Second Semester Final Exam (2010)
Dulski
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English 435
Study Guide
GRAMMAR – Study the following topics:
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Agreement: Subject and Verb, Pronoun and Antecedent
pages 598–629
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Punctuation: Other Marks of Punctuation
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Sentence Combining
pages 848–87
LITERATURE
MACBETH!!!
21. Who kills Macbeth?
22. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
23. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
24. Who kills Banquo?
25. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
26. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
27. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
28. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
29. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
30. Which nation’s army invades Scotland at the end of the play?
31. Who is the goddess of witchcraft in the play?
32. Who kills Donalbain?
33. What happens to Lady Macbeth before she dies?
A MODEST PROPOSAL!!!
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The purpose of A Modest Proposal is to satirize
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The narrator of A Modest Proposal assumes the role of
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The Narrator claims that landlords will benefit from his proposal because they will be
able to
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What are the advantages anticipated by the narrator of A Modest Proposal?
The narrator claims to have no personal motive behind his proposal because…
Kubla Khan!!!!
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The speaker in “Kubla Kahn” describes a what?
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The BEST example of a strange occurrence in the poem is what?
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The phrase “A damsel with a dulcimer” is an example of what literary device?
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The speaker would like to rebuild the pleasure dome by using
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In the poem, the ocean is what?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner!!!!!
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After killing the albatross, the Mariner realizes that the bird
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Immediately after the killing, the Mariner and his crew? What happens?
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Which of the following aspects of the poem is the BEST evidence that is a literary
ballad?
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Ballads began as an oral tradition, meaning that what?
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The men’s gazes, which rest upon the Mariner even after the men die, symbolize?
The Rape of Lock
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A Mock epic parodies an epic by treating what?
The title The Rape of Lock refers to the what incident?
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During the fight between Belinda and the Baron
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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Which of the following statements in the BEST evidence that this poem is an elegy?
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The famous phrase “far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife” refers to the what?
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While the curfew “tolls the knell of parting day,”…. This happens?
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Which of the following generalizations BEST expresses a theme of Gray’s poem?
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According to the speaker of the poem, the people buried in the churchyard are what?
To A Mouse
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At the beginning of the poem, the speakers tells the mouse that he will not do what?
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When he calls the mouse “fellow mortal,” the speaker is acknowledging what?
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The expression “a daimen-icker in a thrave” is what?
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Despite the mouse’s vulnerability, the farmer considers the mouse to be luckier than he his is
because of what reason?
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When the farmer states the walls of the mouse’s house are “silly,” he means that they are
The Chimney Sweeper
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The speaker has spent most of his life
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• The speaker reassures Tom Dacre that everything will be fine as long as Tom
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The tone of the poem can best be described as
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The speaker does not reveal to Tom his own
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The comparison of Tom with a lamb suggest the boy’s
Study Guide
MOTOE (or for those who are confused, Murder on the Orient Express…. Woo! Woo!)Matching
- match the person with the right description.
A. Sophia Armstrong’s Sister.
B. Daisy Armstrong’s governess
C. Sophia Armstrong’s godmother
D. Mrs. Armstrong’s mother, Linda Arden
E. Colonel Armstrong’s best friend
AB. A man who loved the maid Susanne
AC. The Armstrong’s chauffeur
AD. Daisy Armstrong’s Nurse
AE. Susanne’s Father
BC. Colonel Armstrong’s batman in the war
BD. Son of the Armstrong’s lawyer
BE. Armstrong’s Cook
Multiple Choice – Choose the best answer.
80. After one o’clock Poirot is awaked when he hears a
81. Hector MacQueen says that his primary job for Ratchett is to
82. Hector MacQueen says that for several weeks Ratchett has
83. During an investigation of the scene of the crime, the doctor mentions that
84. Poirot discovers evidence which convinces him that Ratchett was really Cassetti, the man who
planned
85. Poriot says the crime is
86. The colonel indicates that Miss Debenham
87. Mrs. Hubbard arrives to tell the investigators about
88. Poirot thinks of the finding of a clue in his suitcase as
89. What is one of the reasons Murder on the Orient Express is one of Agatha Cristie’s most famous
novel?
90. The foundation for the novel is based on the following true crime?
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91. According to our class discussion, while Poirot is a detective, his role transcends all that and he
essentially becomes the ______ over Ratchett’s Crime.
92. To what city does Poirot first Travel in the book?
93. What does Poirot hear Mrs. Debenham say to Colonel Arbuthnot when he first meets he couple that
makes him suspicious?
94. Why must Poirot return to London when he reaches the hotel?
95. What is M. Bouc's position on the Wagon Lit?
96. How many stab wounds are found on Ratchett's body?
97. How does Poirot know the case is involved with Daisy Armstrong's murder?
98. What clues are found in Ratchett's compartment?
99. Who aboard the Orient Express smokes a pipe?
100. Who is the owner of the handkerchief?
101. At what time did Ratchett's watch stop?
102. What words did Poirot hear someone speak from Ratchett's room the night of the murder?
103. Who did Poirot see in the hallway the night of the murder?
104. In whose luggage is the Wagon Lit Conductor's Jacket found?
105. How does Hardman describe Ratchett's enemy?
106. Whose alibi helps Arbuthnot most?
107. What kind of justice does Arbuthnot endorse and think he carries out?
108. What is wrong with Mrs. Hubbard's story about locking the communicating door?
109. Why does Poirot not believe Ratchett took a sleeping draught on the night of the murder?
110. How is Hardman connected to the Armstrong case?
111. What is Hardman's profession?
112. What is strange about Countess Andrenyi's luggage?
113. Why does Poirot think multiple people inflicted the stab wounds?
114. What is suspicious about the group of people on the train?
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115. Who is Sophia Armstrong's sister?
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116. The memory of what store helps Poirot discover Mary Debenham's identity?
117. What is Greta Ohlsson real identity?
118. Who is the innocent passenger?
MACBETH REVISITED
119. Who kills Lord Siward’s son?
120. Where are the Scottish kings crowned?
121. Why is Macduff able to kill Macbeth despite the witches’ prophecy?
122. Where is Duncan killed?
123. Who flees Scotland to join Malcolm in England?
124. What was the weather like the night Duncan was murdered?
125. Who kills Lady Macbeth?
126. Who flees Scotland immediately after Duncan’s death?
127. Who jokes that he works at “hell gate”?
128. What title is Macbeth given after his victory in Act One?
129. Who tells Macduff that his family has been killed?
130. How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane?
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