WorksheetsFinal Exam - 1st Period
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 16mins
Animal Farm: What is an allegory?
Repetition of one or more words at the beginning of sentences/phrases
The use of dissimilar images in order to contrast their differences
A paradox reduced to two words
A story in which the characters and events represent particular qualities or ideas
Animal Farm: What is a satire?
A way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point
Words that refer to ideas, qualities, attitudes, and conditions that cannot be perceived with the senses
The associations and emotions a word may evoke
A generally harmless word that replaces an offensive or suggestive one
Animal Farm: Which of the following characters best demonstrates the theme of power?
Napoleon, the pigs, as well as the 9 dogs
The sheep
The hens
Benjamin and Muriel
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": "Man is inclined to repeat mistakes when given another chance," is a statement of the story's
setting.
theme.
climax.
main character.
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment": The best summary of this story might be:
Dr. Heidegger proves that if given a second chance, people will change and be better.
Old people like to get together and drink.
Dr. Heidegger proves that people rarely change.
Being young is better than being old.
Parts of Speech: Choose prepositional phrase:
beyond my understanding
be my friend
new textbook
a difficult concept
Parts of Speech: The words HE, HER, WE, and I are
verbs
adverbs
nouns
pronouns
In-text Citations: Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source:
Tannen, Deborah. The Argument Culture. Toronto:
Random House, 1998.
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).
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).
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).
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).
George Orwell: Because Orwell was a socialist and advocated equality among the working class,
he decided to use the allegory form and become a writer.
he decided to use symbolism and metaphors to make the meaning more clear.
he used the principle of animal characters rather than real characters.
he wrote Animal Farm to show Stalin's manipulation of socialist ideas.
October Sky: What is the event that inspires Homer and his friends to build rockets?
He learned about space in science
President Kennedy was assinated
Sputnik, the first satellite was launched into space
They wanted to blow up stuff
TKAM: "In the secret court of men's hearts Atticus had no case" demonstrates which of the following themes?
Education
Bravery
Social prejudice
Loss of innocence
Red Scarf Girl: What is one of the main themse of the memoir?
Supernatural events and luck can change people
Fear causes suffering
Honor thy mother and father above all else
True love only comes to those who suffer
Red Scarf Girl: Which historical event is the setting of Red Scarf Girl?
The Russian Revolution
The launch of Sputnik and the beginning of the Space Race
The growing hostilities between Japan the the US prior to WWII
The Chinese Cultural Revolution
October Sky: Which is NOT a theme of October Sky?
Self vs the community
with hard work anything is possible
the importance of family and parental support
love everyone regardless of their faults
TKAM: How is innocence one of the central themes?
It is something that can be applied to every character
This was the theme that is heavily referred to Boo Radley
It's the theme that can be applied later at the end of the novel
It shows how Jem and Scout change and mature over a short period of time
TKAM: What does Jem learn from the incident with Mrs. Dubose?
His father has many unknown talents.
Jem and Scout have been too protected from the world.
Jem's own prejudices are not based on a full understanding of a person.
Mrs. Dubose loves him and wants to help him.
Theme: What is theme?
theme is like a tidal wave of thoughts.
the moral of the story
theme is the main idea.
the story itself
TKAM: Which of the following does not show that Boo Radley a hero?
He covers Scout with a blanket as Miss Maudie's home burns
He stops Bob Ewell from attacking Scout and Jem
He stabs his father in the leg with scissors
He leaves small gifts in the knot hole of the tree for the kids
Parts of Speech: Which part of speech the the word RUNNING in the following sentence?
I couldn't hear her over the RUNNING water.
verb
adverb
adjective
noun
George Orwell: Which of the following jobs that Orwell had influenced his decision to write about Stalin and the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm?
grocer
lawyer
soldier
singer
Animal Farm: Which character symbolizes Marx, a revolutionary thinker whose ideas were the basis of the Russian revolution.
Frederick
Old Major
Pilkington
Boxer
Animal Farm: Which character symbolizes Stalin, a political leader who ruled oppressively with fear and deception?
Snowball
Old Major
Sqealer
Napoleon
Animal Farm: A government controls all material and food and is supposed to split fairly among people.
communism
democracy
dictatorship
theocracy
October Sky: After WWII the two remaining superpowers that vied for dominance in space were
China and Russia
Russian and United States
United States and China
China and Japan
Satire: What is this image satirizing?
the expense of IPhones today
the danger of playgrounds
the lack of education for young children
the overuse of technology today
