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Final Exam En 9
To Kill a Mockingbird and R & J review, main contain vocab and other info
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9th Grade
05/24/2011

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Who is Mr. Dolphus Raymond?
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He is a white man who pretends to be drunk so he can live with the colored people.
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Who is Calpurnia?
Definition
She is the Finch's maid and happens to be African American
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Who is Reverand Sykes?
Definition
He is the African American minister who invites the children to sit with him (and his group) in the balcony during the trial.
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Who is Scout?
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Scout is Jean Louise Finch and she is the narrator (many think she is a boy).
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Who is Atticus Finch?
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Atticus is the town defense lawyer who has to defend a black man even though the racist juries usually find them all guilty.
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Who is Jem?
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He is Scout's older brother who gets a broken arm, is saved by Boo Radley, and loses his pants in a fence.
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Who is Boo Radley?
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He is a mysterious neighbor who saves the kid/s more than once.
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Who is Tom Robinson?
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He is a colored man accused of raping a white woman although his left arm is shriveled.
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Who is Mayella Ewell?
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She is the white woman who accused a black man of rape. She is poor and often beaten at home.
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Who is Burris Ewell
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He is a poor child that only goes to school for the first day.
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Who is Mrs. Dubose?
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She is a cranky old lady dying and in pain. She wants to die and Jem reads to her since he chopped up her flowers.
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Who is Miss Maudie?
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She is a neighbor whose home burns and is often kind to the children.
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Who is Miss Caroline Fisher
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She is the young teacher who scolds Scout for knowing too much.
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Who is Aunt Alexandra?
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She is Atticus's sister who helps watch the kids during the trial.
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Who is Dill?
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A neighbor kid who comes to visit every summer and runs away once.
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Who is Walter Cunningham?
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He is a poor boy that gets invited for dinner and likes syrup.
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Name someone in To Kill a Mockingbird that BOTH Jem and Scout judge before they get to know him.
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Boo Radley
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Mrs. Dubose was judged wrongly by both Jem and Scout because...
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She was on pain medication, dying, and pretty crabby towards people.
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To show respect for Atticus after the verdict, the African Americans do this after the verdict.
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They all stand quietly in the balcony
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After Tom Robinson is found guilty of rape, this one things happens to him...
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He is show and killed in the prison yard.
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Jem and Scout were saved over and over again mainly by these 2 people in the novel overall.
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Atticus and Boo Radley
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Who is the best example of an antagonist in To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Bob Ewell
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It don't/doesn't matter if we are a few minutes late.
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doesn't
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Either of the movies is/ar available on video.
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is
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Eighty dollars is/are a standard fee for a doctor's office visit.
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is
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The books' writer and photographer is/are Mrs. Harlock
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is
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At our house, apple pie and warm chocolate fudge sauce is/are the preferred dessert.
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is
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Why wasn't/weren't a copy of the reports mailed to every parent in this school for our MEAP results?
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wasn't
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What does impudent mean? (part of speech also)
Definition
Sassy, uncooperative, argumentative, prone to misbehave (adj)
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What does placid mean? (part of speech also)
Definition
Calm and quiet (adj)
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What does immune mean? (part of speech also)
Definition
Doesn't affect someone or protected from (adj)
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What does reprimand mean? (part of speech also)
Definition
To admonish or scold (noun/verb)
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What does futility mean? (part of speech also)
Definition
Not likely to accomplish something, without hope (noun)
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What does volition mean? (part of speech also)
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Acting on one's one decision (noun)
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What does notoriety mean? (part of speech)
Definition
Being famous, but only in a negative sense (noun)
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What does connived mean? (part of speech)
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To trick or to obtain a result using dishonest means (verb)
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What does brevity mean? (part of speech)
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To speak in short or coarse language (noun)
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What does articulate mean? (part of speech)
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Being able to speak well and clearly. (noun)
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What does gait mean? (part of speech)
Definition
The manner of how someone walks (noun)
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Neither of the dogs (has/have) a collar
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has
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Where does Romeo go after being banished?
Definition
Mantua
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What does the nurse tell Juliet to do after Romeo is banished?
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Marry Paris and move on
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Romeo learns about Capulet's party from whom?
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The clown (or a servant who cannot read)
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Why does Romeo obtain the poison?
Definition
so that he might be able to commit suicide
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When the play ends, what part of the tragedy does Shakespeare use to review the story with the audience?
Definition
the epilogue
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What is a foil?
Definition
A character who helps bring out or develop another character's personality
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What is dramatic irony?
Definition
When the situation shows the audience the opposite of what the characters say or show (spoken or situational)
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FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION: What terms shows when a character speaks on stage to another character as though whispering (although the audience can hear it)?
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Aside
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FINAL JEOPARDY: Use veneer correctly in a sentence
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VARIOUS, but would show veneer as a noun that describes a layer of wood or a person who shows one thing, but may hide another layer beneath
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FINAL JEOPARDY: Use constituted correctly in a sentence
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VARIOUS but would show contstitued as a verb and a way of making up something, like the many piles of wood constituted a sturdy hunting blind.
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Most of the students was/were home sick with the flu.
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were
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"St. Louis Blues" is/are one of the lamest songs of all times.
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is
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Some of the glitter is/are stuck to Ms. Carberry's blouse.
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is
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Who is the best sword fighter in Romeo and Juliet?
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Tybalt
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This person banishes Romeo from Verona...
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Prince Escalus
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This was Romeo's first "love"...
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Rosaline
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