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?

TFA

Who 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?