11A Final Exam Review #1

Gothic Literature and "The Minister's Black Veil"

100

This is what the term "gothic" was used to refer to before literature?

Architecture

200

This term is used to describe the act of speaking with the dead.

Necromancy

300

When an author or a character in gothic literature feels shame or cursed because of something their family did in the past, we call this. . .

ancestral curse

400

In "The Minister's Black Veil," what does Reverend Hooper's veil symbolize?

secret sin

500

This is the author of "The Minister's Black Veil."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Birthmark

100

This is what Georgiana's birthmark looked like.

A tiny hand.

200

This was Aylmer's profession.

Alchemist

300

This is what Aylmer's dream was about.

He dreams that he is performing surgery on Georgianna's birthmark and realizes it was connected to her heart.

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! This is the author of "The Birthmark."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

500

This is what Aylmer's dream revealed about himself.

That he'd be willing to do just about anything to remove his wife's birthmark--even kill her.

Edgar Allan Poe and "The Fall of the House of Usher"

100

This is the poem that made Poe a household name.

"The Raven"

200

This is the main gothic theme around which "The Fall of the House of Usher" revolves.

Ancestral Curse

300

Name two works by Edgar Allan Poe.

"The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Fall of the House of Usher"

400

This is why/where Poe was traveling when he died.

He was on his way to marry Elmira Royster. 

500

Give two examples of the grotesque from "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Roderick Usher, the House of Usher, Lady Madeline's description at the end

Subject-Verb Agreement

100

One of the students (need, needs) to take his exam early.

needs

200

Neither of the girls (has, have) to take the exam.

has

300

The flock of geese (fly, flies) in the same formation.

flies

400

Both the teacher and the student (knows, know) the combination to the safe.

know

500

Each of the earrings (are, is) worth $1,000.

is

Pronoun Agreement

100

All of the students know (his or her, their) grammar rules for the test.

their 

200

One of the ducklings in the group lost (his or her, their, its) balance and fell into the pond.

its

300

Everyone in the class remembered (their, his or her) homework.

his or her

400

Nobody knew what (they, he or she) scored on the SOL until Mrs. Spence told (them, him or her).

he or she, him or her

500

Each of the soccer players stretched (his, their) muscles before the big game.

his