Winter Dreams Unit 5 Questions Master
Note: You will find numerous parallels with his novel Great Gatsby, as well as diction and syntax.
1.Dexter sees Judy for the first time when he is a
a. / university studentb. / young caddy
c. / golf champion
d. / successful businessman
ANS:B
2.The scene with Judy and her nurse at the golf course helps you predict that Judy will
a. / become a good golferb. / hurt Dexter and other men
c. / usually do whatever she wants
d. / change when her beauty fades
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3.How does Dexter become rich?
a. / He plays professional golf and wins club championships.b. / He builds a small laundry into a large chain of laundries.
c. / He marries the daughter of the wealthiest man in town.
d. / He moves to New York and invests in stocks and bonds.
ANS:B
4.Which of Judy's character traits does the scene with the boat reveal?
a. / crueltyb. / impatience
c. / selfishness
d. / indifference
ANS:D
5.What is the result when Dexter's engagement to Judy ends?
a. / Dexter suffers deep pain.b. / Dexter decides to move away.
c. / Irene Scheerer takes Dexter back.
d. / Judy realizes that she loves Dexter.
ANS:A
6.What are the circumstances under which Dexter and Judy first meet?
a. / He is a caddy and she wants to play golf.b. / She visits the university that he attends.
c. / She plays through his group on the golf course.
d. / He is already rich and she is about to marry.
ANS:A
7.When Judy plays through at the golf course, the men think of her as
a. / ignorant of the rulesb. / pushy and mean-spirited
c. / skilled at the game of golf
d. / out of line but beautiful
ANS:D
8.Judy's motivation for inviting Dexter to dinner the first time is most likely that she
a. / thinks that he should meet her parentsb. / feels a sudden impulse to ask him to dinner
c. / wants to punish another current suitor
d. / hopes to make up for her past rude behavior
ANS:B
9.Read the following excerpt about how Judy treats her admirers. Which story event does the sentence help you predict? "Whenever one showed signs of dropping out through long neglect, she granted him a brief honeyed hour, which encouraged him to tag along for a year or so longer."
a. / Judy's words to Dexter on the night when he comes to dinnerb. / Judy's treatment of the man who is waiting at her house while she is boating
c. / Judy's actions on the night that Irene Scheerer is ill
d. / Judy's explanation of why she could not marry the poor man
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10.Which of Dexter's character traits does the final scene with Judy reveal?
a. / the belief that he is better than othersb. / a tendency to hurt or manipulate people
c. / the desire for wealth and status above all else
d. / a willingness to do anything to get what he wants
ANS:D
11.Blatantly means
a. / in a false mannerb. / at a rapid speed
c. / in an obvious way
d. / with a modern style
ANS:C
12.A precarious situation is
a. / riskyb. / expected
c. / interesting
d. / challenging
ANS:A
13.What is flux?
a. / failureb. / confusion
c. / growth
d. / change
ANS:D
14.To precipitate is to
a. / bring aboutb. / use up
c. / push around
d. / wish for
ANS:A
15.What does camaraderie mean?
a. / hope for a good outcomeb. / desire for higher status
c. / obsession with becoming rich
d. / spirit of good fellowship
ANS:B
16.A retinue is a
a. / band of supportersb. / governing board
c. / group of followers
d. / social clique
ANS:C
17.What does patrimony mean?
a. / elite social statusb. / unknown parentage
c. / inherited estate or money
d. / community leadership
ANS:C
19.What does petulance mean?
a. / immaturityb. / ill temper
c. / regret
d. / desperation
ANS:B
20.A mundane thought is
a. / concerned with the ordinaryb. / related to manipulating people
c. / caused by overconfidence
d. / destined to bring suffering
ANS:A
21.Surfeit means
a. / regret for past and present actionsb. / evenness of behavior or temperament
c. / desire for wealth or advancement
d. / fullness beyond the point of satisfaction
ANS:D
23.What motivates Dexter to attend a famous school in the East?
ANS:
Dexter's desire to have the best of everything motivates him to attend a famous school in the East (lines 121-129).
24.Name two physical traits of Judy's that help Dexter recognize her when she plays through on the golf course.
ANS:
Responses will vary. Students may name any two of the following physical traits of Judy's that help Dexter recognize her when she plays through on the golf course:
A. her tan (line 184)
B. her thinness (line 184)
C. her passionate eyes (line 185)
D. her down-turning mouth (line 185)
25.What is Judy's attitude toward the men who admire her before she gets married? Use three details from the story to support your answer.
ANS:
Students should say that Judy's attitude is that men are for her amusement and pleasure. She views them heartlessly, with no regard for their feelings. Students may use three of the following details as support:
A. When Judy asks Dexter to drive her boat, she is mistreating another man by taking off on her boat as he waits for her at her house (lines 249-251).
B. The first time Dexter comes to dinner, she makes it clear that she cannot care about a man who does not have money (lines 313-331).
C. She easily changes her mind about whom she "loves" and lies about it (lines 349-351, 354-358, 386-388, 531-571, and 581).
D. She keeps many men waiting and hoping, using their feelings to amuse her (lines 359-364, 366-367, and 389-396).
E. She treats Dexter with a range of emotions that include malice, indifference, and contempt (lines 417-428).
26.Identify two details that show that Judy has a powerful effect on Dexter the first time he sees her.
ANS:
Students may name any two of the following details that show that Judy has a powerful effect on Dexter the first time he sees her:
A. Dexter quits his job because of Judy despite pleading from Mr. Mortimer Jones, whom he desperately wants to notice or value him (lines 30-44).
B. Dexter cannot bring himself to stop staring at Judy (lines 68-70).
C. Dexter cannot suppress a laugh when he realizes how young Judy is (lines 70-74).
D. Dexter is fascinated by Judy's smile and thinks that it is one that many men will carry into middle age (lines 78-80).
E. Dexter thinks Judy is justified in beating her nurse (lines 102-103).
F. Dexter quits his job spontaneously, without, it appears, ever having considered quitting before (lines 112-114) and even though he has a lot to lose by quitting: he is a favorite at the club, and he cannot make the same amount of money elsewhere (lines 115-118).
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27.How does Dexter use his knowledge of the higher social class to become rich?
ANS:
Dexter understands that the social elite expect the best. After he buys a partnership in a small laundry, he begins catering to rich golfers and their wives by learning how to clean fine woolen golf stockings and sweaters and lingerie (lines 141-146). He uses their demand for this service to expand one laundry into a chain of laundries (lines 146-148).
28.Suppose you were Dexter, what factors would motivate to fall in love with Judy? Support your answer with details from the story.
ANS:
Responses will vary.(each of the 3 following sets have a different focus)
1.Students may suggest that Dexter falls in love with Judy because he is attracted to her physical traits. Students may offer the following details to support their responses:
A. As a teenager and when Judy is only eleven, Dexter recognizes in Judy features and an overall spark that indicate that she will grow into a beautiful woman who will glow with vitality (lines 47-53).
B. Dexter does not want to lose his view of Judy's face the first time he meets her (lines 68-70).
C. Dexter predicts that many boys who see young Judy's smile will remember it when they are middle-aged (lines 78-80).
D. When Dexter and Judy meet as adults, Dexter describes her as "arrestingly beautiful" and describes her features in exaggerated terms, such as the "luxury of her eyes" (lines 185-190).
E. Dexter views even her smirks as beautiful (lines 247-248).
F. Throughout their relationship, Dexter focuses on Judy's beauty and describes it in exaggerated terms such as "a heaven of eyes" and "the fragile glow of her face" (lines 468 and 492-493).
2.Students may suggest that Dexter falls in love with Judy because she represents the wealth and status to which he has always aspired. Students may offer the following details to support their responses:
A. The first time Dexter encounters Judy, he sees signs that she comes from wealth. For example, she is on a golf course, she has specially sized golf clubs and a golf bag, and a personal nurse attends to her needs (lines 54-56). Dexter also learns that she is the daughter of Mortimer Jones, a wealthy member of the golf club (lines 87-94).
B. When Dexter goes to dinner at Judy's house, he expects to spend an evening as the upper class does, with Judy dressed in evening wear and the two of them drinking cocktails until a butler announces that dinner is served (lines 287-292).
3.Students may suggest that Dexter falls in love with Judy because he recognizes in her their shared trait of confidently and persistently pursuing what they want regardless of the cost. Students may offer the following details to support their responses:
A. Dexter seems to be mesmerized by the way she handles herself when she feels ill at ease but wants to play golf as a youngster (lines 52-61).
B. Dexter characterizes the artificial smile that she uses to get her way as convincing (line 64).
C. Dexter sides with Judy when he witnesses an argument between her nurse and her, even though Judy is behaving badly (lines 94-103).
D. Her selfish, insensitive behavior toward others and himself does not deter him from wanting to be with her (lines 248-250, 313-315, 353-367, 390-396, 417-425, 531-581, and 595-597).
E. Dexter recognizes that Judy is "the most direct and unprincipled personality" he has ever known and that she uses whatever means necessary to get what she wants, yet he has no desire to change her (lines 341-347).
F. Dexter accepts Judy's faults because he admires her passionate energy (lines 347-348).
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29. What might the title "Winter Dreams" represent beyond Dexter's
dreams of beating the club members at golf? Support your opinion with details from the story.
ANS:
Responses will vary.
Students may say that Dexter's "winter dreams" are things that he does not have. They may use the following details to support their answers:
A. Dexter quit as a caddy because his winter dreams dictate that he must quit (line 120). This event suggests that Dexter's winter dreams are about things beyond his current grasp or reach.
B. Dexter's winter dreams persuade him to go to the famous university rather than the state school his father could pay for (lines 121-125). Dexter's decision shows that he wants things that are beyond his reach.
C. The narrator explains that Dexter's dreams are to have glittering things (lines 128-129). The term "glittering things" suggests things with a kind of unreal or surface sparkle-or things that fade or can never truly be possessed.
Students also may say that Dexter's "winter dreams" are things related to, or that end up being related to, cold, desolation, and misery - that is, to the lifeless season of winter. They may use the following details to support their answers:
A. The story opens with a description of winter that emphasizes melancholy, raggedness, desolation, cold, and misery; the winter is compared to the something shut down like the lid of a box or coffin (lines 5-13).
B. At the end of the story, the narrator is left desolate or alone; he is miserable because even his dreams are gone, and he cannot cry or care (lines 682-688). His winter dreams have left him as cold and empty as the season of winter leaves the landscape.
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