ENGLISH 10 SECOND TERM QUIZ REVIEW

ENGLISH 10 SECOND TERM QUIZ REVIEW

Multiple Choice

Which of these actions would most likely mean that Lama is behaving spitefully?

• falling asleep in the middle of the day

• shaking hands with another person

• sticking his tongue out at someone else

• fidgeting instead of waiting patiently

​SPITEFULLY - purposefully harm someone or something

Open Ended

Use the word 'shunned' in a sentence. Base your answer on how the word was used in the text discussed in class.

SHUNNED - rejected or avoided

Multiple Select

What are synonyms for the word 'interactions'?

• dealings

• independence

• relations

• observation

​INTERACTIONS - actions with each other

Open Ended

Use the word 'pariah' in a sentence.

PARIAH - someone who is despised; a social outcast

Multiple Choice

If people are talking about ideologies, which of the following questions are they most likely discussing?

• What is the difference between “simile” and “metaphor"?

• Which is a faster transportation: a train or a plane?

• How do two senatorial candidates differ in their platforms that would benefit the country?

• What are the best tourist spots to go to in this place?

​IDEOLOGIES - sets of beliefs that of a people, group, or culture

Multiple Choice

In “The Doll’s House”, what do the Burnell children—especially Isabel Burnell—gain by having the doll’s house?

• additional, improved playtime

• a new attitude toward life

• a better understanding of beauty

• even more status than before

Multiple Choice

Which of these sentences best expresses the theme to which the symbol of the doll’s house points in “The Doll’s House”?

• Those who enjoy the privileges of upper-class life should share their joys with those who are less fortunate.

• Maturity means putting away childish things and behaving as the adults around you behave.

• No doll’s house, painting, short story, or other work of human creation can ever capture the world realistically.

• Gifts that seem beautiful or wonderful when first received sometimes turn out to be quite unpleasant.

Multiple Choice

Of the following explanations, which best explains the implications of the ellipses, or set of three dots, that appear throughout “Elliptical”?

• The statements are so predictable that they need not be completed.

• The speakers have been interrupted by someone or something.

• The omitted words are considered vulgar or otherwise inappropriate.

• The speakers are too hesitant or confused to finish their remarks.

Multiple Choice

“Sonnet, With Bird”, “Elliptical”, and “Fences” all explore what human experience?

• experiences in overseas travel

• homesickness and loneliness

• death or absence of loved ones

• uncomfortable social barriers

​​Sonnet, With Bird

Elliptical

Fences

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE:

According to “Revenge of the Geeks”, Taylor Swift, Tim Gunn, and J.K. Rowling have something in common.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Taylor Swift

Tim Gunn

J.K. Rowling

Taylor Swift

Tim Gunn

J.K. Rowling

​unpopular in high school but successful as adults

Multiple Choice

According to “Revenge of the Geeks”, why is it important for adults to let high school students know that it can be good to be different?

• Students lack the life experience to understand that the qualities that make them outsiders now can benefit them later in life.

• Students must be warned that trying to fit in will cause them to do poorly in school.

• Students need to understand that they will become as successful as Taylor Swift if they just learn to embrace their outsider status.

• Students may feel unsupported and need encouragement to stand up to bullies who target them for being outsiders.

Open Ended

The best definition of “the Other”, as presented in “Encountering the Other: The Challenge for the 21^st Century”, is _________________________.

people who are unfamiliar to a person or a group

Multiple Choice

According to “Encountering the Other: The Challenge for the 21^st Century”, what is the main question that people face when they encounter unfamiliar people?

• How should we react when we meet people who are different from us?

• What are the possible benefits of interacting with people who are unknown to us?

• Do we have any responsibilities toward people we don’t know?

• Should we blend our culture with others or remain uniquely what we are?

Multiple Choice

Which of these abstract ideas is most likely a symbolic meaning of the little lamp in “The Doll’s House”?

• economic hardship

• human kindness

• excessive ambition

• passionate anger

What does it symbolize?

​What about the doll house?

​SOCIAL STATUS

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Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE:

In writing and speech, diction refers to an author’s or speaker’s word choice, especially with regard to range of vocabulary, use of slang, and level of formality.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Both “Sonnet, With Bird” and “Elliptical” lack certain basic features of traditional poetry and are classified as prose poems. Which characteristic best shows why they are still considered poems?

• Like some prose poems, they concern traditional poetic topics.

• Like all prose poems, they rhyme.

• Like many prose poems, they suggest meanings rather than stating them directly.

• Like many prose poems, they have a regular meter.

Multiple Choice

Read this paragraph from the introductory section of “Encountering the Other: The Challenge for the 21st Century.”

Should they throw themselves in fury on those other people? Or walk past dismissively and keep going? Or rather try to get to know and understand them?

Which sentence best explains the effect of composing a paragraph made up entirely of rhetorical questions?

• It leaves the reader with a lasting and very important thought.

• It emphasizes the unanswerable nature of these issues.

• It interests the reader by bringing up the topic of social interaction.

• It gets the reader thinking about the central idea of the article.