Final Exam (100 Points Total)

The Kite Runner Novel Unit Name: Date: Final Exam (100 points total)

All Chapters

Total points: /150

Part One: Event Sort (2 points each - 20 points total)

Put the following events from the novel into the correct order.

Rahim Khan calls Amir in San Francisco and tells Amir that there is “a way to be good again”.

When they are children, Assef threatens Hassan and Amir with brass knuckles.

Amir wins the kite tournament.

Amir watches Hassan get raped by Assef and runs away without helping his friend.

Amir hides money and a watch under Hassan’s mattress. Hassan admits to stealing the money and the watch, but Baba forgives him. Hassan and Ali leave anyway.

Amir and Baba escape to Pakistan in a fuel truck. They move to California; Amir attends high school and Baba works in a gas station.

Amir graduates and begins studying creative writing at junior college, to Baba’s annoyance.

Amir and Baba meet General Taheri and his daughter Soraya at the flea market in San Jose. Baba asks General Teheri if Amir can marry Soraya; he accepts.

Amir leaves America for Pakistan after a phone call from Rahim Khan. When in Pakistan, Rahim Khan asks Amir to return to Afghanistan and rescue Sohrab: Amir refuses at first.

Before continuing on his journey back to Afghanistan, Amir leaves money for Wahid’s family under a mattress.

Zaman, the director of an Afghan orphanage, explains Sohrab was taken by a Talib a month before.

Amir and Fahid go to a soccor match and watch a Talib stone a couple to death for acts of adultery. Fahid sets up a meeting between Amir and the Talib in the sunglasses.

Amir goes to meet the Talib and discovers it is Assef. Amir and Assef fight. Sohrab blinds Assef in the left eye with his slingshot so Amir and Sohrab are able to escape.

Mr. Andrews passes on the name of an immigration lawyer, Mr. Faisal and he explains the difficult process of adoption. Amir has to tell Sohrab he will have to go back to an orphanage. The Kite Runner Novel Unit Name: Date: Sorarya calls and explains people in the USA had been able to get Sorhab a humanitarian visa and he will not have to go back to an orphanage, however, Sorhab attempted to commit suicide in the bathtub.

Amir takes Sorhab back to San Francisco and Sorhab becomes mute for a year.

After 9/11. The General returns to Afghanistan.

In 2002, Amir takes Sohrab to fly a kite and Sorhab smiles for the first time.

Part Two: Figurative Language (10 points each – 30 points total) Answer all three parts of the questions.

Choose three examples of figurative language from any page of the book and complete the chart below.

Example of Figurative Language Type of figurative language Why did the author include the figurative language?

Part Three: Inference Chart (10 points each – 20 points)

Question It say I say And so (Find TEXT EVIDENCE (What do YOU know (Using it says and I say, that helps you answer about the question and answer the question) the question) text evidence) Chapter 14: Why does August show Lily the queen less hive? The Kite Runner Novel Unit Name: Date:

Whole novel: What do bees represent for Lily in the novel The Secret Life of Bees?

Part Four: Character and Symbolism (5 points each – 15 points)

For each of the following characters, give one object/symbol from the novel that represents three things about the character.

Character Object from the Three things that the object/symbol represents novel T-Ray   

May   

Lily   

Part Five: Important Passages (10 points each – 30 points) The Kite Runner Novel Unit Name: Date: For each quote, explain what was happening at that point of the novel and explain why it is important to the book.

Important Quote What is happening at that Why is the quote important to the novel? point in the novel? (Consider plot, character and theme) “I asked (Mary) to draw a curtain around the pink house so no one would ever find us…No one knocked on the door and dragged us off to jail. Mary had made us a curtain of protection.” (p. 92)

“We can’t be together now, Lily, but one day, after I’ve gone away and become somebody, I’m gonna find you, and we’ll be together.” (p. 231)

“She’s the one inside saying “Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.’ She’s the power inside you, you understand.” (p. 289)

Part Six: Open-ended response (30 points)

Use the rubric to answer the question correctly. You may use quotes from ANY part of the novel to support your answer.

Prompt: What is the most important theme in the novel The Secret Life of Bees. Describe how the theme has been developed in the novel. Support your answer with three quotes from the novel.

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A – Answer the Answered the Answered the Answered the Did not answer prompt. prompt using the prompt using key question without the question. title of the words from the using the title of passage and key prompt. Did not the passage or words from the use the title of key words from prompt. the passage in the prompt. the answer.

P – Provide Provided Provided Provided Did not provide example from the excellent examples from insufficient examples from text examples from the text. examples from the text. the text. the text.

S - support the Supported each Supported each Did not support Did not provide example with a example with example with a all examples with quotes. quotes. excellent, quote. quotes. relevant quotes.

E – Explain how Explained clearly Explained how Did not explain Did not provide the example how each each example how each explanations. supports the example and and quote helped example and answer. quote helped to to support the quote supported support the answer. the answer. answer. The Kite Runner Novel Unit Name: Date: The Kite Runner Novel Unit Name: Date:

The Secret Life of Bees: Weekly Exam Two Review Sheet

Chapters 6 – 8

1. Answer the following inference questions using “it say and I say” chart.

Question It say I say And so (Find TEXT EVIDENCE (What do YOU know (Using it says and I say, that helps you answer about the question and answer the question) the question) novel elements) Chapter 6: Why does In the text it says, I know I can infer that Lily put her mother’s name on a piece of paper and place it in May’s wailing wall?

Chapter 7: Why can Lily and Zach not be together?

2. Using your reading response logs, list the five main events of the chapters – in the correct order!

4. The Kite Runner Novel Unit Name: Date: 5.

Answer Key

Part One: Event Sort (2 points each - 10 points total)

T. Ray finds Lily in the field and punishes her by making her kneel on grits.

Lily and Rosaleen escape from the hospital and hitchhike to Tiburon, South Carolina.

Lily meets the Boatwright sisters and explains she has left home; August Boatwright invites Lily and Rosaleen to stay.

Zach buys Lily a writing notebook and Lily writes her first story about Rosaleen.

May tells Lily that her mother lived with them in the pink house.

May kills herself in the river.

Lily and Zach realize their relationship can never happen, but they kiss anyway.

After the first day of the Mary Day celebrations, Lily tell August the truth about her mother, father and coming to Tiburon.

The Daughters of Mary celebrate the second day of Mary Day by rubbing honey into Our Lady and August presents Lily with a hat box containing her mother’s belongings.

While she is alone in the pink house, Lily answers the door to T-Ray and her attacks her while believing she is Deborah.

Part Two

“The whole swarm hanging there like a black balloon caught in the branches” p. 184

Simile

Compares swarm to a black balloon to create an image of the densly packed bees, that could be and should free but is trapped instead by the tree/humans.

“The wind rearranged her thoughts”

Personification

Creates an image of June being able to release all her stress and worry on her drives with Neil.