English 3123 Nuggets quiz

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1) Avoiding plot summary (N1), describe briefly (two sentences max.) any situation or event you thought funny or disturbing in a movie or serial TV show you've seen recently (a TV series, that is, with actors, not a talk show, news show, "reality show," etc.).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2) Introduce the following quotation from halfway through the paragraph at the top of p. 299 in the first handout (the article on work by Bertrand Russell): "They have also the most solid reasons for thinking well of themselves." 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3) Underline or put in quote marks the following titles:

     a) The Simpsons [TV show]
     b) I Could Not Stop for Death, [brief poem]
     c) Trifles [short play]
     d) Ms. Magazine
     e) Macbeth [by Shakespeare]
     f) Are There Traditional Families Still? [six-page essay]
     g) Chipper Jones Goes Yard [an article], from USA Today
     h) The Necklace [short story]
     i) The Scarlet Letter [novel]
     j) Gone With the Wind [the movie]
 

Rewrite #'s 4-6, punctuating as needed (do not remove any of the quotation marks):
4) The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying "shoot" "darn" "Jiminey" or "Jumping Jehoshaphat"
 
 
 
 
 

5) Little Ryan's favorite question is "Why"
 
 
 
 
 

6) Did George Bush really say "no freakin' way"
 
 
 
 

7) Introduce and quote a passage from p. 300 in Russell's article on work (first readings handout), using an ellipsis to indicate that you have left out words from within a single sentence.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

8) Introduce and quote another passage from p. 300 in Russell's article on work, using an ellipsis to indicate that you have left out an entire sentence or more.