Unit 9

Question 1

Scout wonders if Boo Radley is ___.

Answer 1

Alive

Question 2

An artistic movement forsaking the past and showing experimentation in new art forms is called _____.

Answer 2

Modernism

Question 3

Chapters 1–7 of To Kill a Mockingbird deal mainly with ___.

Answer 3

children wondering about the mysterious Boo Radley

Question 4

“The Proposal” is a _____ because it makes fun of a cultural expectation.

Answer 4

Satire

Question 5

The _____ era of the Renaissance is the period in which playwrights could finally begin to diversify their subject matter.

Answer 5

Elizabethan

Question 6

“The Proposal” is about getting into a _____.

Answer 6

Marriage

Question 7

Ideas from other well-known works referred to in a piece of literature are called _____.

Answer 7

Allusions

Question 8

main subject of Sophocles’ “Theban” plays

Answer 8

King Oedipus

Question 9

a group of people who dance, sing, and comment on the actions of the play

Answer 9

Chorus

Question 10

an ancient Greek play by Sophocles about family devotion

Answer 10

Antigone

Question 11

background information given at the beginning of a play that introduces the characters and the major conflict

Answer 11

Prologue

Question 12

oldest surviving Greek drama

Answer 12

The Persians

Question 13

a situation in a movie or play when the audience has more knowledge than some characters do

Answer 13

Dramatic irony

Question 14

used by actors to differentiate the characters they play

Answer 14

Masks

Question 15

_____ is a dramatic convention whereby one character speaks to the audience to reveal important information that other characters do not know.

Answer 15

An aside

Question 16

A Russian realist writer and author of “The Proposal” is _____.

Answer 16

Chekhov

Question 17

Scout’s friend and neighbor mostly concerned about the beauty of her garden was ___.

Answer 17

Miss Maudie

Question 18

Prejudice is ___.

Answer 18

having an unjust or negative opinion about a group of people

Question 19

Racial segregation is ___.

Answer 19

separating people of different races or color

Question 20

A dramatic convention of a character making a speech expressing inner thoughts but not speaking to other characters on stage is _____.

Answer 20

A soliloquy

Question 21

In the summers, the Finch children mostly ___.

Answer 21

Dramatize stories

Question 22

A comedy with nonsense and crude or improbable situations is called a(n) ______.

Answer 22

Farce

Question 23

The cultural setting of the book To Kill a Mockingbird is ___.

Answer 23

during the 1930s before the Civil Rights Act

Question 24

In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, _____ ruins Othello’s marriage.

Answer 24

Lago

Question 25

______ is a dramatic convention whereby a character overhears important information about the plot and informs the audience.

Answer 25

Eavesdropping