English AA Final
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- Q1
At the end of the twelfth paragraph (“For a moment . . . falling”), Matilda’s mother’s memory of how she didn’t know whether to look at an airplane or a coconut recalls her
unstable relationship with her daughter
inability to make decisions
fanciful imagination
Disoriented perspective
30s - Q2
At the beginning of the passage (“I sat . . . shoulders”), the narrator can most accurately be described as
a dutiful daughter
A spiteful child
a reluctant worker
an enthusiastic questioner
30s - Q3
In the context of the passage as a whole, the narrator is best described as a reader who
uses the stories she reads to help contextualize her own experience
fantasizes about escaping her boring day-to-day existence
is passionate about sharing the stories she reads with others
feels superior to others who have not been exposed to literature
30s - Q4
In the fourth paragraph, Matilda, as the narrator, makes the remark that “A new silence was about to open up between us,” which exposes the origin of a distance between mother and daughter caused by
her mother’s condemnation of Matilda’s father
her mother’s apology for Matilda’s father’s behavior
Matilda’s intention to aggravate her mother
her mother’s back being turned toward the stream
30s - Q5
In the last two paragraphs of the passage, the narrator’s shift to discussing the contrast between her mother and Miss Havisham conveys a
sign of the narrator’s perceptive insight
resolution to her argument with her mother
retreat from adulthood into childhood
failure in the narrator’s search for her father
30s - Q6
The presentation of setting in the first paragraph of the passage establishes an atmosphere of
pastoral beauty
dull repetition
interpersonal tension
dreary idleness
30s - Q7
The hyperbole in the closing sentence (lines 23-24) best conveys
criticism of the beloved's many shortcomings
distress at imagining the beloved's death
attempt to persuade the beloved to be more careful
the speaker's affection toward the beloved's clumsiness
30s - Q8
In lines 12-13 ("Misfit . . . system"), sentence fragments and a stanza break are used to
reinforce those lines' description of the beloved's relationship to space and time
emphasize the casual ease with which the beloved solves emotional problems mirror the glasses and vases broken by the beloved in the first stanza
provide an ironic counterpoint to those lines' discussion of the speaker's faults
suggest the growing discomfort the speaker feels toward the beloved
30s - Q9
The second stanza (lines 5-8) and the fourth stanza (lines 13-16) are similar in that they both
describe qualities of the speaker's beloved that compensate for shortcomings discussed in other stanzas
imply that the speaker finds the beloved's generally negative characteristics useful in some circumstances
suggest that the speaker is envious of the beloved's attributes discussed in those stanzas
a. present feelings toward the beloved that the speaker rejects at the end of the poem
30s - Q10
n context, the speaker's use of the word "traffic" (line 15) evokes both the street scenes described in lines 9-12 and the beloved's
willingness to travel to be with people she loves
skilled exchanges of ideas in conversation
transactional attitude when dealing with others' emotions
slowness to understand the meaning of a joke
30s - Q11
Throughout the poem, the imagery emphasizes a contrast between the beloved's
physical awkwardness and emotional dexterity
moral dubiousness and spiritual sensitivity
worldly ambition and private anxieties
social immaturity and impressive intellect
30s - Q12
In the poem, subtle allusions to idiomatic expressions, such as "bulls in china" (line 3) and "A wrench in clocks" (line 13), mainly serve to
echo language typically found in classical love poetry
disclose a secret between the speaker and his beloved
mimic the beloved's own fractured use of language
highlight the severity of the beloved's shortcomings
30s - Q13
The personification in the fifth stanza (lines 17-20) voices the speaker's attitude to his "dear" as
genuine alarm
feigned respect
blind infatuation
amused adoration
30s