1.which best identifies the point of highest action, or the turning which is an example of a man versus man conflict?
answer choice options:
a. falling action
b. climax
c. resolution
d. rising action

2.what is the conflict within a short story?
answer choice options:
a. involves a struggle between two opposing forces
b. the time and place in which a story takes place
c. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer
d. the lesson the characters learn through the events in the story

3.which sample conflict is the most similar to the conflict in "the necklace"?
answer choice options:
a. an unemployed teenager demands his parents buy him a fancy car.
b. a young orphan struggles to find food and shelter.
c. two political candidates fight for a single office.
d. a rich businessman tries to avoid paying his taxes.

4.which is an example of a man vs. self conflict?
answer choice options:
a. della must argue with the grocer for lower prices on food.
b. jim is frustrated that his employer has reduced his pay.
c. della is sad that she cannot buy jim the gifts she would like to for christmas.
d. della and jim disagree about what to have for dinner.

5.which is not an element of fiction in short stories?
answer choice options:
a. character
b. plot
c. structure
d. setting

6.which of the following are synonyms?
answer choice options:
a. narrative and story
b. pamper and neglect
c. bewilder and explain
d. disturb and calm

7.
in, "the gift of the magi," della cannot buy jim a gift. which best analyzes how this conflict develops the plot?
answer choice options:
a. it is the climax of the story since the reader is most excited at this point.
b. it serves as one of the main conflicts because it leads della to sell her hair.
c. it serves as the falling action of the story because it shows that della's love for jim is stronger than her vanity.
d. it resolves the main conflict of the story by showing there will be no christmas gifts that year.

8.what is irony?
answer choice options:
a. the time and place in which a story takes place.
b. a situation in which what is expected to happen and what actually happens are very different.
c. all the events in the story and includes the conflict and resolution
d. the life lesson the characters learn within the story.

9.which best describes an instance of irony?
answer choice options:
a. two sisters set a trap to trick their father on april's fool's day.
b. a classroom of students tries to pull a prank on their teacher on halloween.
c. a father tries to scare his kids by hiding in the woods, but he ends up getting scared himself.
d. a young man tries to surprise his girlfriend with a nice dinner on valentine's day.