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Final Exam - 1st Period

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Animal Farm: What is an allegory?

a)

Repetition of one or more words at the beginning of sentences/phrases

b)

The use of dissimilar images in order to contrast their differences

c)

A paradox reduced to two words

d)

A story in which the characters and events represent particular qualities or ideas

2.

Animal Farm: What is a satire?

a)

A way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point

b)

Words that refer to ideas, qualities, attitudes, and conditions that cannot be perceived with the senses

c)

The associations and emotions a word may evoke

d)

A generally harmless word that replaces an offensive or suggestive one

3.

Animal Farm: Which of the following characters best demonstrates the theme of power?

a)

Napoleon, the pigs, as well as the 9 dogs

b)

The sheep

c)

The hens

d)

Benjamin and Muriel

4.

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": "Man is inclined to repeat mistakes when given another chance," is a statement of the story's

a)

setting.

b)

theme.

c)

climax.

d)

main character.

5.

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": The best summary of this story might be:

a)

Dr. Heidegger proves that if given a second chance, people will change and be better.

b)

Old people like to get together and drink.

c)

Dr. Heidegger proves that people rarely change.

d)

Being young is better than being old.

6.

Parts of Speech: Choose prepositional phrase:

a)

beyond my understanding

b)

be my friend

c)

new textbook

d)

a difficult concept

7.

Parts of Speech: The words HE, HER, WE, and I are

a)

verbs

b)

adverbs

c)

nouns

d)

pronouns

8.

In-text Citations: Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source:

Tannen, Deborah. The Argument Culture. Toronto:

Random House, 1998.

a)

Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (Tannen 7).

b)

Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (7).

c)

Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (The Argument Culture 7).

d)

Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument: "In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas" (Tannen, p. 7).

9.

George Orwell: Because Orwell was a socialist and advocated equality among the working class,

a)

he decided to use the allegory form and become a writer.

b)

he decided to use symbolism and metaphors to make the meaning more clear.

c)

he used the principle of animal characters rather than real characters.

d)

he wrote Animal Farm to show Stalin's manipulation of socialist ideas.

10.

October Sky: What is the event that inspires Homer and his friends to build rockets?

a)

He learned about space in science

b)

President Kennedy was assinated

c)

Sputnik, the first satellite was launched into space

d)

They wanted to blow up stuff

11.

TKAM: "In the secret court of men's hearts Atticus had no case" demonstrates which of the following themes?

a)

Education

b)

Bravery

c)

Social prejudice

d)

Loss of innocence

12.

Red Scarf Girl: What is one of the main themse of the memoir?

a)

Supernatural events and luck can change people

b)

Fear causes suffering

c)

Honor thy mother and father above all else

d)

True love only comes to those who suffer

13.

Red Scarf Girl: Which historical event is the setting of Red Scarf Girl?

a)

The Russian Revolution

b)

The launch of Sputnik and the beginning of the Space Race

c)

The growing hostilities between Japan the the US prior to WWII

d)

The Chinese Cultural Revolution

14.

October Sky: Which is NOT a theme of October Sky?

a)

Self vs the community

b)

with hard work anything is possible

c)

the importance of family and parental support

d)

love everyone regardless of their faults

15.

TKAM: How is innocence one of the central themes?

a)

It is something that can be applied to every character

b)

This was the theme that is heavily referred to Boo Radley

c)

It's the theme that can be applied later at the end of the novel

d)

It shows how Jem and Scout change and mature over a short period of time

16.

TKAM: What does Jem learn from the incident with Mrs. Dubose?

a)

His father has many unknown talents.

b)

Jem and Scout have been too protected from the world.

c)

Jem's own prejudices are not based on a full understanding of a person.

d)

Mrs. Dubose loves him and wants to help him.

17.

Theme: What is theme?

a)

theme is like a tidal wave of thoughts.

b)

the moral of the story

c)

theme is the main idea.

d)

the story itself

18.

TKAM: Which of the following does not show that Boo Radley a hero?

a)

He covers Scout with a blanket as Miss Maudie's home burns

b)

He stops Bob Ewell from attacking Scout and Jem

c)

He stabs his father in the leg with scissors

d)

He leaves small gifts in the knot hole of the tree for the kids

19.

Parts of Speech: Which part of speech the the word RUNNING in the following sentence?

I couldn't hear her over the RUNNING water.

a)

verb

b)

adverb

c)

adjective

d)

noun

20.

George Orwell: Which of the following jobs that Orwell had influenced his decision to write about Stalin and the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm?

a)

grocer

b)

lawyer

c)

soldier

d)

singer

21.

Animal Farm: Which character symbolizes Marx, a revolutionary thinker whose ideas were the basis of the Russian revolution.

a)

Frederick

b)

Old Major

c)

Pilkington

d)

Boxer

22.

Animal Farm: Which character symbolizes Stalin, a political leader who ruled oppressively with fear and deception?

a)

Snowball

b)

Old Major

c)

Sqealer

d)

Napoleon

23.

Animal Farm: A government controls all material and food and is supposed to split fairly among people.

a)

communism

b)

democracy

c)

dictatorship

d)

theocracy

24.

October Sky: After WWII the two remaining superpowers that vied for dominance in space were

a)

China and Russia

b)

Russian and United States

c)

United States and China

d)

China and Japan

25.

Satire: What is this image satirizing?

a)

the expense of IPhones today

b)

the danger of playgrounds

c)

the lack of education for young children

d)

the overuse of technology today