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Q2 Final MC Power of Lit

Total questions: 97

Worksheet time: 55mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness"

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

2.

"Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

3.

"Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamb-like disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

4.

"...education and slavery were incompatible."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

5.

"...in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

6.

"It is almost an unpardonable offence to teach slaves to read in this Christian country ."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

7.

"I read them over and over again with unabated interest. They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

8.

"The moral I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience..."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

9.

"The reading of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward..."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

10.

"The reading of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward..."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

11.

"The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

12.

"...learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing... Anything, no matter what to to get rid of thinking!"

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

13.

"I saw nothing without seeing it

I heard nothing without hearing it.

I felt nothing without feeling it

I found myself regretting my own existence and wishing myself dead"

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

14.

"The light broke upon me by degrees."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

15.

"Thus, after a long and tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write.."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

16.

"I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey..."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

17.

"I had commanded attention when I said something. But now, trying to write simple English, I not only wasn't articulate, I wasn't even functional."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

18.

"Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I tried to emulate him."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

19.

"When I just skipped those words [I didn't know], of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

20.

"I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words - immensely proud to realize I that not only had I written so much at one time, but I'd written words that I never knew were in the world."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

21.

"...it was inevitable that as my word base broadened, I could for the first time...understand what the book was saying."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

22.

"In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life"

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

23.

"When white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

24.

"I never will forget how shocked I was when I began reading about slavery's total horror."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

25.

"Nat Turner wasn't going around preaching pie-in-the-sky and "non-violent freedom for the black man."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

26.

"I read the histories of various nations, which opened my eyes gradually, then wider and wider..."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

27.

"Reading had changed forever the course of my life."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

28.

"I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Kelly Gallagher

"Readicide"

d)

W.E.B.

DuBois

e)

Booker T. Washington

29.

How did things turn out? 

How did the protagonist grow or change?

30.

The moment the conflict is resolved

31.

A significant or decisive moment when the course of events changes and causes change in the character.

32.

Things that makes it more difficult for the protagonist

33.

Main problem afflicting the protagonist:

34.

Setting + Characterization = ?

35.

Place each element in proper order on the Plot line.

36.

Focuses on the protagonist, who they are, why they act as they do, and how they change.

a)

Story

b)

Plot

c)

Narrative

37.

Focuses on the sequence of events.

a)

Story

b)

Plot

c)

Narrative

38.

How the the story is told.

a)

Story

b)

Plot

c)

Narrative

39.

The time, place, and mood of the story are all part of the

(a)  

40.

The main character in the story is called the...

(a)  

41.

The person that causes the conflict for the protagonist is called the...

(a)  

42.

Undeveloped characters placed in the story to set the scene or drive the action.

(a)  

43.

A character in the story created to highlight certain important traits in the protagonist.

(a)  

44.

A complex and well developed character in a story is called...

(a)  

45.

An undeveloped and uncomplex character in the story is called...

(a)  

46.

A character that changes of the course of the story is called...

(a)  

47.

A character that does NOT change of the course of the story is called...

(a)  

48.

Match the following

a)

Main Idea

1.

What the story is mostly about.

b)

Theme

2.

The lesson we learn from the story.

c)

motif

3.

A reoccurring idea used to create theme

d)

Topic

4.

One idea or subject in a story.

49.

Reorder the following

a)

Conflict

b)

Complications

c)

Turning Point

d)

Climax

e)

Resolution

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
50.

Which word is synonym for compel?

a)

Exonerate

b)

Rob

c)

Detest

d)

Force

51.

Which word is synonym for emancipate?

a)

Liberate

b)

Rob

c)

Detest

d)

Force

52.

Which word is synonym for divest?

a)

Liberate

b)

Rob

c)

Detest

d)

Force

53.

Which word is synonym for hate?

a)

Liberate

b)

Rob

c)

Abhor

d)

Force

54.

Which word is synonym for injurious?

a)

Begin

b)

Transformed

c)

consider

d)

Harmful

55.

Which word is synonym for commence?

a)

Begin

b)

Transformed

c)

consider

d)

Harmful

56.

Which word is synonym for contemplate?

a)

Begin

b)

Transformed

c)

consider

d)

Harmful

57.

Which word is synonym for converted?

a)

Begin

b)

Transformed

c)

consider

d)

Harmful

58.

Which word is synonym for unabated?

a)

Exonerate

b)

Unstoppable

c)

Saintly

d)

Unhappy

59.

Which word is synonym for discontent?

a)

Exonerate

b)

Unstoppable

c)

Saintly

d)

Unhappy

60.

Which word is synonym for vindicate?

a)

Exonerate

b)

Unstoppable

c)

Saintly

d)

Unhappy

61.

Which word is synonym for pious?

a)

Exonerate

b)

Unstoppable

c)

Saintly

d)

Unhappy

62.

Which word is synonym for apprehension?

a)

Fear

b)

Condemnation

c)

Brat

d)

Conforming

63.

Which word is synonym for compliance?

a)

Fear

b)

Condemnation

c)

Brat

d)

Conforming

64.

Frederick Douglass was born...

a)

before the civil war

b)

during the civil war

c)

after the civil war

65.

Synonym for collect

a)

Acquire

b)

Articulate

c)

Functional

d)

Emulate

66.

Synonym for coherent

a)

Acquire

b)

Articulate

c)

Functional

d)

Emulate

67.

Synonym for practical

a)

Acquire

b)

Articulate

c)

Functional

d)

Emulate

68.

Synonym for imitate

a)

Acquire

b)

Articulate

c)

Functional

d)

Emulate

69.

Synonym for inescapable

a)

Inevitable

b)

Broadened

c)

Emphasis

d)

Astonished

70.

Synonym for unavoidable

a)

Inevitable

b)

Broadened

c)

Emphasis

d)

Astonished

71.

Synonym for expanded

a)

Inevitable

b)

Broadened

c)

Emphasis

d)

Astonished

72.

Synonym for awestruck

a)

Inevitable

b)

Broadened

c)

Emphasis

d)

Astonished

73.

Synonym for focus

a)

Inevitable

b)

Broadened

c)

Emphasis

d)

Astonished

74.

Synonym for understood

a)

Perceived

b)

Initiated

c)

Devour

d)

Isolation

75.

Synonym for started

a)

Perceived

b)

Initiated

c)

Devour

d)

Isolation

76.

Synonym for consume

a)

Perceived

b)

Initiated

c)

Devour

d)

Isolation

77.

Synonym for solitude

a)

Perceived

b)

Initiated

c)

Devour

d)

Isolation

78.

Synonym for captivating

a)

Engrossing

b)

Fascinated

c)

Atrocities

d)

Eloquent

79.

Synonym for enthralled

a)

Engrossing

b)

Fascinated

c)

Atrocities

d)

Eloquent

80.

Synonym for heinous crime

a)

Engrossing

b)

Fascinated

c)

Atrocities

d)

Eloquent

81.

Synonym for sophisticated

a)

Engrossing

b)

Fascinated

c)

Atrocities

d)

Eloquent

82.

Synonym for humiliated

a)

Degraded

b)

Carnage

c)

Exploitation

d)

Dormant

83.

Synonym for pretend

a)

Feigned

b)

Convey

c)

Arrogant

d)

Vicious

84.

Synonym for proud

a)

Feigned

b)

Convey

c)

Arrogant

d)

Vicious

85.

Synonym for conceited

a)

Feigned

b)

Convey

c)

Arrogant

d)

Vicious

86.

Synonym for cruel

a)

Feigned

b)

Convey

c)

Arrogant

d)

Vicious

87.

"...I not only wasn't articulate, I wasn't even functional"

  • - Malcom X (p.257).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

88.

"I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying."

  • - Malcom X (p.259).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

c)

Hard work is required

89.

"It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed"

  • - Malcom X (p.259).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

c)

Hard work is required

90.

"I woke up the next morning, thinking about those words - immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but I'd written words that I never knew were in the world"

  • - Malcom X (p.258).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

c)

Hard work is required

91.

"In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed"

  • - Malcom X (p.258).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

c)

Hard work is required

92.

"I'd never realized so many words existed! I didn't know which words I needed to learn"

  • - Malcom X (p.258).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

c)

Hard work is necessary

93.

"I'd never realized so many words existed! I didn't know which words I needed to learn"

  • - Malcom X (p.258).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

94.

" When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said"

  • - Malcom X (p.258).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

95.

"Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversations he was in, and I had tried to emulate him"

  • - Malcom X (p.258).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

96.

"I became increasingly frustrated. at not being able to express what I wanted to convey..."

  • - Malcom X (p.257).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience

97.

"...I not only wasn't articulate, I wasn't even functional"

  • - Malcom X (p.257).

a)

Power of Literature

b)

The power of truth over conscience