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Vocabulary Quiz, Cycle 1, Things Fall Apart
Directions: Please write meaningful sentences with the following words.
1. poignant:
2. pandemonium:
3. capricious:
4. interim:
5. arduous:
6. malevolent:
7. improvident:
8. approbation:
9. emissary:
10. What is a proverb?
11. What evidence of foreshadowing was there for what happened to Ikemefuna?
12. “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Explain this quote. How does it relate to the writing of Things Fall Apart?
13. How did British writers during the Victorian Era describe non-British people they colonized?
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**Academic Challenge Meaningful Sentences (Required for those students I personally spoke with.)**
1. abomination:
2. communal:
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Vocabulary Quiz: Cycle 2, Things Fall Apart
Directions: Write meaningful sentences for the following words. (Remember: “The girl is eloquent” will receive 0 credit!)
1. impenetrable:
2. prevail:
3. eloquent:
4. superfluous:
5. infuriating:
6. desecrate:
7. astray:
8. abominable:
9. excrement:
10. prophesy:
Antonyms (opposites):
11. voluble:
12. gravely:
13. resilient:
14. requisite:
15. What is juxtaposition?
16. What is situational irony?
17. How is Death of a Salesman a tragedy?
18. What are the pros and cons (good aspects and bad aspects) of the white missionaries coming to Umuofia?
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Academic Challenge Words
(You are not required to answer these questions unless I had personally spoken with you about doing these.)
Please write meaningful sentences with these words:
1. coiffure:
2. buoyant:
3. expedient:
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Quarter 4, English I Final Exam, Part I
Directions: You may not use your book for the vocabulary portion of the exam. Only after you have turned in the vocabulary portion can you look through your book and start the literary elements and delve in paragraph section.
Vocabulary Section
Please write meaningful sentences with the following words:
1. emissary:
2. poignant:
3. trepidation:
4. implacable:
5. incredulous:
6. astray:
7. impenetrable:
8. approbation:
9. reminiscences:
10. arduous:
11. incipient:
12. audacity:
13. abominable:
14. benevolent:
15. desecrate:
Please draw a picture/cartoon of the following words:
16. excrement:
17. reminiscences:
18. an anemic person:
19. a malevolent person:
20. a stolid person:
21. a valise:
Please think of antonyms (opposites) for the following words:
22. subside:
23. spiteful:
24. meager:
25. improvident:
26. prevail:
27. resilient:
28. capricious:
29. pompous:
30. wily:
Academic Challenge: Required for those I spoke with, extra credit for everyone else.
Matching! Write the letter of the definition next to the word.
1. elegiac ______/ a. Personified2. ignoramus ______/ b. Something of little importance
3. incarnate ______/ c. Convenient, practical, useful
4. coiffure ______/ d. Lighthearted
5. expedient ______/ e. Ignorant person
6. trifle ______/ f. Likely to
7. liable to ______/ g. Hairstyle
8. buoyant ______/ h. Expressing sorrow, usually for things past
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Quarter 4, English I Final Exam, Part 2
Directions: You will need your book for this part of the exam. You can have post-it notes but no definitions written on he post-its.
Literary Elements Section
1. Identify the proverb on p. 37. Explain what it means.
2. Identify the mood on p. 120, Ch. 13. What makes you think this is the mood?
3. Identify an example of foreshadowing on p. 147. What does this foreshadow?
4. Identify the tone of the British Commissioner on p. 208-209. What evidence supports your interpretation of the tone?
5. Identify an example of situational irony on p. 109. How is this situation ironic?
6. Identify one theme in the novel. Why do you think this is the theme? (1-2 sentences will suffice).
Delve In Paragraph Section
Please write one Delve In paragraph that includes a claim, three examples/quotes (with proper citation and integration), quote introduction, quote analysis, and concluding sentence. Don’t forget your transitions! I will grade your paragraph based on the rubric we have been using. Please choose one question to answer. Please write this on a separate lined sheet of paper and staple your response to the test.
1. What was the cause of Okonkwo’s downfall? (just choose one cause, not two)
2. To what extent is Things Fall Apart successful in communicating an alternative narrative (a story told from a different perspective) to the dominant Western history (the story you usually hear) of missionaries in Africa and other colonized societies?
3. What is the appeal of the missionaries to the people of Umuofia?