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Spring English Final Review
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English
10th Grade
05/31/2011

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Supercilious
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Arrogant
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Fractiousness
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Rebellious
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Banns
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Public announcement in church of an intended marriage
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Prodigality
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Extravagant
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Florid
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Flushed with redness
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Jauntiness
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Carefree
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Punctilious
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Strictly attentive to fine points
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Rajah
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A prince or leader in India
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Somnambulatory
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Walking while asleep; difficult to understand
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Denizen
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Inhabitant
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Postern
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Back door of a castle
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Meretricious
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Attractive in a vulgar way
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Turgid
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Pompous in language
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Prig
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Smug, Self-Rigtheous Person
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Portentous
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Ominous; Threatening
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Redolent
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Giving off a pleasant odor
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Amorphous
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Shapeless
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Pasquinade
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Satirical piece of writing
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Surmise
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To guess
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Superfluous
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More than is needed or desired
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Ulster
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A long loose overcoat
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Provincial
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Unfashionable
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Transitory
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Momentary
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Orgiastic
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Resembling an orgy
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The first time that Gatsby tells nick about his past, he claims to be from a city in the west. What city is it?
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San Francisco
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Which college does he claim to have attended
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Oxford
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Who is Meyer Wolfsheim?
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He is a gambler and Gatsby’s business partner
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What are Meyer Wolfsheim’s cufflinks made out of?
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Teeth
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Daisy and Jordan are from which city?
Definition
Louisville
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As of the arranged encounter at Nick’s house, Daisy and Gatsby have not seen each other for…?
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Five years
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How long did it take to get the money to build his mansion?
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Three years
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“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can.”
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Gatsby
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“Her voice is full of money.”
About who?
Definition
Gatsby
Daisy
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What unexpected guest shows up to Gatsby’s funeral?
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The man with the owl eyes
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What is the weather like during Gatsby’s funeral?
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Rainy
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Who tells George Wilson that Gatsby is the owner of the car that killed Myrtle?
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Tom Buchanan
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What object does George Wilson find that leads him to suspect of Myrtle’s affair?
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A dog leash
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What happens to the dog?
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We don't know
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“There was something gorgeous about him, height, sensitivity…”
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Gatsby
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“I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father. I participated in the delayed…”
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Nick
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“Two shiny arrogant eyes had established over his dominant face…”
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Tom Buchanan
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“She was a slender, small breasted girl... ”
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Jordan
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“Her low thrilling voice was..."
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Daisy
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“I rather liked him and evidently she led him quite a life."
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Jake
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Everybody’s sick, I’m sick too”
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Georgette
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“I think it’s hell on earth”
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Brett
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What does “I think it’s hell on earth” refer to?
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Love
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“It’s awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime…”
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Jake
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“You know it makes one feel rather good no to be a bitch…”
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Brett
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“We left the Hotel Montana. The woman who ran the hotel would not let me pay the bill. The bill had already been paid.”
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Jake
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“Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
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Jake
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What does Montoya respond differently to Jake than he does to Jake’s friends?
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Because Jake is a true fan of bullfighting
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What is a steer?
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A castrated bull
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What is aficion
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Passion
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“She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s.” Who is this describing
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Brett
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“He calls her Circe,” Mike said, “He claims she turns men into swine.”
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Literary allusion
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“You could not be upset about everything on a day like that. That was the last day before the fiesta.”
Definition
Foreshadowing
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