ENGLISH III Final Review- ALL STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE–50 POINTS
9 Bonus Points (Minus 5 for Bogus Answers)
F.Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby
- Describe the basic setting of the novel.
- Who is Jordan Baker?
- What happens when Myrtle shouts Daisy’s name over and over again?
- Why doesn’t Fitzgerald introduce Gatsby until Chapter 3?
- What does it mean when Nick states that the people at the party conduct “themselves according to the rule of behavior associated with an amusement park?
- What do you think Fitzgerald wishes to convey about Gatsby’s parties through the incident with the drunks and the car, and the husbands and wives arguing?
- What symbol does Fitzgerald use as the outward manifestation of Gatsby’s wealth?
- Where in the Midwest does Gatsby say he is from?
- What motivates Gatsby?
- Who kills Gatsby and who do you think implicates him?
John Steinbeck “The Leader of the People”
- How do Jody and his parents know Grandfather is going to arrive?
- What does Carl do when Grandfather starts to tell a story after supper?
- What does Carl wish Grandfather would stop doing?
- “Across his mind marched the great phantoms…” is an example of which literary term?
- What seems to be the main conflict in the story?
- At the end of the story, what did Grandfather say about being leader of the people?
Ernest Hemingway “Soldier’s Home”
- Which war had Krebs served in?
- What state is his hometown in?
- How does he feel about the girls he watches?
- What is the possible reason for his changed behavior at home?
- Why does Krebs’s mother cry?
Flannery O’Connor “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
- How are the mother and Shiflet similar in the way they treat people?
- Why is Shiftlet dissatisfied with his marriage ceremony?
- When is the climax of the story?
- Mrs. Crater’s perception of Shiftlet as someone not to be afraid of is an example of which literary term?
- Since O’Connor’s characters are grotesque exaggerations of human beings, many readers might find them to be what?
“A Rose for Emily”by William Faulkner
- How does Emily react to her father’s death?
- After her father dies, how does Emily act?
- Whose point of view is the story being told?
- What do Miss Emily’s neighbors complain to the judge about?
- Why did Emily not marry when her father was alive?
- Who among the townspeople visited Miss Emily the last 10 years of her life?
- Who is Homer Barron?
- What did Emily tell the pharmacist about the arsenic?
- What happened to Homer Barron?
- Which of Homer Barron’s actions has the greatest effect on the development of Emily’s character?
- What is above the bier at Emily’s funeral?
- After breaking into the locked room upstairs, what do the men find? Explain in detail.
- What is the significance of the gray hair on the pillow?
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
- What is Harper Lee’s novel basically about?
- When Scout is rolled into the Radley yard in the tire, what happens?
- When Jem goes back to get his pants that are caught in the Radley’s fence, what does he find?
- Why does Scout fight with her cousin Francis?
- Why does Atticus consider it a sin to kill a mockingbird?
- What rigid time-honored Southern code does Atticus say Mayella Ewell has broken?
- Why did Mayella get upset with Atticus while she was on the stand?
- What does Heck Tate find at the scene of Scout and Jem’s attack?
- Who is responsible for Bob Ewell’s death?
- Which two people represent mockingbirds in the novel?
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
- Why is Guy Montag’s occupation as a fireman ironic?
- What are the parlor walls?
- According to the rule book, who was the first fireman?
- How did the firemen know which houses had books?
- Who is Faber?
- Who are the “custodians of our peace of mind” in the novel?
- Who is the final informant on Montag’s home?
- Why did Montag kill Captain Beatty?
- Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat Millie’s overdose?
- What does Montag identify as a path to safety?