Quiz for 11/9/11. Name:                                                   Date:                  Period:
Circle the correct answer. Please be sure to record your warm up scores and your extra credit.
Warm Ups: ___/6  ___/5  Extra Credit:

1. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."   ________ said this...  a) President Abraham Lincoln  b) President Obama  c) President Franklin Roosevelt  d) Benjamin Franklin  e) President Kennedy
2. ...about __________.  a) The Vietnam War.  b) The Great Depression.  c) WWII  d) The Civil War  e) racism.
3. Who are the "monsters"?   a) Figure One and Figure Two  b) The people of the Twilight Zone.  c) The people of Maple Street.  d) Whoever sent the ship.  e) NOTA.
4. (p247) "It's a tree-lined, quiet residential American street..."  a) exposition  b) inciting action  c) resolution  d) rising action  e) theme
5. (p253) "You're sick people--all of you. And you don't even know what you're starting..." a) exposition  b) inciting action  c) resolution  d) rising action  e) climax
6. (p254) "Why, it's like going back to the dark ages or something."  a) climax  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor
7. (p260) "Their world is full of Maple Streets. And we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves."  a) exposition  b) inciting action  c) resolution  d) rising action  e) climax
8. (p260) "There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices..."  a) climax  b) theme  c) conflict  d) irony  e) point of view
9. How can we connect the meanings of The Outsiders and MoMS?  a) They both show that we often judge people by insignificant things.  b) They both show that money doesn't equal good.  c) They both show death is bad.  d) They are both very pessimistic about people.  e) There's no connection at all.
10. How can we connect the meanings of MoMS and Poem #435?   a) They both say that everybody is weird.  b) They both say that anyone who is different from the rest is suspect.  c) They both say that we should worry about an invasion from space.  d) They both say that it's OK to be different.  e) There's no connection at all.
11. Emily Dickinson felt that "the Majority" always prevailed on the question of...   a) what is the right thing to do. b) who's weird and who isn't. c) who's cool and who isn't. d) who's important and who isn't. e) All of the above.
12. The poem says that if a person looked very carefully... a) he would see that everyone is weird. b) he would see that what might look weird really isn't. c) he would see that what might seem sane really isn't. d) All of the above. e) b and c.
13. The poem says that if you disagree with the majority... a) you're weird. b) you're stupid. c) you're considered dangerous. d) you're doing the right thing.  e) all of the above.

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14. "from hang-able" = ___   a) dependable  b) obstacle  c) beneficial d) predicament  e) NOTA
15. "against stand thing" = _____   a) contradict  b) obstacle  c) statue  d) indictment  e) NOTA
16. "under stand person" = ____   a) valedictorian  b) benevolent  c) dependent  d) statue  e) NOTA
17. THEIR.  a) 1st person, plural, subject  b) 1st person, plural, possessive  c) 3rd person, plural, possessive  d) 1st person singular, object  e) NOTA
18. Johnny : diffident :: Dally : _____ a) diligent  b) abundant  c) compelling  d) heedless e) dire