A test (Literature)

Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..N………, 11th grade, date 21st December 2023

Listen to a lecturer introducing his students to The Fellowship of the Ring and complete the notes with one or two words.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the 1 ……………………………….. book in a trilogy.
Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings describe a 2………………………………….. .
In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins has to destroy a 3 …………………………………………….. of great power.
An allegory is a story that carries a 4 ……………………………….message.
The lecturer believes that The Lord of the Rings is best seen as a 5……………………………………………….. .
The lecturer compares Frodo to characters from ancient Greek and 6 ………………………………………. mythology. /12

Read the following text and mark the correct answer for questions 1-6.
Life with Huck’s father
Pap wasn’t in a good humor – so he was his natural self. He said he was down town, and everything was going wrong. His lawyer
said he reckoned he would win his lawsuit and get the money if they ever got started on the trial; but then there were ways to
put it off a long time, and Judge Thatcher knew how to do it. And he said people believed there’d be another trial to get me
away from him and give me to the widow for my guardian, and they guessed it would win this time. This shook me up
considerably, because I didn’t want to go back to the widow’s anymore and be so cramped up and civilized, as they called it.
Then the old man got to cursing, and cursed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cursed them all over again to
make sure he hadn’t skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general curse all round, including a considerable
parcel of people which he didn’t know the names of, and so called them what’s-his-name when he got to them, and went right
along with his cursing.
He said he would like to see the widow get me. He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he
knew of a place six or seven mile off to hide me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn’t find me. That
made me pretty uneasy again, but only for a minute; I reckoned I wouldn’t stay on hand till he got that chance.
The old man made me go to the skiff and fetch the things he had got. There was a fifty-pound sack of corn meal, and a side of
bacon, ammunition, and a four-gallon jug of whisky, and an old book and two newspapers for wadding, besides some tow.
I toted up a load, and went back and set down on the bow of the skiff to rest. I thought it all over, and I reckoned I would walk
off with the gun and some lines, and take to the woods when I run away. I guessed I wouldn’t stay in one place, but just tramp
right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the
widow couldn’t ever find me anymore. I judged I would saw out and leave that night if pap got drunk enough, and I reckoned he
would. I got so full of it I didn’t notice how long I was staying till the old man shouted and asked me whether I was asleep or
drowned.
I got the things all up to the cabin, and then it was about dark. While I was cooking supper the old man took a swig or two and
got sort of warmed up, and went to ripping again. ... Whenever his liquor begun to work he most always went for the
government, this time he says: “Call this a government!”
Adapted from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
1 Huck says his father is usually in a good mood. A True B False
2 Huck’s father thinks the law is on his side. A True B False
3 Huck agrees with his father about returning to the widow. A True B False
4 Huck’s father swears he will stop them taking Huck by….. A cursing them. B hiding him. C killing him. D killing them all.
5 What has Huck’s father NOT brought with him?
A fresh reading material B food C drink D shooting material
6 Huck decides to…………. A leave the area. B go back to town. C call the authorities. D stay with his father.
Directions: Read the text again and answer questions 7-9 using short phrases only.
7 How does Huck intend to provide for himself in the woods?
by hunting …………………………………………………………
8 Why does Huck’s father shout at him while he is fetching things from the skiff?
because he takes …………………………………………………..
9 When Huck’s father drinks alcohol, who does he begin to get angry with?
the……………………………………………………………… /18
Read the following text and mark the correct answer for questions 1-6.
An unexpected visit
“Good morning!” [Bilbo] said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The
Water.” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
“What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it
won’t be good till I move off.”
“Not at all, not at all, my dear sir! Let me see, I don’t think I know your name?”
“Yes, yes, my dear sir – and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don’t remember
that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me! To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna
Took’s son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”
“Gandalf, Gandalf! Good gracious me! ... Not the man that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks! I remember
those! Old Took used to have them on Midsummer’s Eve. Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and
laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!”
You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.
“Dear me!” he went on. “Not the Gandalf who was responsible for so many quiet lads and lasses going off into the Blue for mad
adventures? Anything from climbing trees to visiting elves – or sailing in ships, sailing to other shores! Bless me, life used to be
quite inter – I mean, you used to upset things badly in these parts once upon a time. I beg your pardon, but I had no idea you
were still in business.”
“Where else should I be?” said the wizard. “All the same I am pleased to find you remember something about me. You seem to
remember my fireworks kindly, at any rate, and that is not without hope. Indeed for your old grandfather Took’s sake, and for
the sake of poor Belladonna, I will give you what you asked for.”
“I beg your pardon, I haven’t asked for anything!”
“Yes, you have! Twice now. My pardon. I give it you. In fact I will go so far as to send you on this adventure. Very amusing for
me, very good for you – and profitable too, very likely, if you ever get over it.”
Adapted from The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
1 At the beginning of the passage, Bilbo…………
A wants to travel across the water. B is excited at the idea of an adventure.
C has no interest in an adventure. D would like to travel over the hills.
2 In the fourth paragraph we discover that ………..
A only Gandalf knows who Bilbo is. B only Bilbo knows who Gandalf is.
C Bilbo and Gandalf know one another. D Bilbo and Gandalf don’t know each other’s names.
3 Gandalf used to bring Bilbo’s family …….. A snapdragons. B lilies. C buttons. D fireworks.
4 In the past, Gandalf took other hobbits on adventures. A True B False
5 Bilbo remembers Gandalf causing trouble. A True B False
6 Gandalf is careful to note details in their conversation. A True B False /12

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