7th Grade Amplify Review

Brain Science

100

What Phineas Gage gets struck through the head with.

A tamping iron

200

This is a difference between Phineas Gage and adolescents. 

Answers will vary

300

This is the type of brain injury Phineas had and one draw back to this type of injury.

Open brain injury-open to infection.

400

This is a similar behavior between Phineas Gage and adolescents 

Answers will vary

500

This was the cause of death of Gage.

Hypothermia 

Tell-Tale Heart

100

This is why the narrator asks the old man how he slept.

To see if the old man is suspicious. 

200

This is how the narrator wakes the old man.

His thumb slips upon the tin fastening of the lantern.

300

This is what the narrator insists about himself.

He is nervous but NOT insane.

400

This is the actual reason the narrator confesses at the end of the story.

To relieve his guilt

500

This is why the author includes 8 nights of the narrator watching the old man.

To build suspense 

Cask of Amontillado

100

This is Montressor's and Fortunato's motivation in the story.

Revenge and Amontillado (wine)

200

Summarize what Montressor does to Fortunato.

Tricks him, chains him, and walls him up.

300

This is what the story would be missing if the text was written from Fortunato's perspective?

Montressor's distaste and disgust of Fortunato.

400

This is what Montressor tells his servants to ensure they leave for the evening. 

You are to stay here and not leave the premises. 

500

This is the Montressor family motto.

No one hurts me and gets away with it. 

The Raven

100

This is what the narrator is doing in the beginning of the story.

Reading and falling asleep

200

This is what the bird says when the narrator asks if Lenore is in heaven. 

Nevermore

300

This is how the narrator assumes the bird knows the word.

It was once a pet from someone who was unhappy and repeated the word "nevermore" frequently. 

400

What is the narrator begging the raven for?

A break from his sadness over the loss of Lenore.

500

This is what the raven symbolizes for the narrator.

Unending grief and mourning of Lenore

Narrow Fellow in the Grass

100

This describes the environment a snake particularly likes.

A boggy acre

200

This is why the author compares a snake to looking like a "whip lash"

It moves like a whip and is very fast.

300

What is the significance of the snake being outdoors rather than in the narrator's house?

It creates a sense of mystery because the snake can hide in its own environment.

400

This is the time period the speaker is thinking back on as they tell about this encounter.

Childhood

500

This is what the author means when she writes, "Without a tighter breathing, / And zero at the bone." 

The speaker is afraid of snakes.