Vocab
Research Paper & Vocab
Les Misérables
TKAM
Odyssey
100

She prefers _________ conversations to aimless chatter.

ambidextrous

elude

cerebral

supercilious

cerebral

100

True or False?

All sources accessible through EBSCO can also be accessed through a typical Google search.

FALSE

100

Jean Valjean appears at the barricades and helps a man escape by…

giving him a uniform.

100

true or false

Scout chews the gum she finds in the knothole of the Radley tree.

TRUE

100

Who said...

“Nohbdy, Nohbdy’s tricked me, Nohbdy’s ruined me!”

Speaker?

Polyphêmos

200

Two million years of erosion by the Colorado River formed the ___________ we call the Grand Canyon.

rapt

gorge

manacle

effrontery

gorge

200

Which of the following is usually the best place for the thesis of a multi-paragraph essay?

The very first sentence of the essay
The last sentence of the introductory paragraph
Anywhere in the first paragraph

The last sentence of the introductory paragraph

200

Thenardier offers to let Valjean use a key to the sewer grate if Valjean will…

split what they find in Marius’ pockets

200

Why does Dill run away from home back to Maycomb?

He doesn’t feel like his parents want him.

200

“Young men—my suitors, now my lord is dead

let me finish my weaving before I marry”

Speaker?

Penélopê

300

Jane Austen wrote her novels __________, covering the manuscripts at every knock on the door.

cordially
surreptitiously
consanguinity
superciliously

surreptitiously

300

Even skilled mountaineers may feel some fear when they look up at a(n) __________ they are about to climb.

precipice
carnage
oracle
imbibe

 precipice

300

Javert commits suicide because…

he cannot live with the contradiction he feels between duty and conscience

300

Grows camellias and tells Jem and Scout that their mother would not approve of Atticus’s parenting

Miss Maudie

300

who says this... 

"O hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands,

if I am thine indeed, and thou art father:

grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, never

see his home…”

Speaker?

Spoken to?

Speaker: Polyphemus


Spoken to: Poseidon


400

Which root means “to speak”?


OS, ORIS
DENS, DENTIS
DEXTRA
ORO, ORARE, ORAVI, ORATUM

ORO, ORARE, ORAVI, ORATUM

400

Which of the following is most likely to be described as concoction?


milkshake
water
milk
juice

milkshake

400

How does Eponine save Marius’s life?

She puts her hand in front of the barrel of a gun aimed at him

400

Drinks Coca-Cola from a bag so people will think he’s drunk

Dolphus Raymond

400

What is an epic simile?

an elaborate comparison that may extend for several lines

500

What is the definition of CARO, CARNIS?

flesh
neck
bone
mind

flesh

500

Two million years of erosion by the Colorado River formed the ___________ we call the Grand Canyon.

rapt
gorge
manacle
effrontery

gorge

500

What is the primary reason Eponine sends Marius to the barricade?

She wants him to die so no one will have him.

500

When Scout attends her first day at school, she is confused because she gets in trouble, while Burris Ewell _____________________.

only comes on the first day of each year

500

True or False

Odysseus is able to prove to Penélopê that he is her husband by having Athena turn them back into their younger selves.

FALSE

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