ICA 9 A.

There is no mention of an arid

environment
Encircle the letter that corresponds to your B. The Gobi Desert
answer. C. Desert
D. Sahara Desert

I. To a Waterfowl
7. Which body of water is not
1. What is the waterfowl doing in this mentioned in this poem?
poem? A. River
A. Flying B. Lake
B. Squawking C. Ocean
C. Drinking water D. Pond
D. Eating sunflower seeds
8. What words does the speaker use
2. What will end once the waterfowl to describe the atmosphere?
stops flying? A. Cold and hot
A. The world B. Cold and thin
B. The movie C. Hot and cold
C. Nothing D. Icy hot
D. Toil
9. What is “falling” in the first stanza?
3. Who or what “swallows” the A. Snow
waterfowl? B. Sleet
A. A bigger bird C. Dew
B. An alligator D. Rainy weather
C. The Abyss of Heaven
D. A Great White Shark 10. What time of day is it when the
poem begins?
4. What will the waterfowl “soon […] A. Morning
find”? B. Night
A. Nothing C. Lunchtime
B. A mate D. Dusk
C. A summer home
D. A treat
II. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
5. What word is used to describe the
waterfowl’s motion through the 1. Which is the name of one of the
sky? guests Dr. Heidegger invites to his
A. Cruising place?
B. Soars A. Colonel Sanders
C. Boats B. Colonel Petticamp
D. Floats C. Colonel Killigrew
D. Colonel Mushnik
6. What arid environment is
mentioned in this poem? 2. For what did Dr. Heidegger’s three
male guests used to compete?
 A. The title of World
Featherweight Champion
B. The attention of the Widow
Wycherly
C. The bragging rights of best
long-distance swimmer
3. What is one of the objects in Dr.
Heidegger’s study?
A. A skeleton in a closet
B. A bee in a bonnet
C. A can of worms
D. A bottle of beer
4. What does Dr. Heidegger’s mirror
supposedly feature?
A. A crack that shows each
observer his own lifeline
B. The faces of all Dr. Heidegger’s
dead patients
C. A reflection of the observer’s
soul rather than his physical
form
D. The uncanny ability to make
the observer look exactly like
Clive Owen
5. What does Dr. Heidegger drop into
the vase full of bubbling water?
A. A sugar cube
B. A piece of cheese
C. A dying rose
D. The first guest who dares to tell
him he’s nuts
6. What does Dr. Heidegger give to
each of his guests?
A. An empty champagne
B. A vial filled with a purple
potion
C. A mug that reads “World’s Best
Guinea Pig”
D. A stein full of beer
7. From where does Dr. Heidegger
claim the water in the vase comes?
A. The Dead Sea
B. The Fountain of Youth
C. The Holy Grail
D. The Arctic Ocean
8. After drinking the water, what do
the three male guests do?
A. Strip down to their underwear
B. Make a mad dash for the
bathroom
C. Start swinging from the
chandelier
D. Begin wrestling each other
9. What happens to the vase?
A. It explodes.
B. It is knocked over, spilling its
contents.
C. The water dissolves it from the
inside out.
D. Nothing.
10. How does Dr. Heidegger react to
the loss of the elixir
A. He takes it pretty well.
B. He furiously orders all of his
guests to leave his house
immediately.
C. He throws himself to the
ground and attempts to lick the
water up off the floor.
D. He is upset.
11. Over the central bookcase was a
bronze bust of
A. Churchill
B. Washington
C. Hippocrates
D. Zeus
12. In the obscurest corner of the
room stood
A. Closet
B. Bust
C. Bookcase
D. Door
13. What was in the closet
 A. Hat 20. What hung between the
B. Coat bookcases?
C. Boots A. Electrocardiogram
D. Skeleton B. Stethoscope
C. Painting
14. The friends are described as D. Mirror
A. Sweet
B. Vacuous 21. What is the view of human nature
C. Virtuous portrayed?
D. Venerable A. Positive
B. Hopeful
15. Who said, “I am desirous of your C. Pessimistic
assistance in one of those little D. Observant
experiments with which I amuse
myself here in my study.”? 22. Whether or not the eerie elements
A. Dr. Heidegger are ____ is up for debate.
B. Mr. Medbourne A. Good
C. Widow B. Supernatural
D. Mr. Gascoigne C. Chemical
D. Funny
16. What anticipates what will happen
to the guests? 23. The four elderly people believe
A. Violet they become
B. Daisy A. Smart
C. Peanut B. Younger
D. Rose C. Older
D. Wealthier
17. What withers?
A. Rose 24. The title character makes use of
B. Oak tree A. Religion
C. Dandelion B. Medicine
D. Daisy C. Witchcraft
D. Wishful thinking
18. What was the name of the doctor’s
fiancé? 25. One interpretation is that age is a
A. Charlotte A. Forced limitation
B. Mary B. State of mind
C. Silvia C. Time of joy
D. Lauren D. Time of sickness

19. What was the greatest curiosity of

the study? III. Gettysburg Address
A. Bronze bust
B. Black folio 1. Which of the following means
C. Red dress “before war”?
D. Blue daisy A. Antebellum
B. Antidisestablishmentarianism
 C. Consecrated
D. Emancipation
2. What feature typically defines a
“confederacy”?
A. A society ruled by wealthy
businessmen
B. Strong central authority
C. Government run by farmers
D. A loosely allied league of states
3. Which two words from the
Gettysburg Address mean “holy”?
A. Conceived and endure
B. Consecrate and hallow
C. Fourscore and seven
D. Gettysburg and Address
4. What word was used to describe
the breakaway of Southern states
that led to the Civil War?
A. Secession
B. Recession
C. Aggression
D. Passion
5. What’s another word that means
“20”?
A. Dozen
B. Fortnight
C. Score
D. Yahtzee
6. What year was Lincoln referencing
when he said “fourscore and seven
years ago”?
A. 1910
B. 1776
C. 1863
D. 1954
7. According to the text, what “shall
not perish from the earth”?
A. A government of the people, by
the people, for the people
B. Democracy
C. Freedom
D. Slavery
8. How many is a “score”?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 20
D. No one actually knows.
9. What famous Lincoln line does not
appear in the Gettysburg Address?
A. Fourscore and seven years ago
B. A house divided against itself
cannot stand.
C. It is for us the living […].
D. That government of the people,
by the people, for the people
10. Why was President Lincoln giving
a speech at Gettysburg in the first
place?
A. He was campaigning for
another presidential election.
B. Gettysburg won a contest so he
had to go
C. Lincoln and Douglas were
reuniting for a nostalgia debate
tour.
D. He was there to commemorate
a battlefield cemetery.
11. How long is the Gettysburg
Address?
A. 10 words
B. 10 sentences
C. 10 pages
D. 10 hour-long episodes
12. At what point during the Civil War
did the Battle of Gettysburg occur?
A. In the beginning
B. About halfway
C. At the end
D. What battle? Never heard of it.