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Second Marking Period Quiz

This document contains a quiz on a book with questions about characters, events, themes and literary devices. It asks about which author is banned from the school library and hung in the janitor's closet, what David Petrakis does in class that stuns everyone, and what happens at Melinda's house for Thanksgiving. It also contains questions about the school mascot, Melinda's favorite Christmas gift, why she faints in biology class, who causes her to throw up after lunch, the sport she is decent at, what Mr. Freeman does to his picture, and multiple choice questions about Melinda and Andy's character roles and point of view. Short answer questions ask about the significance of the book's title "Speak

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Second Marking Period Quiz

This document contains a quiz on a book with questions about characters, events, themes and literary devices. It asks about which author is banned from the school library and hung in the janitor's closet, what David Petrakis does in class that stuns everyone, and what happens at Melinda's house for Thanksgiving. It also contains questions about the school mascot, Melinda's favorite Christmas gift, why she faints in biology class, who causes her to throw up after lunch, the sport she is decent at, what Mr. Freeman does to his picture, and multiple choice questions about Melinda and Andy's character roles and point of view. Short answer questions ask about the significance of the book's title "Speak

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Second Marking Period Quiz

1. Which author gets banned from Melinda’s library? She hangs a


poster of this author in her janitor closet:

2. What does David Petrakis do in Mr. Neck’s class and why does it
stun everyone?

3. Explain, in a few sentences, what happens at Melinda’s house on


Thanksgiving:

4. What does David Petrakis do in Mr. Neck’s class in order to


document “potential future violations”?

5. What is the new mascot of Merryweather High?

6. What is her favorite present that Melinda receives for Christmas


from her parents?

7. Why does Melinda faint while dissecting frogs in biology class? What
does it remind her of?

8. Who or what causes Melinda to throw up after lunch?

9. Melinda is actually pretty decent at what sport?

10. What does Mr. Freeman do to his picture?

11. Melinda could best be described as _____________, due to her


negative outlook on life.
A. Optimistic
B. Pessimistic
12. Melinda is the _____________________ or main character of the
story.
A. Protagonist
B. Antagonist

13. Andy Evans could be considered the ______________________


because he is working against the main character of the book.
A. Protagonist
B. Antagonist

14. The point of view from which the story is told is


_____________________.
A. First Person
B. Second Person
C. Third Person

15. “She stood in front of the altar, shaking like a freshly caught
trout,” is an example of a ____________________.
A. Metaphor
B. Simile

Short answer questions: Answer the following questions with


3-5 sentences:

16. What is significant about the name of the book, Speak? What
greater meaning does the title have?

17. Keeping a secret is affecting Melinda in more ways than just


being an outcast. Write at least 2 other things or areas of Melinda’s
life that are being affected by Melinda keeping a secret:

18. What would you do if you were an outcast at your school for
something you did? Would you stand up for yourself? Would you
give up?

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