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Honors Survey of Literature

Semester One Final Exam Study
Section I: Grammar Skills Focus: Run-ons, Fragments, and conjunctions
Grammar Practice: Determine the need for punctuation and conjunctions to avoid awkward-

sounding sentence fragments and fused sentences.

Ray Bradbury: Literary Prognosticator
By Marianne English
When Ray Bradbury died recently the
literary, tech, and thinking worlds
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mourned. Bradbury used his imagination a growing
love affair with technology his stories
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examined what humanity gained -- and lost -- by
being plugged-in.
The people in Fahrenheit 451 wear electronic devices
called seashells these devices have
3
a striking resemblance to earbuds and Bluetooths.
Although this futuristic society has a scary
obsession with wall-size televisions today's,
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consumers seem headed in a similar direction.

In the novel, people use televisions to talk with their

friends and they use them to stay
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connected to family.

1.

a. NO CHANGE
b. died, recently the literary,
c. died recently, the literary,
d. died, recently, the literary,

2.

a. NO CHANGE
b. technology; his stories
c. technology, yet his stories
d. technology because his stories

3.

a. NO CHANGE
b. called seashells. These devices
c. called seashells; and these devices
d. called seashells, these devices

4.

a. NO CHANGE
b. wall-size televisions today's
consumers
c. wall-size televisions; today's
consumers
d. wall-size televisions, today's
consumers
5.

a.
b.
c.
d.

From: (The New York Times Upfront, Vol. 143, September 6, 2010)

NO CHANGE
their friends, and they use
their friends and, they use
their friends and they, use

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Text

Questions

You might soon be paying more for your

beverages. Such as Pepsi or Sprite or Red Bull.
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6. Which is the best choice? Why?

A. NO CHANGE
B. beverages such
C. beverages, and such
D. beverages. Such as,

That's because two very different groups, for very

different reasons, are pushing for soda taxes.
Public health advocates are concerned about
the impact of sugary drinks on the nation's obesity
problem. They want soda to be more expensive so
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7. Which is the best choice? Why?

A. NO CHANGE
B. expensive, so
C. expensive so,
D. expensive, or

you'll buy less of it.

And states, trying to close gaps in their
budgets, are looking at all kinds of taxes. Including
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8. Which is the best choice? Why?

A. NO CHANGE
B. taxes including
C. taxes, including
D. Taxes. Sin taxes

"sin taxes which are taxes intended to discourage

undesirable behaviors. Politicians have always liked
sin taxes. In theory, sin taxes not only raise
money but also promote healthier choices.

9. Which is the best choice? Why?

A. NO CHANGE
B. money. But
C. money but,
D. money, but

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Since January 2009, twenty-three states have
increased their tobacco taxes. Seven states have
either enacted new taxes on alcohol, or have raised

10. Which is the best choice? Why?

A. NO CHANGE

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existing ones. As for your soda, the District of

B. alcohol or,
C. alcohol. Have
D. alcohol or

Columbia in May 2010 approved a tax on soda, and

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other drinks with added sugar. Colorado and
Washington State approved taxes on soda and

11. Which is the best choice? Why?

A. NO CHANGE
B. soda and
C. soda. Other
D. soda and,

candy and New York and Massachusetts

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proposed soda tax increases.
One reason politicians turn to sin taxes is that
they often face less public opposition than other
kinds of taxes. "It is more politically attractive to tax
these kinds of things," says Peter L. Faber, a tax
lawyer in New York. "No one can get mad at you for
taxing people who drink too much."

12. Which is the best choice? Why

A. NO CHANGE
B. candy and,
C. candy, and
D. candy, but

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Section II: Vocabulary

Directions: Prepare to review and practice for the final exam.

Refer to the Fahrenheit 451 Questions and Vocabulary. Make sure you are familiar with all vocabulary.
(20 will appear on the final exam.)
Apply word wizard strategies to the vocabulary practice below.
Create more vocabulary practice sentences on your own.

Practice: Apply word wizard strategies. (See 3 steps below.)

Step 1: Determine the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb)
Step 2: Use context clues to determine possible meanings
Step 3: Determine antonyms what the word does NOT mean
Example: The dog had an odious look in his eye before he bit him
Step 1: part of speech= (it describes the look, so it is a.....
Step 2: Possible meanings: The dog bit him after, so it likely has a ...... look
Step 3: What the word does NOT mean: Clearly, the dog does not have a .... look

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The empire state building was erected in 1931.

One of my proclivities is to eat a lot of sweets, so I have to remind myself to eat healthy.
The dog had an odious look in his eye before he bit him
By advisory, at the end of the academic day, I am ravenous and cant wait for lunch.
The humor on Tom and Jerry involves a lot of pratfalls, like someone getting hit with a frying pan or

6.

being pushed down a flight of stairs.

Everyone paid attention when the President spoke because they wanted to hear the important dictum he

would share with the world.

7.
I made sure that the material on the babys clothes was noncombustible and would not light on fire if it
came in contact with flames.
8. I knew just when the drums were going to play once I listened for the cadence of the music.
9.
10.

In retaliation for the injury he caused me, I hit him back.

They gathered the water in a receptacle so they could use it later.

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11.

When it came time to fight, he ran and showed cowardice.

12.

I had to run for the bus and simultaneously pull out my CTA card.

13. My organizational problems manifested in many ways: late work, lost papers, and missing
appointments.
14 Instead of being brief, he used a lot of verbiage when he talked.

Section III: Close Reading: Interpretation and Analysis of Literature

Objective: To demonstrate mastery of comprehension, interpretation, analysis, and synthesis of ideas

(p. 3) It was a pleasure to burn.

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It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With
the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the
world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor
playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of
history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange
flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a
gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of
fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the
furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house.
While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.
1. It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that
a. The character has prepared an enormous campfire to cook food and wishes he had marshmallows
to roast
b. The character is a firefighter and is enjoying this moment of successfully extinguishing the
biggest fire he has ever had to put out
c. The character is a firefighter whose job is to set fires, and he is enjoying this moment as he
watches the house and the books burn
d. The character is a firefighter whose job is to set fires, and this is the moment he begins to
question the value of this job and decides to quit

a.
b.
c.
d.

2. A reasonable title for this passage would be

Montag loves snakes and fireflies
Books bore Montag
Montag has a barbecue
The death of books
3. What is the significance of the number 451 on his helmet?
a. It is his unit number
b. It is his house number
c. It is the temperature at which paper burns
d. It is the number of books burned

Passage II: Fahrenheit 451

Pages 16-18 (top) 766 words
(1)You

dont need an M.D., case like this; all you need is two handymen, clean up the problem in half

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an hour. Lookhe started for the doorwe gotta go. Just had another call on the old ear thimble.
Ten blocks from here. Someone else just jumped off the cap of a pillbox. Call if you need us again.
Keep her quiet. We got a contrasedative in her. Shell wake up hungry. So long.
(2)And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders,
took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of
nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.
(3)Montag sank down into a chair and looked at this woman. Her eyes were closed now, gently, and he
put out his hand to feel the warmness of breath on his palm.
(4) Mildred, he said, at last.
(5)There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and thats too many. Nobody knows
anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and
cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw
them before in my life!
(6)Half an hour passed.
(7)The bloodstream in this woman was new and it seemed to have done a new thing to her. Her cheeks
were very pink and her lips were very fresh and full of color and they looked soft and relaxed.
Someone elses blood there. If only someone elses flesh and brain and memory. If only they could
have taken her mind along to the dry cleaners and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it
and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only
(8)He got up and put back the drapes and opened the windows wide to let the night air in. It was two
oclock in the morning. Was it only an hour ago, Clarisse McClellan in the street, and him coming in,
and the dark room and his foot kicking the little crystal bottle? Only an hour, but the world had melted
down and sprung up in a new and colorless form.
(9)Laughter blew across the moon-colored lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and mother
and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly. Above all, their laughter was relaxed and hearty
and not forced in any way, coming from the house that was so brightly lit this late at night while all the
other houses were kept to themselves in darkness. Montag heard the voices talking, talking, talking,
giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web.
(10)Montag moved out through the French windows and crossed the lawn, without even thinking of it.
He stood outside the talking house in the shadows, thinking he might even tap on their door and
whisper, Let me come in. I wont say anything. I just want to listen. What is it youre saying?
(11)But instead he stood there, very cold, his face a mask of ice, listening to a mans voice (the uncle?)
moving along at an easy pace:
(12) Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them,
flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone elses coattails. How
are you supposed to root for the home team when you dont even have a program or know the names?
For that matter, what color jerseys are they wearing as they trot out on the field?
(13)Montag moved back to his own house, left the window side, checked Mildred, tucked the covers
about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning

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ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract there.
(14)One drop of rain. Clarisse. Another drop. Mildred. A third. The uncle. A fourth. The fire tonight.
One, Clarisse. Two, Mildred. Three, uncle. Four, fire. One, Mildred, two, Clarisse. One, two, three,
four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping tablets, men disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad,
flush, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, tablets, tissues, blow, wad, flush. One, two, three, one, two, three!
Rain. The storm. The uncle laughing. Thunder falling downstairs. The whole world pouring down. The
fire gushing up in a volcano. All rushing on down around in a spouting roar and rivering stream toward
morning.
(15) I dont know anything anymore, he said, and let a sleep lozenge dissolve on his tongue.

1.

ALL of the following details illustrate the happiness of Clarisses family EXCEPT

a. Was it only an hour ago, Clarisse McClellan in the street, and him coming in, and the dark room
and his foot kicking the little crystal bottle?
b. Laughter blew across the moon-colored lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and
mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly
c. the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web
d. ...coming from the house that was so brightly lit this late at night while all the other houses were kept to
themselves in darkness."

2. It can be reasonably inferred that Bradbury included the quote from Clarisse's uncle in
paragraph 12 to show
a.
b.
c.
d.

That it's impossible to be a true sports fan in that society.

That it's not even safe to walk the streets late at night.
That technology has caused people to act in an unhygienic way.
That the society doesn't value things that can't be easily replaced.

3. The author includes details in this passage about Mildred and Montag for ALL of the
following reasons EXCEPT
a.
b.
c.
d.

To illustrate Montags growing dissatisfaction with his life

To compare and contrast Clarisses family with Montag and Mildred
To illustrate Mildreds poor mental health
To portray Montag as an unloving husband

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4. It can be reasonably inferred from the passage that
a.
b.
c.
d.

Montag realizes how deeply he loves his wife Mildred

Montags view of the world is beginning to change
Clarisses uncle is plotting to overthrow the government
Montag wishes he had never met Clarisse

From The Book Thief: Beside the Railway Line

First up is something white. Of the blinding kind.
Some of you are most likely thinking that white is not really a color and all of that tired sort of
nonsense. Well, Im here to tell you that it is. White is without question a color, and personally, I dont
think you want to argue with me
Yes, it was white.
It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it had pulled it on, the way you pull
on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.

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As you might expect, someone had died.
The world was sagging now, under the weight of all that snow.

1.

Who is narrating this passage?

a.
b.
c.
d.

2.

What is the point of view in this passage and in The Book Thief overall?
a.
b.
c.
d.

3.

Liesel
Hans Hubermann
Death personfied
Max

First person
Second person
Limited omniscient
Omniscient

Which of the following can be inferred about the use of imagery in this passage?
a. Winter weather is heavy and conceals the world like fabric
b. Because snow is not a color, it is invisible
c. The narrator is uncertain about how he feels about snow
d. The reader should feel comfortable arguing with the narrator

4.

The passage clearly indicates

a. The narrator is invisible.
b. The narrator is speaking directly to the reader.
c. The narrator has a compassionate personality.
d. The narrator is tired of his job.

5.

What is the weather in the passage?

a. Before a heavy snowstorm.
b. In the middle of a heavy snowstorm
c. After a heavy snowstorm.
d. The passage does not indicate whether it is the beginning, middle, or end of the snow storm.

The Eclipse

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Next is a signature black, to show the poles of my versatility, if you like. It was the darkest moment
before the dawn.
This time, I had come for a man of perhaps twenty-four years of age. It was a beautiful thing in
some ways. The plane was still coughing. Smoke was leaking from both is lungs.
When it crashed, three deep gashes were made in the earth. Its wings were now sawn-off arms.
No more flapping. Not for this metallic little bird.
***SOME OTHER SMALL FACTS***
Sometimes I arrive too early,
I rush,
and some people cling longer
to life than expected.
He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky. As with many of
the others, when I began my journey away, there seemed a quick shadow again, a final moment of eclipse
the recognition of another soul gone.
You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see
in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies.

6.

Which of the following is true about the use of imagery in this passage?
a. The airplane is represented as a dying bird
b. The narrator becomes human and flies the airplane
c. The airplane is in harmony with the sky
d. The eclipse caused the airplane to crash

7.

With which of the following statements would the narrator agree?

a.
b.
c.
d.

8.

He is indifferent to the deaths of humans.

Death is terrible, and there is no beauty to be found there.
Death is beautiful, and he finds great joy in his work.
Death is bittersweet, and is part of the nature.

According to the bold, centered text

a.

the narrator knows the exact moment a person will die.

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b.
c.
d.

9.

the narrators work is sometimes inexact.

all deaths are the same.
the narrator rushes, because he enjoys witnessing each death.

The narrator claims that ______________ is similar to _____________.

a.
b.
c.
d.

Death is similar to a sunset

Death is similar to a plane crash.
Death is similar to an eclipse.
Death is similar to time.

10. The primary purpose of this passage is to

a.
b.
c.
d.

describe the narrators attitude towards death.

explain how the narrator takes souls.
introduce a main character who has died.
describe a plane crash.