article in The Macon Telegraph] A Ninth to Remember [an article in The Macon Telegraph] A Ninth to Remember [an article in "The Macon Telegraph"]   g) "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [novel by Mark Twain] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer   h) "The Black Cat" [Edgar Allan Poe short story] The Black Cat   i) "Trifles" [a short play] Trifles   j) "Time Magazine" cover story, "Nuclear Holocaust"? "Time Magazine" cover story, "Nuclear Holocaust?" "Time Magazine" cover story, Nuclear Holocaust? Time Magazine cover story, "Nuclear Holocaust"? Time Magazine cover story, "Nuclear Holocaust?" Time Magazine cover story, Nuclear Holocaust?

2) In one or two sentences, discuss any situation or event involving brutality or cruelty in a movie or serial TV show you've seen recently (a TV series, that is, with actors, not a talk show, news show, etc.).  Note: for this exam only, indicate underlining by surrounding the underlined text with asterisks (*'s, as in *La Femme Nikita*).

3) Introduce the following passage from the third paragraph on p. 323 in our textbook: "That is a great opportunity. Take it" (323).

4) Introduce any quote from Anne Bradstreet's poem below: [For the purposes of this exam you can quote poetry just as you would prose, without indicating breaks between the lines.] To My Dear and Loving Husband If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor aught but love from thee give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let's so persever, That when we live no more we may live ever.

5) Select the items with correct punctuation in a-d below:   a) Bugs Bunny often asks, "What's up, doc"? Bugs Bunny often asks, "What's up, doc?"   b) "When angry,"  Mark Twain advises, "count to four; when very angry, swear." "When angry",  Mark Twain advises, "count to four; when very angry, swear".   c) When the mugger grabbed Marcy's purse, she cried, "That's my purse!" When the mugger grabbed Marcy's purse, she cried, "That's my purse"!   d) I have memorized the five-line poem, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," but not the eighteen-line "Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941." I have memorized the five-line poem, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", but not the eighteen-line "Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941". I have memorized the five-line poem, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, but not the eighteen-line Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941.

6) Which of the following are correct?   Sam always has green eggs for breakfast-fried, never scrambled. Sam always has green eggs for breakfast - fried, never scrambled. Sam always has green eggs for breakfast--fried, never scrambled. Sam always has green eggs for breakfast -- fried, never scrambled. Sam always has green eggs for breakfast — fried, never scrambled. Sam always has green eggs for breakfast—fried, never scrambled.

7) Introduce a quotation from the following passage and use ellipsis dots to indicate the omission of words within a sentence.  Note: for this exam only, indicate underlining by surrounding the underlined text with *'s: as in *La Femme Nikita*. From Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe: After the storm was over I laid aside all my works, my building, and fortifying, and applied myself to make bags and boxes to separate the powder, and keep it a little and a little in a parcel, in hope that whatever might come it might not all take fire at once, and to keep it so apart, that it should not be possible to make one part fire another.  I finished this work in about a fortnight; and I think my powder, which in all was about 240 pounds weight, was divided in not less than a hundred parcels. (78)

8)  Introduce a quote from the following passage and use ellipsis dots to indicate the omission of one or more sentences.  Here, too, if necessary, indicate underlining by surrounding the underlined text with *'s: as in *La Femme Nikita*. From Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi: Now the engines were stopped altogether, and we drifted with the current.  Not that I could see the boat drift, for I could not, the stars being all gone by this time.  This drifting was the dismalest work; it held one's heart still.  Presently I discovered a blacker gloom than that which surrounded us.  It was the head of the island.  We were closing right down upon it.  We entered its deeper shadow, and so imminent seemed the peril that I was likely to suffocate; and I had the strongest impulse to do something, anything, to save the vessel. (272)

9) Introduce a quote from the following passage, using ellipsis dots to indicate an omission with a complete sentence preceding or following the ellipsis; indicate any underlining by surrounding the underlined text with *'s: as in *The West Wing*. From Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.  His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion.  His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend. (19)

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