English Ii Test Review

English II Test Review

Triplet, “By the Waters of Babylon ,” and Literary Terms

From “There Will Come Soft Rains”

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1. How much time do the story’s events cover?

2. Which word best describes the actions of the house in this story?

3. Based on details in the story, what can you conclude about the family?

4. What does the house do in the evening?

5. What happens last in the story?

6. What finally causes the house to destruct?

7. Who are “the gods” referred to in this story?

8. What is strange about the messages read by the voices in the house?

9. What happens first in the story?

10. How does the reader know that the family in the story dies?

From “Inside the Home of the Future” and “The Car of the Future”

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11. What is the function of Audio Notes?

12. Why was the Aware Home was created?

13. Where is the scale in one house?

14. The article mentions an experimental house is run by what?

15. What two appliances are combined in the article?

16. By what does the house designed by researchers at the University of Florida run?

17. Why are Projects like Aware Home are designed?

18. Why do the cameras in an intelligent house monitor the residents’ behavior?

19. The refrigerator in the house designed by computer scientists at the University of Texas-Arlington has what unique ability?

20. Why does a house in Georgia have cameras mounted underneath the cabinets in the kitchen?

From “By the Waters of Babylon ”

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21. Why is the narrator of the story is special?

22. Which sentence shows that the story is told from the first-person point of view?

23. What can a reader infer about the way in which the people of John’s village view priests?

24. Why does John want to go to the Dead Place?

25. What must John overcome to cross the river?

26. Why is the narrator of the story called na?ve?

27. What does John discover in the Place of the Gods?

28. What is John attacked by while in the Place of the Gods?

29. What does John see one night in one of his dreams?

30. What does John want to do when he is chief priest?

31. How does John feel when he is travelling to the Place of the Gods?

32. Why is the narrator of this story considered a na?ve narrator?

33. What forbidden action does John take?

34. What can the reader of the story infer about John’s father?

35. What does John imply about his knowledge while crossing the river to the Place of the Gods?

36. What are the “towers” John sees in the Place of the Gods?

37. What does John see in a vision while in the Place of the Gods?

38. What conclusion does John draw after visiting the Place of the Gods?

39. What new goal does John share with the Hill People when he returns home?

40. How has John changed after his journey to the Place of the Gods?

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PART I II – Literary terms . Be familiar will all the following literary terms. You should be able to match an example figurative language to the correct literary term.

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41. simile

42. symbolism

43. allusion

44. setting

45. alliteration

46. metaphor

47. personification

48. onomatopoeia

49. foreshadowing

50. theme

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