English I Final Exam PART 1

Romeo and Juliet

100

What is the major conflict in the Romeo and Juliet?

A quarrel or feud between two families.

200

Who is Romeo’s best friend but not related to him by blood?

Mercutio

300

Who is Paris?

A nobleman who wishes to marry Juliet.

400

Who is Benvolio?

Romeo’s cousin.

500

Why does Capulet want Juliet to marry well?

All his children are dead except her.

To Kill a Mockingbird

100

The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is ...

Scout

200

In what state and decade does To Kill a Mockingbird take place?

Alabama, 1930s

300

• Superstition causes the children to be afraid of which family’s house?

Radley

400

The school setting in Ch. 2 allows the author to show ...

introduce the reader to various families and the social structure in Maycomb

500

• Which of the following statements is true about Scout?

She means well when she tells Miss Caroline about the Cunninghams and Ewells, but still gets In trouble

The Odyssey

100

• Circe sends Odysseus and his men on a journey to...

the Underworld

200

• Who does Homer ask for inspiration from in Book I?

a muse

300

• Tiresias tells Odysseus that he may return home

• if he and his men don’t touch the cattle of Helios

400

How did Anticleia, Odysseus’ mother die?

suicide, her broken-heart longed for her son

500

• How does Odysseus listen to the Sirens and not suffer the usual consequences?

• He kneaded wax for his men’s ears and then had them lash him to the mast so he could listen

Rhetorical Devices

100

• Choose the correct rhetorical device:  a comparison using like or as

simile

200

• Choose the correct rhetorical device:  a mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive

euphemism

300

• Choose the correct rhetorical device:  assigning human qualities to something that is not human

personification

400

• Choose the correct rhetorical device:  words, phrases, clauses expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure; adds balance and rhythm

parallelism

500

• Choose the correct rhetorical device:  a reference to a place, person, or something that happened

allusion

MLA / Misc.

100

• When using MLA format, use __ size font to type everything.

12

200

• What spacing is used in MLA format?

double

300

• What font type is required for MLA?

Times New Roman

400

• What two things belong in the Header?

last name and [insert] page number

500

• What four things belong in the top left corner of a paper typed in MLA format?

full name, teacher’s name, class name, due date