Unit 7 Test Review
To Kill a Mockingbird:
1. What is the theme of To Kill a Mockingbird?
2. Where is imagery used?
3. Where is foreshadowing used?
4. Describe Atticus Finch
5. Describe Scout
6. Describe Dill
7. Describe Boo Radley
8. Where is the setting of To Kill A Mockingbird?
9. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
10. What year was it published?
11. What award did the book win?
12. Atticus says, you never really understand a person until ___________________.
13. Who is Miss Caroline and what makes her cry in chapter 3?
14. Why doesn’t Scout like school?
15. Why does Scout fight with Walter Cunningham?
16. How does Mr. Cunningham repay Atticus?
17. How did Scout and Jem’s mother pass away?
18. What is Atticus’s job?
19. What does Jem want Atticus to do, but he never will?
20. What does Atticus do to Tim Johnson?
21. Who or what is Tim Johnson and what is wrong with him?
22. Who is Burris Ewell? Who are the Ewells?
23. Who is Francis Hancock?
24. What does Aunt Alexandra serve for Christmas Dinner?
25. Why does Aunt Alexandra disapprove of Scout?
26. What do Scout and Jem do when it snows?
27. What happens to Miss Maudie’s house?
28. Why does Jem have to read to Mrs. Dubose?
29. What was wrong with Mrs. Dubose?
30. What does the symbol of a mockingbird mean? What does Atticus and Miss Maudie tell the children about mockingbirds?
31. What happens to Jem’s pants when he sneaks to the Radley house?
32. What does Dill dare Jem to do?
33. When the children get in trouble at the pond, what do they say they were doing?
34. What things do the children find in the tree knot-hole?
35. Why does Uncle Jack spank Scout?
36. Why is Atticus nervous about defending Tom Robinson?
37. Does Atticus want to defend Tom Robinson? Why does he do it?
38. ESSAY: Why is To Kill a Mockingbird a historical novel?
39. What is a historical document? Example?
Grammar Review
Gerunds—end with ING and function as SUBJECTS or DIRECT OBJECTS or OBJECTS OF THE PREPOSITION.
1. People like visiting art galleries.
2. Martin started painting this year.
3. Studying taught us about history.
Participles—are PRESENT PARTICIPLES ending in ING, or PAST PARTICIPLES ending in ED.
1. The old flag, battered by wind and weather, was replaced.
2. The crowed, cheering loudly, welcomed home the team.
3. The desk, collecting dust in the corner, is an antique.
4. The exhausted students finally graduated.
Infinitives—are verb phrases with the word TO.
1. I like to dance.
2. When I get in college, I want to play football for Alabama.
3. After a week at the beach it is time to go home.
Independent and Dependent Clauses—a sentence is another word for independent clause. A dependent clause isn’t long enough to be a sentence.
1. Although the competition was rough.
2. Even though we lost the race.
3. I enjoyed watching the Olympics.
4. Shaun White is a talented gold medalist in snowboarding.
Simple and Compound sentences—a simple sentence is plain. It does not have a semicolon or a comma and coordinating conjunction like compound sentences. Remember FANBOYS.
1. It was pouring rain; getting a cab was impossible.
2. People Magazine is entertaining and informational.
3. The plane came early, but we got there in time anyway.
Run-ons and Fragments. A run-on is a sentence that is too long. It needs to be made into two sentences or needs to be changed. A fragment is an incomplete sentence.
1. Going down the street.
2. Can jump really high.
3. Sometimes athletes train for hours a day, they also have to eat a high calorie diet.
4. Scout and Jem get in lots of trouble children like that should have more discipline and fewer privileges.
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