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1. In Anton Chekhov’s short
story “The Bet”, what topic of conversation causes the bet to be made?
Answer: A comparison of the
death penalty and life imprisonment.
2. In the book “Animal Farm”,
one of the main commandments of the animals is “All animals are equal.”
How does this commandment change by the end of the novel?
Answer: The commandment changes
to “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
3. In “Twelfth Night”, which
character says, “If music be the food of love, play on”?
Answer: Duke Orsino
4. What is personification?
Answer: Giving an animal or
inanimate object human characteristics
5. In “The Good Earth”, who,
because of his devotion to the good earth, builds a dynasty in spite of
famine and revolution?
Answer: Wang Lung
6. The line “As I learn from
you, I guess you learn from me—although you’re older—and white—and somewhat
more free”, is found in what poem by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes?
Answer: Theme for English
B
7. “She stood in front of the
altar, shaking like a freshly caught trout” is an example of a metaphor,
simile, or hyperbole?
Answer: Simile (the comparison
of two things using like or as)
8. Give the five major actions
or events in a plot line.
Answer: 1)Exposition (background)
2) rising action (complications)
3) climax (crisis) 4) falling
action 5) denouement (resolution)
9. What poetic device is used
in the following line:
“How many loved your moments
of glad grace?” (W.B. Yeats)”
Answer: Alliteration; the
repetition of initial consonant sounds; is used in the last two words,
“ glad grace”
10. Almost all of the verses
in plays written by Shakespeare are in iambic pentameter. Why did Shakespeare
use iambic pentameter in his plays?
Answer: Iambic pentameter
is close to natural speech patterns and is very easy to memorize quickly
11. Who killed Hamlet’s father,
King Hamlet?
Answer: Polonius
12. What form of poetry has
14 lines and a rhyme scheme of: abab, cdcd, efef, gg?
Answer: Elizabethan or Shakespearean
sonnet
Language Arts
13. What is the purpose of
an introduction and a thesis statement?
Answer: The introduction should
catch reader interest, and the thesis statement lets the reader know what
the essay is about.
14. In the sentence, “The saleclerk
in the department store sold every pink shirt in stock”;
what function does the word
“shirt” have?
Answer: It is the direct object
15. Why should writers complete
an outline before writing a research paper?
Answer: An outline will help
the writer keep to the topic and discourage adding unnecessary information.
16. In the following sentence,
“Although I really wanted to go to the play, I was required to attend an
important meeting”; which words that make up the subordinate clause?
Answer: “Although I really
wanted to go to the play”
17. What is wrong with the
following sentence? “As we walked down the hallway, she whispered,
“Let’s keep this conversation just between you and I.”
Answer: “Between” is a preposition
and the pronouns following it should be in the objective case. It
should read, “between you and me.”
18. If a writer uses information
that is not general knowledge in a research paper and fails to cite this
information, what error has the writer committed?
Answer: plagiarism
19. What information is needed
on the work cited page for a book with one author?
Answer: 1) author 2)
book title 3) place of publication
4) publisher 5) year
of publication.
20. What is wrong with the
following? “The job was completed by George, Emily, and myself.”
Answer: 1)“myself” is
used incorrectly 2)“by” is a preposition and should be followed by
the objective case pronoun “me”
21. Is the following sentence
a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence? “Unfortunately,
I have the flu, and because I need to get well soon, I won’t even think
about going back to school yet.”
Answer: This is a compound-complex
sentence (two independent clauses, one dependent or subordinate clause).
22. What is the error in the
following sentence? “Everyone brought their lunch to class”
ANSWER: “Everyone” is a singular
subject, but the pronoun “their” is plural.
American & World History
23. What minority religious
group in India feared second-class citizenship when India was freed of
British control?
Answer: Muslims
24. Originally an organization
that worked for Irish freedom, what group used terrorist tactics in its
fight to unite Ireland?
Answer: IRA (Irish Republican
Army)
25. Gandhi, one of the most
famous men of the 20th Century, was famous for what form of protest?
Answer: passive resistance
or nonviolent protest
26. César Chávez’s
boycott of this product brought the United Farm Workers Union to national
prominence.
Answer: grapes
27. During what period were
thousands of intellectuals, scholars, artists, and writers “re-educated”
by the communist government?
Answer: The Cultural Revolution
28. Name the U.S. president
whose strategic defense policies caused the downfall of the Soviet Union.
Answer: Ronald Reagan
29. The original aim of Sun
Yat Sen’s “Goumindang” party was to form a democratic government. Why did
he turn to Communist principles?
Answer: The Western powers
such as Britain refused to support him.
30. What act put the entire
voter registration process under federal control and led to a dramatic
increase in African American voter registration?
Answer: Voting Rights Act
31. During the March on Washington,
who delivered one of the most famous speeches of the civil rights movement
and what was the speech?
Answer: 1)Martin Luther
King Jr. 2) “I Have a Dream”
32. The Vietnamese overwhelmed
which French base in Vietnam?
Answer: Dien Bien Phu
Greek and Latin Roots
33. Which of the following
would be a synonym of physiognomy:
1) physics 2) appearance
3) intelligence?
Answer: appearance
34. What is an anomaly?
Answer: Something that differs
from what is common.
35. What does an ornithologist
do?
Answer: Studies birds.
36. A mnemonic device helps
what?
Answer: To memorize things
Spelling, Vocabulary, and Phrases
37. Spell occurrence.
38. Spell colonel.
39. Spell hygiene.
40. Spell accommodate.
41. What does “cause célèbre”
mean?
Answer: A very controversial
issue.
42. What does “fait accompli”
mean?
Answer: an accomplished fact,
presumably irreversible
43. What does the Greek root
“pathos” mean?
Answer: suffering, feeling
(need both answers)
44. What does “c’est la vie”
mean?
Answer: That’s life, that’s
how thing happen.
45. What does the Latin root
“genus” mean?
Answer: kind, origin (need
both answers)
46. From which Latin roots
do we derive the words “intelligent” and “legible”?
Answer: lego and lectum (need
both answers)
Art / Music
47. What is Louis Sullivan’s
famous “law” about architecture and its form?
Answer: Form follows function.
48. What is the text of a work
(as an opera) for the musical theater?
Answer: libretto
49. Who is the composer of
the opera “The Barber of Seville” and who is the librettist?
Answer: Composer - Gioachino
Rossini / Librettist - Cesare Sterbini
50. What is optical mixing?
Answer: Placing complementary
colors next to each other and allowing the eye to "mix" them rather than
mixing them on the palette.
51. Which two artists are considered
Pop Art pioneers?
Answer: Andy Warhol and Roy
Lichtenstein
52. Who is known as the "Father
of Impressionism"?
Answer: Claude Monet
53. What is the first Impressionistic
painting and what year was it first exhibited?
Answer: “Impression Sunrise”
- 1874
54. Who painted “Images of
Labor” from the “Migration of Negroes” Series?
Answer: Jacob Lawrence
55. What is the name of Frank
Lloyd Wright’s mentor who is famous for saying the architectural dictum
“form follows function”?
Answer: Louis Sullivan
56. Name three Post-Impressionist
artists.
Answer: 1) Georges Seurat
2) Paul Cezanne 3) Vincent Van Gogh
4) Paul Gauguin
5) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
57. Who painted “Guernica”?
Answer: Pablo Picasso
58. This “Abstract Expressionist”
painter was known for his style of painting called action painting.
Who is he?
Answer: Jackson Pollock
Science
59. The sky appears blue and
sunsets appear red because of this property of light.
Answer: Diffusion or Scattering
60. What is the formula for
speed?
Answer: Speed = Distance divided
by Time
61. Finish the following phrase
taken from Newton’s Third Law of Motion:
“For every action ___________________”
Answer: “there is an equal
AND opposite reaction.”
62. An upward force equal to
the weight of the fluid displaced by the object is called what?
Answer: A buoyant force
63. What is the formula for
work?
Answer: W = F x d (Work equals
force times distance.)
64. All forms of energy fall
into two categories – what are they.
Answer: 1) kinetic energy
(energy of motion)
2) potential energy (stored
energy)
65. A book falls off a table
and free falls to the ground. Has work been done? Explain.
Answer: Yes. A force
(gravity) acts on the book, which causes it to fall a distance to the ground.
66. What is Power?
Answer: Power is a measure
of the amount of work done divided by the time it takes to do the work.
(Power = work divided by time)
67. The human ear is capable
of detecting sounds within what audible frequency range?
Answer: 20Hz to 20,000 Hz.
68. A dynamo induces an electric
current when what happens?
Answer: A circuit is exposed
to a changing magnetic field (or a solenoid is moved/turned in a
magnetic field).
69. When light waves hit an
object, they can react with the object in what three ways?
Answer: 1) They can
be absorbed 2) reflected 3) transmitted
4) or any combination of the
three
70. What is an electromagnet?
Answer: A solenoid with a
ferromagnetic material inside of it (a coiled wire wrapped around iron
with a complete circuit of electricity)
Math
71. How many centimeters are
in one meter AND how many meters are in one kilometer?
Answer: 1) 100
2) 1,000
72. What is the product of
the square root of 25 and the square root of 64?
Answer: 5 x 8 = 40
73. What is the formula for
the Pythagorean Theorem and what geometric figure does it relate to?
Answer: 1) a2
+ b2 = c2 2)It relates to a right triangle.
74. How many dimensions does
a geometric solid have?
Answer: three
75. What is the probability
of rolling a composite number on a dice?
Answer: 2/6
76. What is the absolute value
of 300 – 1000?
Answer: 700
77. Define two of the following:
range, median, mode and mean
Answer: 1) Range = the
difference between the least and greatest measurement
2) Median = the middle measurement
3) Mode = the measurement
that appears the most frequently
4) Mean = the average of the
measurements.
78. What is the degree of the
following term: 4x2m3?
Answer: This is a fifth degree
term.
79. Express 4.78 x 104 in standard
form.
Answer: 47,800
80. What is 1) the sum of complementary
angles and 2) the sum of supplementary angles?
Answer: 1) complimentary
= 90 degrees 2) supplementary = 180 degrees
Spanish
Give the Spanish equivalent for:
81. last night: anoche
82. to bathe bañarse
83. dresser cómoda
84. to sleep dormir
85. to fall asleep dormirse
86. elevator ascensor
87. to leave salir
88. to put poner
89. to put on ponerse
90. rug alfombra
Civics
91. What phrase was added to
the “Pledge of Allegiance” in the 1950’s as a stand against Communism?
Answer: “One Nation
Under God”
92. What Supreme Court decision
made segregation illegal?
Answer: Brown v. Board of
Education
93. What are the three branches
of the US government?
Answer: 1) Legislative
2) Executive 3) Judicial
94. What court decides on the constitutionality of US law and how many justices are on it? Answer: 1) The US Supreme Court 2) nine justices
95. In South Africa the practice
of segregation was called what?
Answer: apartheid
96. Who received the Nobel
Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Vietnam War?
Answer: Henry Kissinger
97. What 1960s crisis brought
the US and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?
Answer: The Cuban Missile
Crisis
98. A break-in at the Democratic
National Committee’s headquarters funded by Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect
the President was known as what?
Answer: The Watergate Scandal
99. This military operation
was conducted to end the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
Answer: Desert Storm
100. What is the famous line
that John F. Kennedy gave in his inaugural speech?
Answer: Ask not what your
Country can do for you; ask what you can do for your Country.
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