Senior English Final Exam Study Guide

Senior English Final Exam Study Guide
The Rocking-Horse Winner
1. Paul’s parents create their own problems because they continually?
2. What does Paul say makes him different from his parents?
3. Paul’s belief that he NEEDS his rocking-horse suggests what about his belief in himself?
4. Basset takes racing very seriously which impacts Paul suggesting what theme?
5. Why did Paul want to win money?
6. Why does Paul’s mother say it’s better to be luc ky than to be rich?
7. Why does Paul trust Uncle Oscar?
8. Does Paul’s mother have bad luck, or does she make bad choices in her life?
9. How does Paul learn the great importance of money?
10. career (v)
11. materialize
12. seizure
13. uncanny
14. iridescent
A Cup of Tea
15. Is Rosemary pretty?
16. What do you learn about Rosemary when she buys flowers?
17. What is Rosemary constantly concerned with?
18. What can you infer when Rosemary stops in the antique store’s doorstep?
19. How do you know that Miss Smith is scared and shy in Rosemary’s bedroom?
20. Why does Miss Smith become faint?
21. Rosemary promises to take care of Miss Smith to make her stop?
22. What does Rosemary realize when Philip enters the bedroom?
23. In the library Philip tells his wife Rosemary that helping Miss Smith is what?
Canterbury Tales: Prologue
24. What results from the narrator staying at Tabard Inn?
25. Who does the narrator dislike the MOST?
26. What is the Friar’s most dominant trait?
27. What does the narrator thing about education (talking about Manciple)?
28. What does line 795-796 mean? Explain quote.
29. sedately
30. personable
31. malady
32. entreaty
Canterbury Tales: Pardoner’s Tale
33. What is the Pardoner’s attitude toward himself and his work?
34. How do the rioters treat the old man?
35. What do the rioters do regarding death when they find the tree and gold?
36. What does the youngest rioter do when he gets to town and why?
37. What does the Pardoner try to do at the end of his tale?
38. Besides cautioning against greed, what is another moral of this story?

39. avarice
40. castigate
41. parley
Beowulf
42. What do Danes do to avoid Grendel?
43. When does Grendel show fear?
44. What does alliteration and kenning convey in lines 474-478?
45. Why does Beowulf ask Wiglaf to be the next leader?
46. What is the theme (as it relates to leadership) of Beowulf?
47. lair
48. gorge
49. talon
50. infamous
51. loathsome
Araby
52. Mangan’s sister comes out to the front steps to?
53. What does the narrator think of the sister?
54. Who does the narrator get stuck at home with while waiting to go to Araby?
55. What was happening at Araby when the narrator arrived?
56. What can you infer from the narrator saying that his eyes tear up and his heart floods when he thinks of Mangan’s sister?
57. imperturbable
58. incessant
59. innumerable
Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath’s Tale
60. In lines 34-38 what does Wife reveal about herself?
61. Why does the Wife tell the story of Midas?
62. What does the knight tell the queen that women most want?
63. What is the first reason the night says he can’t marry old woman?
64. The Wife has the tale end with what in lines 433-440?
65. What are 2 responses the Knight gets to the question of what women want before he gets the real answer? 66. When and where does the Knight meet the old woman?
67. Do women control everything important that happens in the Wife of Bath’s tale?
68. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
69. How does King Arthur first treat the Green Knight?
70. How does King Arthur react to the Knight’s challenge?
71. Why does Gawain step in and accept the challenge?
72. What can you infer about the Green Chapel from lines 176-185?
73. How does Gawain feel when the Knight reveals the trick he played?
74. Why does Gawain flinch the first time the Knight is about to strike?
75. Why does the Knight fake the first two strikes?
76. How do both the Green Knight and Gawain show that they live by a code of loyalty, honesty, and bravery, and yet each break the code during the medieval romance?

77. implore
78. crone
79. bequeath
80. temporal
81. rebuke
A Modest Proposal
82. What does the author say is the job of most mothers?
83. How does the author use satire?
84. The author tries to persuade the rich to accept his idea by?
85. What does the author say is his motive for this plan?
86. The author says using children in this manner will result in an increase in?
87. What sort of future does the author say that the children of poor Irish mothers have?
88. What are two benefits that the author says the Irish parents will reap from his plan?
89. Under what conditions did the Irish live during the era when Swift wrote his “proposal”?
90. expedient
91. sustenance
92. encumbrance
93. rudiment
94. famine