English Final Material

Question 1

What great changes came about during the period of Victorian England?

Answer 1

• Advances in Technology
• Social Advances
• Industrial Revolution

Question 2

Advances in Technology

Answer 2

• 2100km pipes to divert sewage
• Buckingham Palace
• Crystal Palace
• Railways
• Preventative medicines

Question 3

Social Advances

Answer 3

• Compulsory schools (1870)
• Increase in literature and advancement of the novel
• New decorative and functional architecture
• “Bobbies” (police)
• Women’s rights

Question 4

Industrial Revolution

Answer 4

• Increase in skilled labor
• Factories
• Better economies and trade
• Expanded lands

Question 5

What were some “complications” of these advancements?

Answer 5

• Hypocrisy
• Class conflict
• Child labor
• Creation of slums and poor inner cities
• Growing faith in technology; with a strong opposition to the overuse
• Calling into question for the first time of Christianity on a large scale

Question 6

Who is the author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Answer 6

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 7

How long did he live and where was he born?

Answer 7

1850-1894; Edinburgh, Scotland

Question 8

Background of Animal Farm

Answer 8

Animal Farm was published on the heels of World War II, in England in 1945 and in the United States in 1946. George Orwell wrote the book during the war as a cautionary fable in order to expose the seriousness of the dangers posed by Stalinism and totalitarian government. Orwell faced several obstacles in getting the novel published. First, he was putting forward an anti-Stalin book during a time when Western support for the Soviet Union was still high due to its support in Allied victories against Germany. Second, Orwell was not yet the literary star he would quickly become. For those reasons, Animal Farm appeared only at the war’s end, during the same month that the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The tragically violent events of the war set the stage well for Orwell’s fictional manifesto against totalitarianism.

Question 9

What is an allegory?

Answer 9

• Story with two meanings

- A literal meaning and a symbolic meaning

Question 10

Fable

Answer 10

-Short story with moral or message

Question 11

What is a satire?

Answer 11

-Criticizes social and/or political system

Question 12

Who does Old Major represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 12

Marxism (Lenin)

Question 13

Who does Mr. Jones represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 13

Czar Nicholas II

Question 14

Who does Moses represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 14

Russian Orthodox Church

Question 15

What does the Animal Rebellion represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 15

Russian Revolution of 1917

Question 16

Who does Napoleon represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 16

Stalin

Question 17

Who does Snowball represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 17

Trotsky

Question 18

Who does Squealer represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 18

Pravda (Propaganda)

Question 19

Who does Napoleon’s dogs represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 19

Russian Secret police

Question 20

Who does Foxwood Farm (Pilkington) represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 20

England (Churchill)

Question 21

Who does Pinchfield Farm (Frederick) represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 21

Germany (Hitler)

Question 22

Who does the Battle of Cowshed represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 22

Anti-Revolutionary Invasion of Russia

Question 23

Who does the Battle of the Windmill represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 23

Battle of Stalingrad (German Invasion of Russia during WWII)

Question 24

Who does the animals other than pigs and dogs represent in Animal Farm?

Answer 24

The working class

Question 25

Who was the Illustrated Man written by?

Answer 25

Ray Bradbury

Question 26

What is paraphrasing?

Answer 26

To express someone's ideas in your own language

Question 27

What is summarizing?

Answer 27

To distill only the most essential points of someone else's work

Question 28

When do you paraphrase?

Answer 28

- When you want to use another writer's words without plagiarizing - You want to use another's words with quotes - The ideas of another writer are more important than his/her style - You think the words of another writer are too difficult for your audience

Question 29

When do you summarize?

Answer 29

- You want to identify only the main ideas of another writer - You want to give an overview of the topic - You want to simplify a complex argument - You want to condense the matter to suite your requirements

Question 30

What is tone

Answer 30

A speaker or writer's attitude to the subject or audience

Question 31

Logical Appeal

Answer 31

When a character uses a clear, rational argument to try and convince another character of something

Question 32

Emotional Appeal

Answer 32

When a character tries to appeal to another's emotions to make a point

Question 33

Diction

Answer 33

The words a writer or speaker chooses to communicate a message

Question 34

Syntax

Answer 34

The grammatical structures in a piece of writing

Question 35

Who was Queen Victoria

Answer 35

Ruler during the period of Victorian England, she was crowned at 18, her reign was the height of the English Empire

Question 36

Point of View

Answer 36

The perspective from which a story is told

Question 37

Characterization

Answer 37

Giving human like qualities to nonhuman things

Question 38

Theme

Answer 38

The message in a story

Question 39

Persona

Answer 39

The voice or character of a speaker or an author

Question 40

Motif

Answer 40

a distinctive feature or dominant idea

Question 41

When and where was Arthur Miller born?

Answer 41

New York, 1915

Question 42

When and why was the Crucible written

Answer 42

During the years following WWII and Communism was still terrorizing everyone

Question 43

What are the seven types of propaganda

Answer 43

- bandwagoning - glittering generalities - name-calling - plain folks - testimonials - transfer - card-stacking

Question 44

Identify Francis and Rebecca Nurse

Answer 44

Highly respected people in Salem and own a lot of land

Question 45

What do the girls do at the end of Act 1

Answer 45

They begin to accuse people of witchcraft