Sample HS English Quiz Score:

1.Which is the correct word to fill in the blank?:

____ apartment is very messy.
A They're

B There

C Their

2.Who is the author of the novel Brave New World?

A C.S Lewis

B Aldous Huxley

C Charlotte Bronte

3.Where is the following quote from?:

"From the very beginning from the first moment, I may almost say of my
acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your
arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such
as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have
built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you
were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
A Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

B JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

C Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

4.Which sentence most accurately uses the word "abhorrent"?

A The fact that anyone could say something so disrespectful was abhorrent to her.

B The abhorrent gifts of roses and chocolates brightened her day and made her smile whenever she
looked at them.

C In history we are learning about the abhorrents.

5.True or false - Shakespeare's Hamlet begins with the following lines:

"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
A True

B False

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6.Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
A If you want dessert, you have to eat dinner.

B Eat your dinner, if you don't you won't get dessert.

C However; if you eat your dinner you'll also get dessert.

7.Why is the following sentence not grammatically correct?:

You have to do your chores, before you go to the game.

8.Which poetry form is a fourteen-line poem which is usually written in two parts: 12 lines
that rhymes abab cdcd efef followed by 2 lines that rhyme gg?

9.Whose perspective is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald told in?

A Jay Gatsby

B Daisy Buchanan

C Nick Carraway

10.What is the correct term for a poem's "paragraphs"?

A Stanzas

B Lines

C They're just called paragraphs

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