11th grade final exam review

Question 1

How do the men by the river preserve literature?

Accepted Answer

They memorize a book and then burn it

Question 2

Using transition words like, “First, Second, Third,” is an excellent way to begin body paragraphs in high school essays.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

What is a simile?

Accepted Answer

A comparison that uses like or as

Question 4

What is Mark Twain’s real name?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Clemens

Question 5

What is a theme of "The Fall of the House of Usher" story?

Accepted Answer

Madness is infectious

Question 6

When did Stevenson's group win a constitutional ban on mandatory life- w/o-parole sentences for kids convicted of murder

Accepted Answer

2012

Question 7

Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?

Accepted Answer

Ray Bradbury

Question 8

When Poe drops out of college, due to massive debts, he does what to escape his debtors?

Accepted Answer

Gets a job as a writer

Question 9

In "The Raven," when the Raven says, “Nevermore,” the speaker takes this response to be —

Accepted Answer

the bird’s name

Question 10

What did the stranger fill the frog with?

Accepted Answer

quail shot

Question 11

How did Poe's mother die?

Accepted Answer

Tuberculosis

Question 12

What is the climax of "The Fall of the House of Usher" story?

Accepted Answer

When the Lady Madeleine appears with blood on her

Question 13

What is personification?

Accepted Answer

Giving human characteristics to non-human objects or ideas

Question 14

In Chapter 2, who told Stevenson that he needed "to beat the drum for justice"?

Accepted Answer

A man in a wheelchair

Question 15

Besides the Usher home, what else is destroyed at the end of the story?

Accepted Answer

The Usher family as the last heir has died

Question 16

What great work does Poe write while taking care of his dying wife?

Accepted Answer

The Raven

Question 17

The person who tells Clarisse about the past is

Accepted Answer

Her uncle

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT one of the issues Roderick suffers from?

Accepted Answer

Sensitivity to the narrator’s presence

Question 19

What did Stevenson study in college?

Accepted Answer

Philosophy

Question 20

In "The Fall of the House of Usher," while burying Roderick’s sister, the narrator notices that

Accepted Answer

her face has a blush

Question 21

Poe got married at 26, but his wife was only_____.

Accepted Answer

13

Question 22

What punctuation marks surround an in-text citation?

Accepted Answer

parentheses

Question 23

What seems to be getting worse in society as the novel progresses?

Accepted Answer

War

Question 24

In "The Raven," why does the poet have the Raven perch on the bust of the Greek goddess Pallas?

Accepted Answer

This association suggests that the Raven is wise.

Question 25

What secret does Montag reveal to his wife after Captain Beatty leaves the house?

Accepted Answer

His stash of books.

Question 26

What does Jim Smiley love to do?

Accepted Answer

Gamble

Question 27

What is Jim’s pup’s name?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Jackson

Question 28

What type of story is Poe credited for creating?

Accepted Answer

Detective stories

Question 29

Which of the following are well-known American Gothic authors?

Accepted Answer

Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 30

Why is the novel called Fahrenheit 451?

Accepted Answer

That is the temperature at which paper burns

Question 31

Where in Alabama did Stevenson plan to open an office in Chapter 1?

Accepted Answer

Tuscaloosa

Question 32

Who called in the first alarm for Montag’s house?

Accepted Answer

Mildred’s friends

Question 33

How long should a typical essay be?

Accepted Answer

As long as it needs to be to fully address the prompt

Question 34

When was McMillian arrested?

Accepted Answer

June 7, 1987.

Question 35

Which of the following are characteristics of American Gothic literature?

Accepted Answer

dark mood, themes of sin and guilt, gloomy settings

Question 36

What were Poe's last words?

Accepted Answer

"God help my poor soul."

Question 37

What feature of the Usher house causes its destruction?

Accepted Answer

A crack in the wall

Question 38

When Stevenson was a college student, what job did he have in a poor section of West Philadelphia?

Accepted Answer

juvenile justice project

Question 39

What poem did he write about his wife Virginia after she died?

Accepted Answer

Annabel Lee

Question 40

What was Mark Twain’s job before he became a writer?

Accepted Answer

Captain of a steamboat

Question 41

What is an allusion?

Accepted Answer

A reference to a great work of literature within a poem

Question 42

What was Poe often seen doing after his wife passed away?

Accepted Answer

Laying on her grave crying

Question 43

Where did Stevenson go to law school?

Accepted Answer

Harvard

Question 44

What did Judge Key say that Walter McMillian might be a part of?

Accepted Answer

Georgia Mafia

Question 45

What nickname was given to Poe at his new job?

Accepted Answer

The Tomahawk Man

Question 46

What does Montag steal from the old lady’s attic?

Accepted Answer

a book

Question 47

In Chapter 16, how many death row prisoners in Alabama had won relief through the EJI?

Accepted Answer

100

Question 48

Why do Montag and Faber think their plan will work?

Accepted Answer

It will make society question firefighters and their intentions

Question 49

What is considered Mark Twain’s magnum opus (greatest work)?

Accepted Answer

Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Question 50

In "The Raven," at first, the speaker thinks the noise he hears is —

Accepted Answer

someone at the door

Question 51

What happened to Clarisse?

Accepted Answer

She was hit by a car

Question 52

What atmosphere is created by the house at the beginning of the story?

Accepted Answer

Dark and scary

Question 53

How long was Stevenson's first visit with Henry supposed to be in the Introduction?

Accepted Answer

30 minutes

Question 54

Who appears in the house right before the narrator leaves at the end of the story?

Accepted Answer

Lady Madeleine

Question 55

What should each body paragraph end with?

Accepted Answer

A concluding sentence

11th grade final exam review

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