Eng 9 Fall Review

English 9

Fall Semester Review Guide

 

Short Story

The Most Dangerous Game

Poison

The Necklace

Cask of Amantillado

 

Attach your old test, corrected, to the back of this review guide. Answer the questions below.

 

What is General Zaroff’s main reason for preferring to hunt human beings rather than animals?

1. there is no big game on the island
2. He doesn’t like to kill animals
3. He hates people
4. Hunting men is more of a challenge.

The plot of Poison is based on the following situation:

1. A man discovers that his friend has malaria.
2. A man kills a snake in order to help his friend.
3. A man says that he has a poisonous snake on his stomach.
4. An Indian doctor risks his life to help a patient.

Mathilde is envious of the social class and wealth of others because

1. she has never enjoyed either position or wealth
2. she was born rich and wants more wealth
3. her husband is very demanding
4. her former classmate encourages her

According to Montresor, revenge would not be successful if he were

1. not punished for taking revenge
2. recognized by his victim
3. punished for taking revenge
4. compelled to murder

An example of dramatic irony occurs in the story when

1. The crime is committed during carnival season
2. Fortunato is dressed as a jester
3. The narrator urges the already-drunk fortunate to test the amontillado
4. The reader knows Montresor plans revenge, but Fortunato does not know

 

 

Three characters (19) one another—and danger—in a house in colonial India. As events  (20), we are drawn into the characters’ terrible conflicts and their terror. Imagine that you, like them, (21) face to face with grave danger. The lights in the room (22) dim. You scream, but no one (23) listening.

 

19. _________ a. confronts     b. confront                    c. has confronted

20. _________ a. unfold          b. has unfolded c. unfolds

21. _________ a. is                 b. was                          c. are

22. _________ a. becomes      b. was becoming           c. become

23. _________ a. were            b. is                              c. are

 

Mythology

Gods

Goddesses

The Odyssey

 

Attach your old test, corrected, to the back of this review guide. Answer the questions below.

 

Goddess of fertility and overwhelming sexuality

a.       Sophocles                    b. Hestia           c. Hera             d. Aphrodite

Twice-born god birthed from Zeus’ thigh.

b.      Hephaestus                   b. Dionysus      c. Hermes         d. Hades

Pygmalion created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it because

c.       real women weren’t pretty enough

d.      He wanted to get Aphrodite’s attention and love by asking for favors from her.

e.       He didn’t like the weakness of mind real women were cursed with.

f.        He wanted to try something new.

g.       All of the above

Husband of Aphrodite

h.       Ares

i.         Hephaestus

j.        Hermes

k.      Eros

Odysseus saves his crew from the Sirens’ song by

l.         Plugging his men’s ears with beeswax

m.     Singing louder than the Sirens

n.       Tying the men to their oars

o.      Sailing around Charybdis

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

Characters—include a short description of the characters.

 

Scout

Jem

Boo Radley

Tom Robinson

Atticus

Calpurnia

Aunt Alexandra

Bob Ewell

Mayella Ewell

Dill

Dubose

Maudie Attkinson

Miss. Gates

Reverend Sykes

 

Content

Refer to your study guide questions. Attach completed questions to the back of this guide.

 

Quote Quizzes

Attach corrected quizzes to the back of this guide. Make sure you know important quotations and can explain the context.

 

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. Who said this?

 

“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Who are the mockingbirds in this novel?

 

“When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t doneany of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .” His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning. What had Scout managed to do at the end of the novel, and what did Harper Lee want the reader to understand?

 

Grammar

 

Quotations

 

“I wish we had school every day” said Tom “I always have fun in school”

 

“I love learning too” said Philip “why can’t we have school during the summer”

 

“do we have homework over the break” asked Elizabeth “because I’d love to read something new”

 

“TKAM is my new favorite novel” said Jen