English 1- Semester 1 Final Exam

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English 1- Semester 1 Final Exam

Last updated over 1 year ago

33 questions

Instructions

Use your book and figurative language bookmark to complete this assignment. 

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Part 1: CHARACTER MATCHING
Directions: Select the best match for each character.

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PART 2: BOOK MULTIPLE CHOICE

Part 2: BOOK MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Choose the best answer for each question.

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PART THREE: SYMBOLISM

PART THREE: SYMBOLISM AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Directions: Select the best match for each symbol meaning.

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Use your book and figurative language bookmark to complete this assignment. 

Part 1: CHARACTER MATCHING
Directions: Select the best match for each character.

Match the character name to their description.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Frick		The novel’s protagonist who sets out to avenge his brother’s death
Uncle Mark		Shows Will that it is okay to break rule #1
Riggs		Shot and killed the wrong guy
Tony		Was shot at a playground at eight years old
Dani		Shot and killed by Shawn as retaliation
Mikey		Makes Will say aloud that he is going to kill someone
Shari		The Dark Sun Will believes killed Shawn
Will		A mother who prayed that her older son would not get hurt
Shawn		Will’s friend who plays basketball and talks a lot

Part 2: BOOK MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Choose the best answer for each question.

What statement BEST describes the point of view in Long Way Down?

An all knowing narrative voice gives the reader a detailed account of thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

The limited narrated voice, whose identity is not revealed until the end of the novel, gives a detailed description of events that took place in the elevator.

Will gives the reader a detailed and descriptive insight into his experience in the elevator and leading up to the elevator ride.

None of the above

Shawn was killed on his way home from buying his mother special soap for her eczema. What was Reynolds’ purpose in writing his death that way?

To humanize Shawn’s death and to highlight the cyclical violence in his neighborhood

To show that someone had it out for Shawn

To place extra grief on Shawn’s mother

To show that violence can happen anywhere and that everyone is not safe

Which details suggest that Will Holloman will murder Riggs at the end of the novel?

Will had a plan for killing Riggs in the early morning.

Will never held a gun before.

Will did not check to see if the gun was loaded before entering the elevator.

Will felt guilty for waking up the morning after Shawn’s death and reaching for the gun underneath his pillow.

What purpose does Dani serve?

She represents crime in violent neighborhoods.

She represents Will’s first love.

She represents the tragic consequences of cyclical violence.

She represents the end of Will’s innocence.

Which quote best exemplifies the purpose in which Dani serves?

“Plus/ it’s hard to think about/ kissing and killing/ at the same time.”

“A girl stepped in./ Stood beside me./ Around my age./ Fine as heaven.”

“Her eyes wide, the brightness/ dimming. Her mouth, open./ Bubble gum/ and blood.”

“But then/ she put her hand on my shoulder,/ her perfume floating from her wrist.”

When did Shawn teach Will rule #1?

When Shawn shared his cologne with Will

When Will’s father was killed when Will was three

When Dani died when she and Will were both eight

When Will learned about Buck’s death

Which event does NOT make Will question his knowledge that Carlson Riggs murdered Shawn?

Dani was shot and killed at eight years old when she was at the playground.

Buck taught The Rules to Shawn, who then taught The Rules to Will.

Will’s dad shot and killed the wrong guy.

Frick does not know Riggs.

How was Frick going to gain entrance into the Dark Suns?

Stealing from Shawn

Killing Shawn

Killing Buck

Stealing from Buck

What does Shawn do when he first enters the elevator and sees Will for the first time?

Urges Will to follow him to the lobby

Gives Will a big hug

Does not say a word to Will

Cries upon seeing Shawn for the first time

“Gunshots make everyone _ and _.”

What two words complete this passage?

deaf and blind

scared and confused

run and hide

angry and hateful

What is rule number 1?

Stick by your brothers

Don’t leave your neighbor

No crying

Family first

What is rule number 2?

Listen to your mother

Always get revenge

No crying

No snitching

What is rule number 3?

Always get revenge

Always have fun

No crying

Don’t talk to cops

Where did Shawn store his gun?

Under his pillow

In his closet

The middle drawer

In his waistband

What can you conclude about how Will felt about Shawn?

Will didn’t understand Shawn

Will felt like he could never impress Shawn

Will respected and admired Shawn

Will felt like Shawn was a bad influence

What was Buck and Shawn’s relationship?

Buck and Shawn were close acquaintances

Buck was like a big brother to Shawn

Buck and Shawn were cousins

Buck and Shawn were enemies

Why does the author include the details about the smoke in the elevator? Choose the best conclusion.

The author wants the reader to know Will does not smoke.

The author is a smoker himself.

The author needs to fill space in the book.

The author uses the smoke to help show Will’s confusion building up.

Feel = Flee. What can you infer Will means by this anagram?

He wants to feel emotions that make him feel like he is flying.

The emotions he is feeling cause him to want to run away.

He is unsure of where he is going.

He wants to be able to feel emotion again.

Will learns that the nighttime is a metaphor for ____________.

Anger

Death

Freedom

Violence

What does Will think of his father after meeting him on the elevator?

Will realizes his father was a poser.

Will realizes his father loved him all along.

Will realizes his father truly was a hero.

Will realizes his father is just like Uncle Mark.

Shawn surprises Will when he _________.

Cries

Laughs 

Sings

Dances

What is Will’s internal and external struggle while in the elevator? Choose the BEST answer.

He fears he is not the man he should be.

He questions blind obedience to the “rules.”

He questions his sanity.

He becomes comfortable with his grief and anger.

What statement best describes the ending of Long Way Down?

The ending leaves the reader content and hopeful.

The ending leaves the reader with more questions than answers.

The ending leaves the reader with a simple yet satisfied resolve of the events in the novel.

The ending leaves the reader sad and anxious.

Will refers to the elevator as a vertical coffin. What could this metaphor imply?

Will is dead.

Will is surrounded by death.

Both of the above

None of the above

Buck’s family history helps contribute to his image as a ________.

Thief

Gangster

Complicated Person

Preacher

Will says Dani couldn’t wipe worry from her face and he “couldn’t expect her to.” What can you conclude from this?

Will is worried himself.

Will is very confident about what he is planning to do.

Will thinks Dani has anxiety.

Will doesn’t like Dani.

How did Dani’s death mark a turning point for Will?

He got a gun after Dani’s death.

He learned “The Rules.”

He learned life is not perfect.

He learned about his father’s death.

Alive = A Veil. What can you conclude Will means by this anagram?

Will is losing his mind.

Will feels he can’t see clearly.

Will doesn’t believe in ghosts.

Will is dead.

“Gun strapped like a brick…” The author uses this simile primarily to convey….

The actual weight of the gun.

The metaphorical weight of the gun.

Both of the above

None of the above

“And my mom hanging over my brother’s body like a dimmed light post.” The author uses this simile primarily to convey…

Will’s mother is scared.

Will’s mother is not very smart.

Will’s mother was expecting this.

Will’s mother grieved so much she is not herself.

PART THREE: SYMBOLISM AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Directions: Select the best match for each symbol meaning.

Select the best match for each symbol meaning.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
The nighttime		The feeling of entrapment by the rules
The elevator		Represents Will’s fate
The middle drawer		The cycle of violence present in Will’s neighborhood
The rules		The darkness in Shawn
The L-Button		Unwritten governing rules that perpetuate cyclical violence
The gun		The darkness in people

Reach each quote and drag it under the figurative language device that is being used in the quote.

“The middle drawer called to me”
“Beef/ gets passed down like name-brand/ T-shirts around here.”
“...that it stopped Mom from/ scraping loose a river/ of wounds.”
“...uncomfortable being/ crammed in this.../ this vertical coffin/ another second.”
“And there was a sound like whatever makes elevators work, cables and cogs, or whatever, grinding, rubbing metal on metal like a machine moaning but coming from the mouth from the belly of Shawn”
“Real run through him” a bank robber, would steal air from the world if he could get his hands on it”
“The nighttime will snatch your teaching from you, put a gun in your hand, a grumble in your gut, and some sharp in your teeth”
“I put my hand behind my back felt the imprint of the piece, like another piece of me, an extra vertebra, some more backbone”
“She fanned smoke from her face, thumbed to Buck, who shook his head and blew vanishing halos”
“Just remember, when you’re walking in the nighttime, make sure the nighttime ain’t walking in to you”
“The ground definitely felt like it opened up and ate me”

Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
Hyperbole

Match the character name to their description. 

Frick

The novel’s protagonist who sets out to avenge his brother’s death

Uncle Mark

Shows Will that it is okay to break rule #1

Riggs

Shot and killed the wrong guy

Tony

Was shot at a playground at eight years old

Dani

Shot and killed by Shawn as retaliation

Mikey

Makes Will say aloud that he is going to kill someone

Shari

The Dark Sun Will believes killed Shawn

Will

A mother who prayed that her older son would not get hurt

Shawn

Will’s friend who plays basketball and talks a lot

What statement BEST describes the point of view in Long Way Down?

An all knowing narrative voice gives the reader a detailed account of thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

The limited narrated voice, whose identity is not revealed until the end of the novel, gives a detailed description of events that took place in the elevator.

Will gives the reader a detailed and descriptive insight into his experience in the elevator and leading up to the elevator ride.

None of the above

Shawn was killed on his way home from buying his mother special soap for her eczema. What was Reynolds’ purpose in writing his death that way?

To humanize Shawn’s death and to highlight the cyclical violence in his neighborhood

To show that someone had it out for Shawn

To place extra grief on Shawn’s mother

To show that violence can happen anywhere and that everyone is not safe

Which details suggest that Will Holloman will murder Riggs at the end of the novel?

Will had a plan for killing Riggs in the early morning.

Will never held a gun before.

Will did not check to see if the gun was loaded before entering the elevator.

Will felt guilty for waking up the morning after Shawn’s death and reaching for the gun underneath his pillow.

What purpose does Dani serve?

She represents crime in violent neighborhoods.

She represents Will’s first love.

She represents the tragic consequences of cyclical violence.

She represents the end of Will’s innocence.

Which quote best exemplifies the purpose in which Dani serves?

“Plus/ it’s hard to think about/ kissing and killing/ at the same time.”

“A girl stepped in./ Stood beside me./ Around my age./ Fine as heaven.”

“Her eyes wide, the brightness/ dimming. Her mouth, open./ Bubble gum/ and blood.”

“But then/ she put her hand on my shoulder,/ her perfume floating from her wrist.”

When did Shawn teach Will rule #1?

When Shawn shared his cologne with Will

When Will’s father was killed when Will was three

When Dani died when she and Will were both eight

When Will learned about Buck’s death

Which event does NOT make Will question his knowledge that Carlson Riggs murdered Shawn?

Dani was shot and killed at eight years old when she was at the playground.

Buck taught The Rules to Shawn, who then taught The Rules to Will.

Will’s dad shot and killed the wrong guy.

Frick does not know Riggs.

How was Frick going to gain entrance into the Dark Suns?

Stealing from Shawn

Killing Shawn

Killing Buck

Stealing from Buck

What does Shawn do when he first enters the elevator and sees Will for the first time?

Urges Will to follow him to the lobby

Gives Will a big hug

Does not say a word to Will

Cries upon seeing Shawn for the first time

“Gunshots make everyone _______ and _______.”  

What two words complete this passage?

deaf and blind

scared and confused

run and hide

angry and hateful

What is rule number 1?

Stick by your brothers

Don’t leave your neighbor

No crying

Family first

What is rule number 2?

Listen to your mother

Always get revenge

No crying

No snitching

What is rule number 3?

Always get revenge

Always have fun

No crying

Don’t talk to cops

Where did Shawn store his gun?

Under his pillow

In his closet

The middle drawer

In his waistband

What can you conclude about how Will felt about Shawn?

Will didn’t understand Shawn

Will felt like he could never impress Shawn

Will respected and admired Shawn

Will felt like Shawn was a bad influence

What was Buck and Shawn’s relationship?

Buck and Shawn were close acquaintances

Buck was like a big brother to Shawn

Buck and Shawn were cousins

Buck and Shawn were enemies

Why does the author include the details about the smoke in the elevator? Choose the best conclusion.

The author wants the reader to know Will does not smoke.

The author is a smoker himself.

The author needs to fill space in the book.

The author uses the smoke to help show Will’s confusion building up.

Feel = Flee. What can you infer Will means by this anagram?

He wants to feel emotions that make him feel like he is flying.

The emotions he is feeling cause him to want to run away.

He is unsure of where he is going.

He wants to be able to feel emotion again.

Will learns that the nighttime is a metaphor for ____________.

Anger

Death

Freedom

Violence

What does Will think of his father after meeting him on the elevator?

Will realizes his father was a poser.

Will realizes his father loved him all along.

Will realizes his father truly was a hero.

Will realizes his father is just like Uncle Mark.

Shawn surprises Will when he _________.

Cries

Laughs 

Sings

Dances

What is Will’s internal and external struggle while in the elevator? Choose the BEST answer.

He fears he is not the man he should be.

He questions blind obedience to the “rules.”

He questions his sanity.

He becomes comfortable with his grief and anger.

What statement best describes the ending of Long Way Down?

The ending leaves the reader content and hopeful.

The ending leaves the reader with more questions than answers.

The ending leaves the reader with a simple yet satisfied resolve of the events in the novel.

The ending leaves the reader sad and anxious.

Will refers to the elevator as a vertical coffin. What could this metaphor imply?

Will is dead.

Will is surrounded by death.

Both of the above

None of the above

Buck’s family history helps contribute to his image as a ________.

Thief

Gangster

Complicated Person

Preacher

Will says Dani couldn’t wipe worry from her face and he “couldn’t expect her to.” What can you conclude from this?

Will is worried himself.

Will is very confident about what he is planning to do.

Will thinks Dani has anxiety.

Will doesn’t like Dani.

How did Dani’s death mark a turning point for Will?

He got a gun after Dani’s death.

He learned “The Rules.”

He learned life is not perfect.

He learned about his father’s death.

Alive = A Veil. What can you conclude Will means by this anagram?

Will is losing his mind.

Will feels he can’t see clearly.

Will doesn’t believe in ghosts.

Will is dead.

“Gun strapped like a brick…” The author uses this simile primarily to convey….

The actual weight of the gun.

The metaphorical weight of the gun.

Both of the above

None of the above

“And my mom hanging over my brother’s body like a dimmed light post.” The author uses this simile primarily to convey…

Will’s mother is scared.

Will’s mother is not very smart.

Will’s mother was expecting this.

Will’s mother grieved so much she is not herself.

Select the best match for each symbol meaning.

The nighttime 

The feeling of entrapment by the rules

The elevator

Represents Will’s fate

The middle drawer

The cycle of violence present in Will’s neighborhood

The rules

The darkness in Shawn

The L-Button

Unwritten governing rules that perpetuate cyclical violence

The gun

The darkness in people

Reach each quote and drag it under the figurative language device that is being used in the quote. 

“The middle drawer called to me”

“Beef/ gets passed down like name-brand/ T-shirts around here.”

“...that it stopped Mom from/ scraping loose a river/ of wounds.”

“...uncomfortable being/ crammed in this.../ this vertical coffin/ another second.”

“And there was a sound like whatever makes elevators work, cables and cogs, or whatever, grinding, rubbing metal on metal like a machine moaning but coming from the mouth from the belly of Shawn”

“Real run through him” a bank robber, would steal air from the world if he could get his hands on it”

“The nighttime will snatch your teaching from you, put a gun in your hand, a grumble in your gut, and some sharp in your teeth”

“I put my hand behind my back felt the imprint of the piece, like another piece of me, an extra vertebra, some more backbone”

“She fanned smoke from her face, thumbed to Buck, who shook his head and blew vanishing halos”

“Just remember, when you’re walking in the nighttime, make sure the nighttime ain’t walking in to you”

“The ground definitely felt like it opened up and ate me”

Simile

Metaphor

Personification 

Imagery

Hyperbole

English 1- Semester 1 Final Exam

English 1- Semester 1 Final Exam

Part 1: CHARACTER MATCHING

Part 2: BOOK MULTIPLE CHOICE

PART THREE: SYMBOLISM AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Part 1: CHARACTER MATCHING

Match the character name to their description.

Part 2: BOOK MULTIPLE CHOICE

What statement BEST describes the point of view in Long Way Down?

Shawn was killed on his way home from buying his mother special soap for her eczema. What was Reynolds’ purpose in writing his death that way?

Which details suggest that Will Holloman will murder Riggs at the end of the novel?

What purpose does Dani serve?

Which quote best exemplifies the purpose in which Dani serves?

When did Shawn teach Will rule #1?

Which event does NOT make Will question his knowledge that Carlson Riggs murdered Shawn?

How was Frick going to gain entrance into the Dark Suns?

What does Shawn do when he first enters the elevator and sees Will for the first time?

“Gunshots make everyone _______ and _______.” What two words complete this passage?

What is rule number 1?

What is rule number 2?

What is rule number 3?

Where did Shawn store his gun?

What can you conclude about how Will felt about Shawn?

What was Buck and Shawn’s relationship?

Why does the author include the details about the smoke in the elevator? Choose the best conclusion.

Feel = Flee. What can you infer Will means by this anagram?

Will learns that the nighttime is a metaphor for ____________.

What does Will think of his father after meeting him on the elevator?

Shawn surprises Will when he _________.

What is Will’s internal and external struggle while in the elevator? Choose the BEST answer.

What statement best describes the ending of Long Way Down?

Will refers to the elevator as a vertical coffin. What could this metaphor imply?

Buck’s family history helps contribute to his image as a ________.

Will says Dani couldn’t wipe worry from her face and he “couldn’t expect her to.” What can you conclude from this?

How did Dani’s death mark a turning point for Will?

Alive = A Veil. What can you conclude Will means by this anagram?

“Gun strapped like a brick…” The author uses this simile primarily to convey….

“And my mom hanging over my brother’s body like a dimmed light post.” The author uses this simile primarily to convey…

PART THREE: SYMBOLISM AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Select the best match for each symbol meaning.

Reach each quote and drag it under the figurative language device that is being used in the quote.

“Gunshots make everyone _ and _.”

What two words complete this passage?