<p> Test Date: ______Honors American Lit Semester 2 Final Exam Study Guide</p><p>Format: Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching, Essay Questions Points: 100 (80 scantron, 20 essay)</p><p>A. Reading Comprehension ● You will be given a poem to read and 5 MC questions to answer</p><p>B. MLA Formatting ● 10 MC ● Parenthetical citation - what it is, how to write it ● Works Cited - what it is, how to write a book entry, how to order the works ● What to include in an MLA heading ● How to list a book with single author ● What goes in the top right hand corner of the paper ● Purpose of ellipses … and brackets [ ] ● How to write the title of a novel and poem ● How to write the title of an essay</p><p>C. The Color Purple ● True/False - 7 questions ● Multiple Choice - 15 questions ● Info you should know: ○ Review the plot of the novel ○ Colors of different things: the women’s pants, the houses, etc ○ Who leaves with Shug ○ What does Celie do when she leaves ○ Review the different characters, even the minor ones ○ How many years have passed between the sisters seeing each other? ○ Dedication ○ Publication year</p><p>D. The Things They Carried ● Short essay questions - 2 responses required (10 pts each - 20 pts total) ● True/False - 5 questions ● Multiple Choice - 18 questions</p><p>● Character ID - 20 questions 1. Lee Strunk 2. Mary Anne Bell 3. Mark Fossie 4. Elroy Berdahl 5. Kiowa 6. Linda 7. Jimmy Cross 8. Henry Dobbins 9. Ted Lavender 10. Norman Bowker 11. Martha 12. Rat Kiley 13. Bobby Jorgensen 14. Curt Lemon 15. Azar 16. Eddie Diamond 17. Tim O’Brien 18. Mitchell Sanders 19. Kathleen 20. Dave Jensen</p><p>● Info you should know: ● Type of work, Publication year, Dedication, Narrator ● Themes ● Struggles that each of the men have after the war ● How the men die in the war ● What acts the men commit in war ● What the men carry with them ● O’Brien’s background and history (in the novel) ● Happening truth vs. story truth ● What happens with Mary Anne Bell ● What O’Brien tells his daughter ● The test is not limited to these questions - review notes from discussions and reading</p>