English Exam

Question 1

What do quotations add to an article?

Answer 1

Adding quotations adds credibility and insight to an article.

Question 2

What is a main message?

Answer 2

The main message is the central idea the author wants to convey to the reader.

Question 3

What is the headline?

Answer 3

The first paragraph that contains the 5ws as well as the most important information.

Question 4

Person vs. Person conflicts in Ghost boys:

Answer 4

-Jerome and the bullies.
-Carlos and the bullies.

Question 5

Person vs. Self conflicts in ghost boys

Answer 5

• Sarah’s conflict between forgiving her father.
• Jerome taking the toy gun.

Question 6

What’s the introduction in the novel Ghost Boys?

Answer 6

-officer Moore standing over Jerome’s dead body.
-goes back in time, with information about Jerome.

Question 7

What’s the rising action in the novel ghost boys?

Answer 7

-we discover Jerome gets bullied.
-his teacher announces a new student.
-him in Carlos hide and eat in the bathroom.
-the bullies threaten Jerome, and Carlos pulls out a toy gun to protect Jerome.

Question 8

Whats the climax in the novel ghost boys?

Answer 8

-Jerome takes the toy home to play with and gets shot by a police officer without warning.

Question 9

What’s the falling action in the novel ghost boys?

Answer 9

-Jerome sees the ghost of a other black boy.
-a preliminary hearing begins.
-he discovers the officers daughter can see him.
-he finds out the black boy is emmett till.

Question 10

What’s the conclusion in the novel ghost boys?

Answer 10

-Carlos and Jerome’s family have a picnic together on Jerome’s grave.

-Jerome tells the readers to bear witness so stories like this wouldn’t have to be told.

Question 11

Violence explanation:

Answer 11

The intentional or unintentional use of force or power against a person.

Question 12

Examples of violence in the novel ghost boys:

Answer 12

-when officer Moore shoots Jerome.

-when emmett tells Jerome how he died.

Question 13

Bullying explanation:

Answer 13

The repetitive, intentional hurting of a person to another.

Question 14

Examples of bullying in the novel ghost boys:

Answer 14

When Jerome would walk up to school and get tormented by Eddie, snap, and Mike.

Question 15

Forgiveness explanation:

Answer 15

The act of letting go of anger or resentment towards someone who’s wronged you.

Question 16

Examples of forgiveness in the novel ghost boys:

Answer 16

-When Jerome’s grandmother forgave Carlos for giving Jerome the toy gun.

Question 17

Relationship explanation:

Answer 17

A connection between two or more people.

Question 18

Examples of relationships in the novel ghost boys:

Answer 18

• Carlos taking Kim to school and befriending her.

-Carlos trying to protect Jerome with the toy gun.

Question 19

Injustice explanation:

Answer 19

Lack of fairness or justice.

Question 20

Examples of injustice in the novel ghost boys:

Answer 20

-officer Moore shooting Jerome without taking the right steps to assess.

-emmett getting murdered and the judge letting the men who murdered him roam free.

Question 21

Grief explanation:

Answer 21

An emotional response to loss.

Question 22

Examples of grief in the novel ghost boys:

Answer 22

-Carlos making an afrenda of Jerome for day of the dead.

Question 23

What is the main message in dinner for two?

Answer 23

The main message is that everyone deserves the right and freedom to be who you want to be without worrying of what others think.

Question 24

What is the introduction in dinner for two?

Answer 24

-Jenny cooking dinner, the same meal at the same time.
-we learn that Gerald is a perfectionist and quick to scold.

Question 25

What is the raising action in dinner for two?

Answer 25

-jenny greets Gerald at the door.
-they don’t have children, and Jenny doesn’t want any.
-her mom was a nervous woman.
-her mom always thought her husband was trying to poison her.

Question 26

What is the climax in dinner for two?

Answer 26

-Gerald realizes Jenny poisoned herself to frame him.

Question 27

What is the falling action in dinner for two?

Answer 27

-Gerald attempts to get Jenny to confess to poisoning herself.
-he realizes she won’t admit to anything.

Question 28

What is the conclusion to dinner for two?

Answer 28

-She begins to feel free now that she is dying.

Question 29

What are the conflicts in dinner for two?

Answer 29

-person vs. Self -> Jenny and herself
-person vs. Person -> Jenny and Gerald
-person vs. Society -> Jenny and society standards.

Question 30

Character development in dinner for two:

Answer 30

Jenny - as the story progresses, we learn that Jenny isn’t actually haply with her life. She doesn’t like cooking, having the same routine every day just to serve her husband.

Question 31

The themes in dinner for two:

Answer 31

• injustice -> the way women were told to act.

Question 32

What is the main message in OTSB?

Answer 32

The main message is to never judge a book by it cover. After Andy died, when the police and his girlfriend find him, the officer only saw him as a royal, not who he truly was.

Question 33

Character development in OTSB:

Answer 33

-Andy -> in the beginning we see Andy as a thug in a fight with his rivals after buying cigarettes which we stereotyped him as nothing but a thug. As the story continues we realize that’s never what Andy wanted. He wanted to leave the Bronx, live in the suburbs, and have children with his girlfriend Laura.

Question 34

Themes in OTSB:

Answer 34

-injustice -> no one helped because of their misjudgment of Andy.

Question 35

Conflicts in OTSB:

Answer 35

-person vs. Person -> royals and Guardians.
- person vs. Self -> andy and himself + Freddie and himself.