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PROLOGUE.

Now, luck yet sends us, and a little wit

Will serve to make our play hit;

(According to the palates of the season)

Here is rhime, not empty of reason.

… thus much I can give you as a token (5)

Of his play's worth, no eggs are broken,

… The laws of time, place, persons he observeth,

From no needful rule he swerveth.

All gall and copperas from his ink he draineth,

Only a little salt remaineth, (10)

Wherewith he'll rub your cheeks, till red, with laughter,

They shall look fresh a week after.

According to the passage, what factors are necessary to create a successful play?

More reason than rhyme

Luck, good rhyme, and little reason

Obedience to the laws of time, place, and people

A bit of coarse, salty humor

Good fortune, ingenuity, and a favorable audience

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According to the passage, what factors are necessary to create a successful play?

Your answer:

More reason than rhyme

Your answer:

Luck, good rhyme, and little reason

Your answer:

Obedience to the laws of time, place, and people

Your answer:

A bit of coarse, salty humor

Correct answer:

Good fortune, ingenuity, and a favorable audience

Explanation:

Lines 1 and 2 note that “luck” and “a little wit” will “serve to make our play hit,” so we know that good fortune and ingenuity are two of the ingredients. In Line 3, the writer also makes the disclaimer that the play will only be successful if it happens to fit the tastes of audiences at the time: “According to the palates of the season.”

Passage adapted from Ben Jonson’s Volpone (1606)

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Adapted from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)

He sounded the clacker till his arm ached, and at length his heart grew sympathetic with the birds' thwarted desires. They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them. Why should he frighten them away? They took upon more and more the aspect of gentle friends and pensioners—the only friends he could claim as being in the least degree interested in him, for his aunt had often told him that she was not. He ceased his rattling, and they alighted anew.

"Poor little dears!" said Jude, aloud. "You shall have some dinner—you shall. There is enough for us all. Farmer Troutham can afford to let you have some. Eat, then my dear little birdies, and make a good meal!"

They stayed and ate, inky spots on the nut-brown soil, and Jude enjoyed their appetite. A magic thread of fellow-feeling united his own life with theirs. Puny and sorry as those lives were, they much resembled his own.

His clacker he had by this time thrown away from him, as being a mean and sordid instrument, offensive both to the birds and to himself as their friend. All at once he became conscious of a smart blow upon his buttocks, followed by a loud clack, which announced to his surprised senses that the clacker had been the instrument of offense used. The birds and Jude started up simultaneously, and the dazed eyes of the latter beheld the farmer in person, the great Troutham himself, his red face glaring down upon Jude's cowering frame, the clacker swinging in his hand.

"So it's 'Eat my dear birdies,' is it, young man? 'Eat, dear birdies,' indeed! I'll tickle your breeches, and see if you say, 'Eat, dear birdies' again in a hurry! And you've been idling at the schoolmaster's too, instead of coming here, ha'n't ye, hey? That's how you earn your sixpence a day for keeping the rooks off my corn!"

As it is used in the passage, what does the underlined word "thwarted" mean?

Foiled

Unfulfilled

Embarrassed

Distorted

Completed

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As it is used in the passage, what does the underlined word "thwarted" mean?

Your answer:

Unfulfilled

Your answer:

Embarrassed

Your answer:

Distorted

Your answer:

Completed

Correct answer:

Foiled

Explanation:

“Thwarted” in this case, and all cases, means stopped or “foiled"; these verbs mean prevented from attaining an end. The birds were stopped or foiled in their attempts to feed on the corn. To help you, “distorted” means twisted out of shape, “completed” means finished, and “unfulfilled” means unhappy with one’s accomplishments.

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