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11. 1 - 100 King was the leader of this group.

12. 1 - 100 What is the SCLC?

13. The C in Project-C stood for this.

14. 1 - 100 What is confrontation?

15. The planning committee planned to act during this busy shopping season.

16. 1 - 100 What is Easter?

17. This famous civil rights activist and Presidential cabinet member called Project C “ill-timed.”

18. 1 - 100 Who is Robert F. Kennedy?

19. King was arrested on this Catholic holy day.

20. 1 - 100 What is Good Friday?

21. 1 - 100 In one of his essays, Emerson cites famous thinkers like Jesus and Martin Luther, thereby employing this Greek rhetorical device.

22. 1 - 100 What is ethos?

23. When Whitman repeats the phrase “When I” to begin successive clauses, he is employing this literary device.

24. 1 - 100 What is anaphora?

25. When Thoreau describes the standing army as a “standing arm” of the government, he is employing this literary device.

26. 1 - 100 What is metaphor?

27. Transcendentalism was popular during this century.

28. 1 - 100 What is the 19 th century (or the 1800s)?

29. Transcendentalism is an American outgrowth of this European movement that you learned about last year.

30. 1 - 100 What is Romanticism?

31. 1 - 100 Henry David Thoreau built his famous cabin in this Massachusetts town.

32. 1 - 100 What is Concord?

33. Walt Whitman’s life was spent composing one series of poems, with this title.

34. 1 - 100 What is Leaves of Grass?

35. Ralph Waldo Emerson celebrated the common man with essays like this one, one of his most famous works.

36. 1 - 100 What is “Self- Reliance”?

37. This Whitman poem describes an epiphany a young man has after hearing a college lecture.

38. 1 - 100 What is “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer?

39. Henry David Thoreau refused a diploma from this university.

40. 1 - 100 What is Harvard?

41. 1 - 100 When King asks, “Why direct action? Why sit-ins?” he is employing this rhetorical device (besides anaphora).

42. 1 - 100 What is rhetorical question?

43. When King utilizes logic to explain that it was “illegal” to aid and comfort Jews in Hitler’s Germany, he is employing this rhetorical device.

44. 1 - 100 What is logos?

45. When King talks about the sadness he felt when he couldn’t take his daughter to Funtown, he is employing this rhetorical device.

46. 1 - 100 What is pathos?

47. When King references Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address by using the phrase “Five score,” he is employing this rhetorical device.

48. 1 - 100 What is allusion?

49. When King mentions “a promissory note,” “a bad check,” and “the bank of justice,” he is establishing this, a recurrent metaphor.

50. 1 - 100 What is a motif?

51. 1 - 100 My mom once told me I had a “unique” face – a nice way of saying I was ugly.

52. 1 - 100 What is a euphemism?

53. Jade complained that driver’s ed was this, as it only sought to teach her lessons.

54. 1 - 100 What is didactic?

55. Now that you are teenagers, you have this type of independence, more so than when you were younger.

56. 1 - 100 What is autonomy?

57. This word for “clear, easily understood” actually comes from the Spanish word for “lights.”

58. 1 - 100 What is lucid?

59. When Cassie brought me the apple, I accused her of being this – a suck-up – but I ate the apple anyways.

60. 1 - 100 What is a sycophant?

61. 1 - 100 Pam Cruise and Jim Braswell, (A)neither of (B)whom takes the bus to work, (C)is secretly plotting (D)to take over the world. (E)No error.

62. 1 - 100 C. is

63. Everyone (A)on the softball team (B)who came up to bat squinted (C)at the pitcher in order to keep the sun’s glaring rays out of (D)their eyes. (E)No error.

64. 1 - 100 D. their

65. The director (A)told the star of the production that (B)he was making far too much money (C)to tolerate such nasty (D)treatment from the producer. (E)No error.

66. 1 - 100 B. he

67. The author is reliably ______________; every book he writes is more _______________ than the one before. A. dull…inspired B. exceptional…hackneyed C. artistic…informed D. imaginative…creative E. original…lackluster

68. 1 - 100 D. imaginative… creative

69. The scientific community was ____________ when a living specimen of the coelacanth, which ichthyologists had feared was ____________, was discovered by deep- sea fishermen. a. perplexed…common b. overjoyed…dangerous c. unconcerned…exterminated d. astounded…extinct e. dismayed…alive

70. 1 - 100 d. astounded…extinct

72. When Thoreau said “That government is best which governs least,” he called government at best this, suggesting is was merely a means to an end.

73. What is an expedient?