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2. Who wrote “Cyrano de Bergerac?”
Answer:
Edmond Rostand
3. In “Anne Frank: Diary of
a Young Girl”; Anne said that “The children in the neighborhood are
so dirty
you would hate to touch them with a barge pole”. This is an example of
what type of
humor?
Answer:
Hyperbole
4. What are the stress patterns
for the following foot types?
Iambic,
Trochaic, Dactylic, and Anapestic
Answer:
Iambic: unstressed-stressed
Trochaic: stressed-unstressed
Dactylic: stressed-unstressed-unstressed
Anapestic: unstressed-unstressed-stressed
5. In Call of the Wild, Buck’s
character progression is really a form of retrogression
(goingbackwards)—one
that marks his return to a more primordial (primitive) state. What
is it
called
when a character demonstrates characteristics or traits typical of their
ancestral form?
Answer:
Atavism
6. What was the ironic ending
of “The Necklace”?
Answer:
The borrowed necklace turned out to be a fake, and the couple needlessly
went through
years of hardship thinking they had to purchase a real diamond necklace
to return
to the their friend.
7. Why was Cyrano afraid to
tell Roxanne of his love for her?
Answer:
Despite his bravery in other areas, he was afraid that he would be rejected,
because
he was too ugly to love.
8. In Anne Frank: Diary of
a Young Girl, Anne’s saying that she has the “unusual good fortune”
to share
her bedroom with Dussel is an example of what type of humor?
Answer: irony
9. Who is Buck’s rescuer in
Call of the Wild?
Answer:
John Thornton
10. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,”
why does the murderer confess?
Answer: He hears the loud pounding of the heart, which symbolizes his conscience,
and he assumes the detectives hear it also.
11. In the Merchant of Venice,
Shylock demands what in payment for his bond?
ANSWER: A pound of (Antonio’s)
flesh.
12. In “The Merchant of Venice”,
which casket holds Portia’s portrait?
Answer: The casket made of
lead.
13. What form of poetry has
14 lines and a rhyme scheme of: abab, cdcd, efef, gg?
Answer: Elizabethan or Shakespearean
sonnet
Language Arts
14. 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.
15. In the sentence “The saleclerk
in the department store sold every pink shirt in stock”; what function
does the word “shirt” have?
Answer: Direct object
16. Why should writers complete
an outline before writing a paragraph or paper?
Answer: An outline will help
the writer keep to the topic and discourage the adding unnecessary information.
17. In the following sentence
“Although I really wanted to go to the play, I was required to attend an
important meeting”; give the words that make up the subordinate clause.
Answer: “Although I really
wanted to go to the play”
18. 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.”
19. 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
20. What information is needed
on the work cited page for a book with one author?
Answer: author, book title,
place of publication, publisher, year of publication.
21. What is wrong with the
following? The job was completed by George, Emily, and myself.
Answer: “myself” is used incorrectly;
“by” is a preposition and should be followed by the objective case pronoun
“me.”
22. 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).
23. 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.
Spelling, Vocabulary, and
Phrases
24. Spell achievement.
25. Spell definite.
26. Spell hypocrisy.
27. Spell remembrance.
28. From what Greek root do
we derive the words “metropolitan” and “cosmopolitan”?
Answer: Polis
29. What does “de facto” mean?
Answer: In reality, already
existing
30. What does “quid pro quo
mean”?
Answer: Something received
in exchange for something else
31. What does “modus Vivendi”
mean?
Answer: A way of living or
getting along
32. From which Latin roots
do we derive the words “effect” and “affect”?
Answer: facio
33. What does the Greek root
“demos” mean?
Answer: people
American & World History
34. Although he didn’t lead
the Russian Revolution, who was the Bolshevik leader who took credit for
the revolution and ruthlessly deposed all opposition to his political philosophy?
ANSWER: Lenin
35. The outbreak of what disease
halted the building of the Panama Canal?
ANSWER: Yellow Fever
36. What was Hitler’s lightning
war against Poland in 1940 called?
ANSWER: Blitzkrieg
37. What was the term for the
five-state area including Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas that lost much of
their farmland?
ANSWER: Dust Bowl
38. During WWI, what killed
600,000 Americans and 20 million people worldwide?
ANSWER: influenza (flu)
39. The German’s Schlieffen
Plan called for the invasion of what country by going through Belgium?
ANSWER: France
40. Clarence Darrow and William
Jennings Bryant argued a famous court case in Tennessee in 1925. What was
that case?
ANSWER: Scopes (monkey) trial
41. What was the deep economic
downturn lasting from 1929 to 1940?
ANSWER: The Great Depression
42. What was the night when Nazis vandalized and burned down Jewish temples and businesses called? ANSWER: Kristallnacht
43. What’s the name for manufacturing products specifically designed to go out of style? ANSWER: planned obsolescence
44. Where are the Everglades?
ANSWER: In southern Florida.
45. What two mountain chains
run almost the entire length of the U.S.?
ANSWER: The Appalachian Mts.
in the east and the Rocky Mts. in the west.
46. What do we call the artistic
flowering of African American culture in the 1920s?
ANSWER: Harlem Renaissance.
47. Who was the first person
to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean?
ANSWER: Charles Lindbergh
48. Who was sentenced to 10
years in prison for making a speech against WWI?
ANSWER: Eugene Debs
49. What do we call the movement of African Americans northward between 1915 and 1930? ANSWER: The Great Migration
50. Name two German actions
that resulted in the US entering WWI on the side of the allies.
ANSWER: Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Note
American & World Geography
51. What physical feature
divides western Russia from eastern Russia?
ANSWER: The Ural Mountains
52. Name the Great Lakes?
ANSWER: Huron, Ontario, Michigan,
Erie, Superior
53. Which state contains the
Black Hills?
ANSWER: South Dakota
54. What body of water separates
Alaska from eastern Russia?
ANSWER: The Bering Strait
55. Which Russian City had
its name changed to Leningrad after the Russian Revolution and reverted
back to its pre-Revolutionary name in the late 20th century?
ANSWER: St. Petersburg
56. Where is the Kremlin?
ANSWER: Moscow
57. What two seas border southern
Russia?
ANSWER: Caspian and Black
58. One of the United State’s
most famous landforms is found in Arizona. What is it?
ANSWER: The Grand Canyon
Mathematics
59. Rename 36% as a fraction
and as a decimal.
ANSWER: 36/100 and 0.36
60. What is meant by the expression
“prime factorization of a number”?
ANSWER: When a number is expressed
as a product of prime numbers
61. What is the first thing
you need to find in order to determine the sum of 4/5 and ¾?
ANSWER: Find the common denominator.
62. How do you A) determine
the product of 108 and 104 and B) What is the product?
ANSWER: Part A: add the exponents
Part B: 1012
63. What is perimeter AND area
of a rectangle that has sides of 3 meters and 7 meters?
ANSWER: the perimeter is 20
meters, and the area is 21 square meters
64. What is the formulas for
both the area of a circle AND the circumference of a circle? ANSWER: Area=
pr2 (pi times radius squared)
Circumference = pD (pi times
diameter) OR 2pr (two times pi times radius)
65. What is an obtuse angle?
ANSWER: Obtuse is greater
than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees
66. What is the sum of the
measures of the angles of a triangle?
ANSWER: 180 degrees
67. How do you find the surface
area of a cube?
ANSWER: Find the area
of one of the faces and then multiply that answer by the total number of
faces (6) on the cube.
68. When dividing fractions,
you multiply the first fraction by the _________ of the second fraction?
ANSWER: reciprocal
Science
69. Name the three main particles
of an atom and the charge of each particle.
Answer: proton, positive (+),
neutron, neutral (0), and electron, negative (-)
70. Name the chemical compounds
that are formed from covalent bonds.
Answer: molecular compounds
71. What is the name of the
compound represented by MgCl2?
Answer: magnesium chloride
or magnesium dichloride
72. What is the pH range for
an acid?
Answer: Less than 7
73. Who created the periodic table of elements and what game inspired its creation? Answer: Dimitri Mendeleev; playing the card game solitaire
74. What is an ion?
Answer: An atom that has lost
or gained one or more electrons.
75. What are the names of the
two kinds of cell division?
Answer: Mitosis and Meiosis
76. Name the cell part that
carries inherited or genetic traits?
Answer: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic
acid)
77. Please give the element
name for each of the following symbols: Li, F, Na, P, and Cu
Answer: Lithium, Fluorine,
Sodium, Phosphorus, and Copper
78. What is the use of a Punnett
square?
Answer: It is used to show
possible gene combinations passed from parent to offspring
Art /Music
79. Name one feature of Renaissance
art.
ANSWER: 1) revival of classical
subjects and techniques
2) emphasis on humanity
3)discovery of perspective
80. This period was first used
to define the architecture that was easily recognized in cathedrals?
ANSWER: Gothic
81.The artistic movement that
was a reaction against Baroque and Rococo was?
Answer: Neoclassicism
82. The artistic movement characterized
by the belief that art should represent ordinary people and activities
was?
ANSWER: Neoclassicism
83. Who is the composer of
the opera “The Barber of Seville” and who is the librettist?
ANSWER: Composer—Gioachino
Rossini
Librettist—Cesare Sterbini
84. Name four of the seven
elements of art.
ANSWER: 1) Color 2) Line/Line
direction 3) Shape 4) Form 5)Texture 6) Value 7) Space
85. Name two important religious
buildings from the Classical Period and tell their locations.
ANSWER: The Parthenon in Athens,
Greece
The Pantheon in Rome, Italy
86 Who painted The School
of Athens?
ANSWER: Raphael
87. Name 2 of the 4 features
of Gothic cathedrals.
ANSWER: 1) Rose windows
2)spires 3) pointed arches 4) gargoyles
88. What composer wrote “There’s
No Business Like Show Business”.
Answer: Irving Berlin
89. What is the text of a work
(as an opera) for the musical theater?
Answer: libretto
90. Who composed “Rigoletto”?
Answer: Giuseppe Verdi
Spanish
Give the Spanish equivalent
for:
91. last night ANSWER: anoche
92. to bathe ANSWER: bañarse
93. to the right ANSWER: a la derecha
94. to put ANSWER: poner
95. to fall asleep ANSWER: dormirse
96 to the left ANSWER: a la izquierda
97 rug ANSWER: alfombra
98. to put on ANSWER: ponerse
99. to leave ANSWER: salir
100. elevator ANSWER: ascensor
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