ENGLISH III Final Review- ALL STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE–50 POINTS

9 Bonus Points (Minus 5 for Bogus Answers)

F.Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby

  1. Describe the basic setting of the novel.
  2. Who is Jordan Baker?
  3. What happens when Myrtle shouts Daisy’s name over and over again?
  4. Why doesn’t Fitzgerald introduce Gatsby until Chapter 3?
  5. 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?
  6. 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?
  7. What symbol does Fitzgerald use as the outward manifestation of Gatsby’s wealth?
  8. Where in the Midwest does Gatsby say he is from?
  9. What motivates Gatsby?
  10. Who kills Gatsby and who do you think implicates him?

John Steinbeck “The Leader of the People”

  1. How do Jody and his parents know Grandfather is going to arrive?
  2. What does Carl do when Grandfather starts to tell a story after supper?
  3. What does Carl wish Grandfather would stop doing?
  4. “Across his mind marched the great phantoms…” is an example of which literary term?
  5. What seems to be the main conflict in the story?
  6. At the end of the story, what did Grandfather say about being leader of the people?

Ernest Hemingway “Soldier’s Home”

  1. Which war had Krebs served in?
  2. What state is his hometown in?
  3. How does he feel about the girls he watches?
  4. What is the possible reason for his changed behavior at home?
  5. Why does Krebs’s mother cry?

Flannery O’Connor “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”

  1. How are the mother and Shiflet similar in the way they treat people?
  2. Why is Shiftlet dissatisfied with his marriage ceremony?
  3. When is the climax of the story?
  4. Mrs. Crater’s perception of Shiftlet as someone not to be afraid of is an example of which literary term?
  5. 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

  1. How does Emily react to her father’s death?
  2. After her father dies, how does Emily act?
  3. Whose point of view is the story being told?
  4. What do Miss Emily’s neighbors complain to the judge about?
  5. Why did Emily not marry when her father was alive?
  6. Who among the townspeople visited Miss Emily the last 10 years of her life?
  7. Who is Homer Barron?
  8. What did Emily tell the pharmacist about the arsenic?
  9. What happened to Homer Barron?
  10. Which of Homer Barron’s actions has the greatest effect on the development of Emily’s character?
  11. What is above the bier at Emily’s funeral?
  12. After breaking into the locked room upstairs, what do the men find? Explain in detail.
  13. What is the significance of the gray hair on the pillow?

Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

  1. What is Harper Lee’s novel basically about?
  2. When Scout is rolled into the Radley yard in the tire, what happens?
  3. When Jem goes back to get his pants that are caught in the Radley’s fence, what does he find?
  4. Why does Scout fight with her cousin Francis?
  5. Why does Atticus consider it a sin to kill a mockingbird?
  6. What rigid time-honored Southern code does Atticus say Mayella Ewell has broken?
  7. Why did Mayella get upset with Atticus while she was on the stand?
  8. What does Heck Tate find at the scene of Scout and Jem’s attack?
  9. Who is responsible for Bob Ewell’s death?
  10. Which two people represent mockingbirds in the novel?

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

  1. Why is Guy Montag’s occupation as a fireman ironic?
  2. What are the parlor walls?
  3. According to the rule book, who was the first fireman?
  4. How did the firemen know which houses had books?
  5. Who is Faber?
  6. Who are the “custodians of our peace of mind” in the novel?
  7. Who is the final informant on Montag’s home?
  8. Why did Montag kill Captain Beatty?
  9. Why did Emergency Hospital send technicians instead of a doctor to treat Millie’s overdose?
  10. What does Montag identify as a path to safety?