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1. “… during the course of that
day, the Eve of Christmas, there were wafted towards us from the trenches
opposite sounds of singing & merry-making, & occasionally the
guttural tones of a German were to be heard shouting …, 'A happy
Christmas to you Englishmen!' Only too glad to show that the sentiments
were reciprocated, back would go the response from a thick-set Clydesider,
'Same to you, Fritz, but dinna o'er eat yourself wi' they sausages!'
Q1: Which date (day, month, year) does this quotation refer to ?
(1
point)
2.
" Thursday June 21, 1900. A heavy bombardment. Having only the
abominable 9-pounder field gun & 6-pounder available, can do little to
annoy or silence guns in Native City. The black powder smoke gives away
the 9-pounder, & its range is poor. The 6-pounder is useful in
scattering parties of Chinese to the westward. The Wool Mills were set on
fire by shell, & burnt out. This deprived us of an excellent signal
station, as only the walls of the tower were left, all stairs & inside
destroyed. One Chinese, identified by Belgians from Paoting Fu, shot.
Q2: Which conflict, & which 1963 film did it give rise to ?
(2 points - 1 for each part)
3. “Chapter 18
Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I
could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the
vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my
repugnance to the task which was enjoined me. I found that I could not
compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study
and laborious disquisition. I had heard of some discoveries having been
made by an English philosopher, the knowledge of which was material to my
success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit
England for this purpose; but I clung to every pretence of delay, and
shrunk from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate
necessity began to appear less absolute to me. A change indeed had taken
place in me: my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much
restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy
promise, rose proportionably…”
Q3: Identify the famous novel (1 point)
4. “Chapter
1
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession
of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may
be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in
the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the
rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”
Q4: Identify the famous novel (1 point)
5. “February 25th. Lay long in bed, talking
with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash
my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch! in our little room
at my Lord Sandwich’s; for which I ought for ever to love and admire
her, and do: and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God
should reduce us to it. At my goldsmith’s did observe the King’s new
medall, where in little there is Mrs Stewart’s face as well done as ever
I saw any thing in my whole life, I think: and a pretty thing it is, that
he should choose her face to represent Brittannia by.”
Q5: Identify the diarist (1 point)
6. “As he was passing by the house
where Jeff Thatcher lived, he saw a new girl in the garden, a lovely
little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails,
white summer frock & embroidered pantalettes. The fresh-crowned hero
fell without firing a shot. A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his
heart and left not even a memory of herself behind. He had thought he
loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; &
behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality. He had been months
winning her; she had confessed hardly a week ago; he had been the happiest
& the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, & here in
one instant of time she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger
whose visit is done. He worshipped this new angel with furtive eye,
till he saw she had discovered him; then he pretended he did not know she
was present, and began to "show off" in all sorts of absurd
boyish ways, in order to win her admiration. He kept up this grotesque
foolishness for some time; but by-and-by, while he was in the midst of
some dangerous gymnastic performances, he glanced aside & saw the
little girl was wending her way toward the house.”
Q6:
Identify the novel & the author’s real name (2 points, 1 per
part)
7. “No one would have believed in the last years of the
nineteenth century this world was being watched keenly & closely by
intelligences greater than man's & yet as mortal as his own; that as
men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised
& studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might
scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm & multiply in a drop of
water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about
their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over
matter.”
Q7:
Identify the famous novel (1 point)
8.
"To
these dark steps, a little further on;
For
yonder bank hath choice of Sun or shade,
There
I am wont to sit, when any chance
Relieves
me from my task of servile toyl,
Daily
in the common Prison else enjoyn'd me,
Where
I a Prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw
The
air imprison'd also, close and damp,
Unwholsom
draught: but here I feel amends,
The
breath of Heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet,
With
day-spring born; here leave me to respire.
This day a solemn Feast the people hold
To Dagon thir Sea-Idol, and forbid Laborious works….”
Q8:
Identify the poem and its author (2 points, 1 for each part)
9. “I told Mr Bromhead that they
would be all round us in very short time he at once told the Company to
take up there post the Enmey making a right wheel, they attaced us in shap
of a bullocks horns and in a few minuts was all round us I found as they
got close to the Largur, I was out of the fighting, so I slid down the
thatch roof, droping into the Largur, fixting my bainiet as I run across
the largur taking up my possition on a open space which we had not time to
compleat. The deadly work now commenced.”
Q9:
Identify the incident from a poor handwritten account (1 point)
10. “Then said Daniel unto them:
"Put these two aside one far from another, and I will examine
them." So when they were put asunder … he called one of them, and
said … "Now then, if thou hast seen her, tell me, Under what tree
sawest thou them companying together?" Who answered: "Under a
mastic tree." And Daniel said: "Very well; thou hast lied
against thine own head; for even now the angel of God hath received the
sentence of God to cut thee in two."
So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the
other, and said unto him: "… Under what tree
sawest didst thou take them companying together?" Who answered:
"Under an holm tree." Then said Daniel unto him: "Well;
thou hast also lied against thine own head: for the angel of God waiteth
with the sword to cut thee in two, that He may destroy you." With
that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and praised God, who
saveth them that trust in Him.”
Q10:
Identify the scripture & where it may be found (2
points)
11. “Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in
Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now
we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived & so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a
great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that
field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that
the nation might live. It is altogether fitting & proper we should do
this. But, in a larger sense,
we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget
what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Q11:
By what name is this speech known ?
(1 point)
12. "All
our boats then proceeded towards the Carpathia. She had stopped right over
where our ship had gone down. She had got our wireless message for
assistance. When we got alongside we were got aboard as soon as possible.
We found some survivors had already been picked up. Everything was in
readiness for us dry clothes, blankets, beds, hot coffee, etc; everything
to comfort us. The last of the survivors were got aboard about 8.30 a.m.
The dead bodies that were in some of the boats were taken aboard &
after identification were given a proper burial. They were two male
passengers, one fireman, & one able seaman. We steamed about in the
vicinity for a few hours in the hope of finding some more survivors, but
did not find any. During that time wives were inquiring for husbands,
sisters for brothers, & children for their parents, but many a sad
face told the result."
Q12:
Which tragedy is referred to ? (1
point)
13. "I die! I die! I live! I live!
I die! I die! I live! I live!
This is the hairy man
Who fetched the Sun
And caused it to shine again
One upward step! Another upward step!
An upward step, another
the Sun shines!”
Q13:
Of what is the foregoing an English translation ? (2
points)
14. “Today, November 22nd, 1963,
I was with Ronald Fischer, and we were on the corner at Elm and Houston,
and I happened to look up there at the building, the Texas School Book
Depository Building, and I saw a man at the window on the fifth floor, the
window was wide open all the way; there was a stack of boxes around him, I
could see. Bob remarked that he must be hiding from somebody. I noticed
that he had on a sport shirt, it was light colored, it was yellow or
white, something to that effect, and his hair was rather short; I thought
he might be something around twenty-six, as near as I could tell.”
Q14 : The
foregoing statement was read at which ‘inquiry’ ? (1
point)
15.
"There
was no sign of life, no pulse. _______
was dead. But when Felix shook the body, its left eyelid trembled and
its face began to twitch. _______
lived! Felix was so terrified
he could not move. But
_______ , his eyes blazing, leapt, bellowing, to his feet and seized the
Prince by the shoulder. He
foamed at the mouth and repeating: 'Felix... Felix... Felix...' over and
over again... Felix tore himself away.. [and] ran out of the room shouting
... that _______ was still alive. _______
, on all fours, crawled up the stairs after him, still repeating his name
... Purishkevich drawing his
revolver, ran down the stairs ... But
_______ , instead of continuing up the stairs, burst through the side door
into the courtyard. Purishkevich
ran up and kicked him as hard as he could with his boot in the temple. He
fell into the snow, tried to rise, but could only grind his teeth."
Q15
: References to which individual have been deleted ? (1
point)
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