/** * 1/19/05 (A. Gonzalez) Chapter No., Book No. and Title Added * 6/20/05 Modified: (J. Lucca) Removed frames from quizzes. * 7/7/05 Modified: (J. Lucca) * Can turn off HISTOGRAM and randomize_questions on any ch##.htm page * by setting them here to false. Both default to true in quiz.js. * 12/1/05 Modified: (J. Lucca) * Can turn off histogram SECTIONS and/or TYPES on any ch##.htm page * by setting them here to false. Both default to true in quiz.js. */ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // HISTOGRAM AND RANDOMIZE OPTIONAL SETTINGS // Can turn off per quiz or leave defaults (as set in quiz.js) as true. // randomize_questions=true; HISTOGRAM=true; SECTIONS=true; TYPES=true; ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// HISTOGRAM = false SECTIONS = false TYPES = false /** * Required settings for all Gradebooks: * chapter_no, book_no, book_title * * Required when HISTOGRAM = true: * At least a section_title[] with its matching q#section for each question * or a type_title[] with its matching q#type for each question. * Without at least one of these you won't get any histograms. */ // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // BEGIN PASTE - Paste any existing quiz javascript questions // between this comment and one just like it near bottom of page // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // General settings var chapter_no = "B_Poe"; var book_no = 92993; var book_title = "Norton Anthology of American Literature 7E, Full and Shorter Edition"; quiz_name = "Poe Reading Comprehension Quiz"; var confirm = "confirm.htm"; number_answers = new Array(4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4) var number_questions = number_answers.length; // Sections section_title = new Array() section_title[1] = "" section_title[2] = "" section_title[3] = "" section_title[4] = "" // Tyes type_title = new Array() type_title[1] = "" type_title[2] = "" type_title[3] = "" q1 = "The principle thing the narrator notices when he first sees the House of Usher is:"; q1answer = "a"; q1review = "See page 1554 (full ed.): “Its principle feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves. Yet all of this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation.”"; q1type = ""; q1section = ""; q1a = "Its excessive antiquity."; q1b = "Its gargantuan size."; q1c = "Its precariousness—it looked like it could collapse at any minute."; q1d = "Its somber quietness."; q2 = "What does Usher tell the narrator is wrong with his sister Madeline?"; q2answer = "a"; q2review = "See page 1557 (full ed.): “The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians. A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the usual diagnosis.”"; q2type = ""; q2section = ""; q2a = "She suffers from occasional paralysis."; q2b = "She has narcolepsy, an illness in which she has no control over when and how often she falls asleep."; q2c = "She has a wasting heart condition in which she cannot abide any shocks to her system."; q2d = "She has a more severe version of the nervous disease that afflicts Roderick."; q3 = "For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Usher’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth” (1540, full ed.). What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow?"; q3answer = "d"; q3review = "See page 1561 (full ed.): “At the request of Usher, I personally aided him in the arrangements for the temporary entombment. The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest.”"; q3type = ""; q3section = ""; q3a = "The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs bseneath the mansion."; q3b = "The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion."; q3c = "Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel."; q3d = "The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion."; q4 = "Usher can only stand certain types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of “impromptus” that Usher plays for him on which instrument?"; q4answer = "c"; q4review = "See page 1558 (full ed.): “I have just spoken of that morbid condition of the auditory nerve which rendered all music intolerable to the sufferer, with the exception of certain effects of stringed instruments. It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances.”"; q4type = ""; q4section = ""; q4a = "The piano."; q4b = "The violin."; q4c = "The guitar."; q4d = "The harp."; q5 = "What evidence does Usher provide that the stones of his House are alive with an evil consciousness?"; q5answer = "a"; q5review = "See page 1560 (full ed.): “Its evidence—the evidence of the sentience—was to be seen, he said, (and I here started as he spoke,) in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls. The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him—what he was.”"; q5type = ""; q5section = ""; q5a = "He could feel them watching him."; q5b = "The fungus that grew on the stones would sometimes glow."; q5c = "He could hear voices when he walked in the east wing."; q5d = "Rocks would sometimes fall from the walls, as if to attack him."; q6 = "To calm Roderick on the last night he spends in the house, the narrator reads a story about:"; q6answer = "b"; q6review = "See page 1563 (full ed.): “The antique volume which I had taken up was the “Mad Trist” of Sir Launcelot Canning... I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain for peaceable admission into the dwelling of a hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force.”"; q6type = ""; q6section = ""; q6a = "A haunted palace."; q6b = "Ethelred and the dragon."; q6c = "Rosicrucian philosophy."; q6d = "African satyrs and “oegipans” (goat-men)."; q7 = "Whom does Roderick suspect is on the other side of the chamber door as the narrator comes to the climax of Ethelred’ s story?"; q7answer = "b"; q7review = "See page 1565 (full ed.): “‘Have I not heard her footsteps on the stair? Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? Madman!’ —here he sprung violently to his feet, and shrieked out his syllables, as if in the effort he were giving up his soul—‘Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door!’ ”"; q7type = ""; q7section = ""; q7a = "The raven."; q7b = "Madeline."; q7c = "A dragon disguised as a hermit."; q7d = "Ethelred."; q8 = "After Roderick and Madeline die, the narrator “fled aghast.” As he is leaving the mansion, he turns and sees:"; q8answer = "c"; q8review = "See page 1565 (full ed.): “Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued—for the vast house and its shadows were alone behind me. The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely-discernible fissure, of which I have before spoken, as extending from the roof of the building, in a zig-zag direction, to the base.”"; q8type = ""; q8section = ""; q8a = "Ethelred’s dragon circling overhead, breathing fire."; q8b = "A peaceful house now that the gloomy shadows have lifted: all is well."; q8c = "A red light gleaming as the house sinks into the tarn."; q8d = "The ghost of Madeline hovering over the lake.";