Stephen Crane and “A Mystery of Heroism”

1、stephen crane and “a mystery of heroism”testpart i stephen crane biographical information1. stephen crane was a writer during this literary movementa. puritanismb. rationalismc. realismd. modernism2. although his family moved around a great deal, crane grew up primarily ina. illinoisb. new jerseyc.

2、new hampshired. virginia3. cranes family was unusual (to us) in what aspect?a. all of the children when to college, even the girlsb. he was the only boy of 5 childrenc. there were 14 children including craned. all of the children were adopted4. since cranes family stopped moving around once his fath

3、er died, we can infera. they moved because the father had diedb. they moved due to the fathers workc. they moved because the mother wanted tod. we can infer nothing from this statement 5. cranes first job was asa. a printer at the newspaperb. a helper at his fathers ministryc. a newspaper reporterd.

4、 a war correspondent6. crane may have developed this love of history froma. his father, a ministerb. his mother, a homemakerc. his grandfather, a ministerd. his teacher, who served in the civil war7. cranes first novel, maggie; a girl of the streets addressed the issue ofa. prostitutionb. warc. pove

5、rtyd. abortion8. cranes second novel, the red badge of courage, realistically and accurately depicteda. prostitutionb. warc. povertyd. abortion9. this experience of cranes was an inspiration for a short storya. serving in the warb. becoming illc. marrying and moving to englandd. being in a shipwreck

6、10. in this job, crane traveled around the worlda. teacherb. novelistc. poetyd. war correspondent11. cranes death at the age of 28 was due to a. cancerb. tuberculosisc. pneumoniad. bronchitispart ii “a mystery of heroism”12. the story is set during the a. revolutionary warb. civil warc. spanish-amer

7、ican ward. war of the alamo13. collins is this type of soldiera. unionb. confederatec. u.s. marshalld. sheriff14. what happened to the regiments bugler?a. he left the ranks and went awolb. he gave himself up to their opponentsc. he was killed by a shelld. he went with collins for water15. what had h

8、appened in the meadow where the soldiers were fighting?a. a whole neighborhood of homes had been destroyedb. a herd of cattle had been killedc. a house, its wellhouse and the barn had been destroyedd. a family had been killed16. collins decides to go to the well mostly becausea. the men will die soo

9、n without waterb. he wants to help the dying officerc. the captain orders him to god. his comrades have dared him to go17. when collins goes for the water, the colonel and captain are shocked becausea. they had planned to send a different soldierb. collins shows so much courage and braveryc. it seem

10、s like such a foolhardy thing to dod. they know that his comrades will help him18. when one of the regiment states “i never thought fred collins had the blood i him for that kind of business,” we can interpret that as meaninga. he thinks collins is being foolishb. he thinks collins is being bravec.

11、he wishes he was collinsd. we cannot interpret anything from that statement19. after collins gets permission to get water, hea. wishes he were home b. wishes he had not asked to get waterc. realizes the regiment is counting on himd. runs in the other direction20. collins agrees to the colonels reque

12、st that hea. get the water quicklyb. fill some of the canteens of the regimentc. bring back a bucket of waterd. continue to go back and forth with the bucket until they were all satisfied21. the best summary of collins definition of a hero is a. that men should never be afraid so they can all be her

13、oesb. that all men are heroesc. no man is a herod. that men should feel afraid of certain things, and men who did not feel this were heroes22. why was collins disappointed to consider himself a hero?a. he was then on the same level of all of his heroesb. he didnt like heroesc. he was then like his h

14、eroes, but he had done bad thingsd. he knew he was a hero but didnt want people to know23. as collins faced the meadow, he found it strange thata. he only had to run a short distanceb. the entire company fell silentc. he had put himself in this situationd. he could barely move for fear24. once colli

15、ns is in the meadow, he begins toa. realize that there is no water in the wellb. feel that he can easily accomplish his taskc. wonder why he agreed to get the waterd. swell with courage and determination25. while at the well, collins is frustrated witha. the yelling of his regiment to hurryb. smoke

16、from the gunfire blocking his visionc. the bodies that he trips over to get to the waterd. the slowness of the canteens in filling up 26. you can infer that collins dashed back to the dying officers side because a. he desperately wanted to save the officerb. he could not deny a dying mans requestc.

17、the other men pleaded with him to go backd. he was too afraid to run across the meadow27. when collins first returned, the other men most likely thought he wasa. heroicb. boastfulc. insaned. arrogant28. what did the men discover when collins got back from the well?a. the bucket was emptyb. the capta

18、in was deadc. collins was woundedd. no one was thirstypart iii each quotation is an example of imagery. what sense does it appeal to?a. touchb. sightc. soundd. smell29. “from beyond a curtain of green woods there came the sound of some stupendous scuffle as if two animals of the size of islands were

19、 fighting.”31. “in the air was an odor as from a conflagration.”32. “an officer screamed out an order so violently that his voice broke and ended the sentence in a falsetto shriek.”33. “the officers face was grimy and perspiring and his uniform was tousled as if he had been in direct grapple with an

20、 enemy.”34. “collins suddenly felt that two demon fingers were pressed into his ears.”35. “as he ran the canteens knocked together with a rhythmical tinkling.”part iv vocabulary match the vocabulary word to the sentence in which it appears in the story.a. incessantb. eloquencec. sullenlyd. retractione. futileab. genial36. but he was sure that he wished to make a _ even if he could do so without shame.37. the dark uniforms of the men were so coated with dust from the _ wrestling of the two armies that the regiment almost seemed a part of the clay bank which shielded them from the shel