EOC Chapter 1 and 2 Review - Booklet

EOC Booklet Review - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 review

Head to this google document and read the Chapter 1 review text - Excerpt from In a Far Country by Jack London.

Open Ended

What is the setting of this selection?

Multiple Choice

How did the men come down with scurvy?

• Lack of fresh meat

• Lack of vegetables

• Lack of exercise

• Lack of fresh air

Multiple Choice

Paragraph 3 would be considered the ______ of the story.

• rising action

• resolution

• conflict

• introduction

Multiple Choice

Paragraph 6 would be considered the _______ of the story?

• rising action

• conflict

• climax

• resolution

Multiple Choice

the main conflict of this selection is

• person vs. person

• person vs. nature

• person vs. destiny

• person vs. self

Open Ended

According to the selection, why are the men not speaking to each other?

Multiple Choice

In addition to the lack of food and heat, what else causes Weatherbee and Cutherfet to be disheartened?

• They know wolves are in the area

• Everyone on the trip has died

• No one knows where they are

• They face the darkness of December

Open Ended

Summarize this selection in one a paragraph.

Multiple Choice

The author mainly developed the characters in this selection by using

• motivation

• action

• description

• dialogue

Multiple Choice

what aspect of the men's characters causes them to quickly run out of food?

• fear

• laziness

• deception

• greed

Chapter 2 Review

Head to this google document and read the Chapter 2 Review text - Excerpt from American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Robert Frost

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses wear in the same way as used in the line?

• Running can put wear and tear on your knee joints.

• Grinding your teeth can wear them down.

• Your tires have too much wear on them.

• My sister wanted me to wear ugly sweater.

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea of this poem?

• A farm house and a running brook still remain in a rapidly growing city.

• A brook running through farmland is being paved over in order to build a street.

• A new street is being built next to a farm that has a running brook and apple trees.

• A beautiful meadow containing flowers is being cemented over to build a street.

Multiple Choice

"With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was thrown"

• piles of concrete

• piles of wood

• piles of ashes

• piles of asphalt

Multiple Choice

Which phrase conveys the sad tone of the poem?

• a flower to try its currents

• the farm house lingers

• deep in a sewer dungeon

• but what about the brook

Multiple Choice

What lines from the poem would best give the author's belief that the brook will be forgotten?

• with the new city street it has to wear

• is water wood to serve a brook the same

• in fetid darkness still to live and run--

• no one would know except for ancient maps

Multiple Choice

what is the author's implied meaning of this poem?

• City officials should not pave over the brook and farmland

• All farmland will eventually be paved over to build a street

• The brook will be paved over and probably forgotten

• Expanding a city into a rural country area is a good idea

Multiple Choice

"Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone / In fetid darkness still to live and run"

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Imagery

• Irony

• Simile

• Metaphor

Chapter 2 Review (Text 2)

Read the second text for chapter 2 Review on this google document - The Windmill by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and answer the questions that follow.

Multiple Choice

"With my granite jaws I devour / In the fields of grain I see / I hear the sound of flails"

The windmill being able to devour, see, and hear are examples of?

• imagery

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

In the fourth stanza, the windmill says, "I meet it face to face / As a brave man meets his foe."

What does this simile compare?

• the rock is the brave man, and the windmill is its foe.

• the barn is the brave man, and the farms are its friends

• the windmill is the brave man and the wind is its foe

• the giant is the brave man, and it hates the loud roars.

Multiple Choice

What tone and meaning do the narrator's words convey?

• the windmill is tired of grinding maize, wheat, and rye.

• the windmill wishes it has a more exciting job.

• the windmill enjoys not having to work on Sunday.

• the windmill is proud to grind grain from the farmer's harvest.