Download Midterm Exam Review09-10 H

Honors Freshman Midterm Exam Review—December 2009
Study tips:
Organize, organize, organize! Find syllabus packets & review sheets.
Please see me about anything you are missing!
Organize and review notes, packets/worksheets and passages you have
marked in your books.
Consulting review sheets for past exams might help to focus you on
important ideas.
Answering the study questions in this handout as well as making
flashcards or lists of terms and definitions would be a great start.
Format:
Multiple choice/ matching questions/ short answer: 1 hour
1 expository essay: ½ hour
*The final component of the exam will be an expository paragraph
which we will discuss during the week before exams.
Summer Reading Unit: Girl with A Pearl Earring; Bless Me, Ultima; To Kill a
Mockingbird; and Haroun
Multiple choice questions covering the application of terms.
You should be able to answer the following questions for all four books:
Who is the narrator?
Who are the round and flat characters?
What is the setting? How is the setting connected to conflict?
What are the main conflicts and how are they resolved?
What does the plot chart (exposition, conflict, climax, resolution) look like for each
work?
What are the important symbols? Themes?
Be able to recognize examples of direct/ indirect characterization and internal/
external conflict.
Mythology Unit
Multiple choice questions covering plot events, application of terms, patterns,
important quotes, key messages, and functions
You should know the following:
Campbell’s four functions of myth-What are they and how do they apply to the
stories?
*What is an archetype? What archetypes do we see in the stories?
Creation stories-What are the key similarities and differences?
Review Greek creation story-What patterns emerge in the Greek family tree?
What is the structure of the underworld? What were Greek ideas of reward and
punishment?
Review the Dionysus and Demeter stories-What functions apply? What are the
Eleusinian mysteries? What is unique about Dionysus? About Demeter?
Review the love stories-What functions apply to each story? What were the main
lessons about love? What was unique about Baucis and Philemon?
Review the hero stories- What are the qualities of a mythological hero? Review notes
about how Theseus and Odysseus fit or fail to fit each step of the pattern.
15 Matching questions on key figures from Mythology Unit
You should review: The Olympians: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, Artemis,
Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaetus, Hermes, Hestia
Plus: Dionysus, Demeter, Cronus, Rhea, Semele, & Persephone
Drama Unit: Antigone and Edufa
Multiple choice questions covering plot events, application of terms, important
quotes, and key messages
You should be able to answer the following questions:
What purposes does the chorus serve in each play? How are they similar? Different?
What are the major conflicts in each play? How are they resolved?
Who are the prophet figures in each story? How are they similar?
Which characters serve as foils? What do these pairings highlight about each
character’s personality?
What do the owl, the waist beads, the flowers, Senchi’s suit, the leopard skin, and
water represent in Edufa?
What are the parts of the tragic hero pattern? Who fits and who fails to fit the
pattern? How/ why?
What was Creon’s tragic flaw? What was Edufa’s tragic flaw? Do they realize these
flaws? How? To what degree?
Which characters from Antigone and Edufa parallel each other?
What are the main themes of each play?
*Multiple choice questions involving analysis of key quotations
Review key quotations from both plays that we marked and discussed in class
Literary Terms from all Units
20 matching questions
You should know the definitions of the following terms:
Narrator, Point of View, Setting, Round Character, Flat Character, Indirect
Characterization, Direct Characterization, Inference, Internal conflict,
External conflict, Theme, Plot, Exposition, Resolution, Climax, Symbol,
Protagonist, Antagonist, Foil, Tragic hero, Catharsis, Tragedy, Mythological hero
Grammar Units
Mix of multiple choice and matching questions
Be able to identify Parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb,
conjunction, interjection, preposition
Be able to identify Parts of sentence: subject, direct object, indirect object, predicate
noun, predicate adjective
Be able to identify errors in subject/ verb agreement and pronoun/ antecedent
agreement
Verbals: be able to differentiate between gerunds, participles, infinitives
Be able to identify dangling participles, split infinitives
Be able to properly punctuate sentences
Practice on attached Grammar Review sheet!! If you struggle, see me for more
practice!!
Vocabulary Units
20 multiple choice questions covering Units 1-10
Questions will be sentence completions with four vocab words as choices.
Midterm Grammar Review Exercises
1. Parts of Speech: Label each word with the appropriate part of speech.
At the end of the long day, Linda wanted nothing more than her fuzzy bunny slippers and
her flannel pajamas.
2. Parts of Sentence: Label each underlined word as a part of sentence; DO, IO, PN or PA.
Joan gave John the mythology book.
Sylvia appears grumpy today.
Hannah wants a green sweater.
Test taking is a terrible chore.
3. Fix errors in pronoun/ antecedent agreement.
Every student should bring their calculator for the math exam.
The class takes their exam on Monday.
The family took their vacation after exams.
A student brings their review sheet to class.
4. Fix errors in subject/ verb agreement.
The group of girls go to practice.
Either Tina or Tara are going to be late.
Nobody know the correct answer.
Sue and Sara looks for the lost dog.
5. Label the following underlined words as gerund, participle, infinitive or preposition.
Throwing the bottle cap gracefully, Tony hit Sam directly in the head.
Unfortunately, throwing food items got Tony in trouble.
As punishment, the proctor asked Tony to apologize to Sam by groveling on his knees in front of
everyone in the cafeteria.
After apologizing, Tony then had to glue the bottle cap to his hand.
Protesting loudly, Tony went about gluing the cap.