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Can somebody please help me answer these! I am taking Film Appreciation
Which of the following is NOT one of the meanings of the word “narrative” in regard to movies?
Question 1 options:
A type of movie.
The story that a particular film tells.
A character who narrates events in the film through voice-over.
The particular system by which a fictional story is structured.
A concept describing the sequential organization of events presented in almost any kind of movie.
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Question 2 (1 point)
Why do human beings continually create narratives out of various facts and details?
Question 2 options:
Because narratives inherently convert storytelling material into propaganda to instill in others a particular political point of view.
Because narratives are the most efficient way of disseminating and communicating all information.
Because without narrative people would not be able to make sense of the world around them.
Because narrative style is the same all over the world, and thus to use narrative is to universalize particular experiences.
Because by framing and presenting information we use narrative to arrange and understand the world and our place in it.
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Question 3 (1 point)
How is “narrative” used in a broad conceptual context?
Question 3 options:
To denote any cinematic structure in which content is selected and arranged linearly.
To apply to any film that has characters.
To categorize only Hollywood films that adhere to a five-act structure.
To designate only experimental films that have no discernible story or action.
To rethink films in relation to literature, painting, music, and the like.
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Question 4 (1 point)
Which of the following is an example of a film employing narrative organization in a way that goes against the arrangement of events in conventional order?
Question 4 options:
A film possesses an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.
A film’s material is chosen and organized so that one event leads to another in a recognizable progression.
A film jumps from scene to scene so that events proceed not in chronological order but according to poetical associations.
A film advances linearly from scene to scene by following a character throughout the course of her day.
A film documents the development of a protest movement by following several participants in dramatic fashion.
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Question 5 (1 point)
Why can it be said that nearly every movie, regardless of genre or type, employs at least a semblance of narrative?
Question 5 options:
Because all art is narrative.
Because the linear nature of movies lends itself to structures that possess some form of progression.
Because all movies contain characters and recognizable situations.
Because all movies follow the same formula for structured action.
Because of the way audiences have been taught to understand art, which forces them to transform seen, read, or heard material into a story.
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Question 6 (1 point)
What distinguishes narrative films from documentary and experimental films?
Question 6 options:
Narrative films are directed toward fiction.
Narrative films are linear.
Narrative films focus on the human condition.
Narrative films are actually produced on film stock.
Narrative films intend to mean something.
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Question 7 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT one of the primary concerns of documentary filmmaking?
Question 7 options:
The recording of reality.
The fabrication of fantastic events.
The education of viewers.
The presentation of political or social analyses.
The creation of nonfiction.
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Question 8 (1 point)
Which of the following demonstrates how documentary filmmaking inherently entails the “creative treatment of actuality”?
Question 8 options:
A director decides to simply base a fiction film on a true story rather than shoot a real-life subject because of potential legal repercussions.
A scriptwriter loosely incorporates into a fiction film’s action the facts of a well-known historical event.
A director captures events behind the scenes of a political campaign and edits his footage so as to portray the candidate in a harsh light.
A producer withdraws funding from a documentary that dares to investigate the ramifications of mass-marketed baby food.
A cinematographer decides to record the events at a bustling marketplace by simply setting up his camera from one angle and shooting footage for an hour.
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Question 9 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT a branch of documentary filmmaking?
Question 9 options:
Factual.
Instructional.
Persuasive.
Demonstrative.
Propaganda.
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Question 10 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT an element of direct cinema?
Question 10 options:
Over-the-shoulder interviews with subjects.
The limited use or even absence of voice-over narration.
The placement of camera equipment in a location for extended periods of time to record events as they occur.
Narrative voice and perspective.
The arrangement of material to suit the filmmaker’s point of view.
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Question 11 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of experimental movies?
Question 11 options:
Noncommercial intent.
A personal style and sensibility.
Conformity to narrative conventions.
A critical stance toward culture and media.
An invitation to individual interpretation.
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Question 12 (1 point)
What is the defining characteristic of found footage experimental movies?
Question 12 options:
A personal approach to unconventional filmmaking strategies.
A political approach to unconventional filmmaking strategies.
A purely formal approach to unconventional filmmaking strategies.
The manipulation of film from other sources in order to create meanings and associations.
The manipulation of originally produced film in order to create meanings and associations.
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Question 13 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of experimental films of the 1920s?
Question 13 options:
Surreal content.
Abstract images.
An absence of actors.
A critique of capitalism.
A desire to shock.
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Question 14 (1 point)
Which of the following films would be considered part of the self-reflexive strain of experimental cinema?
Question 14 options:
A film in which a city during the evening is shot as a play of light and color.
A film that pokes fun at classical Westerns by irreverently editing together John Wayne films.
A film in which a filmmaker records daily scenes of his own life in fragmented, oblique fashion.
A film that explicitly yet poetically documents acts of lesbian eroticism.
A film that animates abstract shapes to the tune of a Bach sonata.
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Question 15 (1 point)
How have narrative feature films incorporated into themselves documentary filmmaking techniques?
Question 15 options:
By using small crews, natural lighting, handheld cameras, and nonprofessional actors.
By tackling issues of political and social importance.
By being informed by painstaking research.
By interrupting the narrative flow with interviews of experts in the field that the film is examining.
By being made with extremely small budgets.
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Question 16 (1 point)
What is the definition of genre?
Question 16 options:
The categorization of narrative films by their cost.
The categorization of narrative films by their indebtedness to literary sources.
The categorization of narrative films by featured actors.
The categorization of narrative films by country of origin.
The categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them.
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Question 17 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT a recognized movie genre?
Question 17 options:
The Western.
Foreign films.
Horror.
Romantic comedies.
Biopics.
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Question 18 (1 point)
How do film genres generally tend to originate and develop?
Question 18 options:
Organically, as inspired by shifts in history, politics, or society.
Artificially, as concocted by quasi-scientific marketing teams.
Ideologically, as created by filmmakers trying to advance a political platform.
Commercially, as thought up by movie theaters in need of familiar hooks to attract moviegoers.
Academically, as developed by intellectuals arguing for movies as a legitimate art form.
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Question 19 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT an example of how genre

From this passage, the reader can tell that CCRN
A. just wants people to take public transportation.
B. wants to hold electric companies responsible.
C. believes individuals must stop global warming.
D. blames the car companies for global warming.

Which of the following best describes the purpose of process analysis?
A written analysis that discusses how the communication methods of a given piece of work affect and influence the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of the reader.
An analysis paper that correctly utilizes all of the steps of the writing process.
A rhetorical style that combines two or more ideas to produce something new.
A rhetorical style that provides step-by-step explanatory directions with the goal of giving the reader guidance.

4:51 The Crucible Act 4 Questions
Why has Reverend Hale returned to Salem?
What is Reverend Hale advising the condemned to do?
What does Reverend Parris reveal about his niece Abigail?
What is the condition of Salem at this point?
How does Andover differ from Salem?
How do the proposed hangings of Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor differ from the past executions?
What does Reverend Parris want Danforth to do? Why?
What does Reverend Hale want Danforth to do? Why?
What does Reverend Hale mean when he says, “there is blood on my head!”?
Why does Danforth refuse to postpone the hangings?
What do Hale and Danforth want Elizabeth Proctor to do? Why?
What happened to Giles Corey? Giles Corey was killed because he wished to be mute and not say any names.
What is John’s excuse for confessing?
What is Elizabeth’s proof that John is a good man?
How has Elizabeth changed since we first met her?
After John confesses verbally, what does Danforth want him to do?
Crucible act 4 study guide
4:51
What is Reverend Hale advising the condemned to do?
What does Reverend Parris reveal about his niece Abigail?
What is the condition of Salem at this point?
How does Andover differ from Salem?
How do the proposed hangings of Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor differ from the past executions?
What does Reverend Parris want Danforth to do? Why?
What does Reverend Hale want Danforth to do? Why?
What does Reverend Hale mean when he says, “there is blood on my head!”?
Why does Danforth refuse to postpone the hangings?
What do Hale and Danforth want Elizabeth Proctor to do? Why?
What happened to Giles Corey? Giles Corey was killed because he wished to be mute and not say any names.
What is John’s excuse for confessing?
What is Elizabeth’s proof that John is a good man?
How has Elizabeth changed since we first met her?
After John confesses verbally, what does Danforth want him to do?
Why does Hale say Proctor is willing to hang?
What does Elizabeth say it shows about John?

Autumntime by Anthony Lentini I saw my first tree today. Dad finally broke down and took us to East Boston Urban Center after Mom had been harping on it for the past two weeks. I think he was glad we went after all, because he was smiling quietly all during the trip back. Dad used to tell me stories about the trees that still existed when he was a boy. There weren’t very many even then, with the urbanization program in full swing, but most people had seen at least one tree by the time they started school. It wasn’t like nowadays, at any rate. Oh, I’ve seen the plastic trees: practically every street has a few of them. But you can tell the plastic ones are artificial just from looking at pictures in the microdot library. This morning when we got up, the house was all excited. Mom dialed a light breakfast of toast and synthetic milk so that we wouldn’t waste time eating. And when finished, the three of us took an elevator-bus up to the fourth level, where we caught the air track to Brooklyn. From there we took another elevator-bus down to main level, rode the monorail to Intercity Subway Station 2, and caught the second sublevel AA train to Boston. Our expectations were so high that Dad and I didn’t mind it when Mom told us again how the tree was discovered. The O’Brien home was one of the few examples of old-style wooden structures that hadn’t been demolished in Boston’s urban-renewal campaign at the turn of the century. The family had been able to avoid this because of its wealth and political influence, and the house was passed on through several generations to the present. Old man O’Brien had no heirs, so when he died the family home went up for auction, and the Urban Center bought it. When local officials arrived for an appraisal, they discovered that the house had a back yard, which is forbidden by zoning restrictions. In the yard was a live tree — an oak was what Mom called it. When the news of the tree’s discovery leaked out, quite a few sightseers stopped by to have a look at it, and the local government, realizing the money-making potential, began charging admission.

Which quotes from The Great Gatsby novel shows the color Nick and Jordan are wearing.
Also explain what you think it might mean about them or their personalities.
Please describe the explanations and page number for each quotes

Act iii of the crucible
How does Danforth manipulate language to trap others who threaten his authority? How does he use other people’s words against them? How could this contribute to Miller’s commentary on society?
Danforth and John Proctor carry with them a lot of pride. How does this pride help and/or hurt these characters?
How does Proctor try to ensure that Mary Warren testifies against the girls? What appeals does he use?
How does Parris use personal attacks to discredit those who wish to discredit the trials?
How do characters manipulate religion for their purposes? How could this connect to how people manipulated patriotism and fear of communism in Miller’s society?
How does Mary Warren adopt and use the words she hears in different situations? What does this express about her character?

Frankenstein: Chapters 22-23 Discussion Questions
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1. What circumstances lead to Victor and Elizabeth’s wedding? Explain Elizabeth’s actions as well as Victor’s thoughts before their wedding.
2. What change does Victor begin to undergo at the end of Chapter 23, particularly with his attitude towards knowledge?
3. Did you note the change in weather before Victor and Elizabeth board their wedding cruise? What does this signify?
4. Victor claims, “I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.” Do you agree with this decision? Could Victor have other reasons for not confiding his secret?

h English Language Proficiency Standards Scavenger Hunt lo.gcu.edu/quiz/cdd68ecf-6407-4946-862f-618085027d62/start-quiz/2b761a14-b9d0-4179-92e9-alflef8cc2fd MESSAGES cy Standards S… 4 hrs 27 mins 17 sec 17/25 Answered Question 7 A student at the proficiency level has limited ability to speak and understand simple and/or routine English phrases spoken in academic and social settings. This student would need a amount of support within the classroom. Select one A. Pre-Emergent/Emergent, substantial O B. Pre-Emergent/Emergent, moderate O C. Basic, substantial O D. Basic, moderate

HIGHLIGHT THE CORRECT ANSWER FOR EACH QUESTION!
Read the following texts. Answer the questions that follow.
This excerpt is from a book about the history of the Hudson River.
Excerpt from
River of Dreams
By Hudson Talbott
1        By the twentieth century, New York City had long since reached its destiny of becoming the most powerful city in America. In less than 300 years it had grown from a tiny Dutch outpost in the wilderness to the business capital of the world. It was a city built on dreams.
2        But it was made out of bricks and cement that had come from the banks of the Hudson. The river which had fed all those dreams was now fading into the background. New York didn’t seem to need the river anymore, except as a sewer. And that’s what it became.
3        Industry on the river had made some New Yorkers filthy rich. But it had just made the river filthy. Garbage, factory waste, plant chemicals and the raw sewage of the cities and towns along its banks were dumped directly into the river. The water turned greenish brown, except by the GM plant, where it turned red or yellow or whatever color they were painting the cars that day.
4        The fishing industry collapsed. The few fish that survived were too poisonous to eat. Smog from the factory smoke and dust from the cement plants blanketed the valley. And it was all legal.
5        Most people don’t start out with dreams of polluting a river. But it was often the result of people chasing their dreams of wealth with little care of how they reached it. The Hudson Valley had always drawn them.
6        But now there were other dreamers in the valley, with their own dreams of wealth. They dreamed of the wealth of wildlife in a healthy forest, the abundance of fish in oxygen rich water, and the great fortune of living in a beautiful river valley.
7        So perhaps it was a matter of time before the two types of dreamers would meet each other – in court.
8        In 1963, Con Edison, New York City’s power company, proposed a plan for constructing the largest hydroelectric pumping station ever built. The plan called for carving out a gigantic hole in the side of majestic Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River.
9        But then they met Franny Reese. Franny was a longtime valley resident with a simple point to make: the mountain could not speak for itself. If she didn’t speak for it, who would?
10       Franny and a group of like-minded people founded Scenic Hudson and took on the power company in a landmark court case. Con Ed challenged the right of private citizens to participate, but the court sided with the citizens, in the ruling now known as the Scenic Hudson Decision.
11       After dragging out the case for seventeen years, Con Ed finally gave up and Storm King survived unblemished. It was the beginning of the environmental movement in this country, and once again, the Hudson Valley was the birthplace.
12       More and more people joined the movement as they realized how much difference each of us can make.
13       The love of their land was still alive in the hearts of Americans, and now that it was aroused again, things began to change.
14       Many new laws and new citizens’ groups have been inspired by those early heroes of the environment, and their work has begun to bring the Hudson back to life.
15       The Mahicans called it “The River Flows Both Ways.” Slowly we are learning that taking care of the river is the only way that the river can take care of us.
16       Fifty years have passed since I dreamed of going to New York to see the river that shares my name, and thirty-five years since that dream came true. I live in the Hudson Valley now, grateful to all those who came before me, following their dreams to this river, building this nation, sharing its beauty, securing its future.
17       It’s now my turn to help in keeping the river of dreams flowing, for all those dreamers yet to come.
1.       As used in paragraph 2, what does the phrase “fading into the background” mean?
A        disappearing from view
B        losing its importance in people’s minds
C        moving farther and farther from the city
D        remaining important only to those who value nature
2.       Which claim from the article is least supported?
A        “New York didn’t seem to need the river anymore, except as a sewer. And that’s what it became.” (paragraph 2)
B        “Industry on the river had made some New Yorkers filthy rich.” (paragraph 3)
C        “But it had just made the river filthy.” (paragraph 3)
D        “But now there were other dreamers in the valley, with their own dreams of wealth.” (paragraph 6)
3.       What is the role of paragraph 7 in the organization of the article?
A        It compares the two groups of dreamers.
B        It concludes the part of the article about industry.
C        It introduces the part of the article about activists.
D        It transitions to the part of the article where change occurs.
4        What does “unblemished” mean as used in paragraph 11?
A        unaware
B        unknown
C        unharmed
D        unstable
5        How does the idea expressed in paragraph 15 relate to the article?
A        There are two main ways that the river can be fixed.
B        The river is able to move in two different directions.
C        People who benefit from the river must also protect it.
D        Opposing groups can each get what they want from the river.
6        Which sentence is most important to include in a summary of the article?
A        One company colored the river red and yellow with excess car paint.
B        The Hudson River became polluted in the effort to gain wealth.
C        The Mahicans have a saying about taking care of the river.
D        The author has dreamed of returning to the Hudson River for fifty years.
7        Which quotation best expresses the author’s point of view in the article?
A        “In less than 300 years it had grown form a tiny Dutch outpost in the wilderness to the business capital of the world.” (paragraph 1)
B        “In 1963, Con Edison, New York City’s power company, proposed a plan for constructing the largest hydroelectric pumping station ever built.” (paragraph 8)
C        “More and more people joined the movement as they realized how much difference each of us can make.” (paragraph 12)
D        “It’s now my turn to help in keeping the river of dreams flowing, for all those dreamers yet to come.” (paragraph 17)
Excerpt from
A la Carte
1        “Homework?” My mother mouths the words exaggeratedly, eyebrows raised, and I roll my eyes. Frowning, she points with her chin to the side door that leads to the stairs. I roll my eyes again, mouthing, Okay, okay, to needing her to pantomime further what she wants me to do. I hate the thought of leaving the clattering nerve center of the restaurant to wrestle with my trigonometry homework in my mother’s quiet office downstairs.
2        “Order!”
3        The bright lights and swirl of noise are muffled as the kitchen door swings closed behind me.
4        It’s hard to remember a time when the restaurant hasn’t been the center of our lives. Mom used to be a copy editor and wrote food features for our local paper, the
Clarion
, and she met Pia when she did a write-up on the culinary school Pia attended. Pia thinks it was fate that Mom wanted to invest in a restaurant at the same time Pia wanted to buy the old bank building.
5        La Salle Rouge doesn’t serve much in the way of “kid” food, since the menu doesn’t cater to people my age on a cheap date, but I’ve loved everything about it from the first. I started experimenting with being a vegetarian when I turned fourteen, but Pia still found things to feed me and taught me to be creative with vegetables and tofu. I like to think I’m the best-fed vegetarian in the state of California.
6        Pia’s been really good about teaching what she knows, and I decided early on that this is the work I want to do – get out of school and get into the kitchen for good. Mom and Pia have created a popular French-Asian-Californian fusion restaurant that has gotten great reviews from food critic called “stylized food with unique flavor combinations in an intimate setting.”
7        Whatever that means.
8        Three years ago, when I started high school thirty pounds heavier than everyone in my class, Mom and I came up with a light menu for La Salle Rouge, and it’s been such a popular idea that Mom lets me come up with a tasty, low-calorie desserts, which is one of my favorite things to do. It hardly seems fair that I have to walk away from all of that just to do trigonometry, but my mom says I have to finish school before I concentrate on cooking. She says it’s smarter to have a “backup plan,” and she’s made me apply to plenty of colleges and check out business majors just in case I ever want to do anything else with my life. I guess that makes sense if you’re anybody other than me. When I turn eighteen, I already know what I’m going to do.
9        First, I’m going to buy a plane ticket to D.C. and go to Julia Child’s kitchen at the Smithsonian and leave roses. They don’t let you walk through it, but somewhere – I don’t know where – I’m going to leave a bouquet and a little note for her. Julia Child is my patron saint1. She’s the queen of all reasons people can do anything they want in life. Saint Julia didn’t start cooking until she was practically forty, and she went on to do TV shows and make cookbooks and be this huge part of culinary history. She never got too fancy, she never freaked out, and she was never afraid to try new things. I want to be just like her – except maybe get famous faster.
10       The second thing I’m going to do is buy myself a set of knives. Pia swears by this set of German steel knives she got when she graduated, but I’ve seen the TV chef Kylie Kwong use a phenomenal-looking ceramic knife on her show on the Discovery channel. Either way, knives are what the best chefs have of their very own.
11       The third thing I’m going to do, after I get back from Washington and get my knives, is … get discovered. Somehow, I know I’m going to have to pay my dues, but I’m so ready for my real life to start. It’s not something I admit to a lot, but my real dream is to be a celebrity chef. Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom. Every time I watch old episodes of Saint Julia, I imagine that I have my own cooking show. The way celebrity chefs do it now, I could also have a line of cooking gear, cookbooks, aprons, the works. People would know my name, ask for my autograph, and try my recipes. All I have to do is finish my trig homework and get back into the kitchen.
8.       In paragraph 1, what does the phrase “clattering nerve center of the restaurant” suggest?
A        messiness, chaos
B        energy, core
C        tension, anxiety
D        greatness, stability
9        Which quotation best expresses a central idea of the story?
A        “I started experimenting with begin a vegetarian when I turned fourteen …” (paragraph 5)
B        “… I decided early on that this is the work I want to do …” (paragraph 6)
C        “It hardly seems fair that I have to walk away from all of that … (paragraph 8)
D        “… just in case I ever want to do anything else with my life.” (paragraph 8)
10       Read this sentence from paragraph 9
She’s the queen of all reasons people can do anything they want in life.
What does this sentence suggest about Julia Child?
A        Her famous kitchen became part of a cooking museum.
B        She was successful in a career that interested her.
C        She always remained calm in the kitchen.
D        Her cooking style created unique flavor combinations.
11       In paragraph 11, what does the one-word statement “Somehow” reveal?
A        It illustrates the narrator’s enthusiasm about her future plans.
B        It shows the narrator has some questions about whether she will succeed or not.
C        It shows the narrator does not have every detail of her future plans figured out just yet.
D        It demonstrates the narrator’s lack of knowledge about how difficult her goals are to achieve.
12       What does the statement “I know I’m going to have to pay my dues” (paragraph 11) show about the narrator’s attitude toward her plans?
A        She things the price of fame might be too high.
B        She realizes success depends on more than setting a goal.
C        She is highly motivated by the idea of becoming famous.
D        She things becoming a celebrity chef requires only money.
13       Which sentence would be MOST important to include in a summary of the story?
A        When the narrator’s mother makes her do homework, the narrator rolls her eyes.
B        When the narrator’s mother wanted to invest in a restaurant, Pia wanted to buy the old bank building.
C        The narrator admires celebrity chefs.
D        The narrator lives in California.
14       The author develops the narrator’s point of view mainly through the use of
A        internal monologue
B        conflict between characters
C        limited dialogue
D        flashback