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English 9
Final Exam
NAME:________________________________
DATE:________________________
2004-2005 English 9 Final Exam (150 Points Possible)
I Prose Literary Terms (20 Items x 1 Point Each = 20 Points Possible)
Directions: Match the correct literary term to the correct description. Write the appropriate letter into the appropriate space.
Final Answers must be provided on the answer sheet.
1)
_____ Picaresque
A) A character who does not possess the stereotypical qualities of a hero.
2)
_____ Regionalism
B) A character who is multidimensional, like Maya from I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings
3)
_____ Flat Character
C) A story that does not follow a traditional plot chart
4)
_____ Indirect Presentation
D) A style of writing where the location is central to the stories being told
5)
_____ Framing
E) The process of developing characters in a story
6)
_____ Antihero
F) The details of a particular region, e.g., accents, clothes, occupations, religion,
social structures, that help define the setting for a particular story
7)
_____ Local Color
G) a technique of beginning and ending a piece of writing in the same place
8)
_____ Round Character
H) A character who is one-dimensional, like Tybalt, from Romeo and Juliet
9)
_____ Characterization
I) A technique of introducing a character by way of dialogue and action, rather
than by simply describing him/her/it
10) _____ Protagonist
J) A recurring symbol, idea, image, theme, etc.
11) _____ Setting
K) A reference to a piece of art or historical event that the author intends for the
reader to recognize
12) _____ Motif
13) _____ Point of View
L) The struggle between opposing forces that dictates the action in a piece of
literature
14) _____ Symbol
M) The principal or central character in a literary work
15) _____ Foreshadowing
N) A hint or suggestion of what will happen in the future
16) _____ Foil
O) The temporal (time), physical and social environment in which a story takes
place
17) _____ Plot Chart
18) _____ Allusion
P) A character or force in a piece of literature that works in opposition to
the protagonist
19) _____ Conflict
Q) The perspective from which a story is told (e.g., first person, third person)
20) _____ Antagonist
R) Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
S) A character who, by contrast, points out the qualities or characteristics of
another character
T) Something that stands for both itself and something else
-2II.
Prose Passages (10 Items x 1 Point Each = 10 Points Possible)
Directions: If at the beginning of the second semester you read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, then read the excerpt from I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings below. Afterward, answer the questions that follow this excerpt. If at the beginning of the second
semester you read A Gathering of Old Men, then read the excerpt from A Gathering of Old Men below. Afterward, answer the
questions that follow this excerpt. ONLY RESPOND TO ONE PASSAGE AND ONE ANSWER SET—NOT BOTH.
Final Answers must be provided on the answer sheet.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (pp. 266-267)
In the offices of the Market Street Railway Company, the receptionist seemed as surprised to see me there
as I was surprised to find the interior dingy and the décor drab. Somehow I had expected waxed surfaces and
carpeted floors. If I had met no resistance, I might have decided against working for such a poor-mouth-looking
concern. As it was, I explained that I had come to see about a job. She asked, was I sent by an agency, and when I
replied that I was not, she told me they were only accepting applicants from agencies.
The classified pages of the morning papers had listed advertisements for motorettes and conductorettes and
I reminded her of that. She gave me a face full of astonishment that my suspicious nature would not accept.
“I am applying for the job listed in this morning’s Chronicle and I’d like to be presented to your personnel
manager.” While I spoke in supercilious accents, and looked at the room as if I had an oil well in my own backyard,
my armpits were being pricked by millions of hot pointed needles. She saw her escape and dived into it.
“He’s out. He’s out for the day. You might call tomorrow and if he’s in, I’m sure you can see him.” Then
she swiveled her chair around on its rusty screws and with that I was supposed to be dismissed.
“May I ask his name?”
She half turned, acting surprised to find me still there.
“His name? Whose name?”
“Your personnel manager.”
We were firmly joined in the hypocrisy to play out the scene.
“The personnel manager? Oh, he’s Mr. Cooper, but I’m not sure you’ll find him here tomorrow. He’s
…Oh, but you can try.”
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
And I was out of the musty room and into the even mustier lobby. In the street I saw the receptionist and
myself going faithfully through paces that were stale with familiarity, although I had never encountered that kind of
situation before and, probably, neither had she. We were like actors who, knowing the play by heart, were still able
to cry afresh over the old tragedies and laugh spontaneously at the comic situations.
The miserable little encounter had nothing to do with me, the me of me, any more than it had to do with
that silly clerk. The incident was a recurring dream, concocted years before by stupid whites and it eternally came
back to haunt us all. The secretary and I were like Hamlet and Laertes in the final scene, where, because of harm
done by one ancestor to another, we were bound to duel to the death. Also because the play must end somewhere.
I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer.
On the streetcar, I put my fare into the box and the conductorette looked at me with the usual hard eyes of
white contempt. “Move into the car, please move on in the car.” She patted her money changer.
Her Southern nasal accent sliced my meditation and I looked deep into my thoughts. All lies, all
comfortable lies. The receptionist was not innocent and neither was I. The whole charade we had played out in that
crummy waiting room had directly to do with me, Black, and her, white.
I wouldn’t move into the street car but stood on the ledge over the conductor, glaring. My mind shouted so
energetically that the announcement made my veins stand out, and my mouth tighten in a prune.
I WOULD HAVE THE JOB. I WOULD BE A CONDUCTORETTE AND SLING A BAG FULL
MONEY CHANGER FROM MY BELT. I WOULD.
Motorette – a woman who drives a streetcar
Conductorette – a woman who works on a streetcar, collecting money from passengers
-321) When Angelou writes, “The secretary and I were like Hamlet and Laertes in the final scene…,” she is referring
to the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. This is an example of:
A) Symbol
B) Picaresque
C) Allusion
D) Conflict
22)
A)
B)
C)
D)
When Angelou describing the secretary, “Her Southern nasal accent sliced my meditation…,” this is an example of :
Direct Characterization
Flat Character
Foil
Setting
23) Angelou writes that, “The whole charade we had played out in that crummy waiting room had directly to do
with me, Black, and her, white.” (A charade is a game where people try to act out activities and others try to guess what
they are doing.) The use of charade here is an example of:
A) Alliteration
B) Setting
C) Characterization
D) Metaphor
24)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The social setting of this excerpt reflects:
friendliness
equality
racism
sexism
25)
A)
B)
C)
D)
Angelou’s use of capital letters at the end of the excerpt has the following effect:
determination
powerlessness
fear
nervousness
26)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The tone of the actual dialogue (the conversation in quote marks) on the surface seems to be:
hostile
polite
pedantic
loving
27) Angelou writes, “While I spoke in supercilious accents, and looked at the room as if I had an oil well in my own
backyard, my armpits were being pricked by millions of hot pointed needles.” Based on the context, supercilious most
likely means:
A) scared
B) strong
C) arrogant
D) fake
28) When Angelou writes, “I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same
puppeteer,” the puppeteer is most likely:
A) an actual person who controls puppets
B) Uncle Willie
C) Mr. Cooper
D) The rules of white society
-429)
A)
B)
C)
D)
When Angelou writes “We were like actors who, knowing the play by heart…,” she means that she and the secretary are:
Going through motions that society dictates they go through
Actually acting in a play
About to actually act in a play
using colloquial language
30)
A)
B)
C)
D)
“My mind shouted so energetically” is an example of:
foil
antihero
personification
denotation
A Gathering of Old Men (125-128)
I saw now why Griffin had nodded his head; it was Miss Merle. After stopping just a little past where the gate used to
be, she sat in the car awhile watching us. She did it just the way everyone else had done it, even though this was her second
time seeing it. Then she got out with a basket covered with a dish towel, and she was already fussing. The first person she
came up to was Griffin, and she told him something, and Griffin went back to the car and got another basket covered with a
dish towel, and came into the yard with the basket in one hand and the gun in the other, and you could see Mapes looking at
him as if he were wondering if he actually needed Griffin the rest of the day. Miss Merle didn’t come up to Mapes, or Candy, or
me first, she started dishing out sandwiches to the first one she came to. I supposed she felt that since we were all conspirators
together, one was no better than the other, so she just started dishing out the sandwiches to the first person she got to, and
fussing all the time.
“Just look at this, I mean just look at this—just look at it.” Dishing out sandwiches and fussing. “I hope you like ham
and cheese, because there isn’t anything else. Just look at that. I mean just look at that. Hurry up with that other basket,” she
said, over her shoulder to Griffin. Griffin brought her the full basket, and she handed him the empty one. So Griffin was
standing there with an empty basket in one hand and a loaded revolver in the other. “Can’t you put that thing away for a
second?” Miss Merle asked him. “Who are you going to shoot, the hog?”
“No, Ma’am,” Griffin said.
“Just look at that,” Miss Merle said, looking at Griffin. Then she looked at the rest of us. “Just look at that.”
She was dishing out sandwiches again. The sandwiches were neatly wrapped in wax paper. There were lettuce and
tomatoes on the ham and cheese.
“And you,” she said to Candy. “Just look at you. Just look at you.”
Candy took the sandwich without looking Miss Merle in the face. Miss Merle shook her head disgustedly, and turned
to Mapes.
“Here. You better have two. But there ain’t no beer.”
Mapes spat out a piece of white candy that was about as thick as a contact lens.
“Water is good,” he said. “You don’t mind, do you, Mathu?”
“Snookum, go get me that jug of ice water out the icebox,” Mathu said. “And bring couple them jelly glasses out the
safe.”
Snookum left the porch eating. All the rest of us were eating. Not one there was not eating. Mapes, Candy, Mathu,
Griffin, the old men, the old women, the children—everybody was eating. We were all hungry.
“You ever seen anything like it?” Miss Merle asked herself. “Have you? Lord, have mercy. Well?” she said to Mapes.
“They’re good,” Mapes said. “Who made them?”
“Janey and—“ But she stopped. Now she just looked at him. Southern women, black or white, can look at you like
that. Like they’re thinking that you or they, one of you, should not be standing on the same planet at the same time.
“Do you see that sun?” she asked Mapes.
The house shadow had crossed the road where the tractor and trailers were.
“About another hour,” Mapes said
Snookum came back with the jug and glasses, and poured Mapes some water. Then he stood before Miss Merle, but
she was paying too much attention to Mapes to notice him. She could not see how Mapes ended up being on the same planet
at the same time.
“Have another one?” Snookum said to her.
She jerked around. “What?” she said angrily.
Sammich,” he said. Candy didn’t pay me nothing for going—“ He glanced at Mapes and stopped.
Miss Merle did not try to figure out what he was talking about. She just looked at him like they did not belong on the
same planet at the same time. Snookum held out his hand, waiting. His little black face dusty, his twisted little curls dusty, the
-5little hand grimy. Miss Merle looked up and down. She didn’t want to feel pity. There were too many others deserving pity.
Where would she stop?
“Here,” she said, pushing a sandwich into his hand. “Now, get away from me.”
“Lou can stand another one, too,” Mapes said.
“What?” Miss Merle said, turning on Mapes.
Mapes went on chewing. The left corner of Miss Merle’s mouth quivered from tension. She was sure God had made
a mistake putting her here at the same time He did Mapes. Mapes was not thinking about it. He went on eating.
“Here,” Miss Merle said to me. “Pass them out.”
I put one of the sandwiches on the porch next to where I was standing; then I went around with the basket. Most of
the people refused to take a second one. They were still hungry, but there were not enough sandwiches for everyone to have
two, so most of the people declined a second one until the basket had made the round. Then Miss Merle took it from me and
went to the different people who looked hungriest to her. She was still fussing.
“Just look at this. Jesus, will you just look at this. Here. Here. Lord, just look at this. Here, Clabber, Here, Clatoo.
Dirty Red, take this. Jesus, will you just look at this.”
She came back to the steps where Mapes was leaning leisurely back against the porch. His pump gun was propped
against the steps.
“There is no dessert,” she said. “There’s not enough of that pie for all of you and—“ She stopped. Why did she have
to explain anything to anybody? Why did she even waste her time bringing us sandwiches? “Jesus, you ever seen anything like
this in all your born days?” she asked herself. “You satisfied now, you and your army?” she suddenly turned on Candy.
Candy ate her sandwich while gazing down at the ground. She did not answer.
“How long is this charade going on?” Miss Merle snapped at Mapes.
21) We know that when Snookum refers to a “Sammich,” he is talking about a sandwich. This use of language is similar to
Salinger having Holden say “Sonovabitch” instead of son of a bitch. The following describes a common expression or
realistic (regional) language use:
A) alliteration
B) simile
C) colloquialism
D) metaphor
22) When Lou Dimes thinks to himself, “Southern women, black or white, can look at you like that. Like they’re thinking that
you or they, one of you, should not be standing on the same planet at the same time.,” he is not speaking literally but
rather:
A) hyperbolically
B) onomatopoetically
C) alliteratively
D) denotatively
23) Miss Merle’s tone can best be described as:
A) supportive
B) intrigued
C) happy
D) exasperated
24) Two groups of people politely sharing a meal who, a moment ago, were locked in a bitter, violent struggle presents a mood
that is:
A) Pessimistic
B) Persuasive
C) Ironic
D) Passionate
25) Miss Merle asks Mapes, “How long is this charade going on?” (a charade is a game where people try to act out activities
and others try to guess what they are doing.). The use of charade here is an example of:
A) Metaphor
B) Setting
C) Characterization
D) Alliteration
26)
A)
B)
C)
D)
What is the point of view in this excerpt?
First person plural
First person singular
Third person singular
Third person plural
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27) Based on your knowledge of the text, the dialogue below most likely is which of the following for the reader?
“Do you see that sun?” she asked Mapes.
The house shadow had crossed the road where the tractor and trailers were.
“About another hour,” Mapes said
A) personification
B) allusion
C) foreshadowing
D) hyperbole
28)
A)
B)
C)
D)
For the reader, the entrance of Miss Merle into this scene does which of the following?
Increases the tension
Adds tension that was not there
Keeps the tension exactly the same
Decreases the tension
29)
A)
B)
C)
D)
Holding a gun in one hand and a basket of sandwiches in the other makes Griffin look:
silly
threatening
strong
scared
30)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The conflict in this scene is
person vs. person
person vs. society
both A and B
Neither A nor B
III. Poetry Term Identification (10 Items x 1 Point Each = 10 Points Possible)
Directions: Read each definition on the right and match its letter to the correct term on the left. Final Answers must be
provided on the answer sheet.
31) _____ Rhythm
A) four lines of a poem (often following a specific rhyme scheme)
32) _____ Meter
B) A meter in poetry that includes five iambs per line
33) _____ Foot
C) A basic unit of measurement in poetry consisting of at least one
accented syllable and one or more unaccented syllables
34) _____ Iamb
35) _____ Quatrain
D) Any wave-like recurrence of sound or motion
E) A rigidly-structured 14-line poem used extensively by William Shakespeare
36) _____ Couplet
37) _____ Scansion
F) Unrhymed iambic pentameter
G) A specific type of rhythm found within a poem
38) _____ Iambic Pentameter
39) _____ Blank Verse
40) _____ English Sonnet
H) The process of measuring the stresses and unstresses in a poem
I) A foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed syllable
J) two lines of a poem (often rhyming)
-7IV: Two Poems (20 Items x 1 Point Each = 20 Points Possible)
Directions: Read both of the following poems and answer the questions that follow. Final Answers must be provided on the
answer sheet.
If We Must Die – Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot.
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us die nobly,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
mock – to make fun of
shed – spilled
defy – stand in opposition to
constrained – forced
foe – enemy
blow – hit
41)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The rhyme scheme for the poem above is:
ABA BCB CDC EFE FG
AA BB CC DD EE FF GG
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
ABCD ABCD ABCD EE
42)
A)
B)
C)
D)
An English Sonnet, like this, is divided into:
Two quatrains and two couplets
One quatrain and five couplets
Three quatrains and one couplet
Four quatrains and four couplets
43)
A)
B)
C)
D)
In the metaphor that takes place in the first quatrain:
people are being compared to hogs and dogs
animals are being personified
onomatopoeias are reflecting the sounds of hogs and dogs
hyperbole causes similes that become tone
44)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The following word best describes the tone of this poem:
Determined
Giddy
Defeated
Apologetic
45)
A)
B)
C)
D)
One line includes eleven syllables while ten syllables comprise all other lines. Which line has eleven syllables?
1
4
7
11
-846) In an English Sonnet the last two lines are often used to sum up or to offer a solution to the issue that is raised in the
previous twelve lines. What is the summed up message in lines thirteen and fourteen of this sonnet?
A) It’s not worth it to fight against oppression
B) Conflict and war are never the right answer
C) Pay people off when things are not going well
D) Fight for what you believe in even if things look bad
47)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The use of more exclamation marks in the second half of this poem most likely has the following effect::
It intensifies the message
It confuses the message
It slows down the message
It hides the message
48)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The point of view in this poem is
the poet
first person singular
first person plural
third person
49)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The grammatical sense of line 6 does not end in line 6 but rather spills over into line 7. This technique is called:
personification
scansion
enjambment
anapest
50)
A)
B)
C)
D)
Based on the context, which of the following do you think is the closest to the meaning of accursed in line 4?
unlucky
fabulous
angry
silly
Yoko by Tom Gunn
All today I lie in the bottom of the wardrobe
feeling low but sometimes getting up
to moodily lumber across rooms
and lap from the toilet bowl, it is so sultry
and then I hear the noise of firecrackers again
all New York is jaggedy with firecrackers today
and I go back to the wardrobe gloomy
trying to void my mind of them.
I am confused, I feel loose and unfitted.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
At last deep in the stairwell I hear a tread,
it is him, my leader, my love.
I run to the door and listen to his approach.
Now I can smell him, what a good man he is,
I love it when he has the sweat of work on him,
as he enters I yodel* with happiness,
I throw my body up against his, I try to lick his lips,
I care about him more than anything.
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
* Yodel – to sing out in a howling manner
-9After we eat we go for a walk to the piers.
I leap in the standing warmth, I plunge into
the combination of old and new smells.
Here on a garbage can at the bottom, so interesting,
what sister or brother I wonder left this message I sniff.
I too piss there, and go on.
Here a hydrant there a pole
here’s a smell I left yesterday, well that’s disappointing
but I piss there anyway, and go on.
I investigate so much that in the end
it is for forms’ sake only, only a drop comes out.
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
I investigate tar and rotten sandwiches, everything, and go on.
29
And here a dried old turd, so interesting
so old, so dry, yet so subtle and mellow.
I can place it finely, I really appreciate it,
a gold distant smell like packed autumn leaves in winter
reminding me how what is rich and fierce when excreted
becomes weathered and mild
But always interesting
and reminding me of what I have to do.
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
My leader looks on and expresses his approval.
38
I sniff it well and later I sniff the air well
a wind is meeting us after the close July day
rain is getting near too but first the wind.
39
40
41
Joy, Joy,
being outside with you, active, investigating it all,
with bowels emptied, feeling your approval
and then running on, the big fleet Yoko,
my body in its excellent black coat never lets me down,
returning to you (as I always will, you know that)
and now
filling myself out with myself, no longer confused,
my panting pushing apart my black lips, but unmoving,
I stand with you braced against the wind.
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
51)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The effect of placing this subject matter in the form of a poem is that it is:
sad
powerful
practical
funny
52)
A)
B)
C)
D)
What is the point of view in this poem?
First Person
Second Person
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited Omniscient
53)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The speaker of this poem is
A lizard
A shark
A dog
A cat
-1054)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The way the poet indents line 36 indicates that he probably:
forgot to format the poem properly
left space in case he wanted to add to the beginning of the line
wanted to maintain a certain meter
was trying to rhyme
55)
A)
B)
C)
D)
By the end of the poem, the speaker appears to be:
Loyal
Angry
Lost
In pain
56)
A)
B)
C)
D)
In line 33, what is used to describe the smell of the “dried old turd”?
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Enjambment
Simile
57)
A)
B)
C)
D)
This entire poem is an example of
personification
foil
blank verse
alliteration
58)
A)
B)
C)
D)
“panting pushing” in line 50 is an example of:
personification
foil
blank verse
alliteration
59)
A)
B)
C)
D)
All of the following are activities the speakers seems to enjoy doing EXCEPT:
Drinking from a toilet bowl
Sniffing everything
Eating firecrackers
Being outside
60)
A)
B)
C)
D)
Placing these words, “Joy, Joy,” by themselves, on line 42 effectively:
dulls them
hides them
confuses them
emphasizes them
V
Stylistic Devices in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet
(10 Items x 1 Point Each = 10 Points Possible)
Directions: Read the quotes and prompts below. For each prompt, match to it the most appropriate answer from the word
bank. Each answer will be used only once
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Pun
Simile
Foreshadowing
F) Personification
G) Trickster
H) Soliloquy
I) Hyperbole
J) Symbol
61) _____ The example below is most clearly an example of __________________________
Bottom says the following directly after his head has been changed into that of a donkey:
“I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me…”
-1162) _____ The lines below are most clearly an example of ___________________________
Helena says to Demetrius,
“It is not night when I do see your face / Therefore I think I am not in the night:/
Not doth this wood lack worlds of company, / For you in my respect are the world.”
63) _____ This speech is the beginning of a ______________________________
Oberon, by himself on stage, remarks,
“Having once this juice /
I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep, /
And drop the liquor of it in her eyes: /
The next thing then she waking looks upon, /
Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, /
On meddling monkey, or on busy ape, /
She shall pursue it with the soul of love…”
64) _____ All of the examples below indicate that Puck is this kind of literary figure: ____________________
Puck changes Bottom’s head into that of an ass. Puck pretends to be a stool and then when someone tries to sit, he vanishes
causing the person to fall. Puck loves confusing Demetrius and Lysander in the woods by imitating their voices.
65) _____. In the example below, the main device being used is: ______________________________
This is where Theseus is talking about the up-coming wedding: ***Base your answer on what is emboldened and underlined
“And then the moon, like to a silver bow /
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night /
Of our solemnities.”
66) _____ Below, Romeo gives us a number of examples of: ___________________________________
“O heavy lightness, serious vanity, /
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, /
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, /
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! /
This love feel I, that feel no love in this. /
Dost thou not laugh?
67) _____ Below is a clear example of: ___________________________________
In what follows, Juliet is saying goodbye to Romeo. He is backing away into the darkness and Juliet remarks:
“O God, I have an ill-divining soul! /
Methinks I see thee new, thou art so low, /
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. /
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.”
68) _____ Below, the main poetic device at work is: __________________________________
When Romeo sees Juliet appear on her balcony, he says,
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? /
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
69) ______ Below is an example of a: _______________________________
In describing leaving Juliet, Romeo says,
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, /
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
70) _____ In the lines below, the nightingale and lark are ___________________s for the night and the morning, respectively
When Romeo is thinking about leaving in the morning after Romeo and Juliet’s wedding night, Juliet says,
“Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day: /
It was the nightingale, and not the lark, /
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; /
Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree. /
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.”
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Chronological Ordering of Events in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet
(10 Items x 1 Point Each = 10 Points Possible )
Directions: Based on your knowledge of the plays, place the following act numbers—I, II, III, IV, V—next to the action given
indicating the correct chronological order. Final Answers must be provided on the answer sheet.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
71) _____ Theseus finds Demetrius and the others sleeping in the woods
72) _____ Demetrius and the others observe the mechanicals’ play
73) _____ Demetrius tells Helena that he hates her
74) _____ Demetrius falls in love with Helena due to the effects of the love juice
75) _____ Theseus says that he has heard that Demetrius slept with Helena
Romeo and Juliet:
76) _____ Romeo kills Tybalt
77) _____ Juliet takes the sleeping potion
78) _____ Romeo sees Juliet on her balcony from the Capulet orchard
79) _____ Romeo is in love with Rosaline
80) _____ Romeo is told that Juliet is dead
VII Quote Identification (10 Items x 1 Point Each = 10 Points Possible)
Directions: Based on your knowledge of the two Shakespeare plays that we experienced, match the character to the lines that
he or she SPEAKS. Be careful: I do not care whom the quote is about; I care who spoke the lines presented. Final Answers
must be provided on the answer sheet.
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A) Lysander
B) Helena
C) Hermia
D) Titania
E) Puck
From Romeo and Juliet
F) Romeo
G) Juliet
H) Mercutio
I) Friar Lawrence
J) Prince
81) _____
“Get you gone, you dwarf;
You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;
You bead, you acorn.”
82) _____
“Set your hear at rest:
The fairy land buys not the child of me.
His mother was a votress of my order;
And in the spice Indian air, by night,
Full hath she gossip’d by my side;”
83) _____
“O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”
84) _____
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
-1385) _____
“ Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
86) _____
“Go hence to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
87) _____
“’Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff they name,
And for thy name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.”
88) _____
“Thou speak’st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon, and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile.”
89) _____
“O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment.
If you were civil, and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus much injury.”
90 _____
“’Puppet’! Why, so? Ay, that way goes the game!
Now I perceive that she hath urg’d her height;
And with her personage, her tall personage,
Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail’d with him.”
VIII
Shakespeare and His Times (15 Items x 1 Point Each = 15 Points Possible)
Directions: Read each question or statement and select the correct answer. Final Answers must be provided on the answer
sheet.
91)
A)
B)
C)
D)
Shakespeare lived from the:
1400s-1500s
1500s-1600s
1600s-1700s
1700s-1800s
92)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The virgin Queen who loved the arts and under whom Shakespeare prospered was:
Queen Victoria
Queen Margaret
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Latifa
93) True
False
Shakespeare abandoned his wife and children to pursue a writing career in London.
-1494)
A)
B)
C)
D)
All of the following are reasons why the London city fathers did not like theater EXCEPT:
It cost money
It took people away from work
Most of the actors were prostitutes
They knew the plague seemed to be spread at the theaters.
95)
A)
B)
C)
D)
Patronage involved:
Tying bears to poles and taunting them
Paying to support an acting troupe
Brewing beer
Censoring plays in Elizabethan England
96)
A)
B)
C)
D)
Groudlings were:
A hobbit-like people who ate large quantities of goat meat
Rats used as props in Shakespearean Comedies.
The nobles who went to plays as much to be seen as to see the play.
Peasants who paid a penny to get into a play and stand throughout.
97)
A)
B)
C)
D)
The theater that Shakespeare helped build and was part owner of was:
The Theater
The Rose
Greene’s Garden
The Globe
98) True
99)
A)
B)
C)
D)
False
In Shakespeare’s time, actors were respected members of society (i.e., like nobles).
When Shakespeare first went to London, ___________________ was the most famous playwright of the day.
James Burbage
Richard Burbage
Cristopher “Kit” Marlowe
William Shakespeare
100) True
False
Plays during Shakespeare’s time were censored.
101) Theaters during Shakespeare’s times were often closed down due to:
A) Poor attendance
B) Lack of costumes
C) Murder
D) Plague
102) What most obvious evidence do we have today to suggest that Shakespeare may have pursued occupations as diverse as
teaching, soldiering, sailing, etc. during his “lost years”?
A) They appear in his works
B) We have his old pay checks
C) He tells us in his journals
D) Everybody just knows
103) True
False
Theaters were in the fancy part of London during Shakespeare’s time.
104) True
False
For most, life in London was easy during Shakespeare’s times.
105) True
False
Shakespeare died penniless and without being recognized as a great playwright.
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Vocabulary (26 Items x 1 Point Each = 26 Possible Points)
Directions: Read the prompts below; write the correct class vocabulary word into the space on the crossword puzzle. Final
Answers must be provided on the answer sheet. (Note: for each misspelled word, .25 will be taken away)
Across:
1) Some would say that God is __________________________, i.e., seeming to be everywhere at the same time.
2) I have an intense sense of _______________________ about papaya (I feel nothing for it.).
3) People began to _______________________ me (or shun me) when I constantly showed up to parties with broccoli stuck
in my teeth.
4) I love to ____________________ my students with songs; it’s fun to bother them.
5) Sometimes Moe likes to _______________________ (or threateningly wave) a big tree pod when she comes into class.
6) I crossed from one side of the city to the other by way of a ___________________ (a kind of bridge).
7) I saw a ____________________ (or great amount) of bats as I drove down Janpath two weeks ago.
8) Emily tries to ______________________ me in football, but she usually fails to conquer me.
9) When I hit my thumb with a hammer, I began to scream like a _____________________ (the Irish mythical creature).
10) The arm of “Breakbone” Bill’, an accident-prone bank robber, began to ___________________ (get weaker and waste
away a bit) because he had a cast on it for so long.
11) If you started driving in a traffic circle and could never get out, the experience would be _____________________ (i.e., it
would go on forever).
12) In Mabielandia, it is considered _________________________ (a social restriction) to make fun of the lord and master,
Mabie.
13) It would be difficult to suffer from ________________________ (the fear of foreigners) if you went to AES because
most of us are foreigners in India.
Down:
1) Dae Woo is so ________________________ (without moral limitations), that he sticks his finger in my pizza before I
even take one bite.
9) ____________________________ (or the state of being disagreeable and war-like) characterizes Anna Ruth; two days ago
she dropkicked me for not moving out of her way in the auditorium.
10) While walking down the street the other day, I stepped in a large ________________________ (i.e., without definite shape
or form) blob of cow poop.
11) Irene is so _____________________ (overly picky) about the way she keeps his locker, she is going to give lessons on
neatness to in-coming freshmen
14) Ju Hyun called me an _______________________ (one who is not thankful) when I declined to take a chip from the bag
of crushed potato chips that she brought to class.
15) One of my students lacked a sense of _________ (touch) when he asked me in front of a class, “did you know that you
have a huge zit on your forehead?”
16) For some reason, _________________ people (i.e., thoughtful—as in often thinking—people) seem to spend a lot of time
in the bathroom.
17) _______________________: the study of blood.
18) I know what people must think as they see me strutting down the street: “Boy, what can I wear to __________________
(throw off sparks) like Mabie?”
19) My students were blown away—in a state of _________________________ (disbelief)—when I came into class one day
and my shirt matched the cloth on my bulletin board.
20) When watching Guinness Book of World Records on TV, I had to ________________ (turn away) my eyes when they
had on the guy who could spit milk out of his eye; I almost threw up.
21) To is a ____________________; it sounds the same as two and too, but it is spelled differently.
22) Without question, the most ________________________ character we encountered this year was Holden Caulfield; he
always thinks that people are motivated by selfish intentions.
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More Vocabulary (10 Items x 1 Point Each = 10 Points Possible)
Directions: Read the prompts below, and provide correct answers in writing. Final Answers must be provided on the
answer sheet.
1)
Using the familiar part for to cut off, create a word that would describe having one’s head cut off.
____________________________________
2) If you completely dry out a booger, so as to make it hard as a rock, you _______________________it.
3) If I told you that sym is a Greek root for all together/at the same time, then what does symphony mean?
__________________________________________________________________________________
4)
Where is a common place that you can see people genuflecting?
____________________________________
5)
The familiar part, Morph, means:
__________________________________________________________________________________
6)
Paris thinks that Romeo is coming to Juliet’s tomb to ________________________ it.
A)
B)
C)
D)
Extort
Defile
Genuflect
Desiccate
7)
If you lack credibility, people do not __________________________ you.
8)
Using two familiar parts that you know, create an adjective that describes lives that are the same.
__________________________________________
9)
Using two familiar parts that you know, create a noun that means fear of twisting.
__________________________________________
10) In a Mabiearchy, what would those named Mabie do?
__________________________________________
XI
Personal Poem/Prose Comparison (9 Points Possible)
Directions: In the space provided on the answer sheet, write a brief response that compares a central theme from Claude
MeKay’s “If We Must Die” to the text your read this semester—either I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou or A
Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines. Use no more that the space provided on the answer sheet.