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QUESTIONS	ANSWERS

ENGLISH
1. Who wrote "The Masque of the Red Death"?
2. Is the plot of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" chronological or flashback?
3. Define protagonist.
4. Name the term for the point of view in which the narrator is like a god, seeing and knowing everything about the world of the story.
5. Sarcasm is an example of ______ irony.
6. Is the Dorothy Parker story "The Telephone Call" written in first or third person narrative?
7. What is the general setting of O'Flaherty's story "The Sniper"?
8. Why is the opening setting to Shirley Jackson's story"The Lottery" ironic?
9. Who wrote the book Walkabout, and what is the setting?
10. What is a Walkabout?
11. Give three examples of modern rites of passages.
12. A sensory image is a word or phrase that describes (five things)
13. Setting means the ___ and _____ in which a story takes place.
14. What is the literary term for when the narrator focuses on the viewpoint of only one character?
15. Name a short story written by Eudora Welty.
16. Name a short story by James Thurber.
17. To what part of speech do these suffixes belong: -ily, -ly, -ways, -ise?
18. To what part of speech do these suffixes belong: -al, -ble, -ive, -y?
19. To what Australian city were the children in Walkabout headed?
20. The bush boy in Walkabout was from what native group?
21. Who wrote "Occurrence at Owl Creek", and what was the time period of the story?
22. Define loquacious.
23. Recalcitrant means .
24. What is the literary comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as?
25. In what stage of writing do you check for errors in mechanics, capitalization, punctuatuation, and spelling?
26. How can darkness be described as tangible?
27. List three positive and three negative aspects of the futurist community in The Giver.
28. Define mollycoddled.
29. In Walkabout, who felt that "Frustration warped her sense of justice"?
30. In Walkabout, who thought that they saw an image of the spirit of death in Mary's eyes?
31. In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, what was The Ceremony of Twelve?
32-35. Use release, naming, and receive in two sentences each, one used as a noun and one used as a verb.
36. Who is the author of the short story "Lather and Nothing Else". (spelling counts)
37. Who is the author of the short story "In Search of My Mother's Garden"?
38. Write the proofreading mark for paragraph.
39.In a direct quotation, should commas or end marks be placed inside or outside closing quotation marks?
40. Are commas or quotation marks needed for indirect quotations?
41. True or false: Quotation marks are used for the titles of stories, poems, songs, reports, articles, and chapters of a book.
42.True or false: The titles of books, magazines, and movies are underlined.
43. True or false: In an outline, when you have a Roman numeral heading, you can have a capital letter A without a B.
44. List three subject pronouns.
45. List three object pronouns.
46. Name the stage in the writing process in which you set your ideas on paper, without worrying about mechanics.
47. In the dictionary, etymologies come before or after the definition of a word?
48. True or false: When a suffix beginning with a vowel is added to a word ending in a silent e, the e is usually dropped.
49. True or false: When a suffix beginning with a consonant is added to a word ending in a silent e, the e is usually retained.
50. Who is the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories?

SCIENCE
51-53. (3pts) Identify the following sciences: a) botany b) genetics c) taxonomy
54-56. (3pts.) What are these temperatures on the Celsius scale? a) freezing point of water b) human body temperature c) boiling point of water
57-60. (4pts) Describe how a microscope should look when you are finished with a lab.
61. (1 pt) State the cell theory
62. (1pt) Name 2 things found in a plant cell that are not found in an animal cell.
63. (1pt) What is the powerhouse of the cell?
64-65. (2pts) Identify: a) group of tissues doing the same job b) group of organ systems working together.
66-71. (6pts) Give the formula for photosynthesis.
72. (1 pt) Distinguish between producers and consumers.
73-77. (5pts) Give the formula for respiration.
78. (1pt) Where in the cell does respiration occur?
79. (1 pt) Where in the cell are proteins made?
80. (1pt) Why did Linnaeus use Latin for scientific names?
81. (1 pt) Name the 5 kingdoms.
82-87. (6pts) List the 6 subdivisions of a kingdom.
88. (1 pt) How does a bacteria differ from an animal cell?
89-90. (2 pts.) List 2 ways a Paramecium is more complex than an Amoeba.
91-94. (4 pts) To what phylum do these belong? a) jellyfish b) earthworm c) sponge d) clam
95. (1 pt) To what genus does the earthworm belong?
96-100. (5pts) Trace food through the digestive system of Lumbricus from mouth to anus.

MATH
One Point Questions:
Find the areas:
101. Rectangle: 1 = 9.5 in; w = 3.5 in.
102. Parallelogram: b = 20-1/2 in; h - 8 in.
103. Circle: r = 6 yd
104. Trapezoid: b(1) = 7.5 cm; b(2) = 4.3 cm; h = 7

Find the perimeters:
105. Rectangle: w = 6 miles, w = 4 miles
106. Square: side = 5.3 feet
107. Circle: d = 5 meters
Solve:
108. d + 57 = 112
109. 52 + 4x = 456
110. 1/2 x = 98
111. 9c = -108
112. m � 1/2 = 7
113. 3h - 1 = 11
114. 8d + 9 = 57
115. 4s + 5 = 45
116. -6y + -15 = -21
117. -7x -8 =
118. -4 + (5 x -3)
119. -56+ 63 + -33 + 45
120. (-4)� + 23 -12 + (3)� - 1

Five Point Questions:
121-125. A doctor orders 60cc of juice for a certain patient's breakfast. If 120cc is about 1/2 cup, how many cups of juice should the cook be told to measure?
126-130. At a $1.50 per square foot, determine the rent charged to the store occupying the area below:
131-135. Taxpayers who maintain an office in their home may deduct a percentage of their home-related expenses. This percentage is based on the area of their office compared to the area of their home. The home of a client contains 2150 square feet. She maintains an office in the house that measures 13 ft by 9 ft. What is the area of the office? What percent of the area of her house does the office represent?(Round to the nearest tenth).
136-140. An real estate agent sells a property for $220,000. The broker takes a commission of 3%, of which the agent receives 60%. How much does the agent receive?

WORLD HISTORY
Performance Piece (You cannot study for Performance Piece questions. You will be asked to enact a skit showing your knowledge of world history.)
141. The desire of a group of people who share a common culture for their own government is known as what?
142. Was Sergei Diagiliev a ballet dancer?
143. True or False: Stalin became a monarch.
144. Performance Piece
145. One who advocates extreme political or social change is known as what?
146. What were the two major Central Powers involved in World War I?
147. What international association was established after World War I to keep peace?
148. What were the two goals of Stalin's Five Year Plan?
149. In what year did Archduke Ferdinand die?
150. How many peach pits are required to construct one filter for a gas mask?
151. Identify the speaker whose historic speech is played during the Brainwave.
152. Of the nations formerly belonging to Yugoslavia,which has the greatest percentage of Muslim citizens?
153. Of the nations formerly belonging to Yugoslavia, which did Mladic lead?
154. What nation was responsible for the death of Serbian King Alexander?
155. Of the nations formerly belonging to Yugoslavia, which shares an ethnic background with Russia?
156. For what does the acronymn NATO stand?
157. What did the first Russian communists name their party?
158. What countries formed the Dual Alliance?
159. What countries formed the Triple Entente?
160. What do we call the massacre of unarmed workers by the Tsar's troops in 1905?
161. Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
162. What do we call the disbelief in the existence of a god?
163. In Orwell’s Animal Farm, which pig behaves like Trotsky?
164. Who was the Edict of Emancipation issued by?
165. What were the Soviets?
166. In Orwell’s Animal Farm, Boxer represents which element of Soviet society?
167 . In Orwell’s Animal Farm , Stalin’s behavior is represented by which pig?
168. What treaty brought about the close of WW I?
169. A mercantilist thinks that strong nations will accumulate what?
170. An imperialist thinks that strong nations will accumulate what?
171. What was the name of Archduke Ferdinand's wife?
172-177. (6 pts) Name the six major states which belonged to Yugoslavia in 1975.
178-179. (2 pts) What is the longest line of latitude on the globe?
180-181. (2 pts) What is the longest line of longitude on the globe?
182-183. (2 pts) What are other names for lines of latitude and longitude?

SPANISH
184. Cuales son los dias de la semana?

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

185. Cuales son los meses del ano?

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

186. Conjugate the verb "Ser".

Translate the following sentences:

187. Cuanto cuestan los pantalones? Los pantalones cuestan veinticinco pesos.
188. Ropa bonita y barata! Hay blusas, faldas, chaquetas! Ah! Que desea Ud., senorita?
189. Hace fresco en la primavera.

FRENCH
190. How do you say 123,438?
191. Conjugate "etre".
192. Conjugate "habiter".
193. Conjugate any ER verb of your choice.
194. Quel est ton numero de telephone?
195. Describe your best friend with at least 5 adjectives.
196. Conjugate "aller".
197. Riddle: Je peux traverser une vitre sans la casser, que suis-je?
198. Riddle: J’entre le premier dans la maison, que suis-je?
199. Ou est la Martinique?
200. Est-ce que la lanque officielle de la Martinique est l’Anglais?

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