Quarter+2+Common+Assessment

Scroll down through the passages to answer the common assessment questions. Questions 1-10 require reading, Questions 11-15 do not.

**Part 1: Author’s Tone and Style **
Read the following passage and answer the accompanying questions:  **“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats**  Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere (5)  The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. (10)  The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">A shape with lion body and the head of a man, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, (15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(Questions 1 & 2)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Read the following passage and answer the accompanying questions: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> **“The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> We are the hollow men <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">We are the stuffed men <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Leaning together <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Headpiece filled with straw. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Alas! Our dried voices, when (5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> We whisper together <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Are quiet and meaningless <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As wind in dry grass <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar (10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Shape without form, shade without colour, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Paralysed force, gesture without motion; <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Those who have crossed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Remember us—if at all—not as lost (15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Violent souls, but only <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> As the hollow men <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> The stuffed men. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(Questions 3-5)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Read the following passage and answer the accompanying questions: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> **“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> About suffering they were never wrong, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> The Old Masters; how well, they understood <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Its human position; how it takes place <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> For the miraculous birth, there always must be <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> On a pond at the edge of the wood... <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(Questions 6-8)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Read the following passage and answer the accompanying questions: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> **“Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Only the monstrous anger of the guns. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Can patter out their hasty orisons. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, – <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(Questions 9-10)

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Note: Part 2/Questions 11-15 do not require reading a passage. **