English 3 Midterm Exam
Study Guide 2014
Directions: Review the terms and concepts for each unit below. The descriptions and sequence
of events are NOT in order. All quizzes may be reviewed after school with your teacher(s) from
2:05-2:35. Some questions will be pulled directly from past quizzes and study guides.
*See Attached Passages at end of Study Guide
1984 (25 Questions)
1. Matching:
Characters/Concepts:
 Winston
 Julia
 Mr. Charrington
 O’Brien
 Parsons
Descriptions:
 member of the Junior Antisex League
 Winston’s ex-wife
 loves Big Brother in the end
 Winston’s torturer
 children turn him in for a
thought crime
 where people are punished
for wrongdoing
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Big Brother
Newspeak
Goldstein
Ministry of Love
Katherine
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person that is the focus of the
Two-Minute Hate
rents an apartment out to
Julia and Winston
the figure that is always
“watching you”
rewriting and removing
current events and history
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2. True/False
3. Multiple Choice:
a. based on the following terms: plot, theme, paradox, characterization, tone and
mood, symbolism
b. Passages:
i. “It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes
follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
YOU, the caption beneath it ran.” (Orwell 1-2)
ii. “WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS
STRENGTH” (Orwell 27)
iii. “’Of all horrors in the world—a rat!’” (Orwell 144)* Spoken by
Winston
iv. “’You asked me once,” said O’Brien, ‘what was in Room 101. I told
you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing
that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.’” (Orwell 283)
*Spoken by O’Brien
v. “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was
finished. He had won the victory over himself. He love Big Brother.”
(Orwell 297)
The Language Police (15 Questions)
1. ****SEE PAST QUIZZES ****
2. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: purpose, thesis, irony, tone and mood,
symbolism, point of view/perspective, support
Anglo-Saxon Background (10-15 Questions)
1. ****SEE PAST QUIZZES ****
2. Multiple Choice: all terms and definitions on outline, start date, end date, significant
forms of literature, feudal system and questions directly pulled from quizzes.
Beowulf (30-40 Questions)
1. ****SEE PAST QUIZZES/TESTS ****
2. Multiple Choice and/or True False
 Anglo-Saxon History
 Hero’s Journey
 Content
3. Terms:
 Kenning
 Caesura
 Alliteration
 Allusion
 Anglo-Saxon leader
 Imagery
 Simile
 Metaphor
 Comitatus
4. Sequence of Events:
 Grendel terrorizes Herot.
 Hrothgar seeks Beowulf’s help a second time
 Battle with Grendel
 Battle with Dragon
 Battle with Grendel’s Mother
 Man steals golden cup from Dragon
 Beowulf is King of Geatland
 Hrothgar’s friend is killed
 A memorial is built in memory of Beowulf
 Beowulf decapitates Grendel
5. Multiple Choice:
 How is Beowulf a successful Anglo-Saxon leader? Give specific references to
major plot points in the epic poem.
 Discuss the theme of good v. evil in Beowulf. Explain how the characters
represent the ideas of good and evil along with the battle between good and evil.
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Poetry (20-30 Questions)
1. ****SEE PAST QUIZZES ****
2. Poems: “The Seafarer,” “The Wife’s Lament,” “Wulf and Eadwacer,” “Bonny Barbara
Allan,” “The Twa Corbies,” “I Sing of a Maiden,”“Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt?,”“Sir
Patrick Spens”
3. True/False
4. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: plot, theme, characterization, tone
and mood, symbolism
Everyman (15 Questions)
1. ****SEE PAST QUIZZES/TESTS ****
2. True/False
3. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: plot, theme, paradox,
characterization, tone and mood, symbolism
Medieval Background (20 Questions)
1. ****SEE PAST QUIZZES ****
2. Multiple Choice: all terms and definitions on prezi, start date, end date, significant forms
of literature, feudal system and questions directly pulled from Prezi on-line
http://prezi.com/u_ehyg5gvefl/medieval-period/
“The Enron Effect” (5 Questions)
1. True/False based on the following terms: purpose, support, point of view
The Conversion of King Edwin (20 Questions)
1. ****SEE PAST QUIZZES ****
2. True/False
3. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: purpose, thesis, irony, tone and mood,
symbolism, point of view/perspective, support
Vocabulary (50 Questions)
1. Matching: Lists are on Word Wall
2. Multiple Choice: fill in the blank
“The Enron Effect” (5 Questions)
1. True/False based on the following terms: purpose, support, point of view
Passages
1984
Passage 1:
“Look, Katherine! Look at those flowers. That clump down near the bottom. Do you see
they’re two different colors?”
She had already turned to go, but she did rather fretfully come back for a moment. She
even leaned out over the cliff face to see where he was pointing. He was standing a little behind
her, and he put his hand on her waist to steady her. At this moment it suddenly occurred to him
how completely alone they were. There was not a human creature anywhere, not a leaf stirring,
not even a bird awake. In a place like this the danger that there would be a hidden microphone
was very small, and even if there was a microphone the it would only pick up sounds. It was the
hottest, sleepiest hour of the afternoon. The sun blazed down upon them, the sweat tickled his
face. And the thought struck him…
“Why didn’t you give her a good shove?” said Julia. “I would have.”
“Yes, dear, you would have. I would have, if I’d been the same person then as I am now.
Or perhaps I would—I’m not certain.”
“Are you sorry you didn’t?”
“Yes. On the whole I’m sorry I didn’t.”
They were sitting side by side on the dusty floor. He pulled her closer against him. Her
head rested on his shoulder, the pleasant smell of her hair conquering the pigeon dung. She was
very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to
push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
- Orwell 119-120
Passage 2:
“You can turn around now,” said Julia.
He turned round, and for a second almost failed to recognize her. What he had actually
expected was to see her naked. But she was not naked. The transformation that had happened
was much more surprising than that. She had painted her face.
She must have slipped into some shop in the proletarian quarters and bought herself a
complete set of makeup materials. Her lips were deeply reddened, her cheeks rouged, her nose
powdered; there was even a touch of something under the eyes to make them brighter. It was not
very skillfully done, but Winston’s standards in such matters were not high. He had never before
seen or imagined a woman of the Party with cosmetics on her face. The improvement in her
appearance was startling. With just a few dabs of color in the right places she had become not
only very much prettier, but, above all, far more feminine. Her short hair and boyish overalls
merely added to the effect. As he took her in his arms a wave of synthetic violets flooded his
nostrils. He remembered the half-darkness of a basement kitchen and a woman’s cavernous
mouth. It was the very same scent that she had use; but at the moment it did not seem to matter.
“Scent, too!” he said.
“Yes, dear, scent, too. And do you know what I’m going to do next? I’m going to get
hold of a real woman’s frock from somewhere and wear it instead of these bloody trousers. I’ll
wear silk stockings and high-heeled shoes! In this room I’m going to be a woman, not a Party
comrade.”
- Orwell 126
The Language Police
Passage 1:
“I decided to write this book as a way of solving a mystery. After many years of studying the
history of education and writing about the politics of education, I discovered some things that
shocked me. Almost by accident, I stumbled upon an elaborate, well-established protocol of
beneficent censorship, quietly endorsed and broadly implemented by textbook publishers, testing
agencies, professional associations, states, and the federal government.”
- Ravitch 1
Passage 2:
“As John Adams memorably wrote in 1765, ‘Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write…Let
every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing’. Even in our schools.”
- Ravitch 170
Passage 3:
“It may not have been true in 1980, but it is certainly true now that girls and women participate
actively in sports, the military, the law, finance, and other fields. Excluding these topics as too
‘male’ is itself a gross form of stereotyping. These are not highly specialized topics that are
somehow specific to guys; they are topics that everyone should know about.”
- Ravitch 55
Passage 4:
“There is a saying among educators that what is tested determines what is taught. If that is true,
then we can well understand why ‘what is taught’ today lacks depth. …This overloaded social
agenda helps to explain why so many standardized tests today probe little more than basic skills.
Depth, complexity, and subtlety have been ruled out.”
Passage 3:
Winston did not get up for a few minutes more. The room was darkening. He turned
over toward the light and lay gazing into the glass paperweight. The inexhaustibly interesting
thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself. There was such a depth of
it, and yet it was almost as transparent as air. It was as though the surface of the glass had been
the arch of the sky, enclosing a tiny world with its atmosphere complete. He had the feeling that
he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the
gateleg table and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself. The paperweight
was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at
the heart of the crystal.
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Orwell 130
Personal Response:
Based on your reading, draw a conclusion about freedom. Prove it.