honors english ii final exam review

Honors English II Final Exam Review

What is anaphora?

AQWF•What is the main reason why the boys

enlisted in the army?

•Kantorek made it seem like it was their duty…

Cyrano•How does Cyrano show respect for art?

TFA•What is the name of the author? Spelling

Counts

Antigone•What did Sophocles use to add suspense

and intrigue?

What is a memoir?

Cyrano•Cyrano is most sensitive about his…

Oedipus•Where does the play take place?

TFA•__________ is the king of the crops.

Night•What did Moshe the Beadle tell the

people on his return from being deported?

Cyrano•How are Cyrano and Christian character

foils?

What is an allusion?

Antigone•Why is Antigone forbidden to bury her

brother, Polynices?

TFA•How did Okonkwo violate the week of

peace?

Oedipus•Why does the priest request a meeting

with Oedipus?

AQWF•What game do the men play throughout

the novel?

What is situational irony?

Cyrano•Where is the setting of the play (country)?

TFA•What is the name of the village where

Okonkwo lives before he is exiled?

Antigone•Why does Ismene refuse to help Antigone

bury Polynices?

Night

•What was the setting for the first section of the book?

What are two characteristics of a theme?

Cyrano•Who does Cyrano give his first letter to

and why?

Night•Who is the character who has “bouts of

anger”?

TFA•What is Okonkwo’s tragic flaw?

Oedipus•Why did Thebes originally ignore King

Laius’ murder?

Antigone•Who is Haemon?

Cyrano•How does Roxane trick De Guiche?

Who is the author of Night?

TFA•Who is one character foil for Okonkwo?

AQWF•In Kantorek’s letter to Paul and his

friends, he describes them as the “______ Youth.”

Night•What did the Jews in the train car

discover when they looked out the window?

AQWF•What event causes Detering to become

outraged?

TFA•Why is Okonkwo exiled?

Cyrano•What does Cyrano do in order to stall De

Guiche?

Who is the author of AQWF?

Oedipus•Who are the members of the old royal

family?

Antigone•The entombed Antigone is often compared

to a …

TFA•What is an “iron horse”?

Night•What are examples of dehumanization in

the novel?

Who wrote Cyrano de Bergerac?

Cyrano•Both Roxane and Cyrano believe that a

soul expresses itself best through…

AQWF•Kropp believes that war should be fought

by

TFA•What is the name of Okonkwo’s

motherland?

Oedipus•Who are members of the new royal

family?

Cyrano•Who is the pastry chef?

Antigone•Why does Antigone defy Creon’s edict?

TFA•What character dies of an unclean

disease?

Night•What did Franek want from Elie?

Cyrano•How many times does Cyrano cross

Spanish lines to send Roxane letters?

Oedipus•What archetypal role does Teiresisas fit?

TFA•What are often left in the evil forest to

die?

AQWF

• Kantorek’s situation becomse ironic because…

Antigone•What happens to Creon’s wife?

Cyrano•What is the play based on?

Night•How did Elie say the soup tasted the night

the pipel was hanged?

TFA•What kind of crime did Okonkwo commit?

•This is the reason why he is exiled…

Oedipus•How does Creon argue his innocence?

Antigone•Who does Antigone blame her fate on?

Cyrano•What object symbolizes Cyrano’s life?

AQWF•why does Paul feel he must dress the

Frenchman’s wounds?

TFA•What is the name of the missionary who is

aggressive and forceful?

Night•What was Elie’s inheritance from his

father?

Oedipus•Where was Laius killed?

Cyrano•What do Roxane and Ragueneau bring the

cadets?

Antigone•What is the messenger’s central function

within the play?

TFA•Chielo calls this character “my daughter”

Oedipus•Draw Oedipus’ new family tree

AQWF•According to Paul, what is the only decent

result of war?

Cyrano•What major conflict still remains even

after the war is over?

Antigone•Who persuades Creon to release Antigone

from her tomb?

TFAWho is the “sad-faced” youth?

Oedipus•Who is the Greek god of the theater?

Night•What did Elie realize about Rabbi

Eliahou’s son just after the evacuation?

Cyrano•How does Cyrano die?

Oedipus•What three things were masks used for?

TFA•_________ is the strongest male convert to

the Christian faith

Antigone•Who tells Creon that Polynices’ has been

buried?

Oedipus•What is the name of Oedipus’ adoptive

mother and father? Spelling counts…

Cyrano•Where does Roxane go after the war is

over?

AQWF

• By the end of the novel, Paul’s senses become deadened to

TFA•What is Okonkwo’s nickname?

Night

•What happened to Elie’s father?

Cyrano•What other play has significant parallel

scenes?

Oedipus•Why did Oedipus originally go to Thebes?

Night•How many of Elie’s family members

survived the Holocaust?

AQWF

• Paul believes that his generation knows

TFA•Who is called “Crystal of Beauty”

Oedipus•Apollo is the Greek god of the __________.

Cyrano•Who gives a warning that Cyrano may

accidentally die?

Oedipus•According to Aristotle, what is the

purpose of tragedy? One word…

Night•Who saw visions of fire?

TFA•What are children called who are reborn

over and over? Described as evil children…

Cyrano•What is the name of the man to whom De

Guiche wishes Roxane to marry?

Oedipus•How many plays did Sophocles write?

Night•What number was Elie given at the

concentration camps?

•A-7713

TFA•At the end of the novel, how does

Okonkwo feel that the people of Umofia had become?

•One word…

Oedipus•What is the Greek word for tragic flaw?

Cyrano•What does Cyrano retrieve from behind

enemy lines?

Bonus•Night•How many men started out in Elie’s train

car? How many were left when they arrived at Buchenwald?

•100 started out; about 12 were left

Bonus•Night•When did the first American troops arrive

at camp?

•6:00 p.m., April 10, 1945

Bonus•Cyrano•What is another name for “sword”?

Bonus•Oedipus

•What is the Greek word for tragic pride?

Bonus•TFA

•What is the name of the character who killed and ate the Sacred Python?

Bonus:•AQWF

• After being on the front, Paul decides that the soldiers’ lives are ruled by…

Bonus•Cyrano•What makes Roxane realize that she has

been in love with Cyrano, not Christian?

Bonus•In what two works of literature do we

encounter the Sphinx?

•Oedipus Rex or The Theban Plays•“The Second Coming” by William Butler

Yeats

Bonus•TFA

•What bit of land did the missionaries receive?