Lesson 1 Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. There may be more than one technically correct
wer, but one will be more closely related to the italicized vocabulary word than the others.

1. Joe was alienated from the Shakespeare
convention when he admitted that he

A. likes mythology
B. had been to Verona, Italy
C. was a playwright
D. hates reading plays
E. loves Hamlet

5. If two swordsmen continue to parry each
other's advances, then the fencing competition
may be considered

A. exciting
B. frightening
C. a draw
D. poorly matched
E. over

2. A ruffian is someone who
A. follows the law
B. forgets to study
C. does not sleep
D. breaks the law
E. enforces the law

6. Jack's licentious behavior eventually led to his

A. decision to go back to school
B. arrest
C. recognition as a model student
D. retirement
E. release from prison

Sonnet 57 being your comprehension your servant is the a. speaker b. person addressed in the poem c. husband of the speakers beloved d. beloveds serving woman

What does brutus say that anticipates the question of why the crowd should listen to mark antony? o a. not that i lov'd caesar less, but that i lov'd rome more. o b. and, for my sake, stay here with antony. do grace to caesar's corpse, and grace his speech. o c. i thrice presented him a kingly crown, / which he did thrice refuse. was this ambition? od. i come to bury caesar, not to praise him.

Read the following scene from trifles. mrs. peters. she was piecing a quilt. (she brings the large sewing basket, and they look at the bright pieces.) mrs. hale. it’s log cabin pattern. pretty, isn’t it? i wonder if she was goin’ to quilt or just knot it? (footsteps have been heard coming down the stairs. the sheriff enters, followed by hale and the county attorney.) sheriff. they wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it. (the men laugh, the women look abashed.) county attorney (rubbing his hands over the stove). frank’s fire didn’t do much up there, did it? well, let’s go out to the barn and get that cleared up. (the men go outside.) how would a film version most likely emphasize the men’s emotions during this scene? by emphasizing the variety of props used by showing the men’s facial expressions by highlighting the characters’ costumes by focusing on the actions of the women