English 11b Unit 5 exam 15/15
How are the first-person speakers in "A Dream" and "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
similar? - correct answer-In both poems, the first-person speakers explicitly express their
emotions.
In The Crucible, Act 4, Part 5, Elizabeth Proctor faces the moral dilemma of whether or not
to convince John to confess and save himself.
How did Elizabeth's behavior earlier in the play contribute to her moral dilemma? - correct
answer-Elizabeth previously spoke out, thinking it would save John, but it condemned him.
As a result, she is fearful of speaking up again
Read the lines from "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;When I,
sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the
lecture-room,How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick,Till rising and gliding out, I
wander'd off by myself...
Then, read the lines from "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim."
Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;Who are you
elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the
eyes?Who are you my dear comrade?
Both poems shift from long lines to shorter lines in a similar way. How is the effect of this
shift different in each poem? - correct answer-The shift in "When I Heard the Learn'd
Astronomer" changes the tone of the poem from one of frustration to one of relief. In
contrast, the sad tone is maintained in "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim"
despite the shift.
Read the passage from "A Dream."
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed— But a waking dream of life and
light Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
Why does the poem use the paradox of the speaker being broken-hearted after a "dream of
life and light"? - correct answer-The paradox emphasizes how sad the speaker is if a
pleasant dream only hurts him more.
Read the passage from "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim."
Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white
ivory;Young man I think I know you—I think this face is the face of the Christ himself,Dead
and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.
What is the effect of the poem's allusion to Christ? - correct answer-The allusion creates a
feeling of connection between readers and the dead man by referencing a symbol of
innocence and sacrifice.
Read the passage from a critic's review of a film.
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