Freshman A Final Review Guide
The Final:
-65 Multiple Choice Questions
-1 Essay (CEI structure; intro, 2 body paragraphs, 1 conclusion use 3 different texts and 4 examples)
Intro paragraph, 2 body, conclusion paragraph
This will involve using examples (from memory) of the texts that you read this year. Therefore, you will not have to directly quote but you will use detailed descriptions of examples from the book(s) to support
Research and Writing (31 Questions)
-Source Card Format
-Note Card Format
-MLA Format
-Heading
-Margins
-Title
-Font
-Quote Weaves
-Creating a Works Cited and Bibliography
-Reading a Works Cited
-Finding Sources
-Source Credibility
A Raisin in the Sun (26 Questions)
-Plot Recall and Reading Comprehension
-Quote Identification
-Walter, Beneatha, Mama, Asagai, Lidner, Travis, and Ruth
-Making Inferences
Cold Read (9 Questions)
-Vocabulary in Context
-Claim
-Audience
-Ethos, Pathos, Logos
-Author’s Purpose
Literature Circle Book (5 Questions)-plot

9 of the following 20 quotes are on the Final Exam
Good Luck
“At times it will seem that nothing changes at all...and then again...sudden dramatic events which makes history leap into the future. And then quiet again.”
“I don’t flit! I--I experiment with different forms of expression--“
“Sometimes it’s like I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just plain as day. The future, Mama. Hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me – a big, looming blank space – full of nothing.”
“Sometimes it’s like I can see the future stretched out in front of me-- just plain as day...Just waiting for me --a big, looming blank space-full of nothing.”
I say I been wrong, son. That I been doing to you what the rest of the world been doing to you. Walter – what you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. . . . There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else – if it means – if it means it’s going to destroy my boy. . . . I’m telling you to be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be.”
“But you’ve got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way.”
“That’s it. There you are. Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. Man say: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work. Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his woman say – Your eggs is getting cold!”
“So you butchered up a dream of mine- you- who always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams...”
“When do you think is the time to love somebody the most, when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well, then, you ain’t through learning-- because that ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in his self ‘cause the world done whipped him so.”
“Now you say after me, in my mother’s house there is still God.”
“And we have decided to move into our house because my father – my father – he earned it for us brick by brick. We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. We don’t want your money.”
“Once upon a time freedom used to be life- now it’s money.”
“Man, I trusted you . . . Man, I put my life in your hands . . . Man . . . THAT MONEY IS MADE OUT OF MY FATHER’S FLESH –“
“Then isn’t there something wrong in a house – in a world! – where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man? I never thought to see you like this, Alaiyo.”
“Damn all the eggs that ever was.”
“Independence and then what? What about all the crooks and thieves and just plain idiots who will come into power and steal and plunder the same as before – only now they will be black and do it in the name of the new Independence – WHAT ABOUT THEM?!”
“What you need me to say you done right for? You the head of this family. You run our lives like you want to. It was your money and you did what you wanted with it. So what you need for me to say it was all right for? So you butchered up a dream of mine – you – who always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams . . .”
“Well – well! – All I can say is – if this is my time in life – MY TIME – to say good-bye – to these goddamned cracking walls! – and these marching roaches! – and this cramped little closet which ain’t now or never was no kitchen! . . . then I say it loud and good, HALLELUJAH!
AND GOOD-BYE MISERY . . . I DON’T NEVER WANT TO SEE YOUR UGLY FACE AGAIN!”
"He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain..."
"He talked Brotherhood. He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down