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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE - FALL 2016

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

1.  Who is the author?

2.  What is Junior’s real name?

3.  What was Junior’s father’s dream?

4.  What was Junior’s mother’s dream?

5.  What happens to Junior’s dog and why?

6.  What is the condition that Junior says he was born with?

7.  What is the one non-athletic talent that Junior is proud of?

8.  What is the name of the reservation where Junior and his family live?

9.  Who is Junior’s best friend on the reservation?

10.  What angers Junior about his geometry book?

11.  Who does Junior hit in the face with his geometry book?

12.  Who does Junior’s teacher is the smartest person he ever taught?

13.  What happens to Junior at the Pow Wow?

14.  What advice does Junior’s geometry teacher give him?

15.  How does Rowdy react when he finds out Junior is transferring to Reardan?

16.  What does it mean when Junior says, “Once I arrived at Reardan, I became something less than an Indian”?

17.  Who is Junior’s intellectual friend at Reardan?

18.  According to Junior, what do Penelope and Junior’s father have in common?

19.  Who does Junior punch because he tells a racist joke?

20.  Does Junior punching this boy change the way people treat him? In what way?

21.  What does Penelope dress up as for Halloween? How is this different than Junior’s costume?

22.  Who lends Junior money to pay the restaurant bill after prom?

23.  What does Junior’s dad give him as a Christmas gift?

24.  What happens to Arnold the first time Arnold plays against the Wellpinit basketball team?

25.  What purpose do the comics in the novel serve?

26.  What is ironic about Junior’s grandmother’s death?

27.  How does Junior’s sister die?

28.  What are three (3) dominant themes of the novel?

29.  What is the author’s tone throughout the novel?

30.  Junior has two names and two homes. What theme is the author emphasizing?

The Crucible

1.  Why has Reverend Parris sent for a doctor as the play begins?

2.  What is Parris’ main concern?

3.  Why does Abigail say she was dismissed by the Proctors?

4.  Why did Mrs. Putnam contact Tituba?

5.  What threat does Abigail make to the other girls?

6.  What happened in the past between John Proctor and Abigail?

7.  What is the dispute between John Proctor and Thomas Putnam?

8.  Why is Reverend Hale in Salem?

9.  When Tituba is questioned by Rev. Hale and Rev. Parris, what ultimatum is Tituba given?

10.  Who does Abigail first accuse of witchcraft?

11.  Why has Mary Warren disobeyed her employers and gone to Salem?

12.  What did Abigail Williams reveal to John Proctor?

13.  What does Elizabeth ask John to do?

14.  THE CRUCIBLE (CONTINUED)

15.  What does Reverend Hale ask Proctor to do?

16.  What has Rebecca Nurse been officially accused of?

17.  Of what has Martha Corey been officially accused?

18.  What accusation does Giles Corey make against Putnam?

19.  What two pieces of evidence are brought out against Proctor in regard to his Christian nature?

20.  What news does Danforth tell John Proctor about Elizabeth?

21.  What does Giles Corey die?

22.  When Mary Warren says that she pretended to faint in court, what is she asked to do?

23.  Who is called to back up John’s testimony that Abigail and John had an affair?

24.  Who accuses John Proctor of being a witch?

25.  At the end of the play, why has Reverend Hale returned to Salem?

26.  How do the proposed hangings of Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor differ from the past executions?

27.  What does Reverend Hale mean when he says,"there is blood on my head!"?

28.  Why does Danforth refuse to postpone the hangings?

29.  What does Hale attribute Proctor’s willingness to hang to?

30.  Complete Elizabeth Proctor’s last line of the play, “He have his ______now. God forbid I should take it from him.”

31.  Who wrote The Crucible?

Into the Wild

32.  What is Chris McCandless’s pseudonym?

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33.  Where did Chris go to high school?

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34.  Who is “An eminent aerospace engineer who designed advanced radar systems for the space shuttle and other high-profile projects”?

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35.  From what college did Chris graduate?

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36.  What extracurricular activity is McCandless involved with while in high school?

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37.  How did Chris react when his parents offered to buy him a new car?

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38.  What is Chris’ attitude towards material possessions?

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39.  What is OXFAM America?

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40.  What event happens that makes McCandless afraid of water?

41.  What season is it when McCandless gets to Alaska and into the wild?

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42.  Name THREE of Chris’s literary heros:

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43.  What is HUBRIS?

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44.  What strange actions did Chris take right after graduating from college?

45.  What is the name of the trail that McCandless sets off on?

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46.  Who was Ronald A. Franz? Why was he important to Chris?

47.  Who was the only person in Chris’s immediate family with whom he got along?

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48.  What musical instrument did Chris play the night before he left Carthage, ND?

49.  How did Wayne Westerberg able to help the Alaska State Troopers identify Chris McCandless?

50.  What item does Jim Gallien give Chris to take?

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51.  On weekends, when his high school pals were attending parties and trying to sneak into Georgetown bars, what did Chris do instead?

52.  Who gave Chris a ride to the Stampede Trail?

53.  Who is Carine?

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54.  What did Chris discover about his father that made him so mad?

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55.  Why did Billie think it was ironic that McCandless believed that “wealth was shameful, corrupting, and inherently evil”?

56.  McCandless was determined “to become lost in the wild.” What was ironic, then, about his stay at the bus?

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57.  Why could Chris not cross the Teklanika River and return to civilization?

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58.  What is the largest game that Chris shoots?

59.  What is the topic of most of Chris’s journal entries while he is out in the wilds of Alaska?

60.  What does the author believes caused Chris’s starvation?

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61.  What does Billie McCandless leave at the bus?

62.  What kind of car did Chris McCandless drive across country?

63.  After he abandons his car, what do authorities use it for?

64.  Describe Wayne Westerberg and his relationship with Chris.

65.  Who wanted to adopt Chris McCandless?

66.  Describe “Oh-My-God Hot Springs”

67.  Why does Krakauer insert stories of several people who went to the wilderness?

68.  What kind of father is Walt McCandless?

69.  What sort of relationship does Chris’ have with his father?

70.  Does Chris McCandless find peace “into the wild?”

71.  What animal does Chris feel regret for killing?

72.  Some people who lived in Alaska suspected that Chris committed a crime while living in the wild. What crime did they suspect him of committing?

73.  What is Franz’ reaction to Chris’ death?

MLA format, Grammar, & Mechanics

74.  What are the margins for a paper written in MLA format?

75.  What size and font are used in MLA format?

76.  What line spacing is used in MLA format?

77.  What paragraph spacing is used in MLA format?

78.  What is the order of information in an MLA heading?

79.  What information is included in a running header?

80.  What is the proper in-text citation when referencing a book?

81.  What is a comma and when is one used in the construction of sentences?

82.  What is a run-on sentence?

83.  What is a sentence fragment?

84.  What is subject-verb agreement?

85.  What is pronoun-antecedent agreement?

86.  What is active voice?

87.  What is formal versus informal diction?

88.  What is a transition in writing? Give examples

89.  What are the 4 types of sentences?

90.  What is a semicolon and when is it used?