Mrs. Hands
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Some of these questions come directly from our final! Some are similar to questions on the final. Your final will have 6 short answer questions, 41 multiple choice questions, and 1 essay question.

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Honor's English Final Practice Quiz

Question 1 of 20

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Ex-Basketball Player: Which of the following literary devices correctly labels the selected excerpt from the poem?

Select one of the following:

  • Metaphor - Most days, you'll find Flick Webb, who helps Beth out.

  • Simile - Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low.

  • Alliteration - Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads.

  • Simile - His hands were like wild birds.

Explanation

Question 2 of 20

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Ex-Basketball Player - Who is the main character in this poem?

Select one of the following:

  • Berth

  • Flick

  • Mae

  • Webster

Explanation

Question 3 of 20

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Angela's Ashes - The book "Angela's Ashes" is considered to be of what genre?

Select one of the following:

  • Biography

  • Autobiography

  • Memoir

  • Fiction

Explanation

Question 4 of 20

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Angela's Ashes - Seamus is unhappy about the book Patricia gives Frank because

Select one of the following:

  • It is not a poetry book

  • He thinks Frank needs to rest

  • It is all about England

  • He cannot read it himself

Explanation

Question 5 of 20

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Angela's Ashes - What is the name of the poem Patricia shares with Frank?

Select one of the following:

  • The Highwayman

  • The Night Robber

  • Midnight Murder

  • The Raven

Explanation

Question 6 of 20

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The following sentence is written in present tense: I wanted to buy a water gun for my friend's birthday so I went to the store but I didn't have enough money.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 20

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On Being Seventeen, Bright - and Unable to Read: What disability did David face?

Select one of the following:

  • Dyslexia

  • Dysgraphia

  • ADD

  • Dyslearnia

Explanation

Question 8 of 20

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The Cask of Amontillado: Who is the author of "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Select one of the following:

  • Richard Wright

  • Edgar Allen Poe

  • William Blake

  • Maya Angelou

Explanation

Question 9 of 20

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The Cask of Amontillado: Montressor carefully plans his revenge. He does all of the following to prepare EXCEPT ONE. Which of the following is NOT one of the things he does to prepare for his revenge?

Select one of the following:

  • Making sure his servants are not home.

  • Attaching a padlock and chains to the wall of the catacombs

  • Obtaining a cask of Amontillado

  • Hiding a trowel beneath his cape

Explanation

Question 10 of 20

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The Sniper - What alerts the enemy sniper to the sniper on the rooftop?

Select one of the following:

  • Shuffling his feet

  • Humming a tune

  • Lighting a cigarette

  • Raising his gun

Explanation

Question 11 of 20

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The Sniper - The Sniper is set during which war?

Select one of the following:

  • American Civil War

  • Irish Civil War

  • American Revolution

  • WWII

Explanation

Question 12 of 20

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The Necklace - Why is Madame Loisel upset at receiving the invitation to a fancy party?

Select one of the following:

  • She doesn't know how to behave at a fancy party

  • She doesn't have the appropriate clothes to wear

  • She knows very few of the people who will be there

  • She thinks her husband will embarrass her at the party

Explanation

Question 13 of 20

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The Necklace - The events in the story suggest that what Madame Loisel fears most is:

Select one of the following:

  • Poverty

  • Boredom

  • Humiliation

  • The loss of her beauty

Explanation

Question 14 of 20

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The Scarlet Ibis - What is a scarlet ibis?

Select one of the following:

  • A bird

  • An injury

  • A Game

  • A kid

Explanation

Question 15 of 20

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The Scarlet Ibis - In general, how does Doodle respond to the narrator's efforts to push him beyond what Doodle thinks he can do?

Select one of the following:

  • Angrily

  • Willingly

  • Fearfully

  • Fearlessly

Explanation

Question 16 of 20

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The Most Dangerous Game - Which of the following statements would Ransford and Zaroff fail to agree about?

Select one of the following:

  • The greatest sport is hunting

  • The world is made up of hunters and the hunted

  • Animals do not have the capacity to reason and understand

  • Animals do not offer sufficient challenge to be interesting prey

Explanation

Question 17 of 20

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The Most Dangerous Game - At the end of the story, the fact that Rainsford is sleeping in Zaroff's bed indicates that:

Select one of the following:

  • Zaroff has admitted defeat

  • Rainsford has killed Zaroff

  • Rainsford has scared Zaroff off

  • Rainsford has decided to join Zaroff's activities

Explanation

Question 18 of 20

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Research Writing - Which of the following best describes paraphrasing?

Select one of the following:

  • Rearranging words in a passage

  • Rewriting ideas presented in a passage after you have read and clearly understood the original

  • Piecing together sentences from more than one source

  • Switching every word in a sentence with a synonym

Explanation

Question 19 of 20

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What is the preferred font and size for a MLA research paper?

Select one of the following:

  • Callibri, 11

  • Verdana, 10

  • Times New Roman, 12

  • Times New Roman, 10

Explanation

Question 20 of 20

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Research Writing - Does a period go before or after a closing quotation mark of a title?

Select one of the following:

  • Before

  • After

Explanation

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