Honors English 10 B Final Exam 07. Of Mice and Men 1. The time span of the novel is a. one week b. five days c. a month d.

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1 Honors English 10 B Final Exam 07 Of Mice and Men 1. The time span of the novel is a. one week b. five days c. a month d. three days 2. The author uses all the methods of characterization except a. dialogue b. showing characters thoughts c. description d. behavior 3. The point of view the author uses to tell the story is a. 1 st person b. 3 rd objective c. 2 nd person d. omniscient 4. Significant events in the novel take place at the a. river b. the bunkhouse c. the barn d. all of these 5. The function of the mice in Chapter One is to show a. a love of nature c. Lennie s strength b. the danger of mice d. George s temper 6. The author uses George and Lennie s dream to symbolize a. humanity s stupidity c. humanity s hopes b. nature s superiority d. life s cruelty 7. The author uses Crooks, the stable hand, to show mankind s need for a. companionship b. solitude c. education d. freedom 8. The author uses Slim, the jerkline skinner, to show man s ability to be a. arrogant b. aggressive c. accepting d. accomplished 9. The progression of the bad things Lennie does is from a. larger to smaller c. younger to older b. older to younger d. smaller to larger 10. George s remark that Curley s wife is gonna make a mess is an example of a. symbolism b. characterization c. irony d. foreshadowing Character Match 11. Crooks a. was an authority figure 12. Lennie b. was suspicious of George 13. Slim c. joined a partnership 14. Candy d. once had a piece of velvet 15. Carlson e. was a welterweight 16. Curley s wife ab. once lived on a chicken ranch 17. George ac. liked old Susy s place 18. the boss ad. could have been in pictures 19. Curley ae. hated Curley 20. Whit bc. Owned a Luger pistol

2 Modern Drama and Our Town 21. Dramatists use foreshadowing to create a. a climax b. conflict c. humor d. suspense 22. In most plays, conflicts are resolved through a. a change in the main character c. physical action b. speech d. foreshadowing 23. Dramatic conflict always involves a. a struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions b. only one character c. a struggle against some force from nature d. a problem that can be solved only through physical action 24. Unlike movies, plays don t include a great deal of a. sensationalized physical action c. conflict b. dialogue d. interaction among characters 25. Process in a drama involves a. telling what happens c. analyzing why an action occurs b. stating how the characters feel d. showing how an event develops 26. Which of the following statements about a play s audience is NOT true? a. The audience must picture the story in their minds. b. The audience s group response of laughter or tears reassures them that they are not alone in their feelings. c. The audience s response directly affects the performers. d. the playwright s ultimate goal is to evoke the desired response from an audience. 27. Audiences identify with the characters in a drama because a. everyone s life is really the same b. the characters are usually sympathetic c. the playwright presents universal human experiences d. theater poetry is at work 28. Where does this play take place? a. Spoon River, Illinois c. Amity Harbor, Washington b. Grover s Corners, New Hampshire d. Winesburg, Ohio 29. In what year does the play begin a b c d The Stage Manager gives the second act of the play a title, a. Daily Life c. Love and Marriage b. The Facts of Life d. The Beginning of Love

3 31. In the flashback describing the scene in which George and Emily know they are meant for each other, Emily first accuses George mainly of a. having become conceited c. being a lazy student b. being unkind to his mother d. change is inevitable 32. During the day that Emily chooses to live over, she asks an anguished question. What is it? a. Why are people so concerned about trivial things? b. Why do people never realize life while they live it? c. Why does everything go on as usual? d. Why does time pass so slowly? King Arthur s Tales and Romance Literature 33. Which of the following story elements is NOT considered romantic? a. Arthur s unknown parentage b. the sword being magically embedded in the stone c. the archbishop s support of Arthur d. Arthur s ability to remove the sword easily 34. As a romance hero, Arthur displays the quality of generosity when he a. forgives the nobles for delaying his succession to the throne b. tells Sir Ector that he, not Sir Kay, removed the sword from the stone c. first tries to pull the sword from the stone d. makes his foster brother Kay a knight 35. One of the elements of a romance is loyalty of the hero or to the hero. This loyalty is shown in all of the following instances except when a. Sir Ector and Sir Kay kneel before Arthur b. the nobles pledge their allegiance to Arthur c. Sir Kay tells Sir Ector that he pulled the sword out of the stone d. Arthur tells Sir Ector that he will always think of him as his father 36. The romance hero Arthur probably evolved from a. stories about a sixth-century warlord b. a knight that Sir Thomas Malory knew c. a painting of a warrior pulling a sword from a stone d. the imagination of a fourth-century writer 37. In Arthur s vision of walking down a winding, dimly lit road in The Round Table, the hill symbolizes a. Arthur s desire to be a good king c. an elusive idea b. Guenevere s love for Arthur d. the scene of a great battle 38. What does Arthur mean when he says Am I at the hill? Or is it only a mirage? a. He is uncertain whether he has found a workable solution to the problem. b. He doesn t know whether the hill he is dreaming about is real. c. He believes that imagination is greater than reality. d. He thinks he has located the hill where he was born.

4 Character Match 39. King Uther a. lies about the sword in the stone 40. Sir Ector b. Arthur s adoptive father 41. Merlin c. the wife of Arthur when he is older 42. Sir Modred d. Supreme knight of the Round Table 43. Sir Kay e. cast a spell on Sir Launcelot 44. Archbishop of Canterbury ab. Arthur s real father 45. Guenevere ac. challenged Arthur 46. Sir Launcelot ad. wise man, a sorcerer 47. Morgan le Fay ae. summoned the nobles 48. Igraine bc. Arthur s mother Research Paper 49. Topic outline a. a sentence explaining the purpose of your paper 50. Sentence outline b. the main idea of each paragraph 51. Thesis statement c. a general plan you intend to follow for your paper 52. Topic sentence d. an alphabetical list of sources used in the paper 53. In-text documentation e. an optional formal introduction to your paper 54. Works Cited page ab. a road map reference to a source used 55. Title page ac. each entry makes a conclusive statement about the topic and may become the topic sentence for your paragraphs Turn in your answer sheet and do the remaining parts of the test on your own paper. You may use the CHS Handbook on this portion of the exam. This section is worth 25 points. The following notes identify sources used in a paper on censorship and the Internet. Number 1-5 on your own paper. Create an intext documentation for each source following the proper format for MLA. Then, create a works cited page arranging the sources in the proper order. 1. Page 72 in a book called Banned in the USA by Herbert N. Foerstel. The book has 231 pages and was published in a second edition in 2002 by Greenwood Press, located in Westport, Connecticut. The author s name appears in the text of your paper. 2. A statement made by Esther Dyson in her keynote address at the Newspapers 1996 Conference. Her statement is quoted in an article by Jodi B. Cohen called Fighting Online Censorship. The speech has not been printed in any other source. The article is in the April 13, 1996, edition of the weekly business journal, Editor & Publisher. Dyson s

5 quotation appears on page 44. The article begins on page 44 and continues on page 60. Dyson s name is mentioned in the text of your paper. 3. If You Don t Love It, Leave It, an essay by Esther Dyson in the New York Times Magazine, July 15, 1995, on pages 26 and 27. Your quotation comes from the second page of the essay. No author s name is mentioned in the text of your paper. 4. An essay by Nat Hentoff titled Speech Should Not Be Limited on pages of the book Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by Terry O Neill. The book is published by Greenhaven Press in St. Paul, Minnesota. The publication year is The quotation you have used is from page 24, and the author is mentioned in the text of your paper. 5. An essay on the Internet called A Parents Guide to Supervising a Child s Online and Internet Experiences. The document is by Robert Cannon, Esq., and you have Version 2.0 of the essay, which was updated May 10, Though the essay prints out on four pages, the pages are not numbered. In your paper, you summarize information from the second and third pages of the document. You accessed the information on January 20, 2003, from Expanded Academic ASAP Plus through your library s subscription service, EBSCO. Essay Choose TWO of the following questions to answer for 10 points each. Answer on your own paper please. A. Three characteristics of a romantic hero are honor, loyalty, and generosity. Explain how Arthur displays each of those characteristics, or how each characteristic applies to him. B. Most people would agree that both of the following major themes of the play, Our Town, are true observations about life. On the basis of your own experience, which of them do you believe more strongly? Make your choice and explain it, including comparisons and/or analogies with the play in your explanation. People are so preoccupied that they miss much of the beauty of life. Human lives form an interconnected, continuous web. C. One of the essential truths of the novel Of Mice and Men is the need for brotherhood and companionship. Discuss the significance of this theme as shown by characters in the novel. (George and Lennie are obvious choices. You may discuss them, but go beyond these two characters please.)