Question: Great Britain’s acquisition of colonies around the world.

Answer: 1. During the Victorian Age, it was said that “the sun never sets on the British Empire.” This

saying most likely referred to

Question: False

Answer: 2. Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of the Species caused many in Victorian society to return

to the idea that truth would be found by exploring personal experience.

Question: True

Answer: 3. During the Victorian era, the number of working class citizens in Great Britain increased.

Question: 1. Read this line from Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses.”

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

Which mood word best describes this line?

Answer: Determined

Question: Has informed

Answer: Select the best way to write the underlined verb(s) in the sentence.

2. The news anchor inform us that storms occur everywhere.

Question: False

Answer: 1. True or false: In a dramatic monologue, the speaker describes deep feelings about an

experience, and then the person he or she is addressing responds in the same way.

Question: 2. Why is the speaker in a dramatic monologue generally considered to be unreliable?

Answer: The words of the speaker cannot be proven.

Question: Has fourteen lines and uses iambic pentameter.

Answer: 3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “Sonnet 43” is characterized as a sonnet because it

Question: Are

Answer: Choose the form of the verb in parentheses that agrees with the underlined subject(s).

4. Either Sid or his sisters (is, are) working in the garage.

Question: Give

Answer: For questions 5-7, choose the verb that agrees with the subject of the sentence.

5. Few of the cracked hockey masks ______ the players much protection.