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English 1- Semester 1 Final Exam

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PART 2: BOOK MULTIPLE CHOICE
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PART THREE: SYMBOLISM
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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.
Question 1
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Part 2: BOOK MULTIPLE CHOICE

Directions: Choose the best answer for each question.
Question 2
2.

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

Question 3
3.

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?

Question 4
4.

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

Question 5
5.

What purpose does Dani serve?

Question 6
6.

Which quote best exemplifies the purpose in which Dani serves?

Question 7
7.

When did Shawn teach Will rule #1?

Question 8
8.

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

Question 9
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How was Frick going to gain entrance into the Dark Suns?

Question 10
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What does Shawn do when he first enters the elevator and sees Will for the first time?

Question 11
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“Gunshots make everyone _______ and _______.”

What two words complete this passage?

Question 12
12.

What is rule number 1?

Question 13
13.

What is rule number 2?

Question 14
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What is rule number 3?

Question 15
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Where did Shawn store his gun?

Question 16
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What can you conclude about how Will felt about Shawn?

Question 17
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What was Buck and Shawn’s relationship?

Question 18
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Why does the author include the details about the smoke in the elevator? Choose the best conclusion.

Question 19
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Feel = Flee. What can you infer Will means by this anagram?

Question 20
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Will learns that the nighttime is a metaphor for ____________.

Question 21
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What does Will think of his father after meeting him on the elevator?

Question 22
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Shawn surprises Will when he _________.

Question 23
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What is Will’s internal and external struggle while in the elevator? Choose the BEST answer.

Question 24
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What statement best describes the ending of Long Way Down?

Question 25
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Will refers to the elevator as a vertical coffin. What could this metaphor imply?

Question 26
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Buck’s family history helps contribute to his image as a ________.

Question 27
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Will says Dani couldn’t wipe worry from her face and he “couldn’t expect her to.” What can you conclude from this?

Question 28
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How did Dani’s death mark a turning point for Will?

Question 29
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Alive = A Veil. What can you conclude Will means by this anagram?

Question 30
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“Gun strapped like a brick…” The author uses this simile primarily to convey….

Question 31
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“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

Directions: Select the best match for each symbol meaning.
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Select the best match for each symbol meaning.

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Match the character name to their description.
Riggs
The novel’s protagonist who sets out to avenge his brother’s death
Frick
Shows Will that it is okay to break rule #1
Shawn
Shot and killed the wrong guy
Uncle Mark
Was shot at a playground at eight years old
Mikey
Shot and killed by Shawn as retaliation
Tony
Makes Will say aloud that he is going to kill someone
Will
The Dark Sun Will believes killed Shawn
Dani
A mother who prayed that her older son would not get hurt
Shari
Will’s friend who plays basketball and talks a lot
The gun
The feeling of entrapment by the rules
The middle drawer
Represents Will’s fate
The nighttime
The cycle of violence present in Will’s neighborhood
The elevator
The darkness in Shawn
The rules
Unwritten governing rules that perpetuate cyclical violence
The L-Button
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