9th Grade 1st Semester Final Exam - Ms. Dacko's Classroom



9th Grade 2nd Semester Final Exam

Responding to Reading- Common Assessment:

Based on the two selections given, you will be responding to multiple choice questions. Prior to the exam, you need to read the texts thoroughly and you are encouraged to take notes. You will need to use context clues and read for content and understanding, but it will also be helpful to find any examples of the literary terminology learned first semester. (allusion, analogy, characterization, conflict, foreshadowing, genre, irony, metaphor, personification, plot, point of view, purpose, setting, simile, suspense, symbolism, theme, tone).

Grammar and Rhetoric- Common Assessment:

You will see a passage with underlined words and phrases. Most of the underlined passages contain errors or inappropriate expressions. You will choose the response that is correct. This is similar to editing. It may be helpful to review your editing sheets for this.

The Odyssey:

You will need to answer questions below based on The Odyssey. You also need to be able to summarize (or paraphrase lines from the Odyssey). You should be familiar with the examples of similes and epic similes. What items are being compared? What quality do they share? You need to know the difference between a simile and an epic simile. It will be helpful to study your Cornell Notes.

1. What type of literature is the Odyssey?

2. What is the role of Zeus in Odysseus’ adventures?

3. When does the Odyssey begin?

4. Which aspect of Odysseus’ character keeps him from giving his heart to Calypso or to Circe?

5. Describe the Lotus Eaters.

6. Which trait does Odysseus demonstrate by lying about his name to the Cyclops?

7. How do Odysseus and his men escape the cyclop's cave?

8. What dangers does Odysseus learn about while he is in the Land of the Dead?

9. What must Odysseus do to pass the Sirens as they sing?

10. Which character trait does Odysseus display when dealing with the Sirens’ song?

11. What is Scylla?

12. What is Charybdis?

13. What happens when Odysseus' crew slaughters the Sun God's cattle?

14. What is Part 1 of the Odyssey is mainly about?

15. How does Odysseus disguise himself once he returns to his homeland?

16. Who warns Odysseus about what has happened in his home while he was gone?

17. Summarize the Argus episode.

18. Why is the episode about Argus important to the overall plot of Part 2?

19. How is Telemachus obedient to his father?

20. What happens as a result of Odysseus’ initial exchange with the suitor Antinous?

21. Which character traits does Penelope reveal in the Odyssey?

22. What does Penelope tell the suitors they must do as a challenge?

23. Which of Odysseus’ traits allows his triumph in the challenge that Penelope sets for her suitors?

24. What happened to Antinous?

25. What final test does Penelope use to prove Odysseus is her husband?

26. What is the main conflict in Part 2 of the Odyssey?

27. Define epic simile.

28. List examples of how Odysseus is clever and able to meet challenges.

29. List possible themes for the Odyssey

30. How does Odysseus save his men from the Lotus-Eaters?

31. Why do Odysseus and his men travel to the Land of the Dead?

Daily Language Practice:

This section has two parts. The first part is similar to the Grammar and Rhetoric section; you will see a paragraph with underlined words and phrases. For each underlined and numbered section, you will need to determine the type of error (spelling, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization). For the second part, you will need to decide the correct word to use in the numbered blanks. It may be helpful to review your editing sheets for this.

Romeo and Juliet:

You will need to answer questions below based on Romeo and Juliet. Use your summaries to review.

32. Why is Prince Escalus angry at the beginning of the play?

33. At the beginning of the play, why is Romeo sad?

34. When Paris first asks Lord Capulet for Juliet’s hand in marriage, what does Capulet tell him?

35. During the Capulet feast, why does Tybalt become upset?

36. Romeo goes to see Friar Laurence after he speaks to Juliet in the orchard because he wants to ask Friar Laurence to do what?

37. When the Nurse comes to see Romeo, what does she want to find out?

38. When Tybalt and Mercutio fight, why does Mercutio get killed?

39. Whom does Mercutio curse as he lies dying after the duel?

40. What is Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt?

41. What is Juliet’s first reaction upon learning that Romeo has killed Tybalt?

42. Upon hearing the Prince’s sentence, how does Romeo feel?

43. Capulet informs Paris that Juliet will do what?

44. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, what does Capulet do?

45.What does Juliet’s nurse advise Juliet to do?

46. At Friar Laurence’s cell, why doesn’t Juliet tell Paris that she is already married to Romeo?

47. Why doesn’t Juliet doesn’t share with the Nurse the story about the drug from Friar Laurence?

48. What are Juliet’s fears about the drug from the Friar?

49. Why does Paris visit Juliet’s tomb?

50. What happens while Paris is visiting Juliet’s tomb?

51. What happens when Juliet discovers that Romeo is dead?

52. How are the Montague and Capulet families punished at the end of the play?

53. Describe the Nurse.

54. Why does Romeo attend the Capulet feast?

55. What does Benvolio tell Romeo about Rosaline?

56. What does Juliet tell her mother about Paris when she first mentions him?

57. Because of his dream, how does Romeo feel about attending Capulet’s feast?

58. During the balcony scene, do Romeo and Juliet know the other is there?

59. What is the plan Romeo and Juliet devise?

60. How does Friar Laurence feel about the marriage at first?

61. Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?

62. When the Nurse brings back the news about Tybalt, what does Juliet first believes that the Nurse has told her?

63. How does Romeo feel about banishment?

64. Why does Juliet go to Friar Laurence in Act IV, scene 1?

65. When Juliet lies down, what does she hold?

66. Who knows that Juliet is not really dead?

67. Why doesn’t Romeo get the message?

68. Who speaks the last lines of the play: “Some people shall be pardoned, and some shall be punished;/ For never was a story of more woe/ than this of Juliet and her Romeo”?

69. What is a soliloquy?

In which act did each of the following scenes take place?

70. Romeo kills Tybalt in a sword fight.

71. Prince warns Capulet and Montague to stop the fighting or they will be killed.

72. Romeo talks to Juliet in the moonlit garden.

73. Juliet kills herself with Romeo’s dagger.

74. Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion to feign death.

75. Romeo kills Paris in a sword fight outside the tomb.

76. Romeo tells Benvolio about his lovesickness for Rosaline.

77. Capulet tells Juliet that she must marry Count Paris.

Describe each of the following characters.

78. Romeo

79. Juliet

80. Paris

81. Friar Laurence

82. Tybalt

83. Prince

84. Lord Montague

85. Mercutio

86. Lord Capulet

87. Nurse

The test is 140 questions and is a combination of multiple choice, true and false, and matching. You need to bring a number 2 pencil and something to do for after the test. IMPORTANT- If you choose not to read the selections before the test, you will have a hard time answering the first several questions and you may even run out of time. READ THE SELECTIONS BEFORE THE DAY OF THE EXAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a reason that you are getting the selections early. Use your time wisely and prepare. Ask any questions that you have about the selection on the review days, I WILL NOT answer any questions about the reading selections on the day of the final.

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