FAULKNER & DICKINSON TEST (100 PTS) Vocabulary: Use 2 Feb. SAT words per sentence without using "be" verbs. Underline the words.

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1 Vocabulary: Use 2 Feb. SAT words per sentence without using "be" verbs. Underline the words. (4 pts) 1. Sentence #1 (on Dickinson) 2. Sentence #2 (on Faulkner) Identification: define each term and connect it to any of our readings: Faulkner and/or Dickinson (10pts) 3. Consonance: 4. Gothic literature: 5. Cubism: 6. Stream-of-consciousness: 7. Outside narrator: Matching: Remember, two tools are not taken on the journey (7 pts) 8. Cash 9. Darl 10. Dewey Dell 11. Vardaman 12. Jewel 13. Addie 14. Anse A. Saw B. Chalk line C. Auger D. Adze E. Hammer F. Saw set G. Square H. Plane I. Rule

2 Directions: Correctly identify the speaker of the following lines. There are 10 different speakers. (10 pts) 15. "For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it wont stand a whole lot of racking." A. Anse B. Peabody C. Vernon 16. "If it had just been me when Cash fell off of that church and if it had just been me when pa laid sick with that load of wood fell on him, it would not be happening with every bastard in the county coming in to stare at her because if there is a God what the hell is He for." A. Vardaman B. Dewey Dell C. Jewel 17. "If [the Lord] a aimed for a man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would." A. Cora B. Anse C. Vernon 18. "The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightening." A. Darl B. Cash C. Moseley 19. "I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind." A. Peabody B. Addie C. Dewey Dell 20. "The trees look like chickens when they ruffle out into the cool dust on the hot days." A. Darl B. Vardaman C. Jewel 21. "I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth." A. Addie B. Darl C. Dewey Dell 22. "I am bounding toward God and my reward." A. Addie B. Cora C. Whitfield 23. "That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit what they are trying to say at." A. Addie B. Vardaman C. Dewey Dell 24. "It's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse." A. Vernon B. Cash C. Armstid

3 25. As I Lay Dying is filled with pointless acts of heroism. Identify two (2), using a bullet and an explanation for each. (4 pts) 26. How is the point-of-view in "A Rose for Emily" different than in As I Lay Dying? Identify two (2) differences, using a bullet and an explanation for each. (4 pts) 27. Nearly all of the Bundrens are grotesques (wounded physically, mentally, or emotionally). For each character below, list his or her latest injury. (7 pts) Cash Jewel Dewey Dell Anse Vardaman Darl Addie 28. Why is Addie's narrative placed where it is, and what is the effect of hearing Addie's voice at this point in the book? (4 pts) 29. In "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--", "Because I could not stop for Death--", and "I like a look of Agony" Dickinson presents three distinct attitudes toward death. Explain. (3 pts)

4 30. Comment on any three (3) sound devices in the Emily Dickinson poem: (6 pts) THE SOUL selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Unmoved, she notes the chariot s pausing At her low gate; Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling Upon her mat. 5 I ve known her from an ample nation Choose one; 10 Then close the valves of her attention Like stone. Example: Device: "quote from poem" (underline key sounds) 31. In a fully developed paragraph with an idea-based topic sentence, connect the following Emily Dickinson poem to As I Lay Dying. (10 pts) I SHALL know why, when time is over, And I have ceased to wonder why; Christ will explain each separate anguish In the fair schoolroom of the sky. He will tell me what Peter promised, 5 And I, for wonder at his woe, I shall forget the drop of anguish That scalds me now, that scalds me now.

5 32. Explain the following Faulkner quote and connect it to either "Barn Burning," "A Rose for Emily," or As I Lay Dying: (5 pts) "The past is never dead. It's not even past...." 33. In Barn Burning a young boy, Colonel Sartoris Snopes, is torn between family loyalty and loyalty to the law. In one of his monologues, young Snopes compares his divided sense of loyalty to that of [ ] being pulled two ways like between two teams of horses [ ] (Faulkner, 1798). Who, in As I Lay Dying, is likewise conflicted? Why? (5 pts) 34. Label the following at Plain, Sweet, Stuffy, or Mixed. Give three (3) bullets as to why (be specific; use quotes): (4 pts) In September 1959 there gathered at Woods Hole on Cape Cod some thirty-five scientists, scholars, and educators to discuss how education in science might be improved in our primary and secondary schools. The ten-day meeting had been called by the National Academy of Sciences, which through its Education Committee, had been examining for several years the long-range problem of improving the dissmination of scientific knowledge in America. The intention was not to institute a crash program, but rather to examine the fundamental processes involved in imparting to young students a sense of the substance and method of science. --Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education (1960)

6 Out of 10 questions, you answered 8 correctly. 1. You answered correctly. Vernon says, "For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it wont stand a whole lot of racking" (p. 71). 2. You answered correctly. Jewel says, "If it had just been me when Cash fell off of that church and if it had just been me when pa laid sick with that load of wood fell on him, it would not be happening with every bastard in the county coming in to stare at her because if there is a God what the hell is He for" (p. 15). 3. You answered correctly. Anse says, "If [the Lord] a aimed for a man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would" (p. 36). 4. You answered correctly. Darl says, "The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightening" (p. 40). 5. Sorry, you answered incorrectly. Peabody says, "I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind..." (pp ). 6. Sorry, you answered incorrectly. Vardaman says, "The trees look like chickens when they ruffle out into the cool dust on the hot days" (p. 53). 7. You answered correctly. Dewey Dell says, "I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth" (p. 64). 8. You answered correctly. Cora sings, "I am bounding toward God and my reward" (p. 93). 9. You answered correctly. Addie says, "That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit what they are trying to say at" (p. 171). 10. You answered correctly. Cash says, "It's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse..." (p. 234).

November 4. Woolf, concluded. Faulkner (1).

Twentieth-Century Fiction I November 4. Woolf, concluded. Faulkner (1). Andrew Goldstone andrew.goldstone@rutgers.edu Ian Bignall ian.bignall@rutgers.edu http://20fic-f13.blogs.rutgers.edu Spring 2014