English 4 Midterm Exam

English 4 Midterm Exam

Grading scale: A = 85 to 100; B = 70 to 84; C = 50 to 69; D = 25 to 49; F = 24 and below

Instructions:

Identify the author and title for each of the following quotes. Write them in the space provided below each quote. (4 points for each correct answer – 36 points possible)

Choose 2 and write a one-paragraph interpretation of the quote in context to the story’s meanings. Use separate paper or back of this sheet. (32 points for each explanation – 64 points possible)

Remember to write your name on all papers.

Turn in by class time on Thursday 4/12/2018

“Safe, safe, safe,” the heart of the house beats proudly. “Long years–” he sighs. “Again you found me.” “Here,” she murmurs, “sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure–” Stooping, their light lifts the lids upon my eyes. “Safe! safe! safe!” the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry “Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.”

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One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bits and pieces of Grandpa Jarrell’s paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the piece of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra’s uniform that he wore in the Civil War.

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Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.

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Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows—she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house—like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation—dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.

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After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

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So we kept on with it. His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like nothing else in my life up to now…”It’s really something,” I said.

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Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass; time for the tethered dog to bark at the flying ball, time for the boy in right field to smack his sweat-blackened mitt and softly chant, They is, They is, They is.

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A little longer it delayed, howling under the stars that leaped and danced and shone brightly in the cold sky. Then it turned and trotted up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where were the other food providers and fire providers.

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Then she whispered, “That’s a bright direction. There’s a glowing there.”

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