Fall 2020 Final Exam

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Across
  1. 1. This Character faced injustice throughout the novel and began writing to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and used his strategies and writings to overcome the painful situations he faced due to his race.
  2. 3. From Malcolm X’s Autobiography excerpt, Malcolm learned how to read and write in prison from copying down the entire what?
  3. 6. In the last paragraph of “Learning to Read,” what does Malcolm say that his alma mater (college he graduated from) is?
  4. 8. Treating someone differently because of a specific quality or because they belong to a specific group.
  5. 13. Normal practices within our society and organizations that benefit one race of people over another.
  6. 15. This Character helped the Main Character get through losing his best friend and provided a healthy interracial relationship in the story.
  7. 16. From Martin Luther King Jr’s essay, “The Purpose of Education,” fill in the blanks with the correct word. “The function of ________, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But ________ which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society.
  8. 18. “ The attitude of the writer toward a subject or the audience- how the Author feels”
  9. 19. A violent white supremacy group that almost died out by the 1900s but gained popularity again in the 1960s.
  10. 20. This character grew up more isolated from blatant discrimination than the Main Character and did not immediately realize that his friends were treating him in a racist way.
Down
  1. 2. An idea or belief about a certain group of people that is based on how they look on the outside; may or may not be true.
  2. 4. Judgements we make immediately when we see someone and before we know them.
  3. 5. This Character provided support for the Main Characters during the process of understanding racial inequalities in their lives.
  4. 6. Minstrel shows used ______ and were widely popularized and enjoyed by white audiences who wanted to dehumanize Black people so they could continue to view and treat Black people as less than human.”
  5. 7. From Martin Luther King Jr’s essay, “The Purpose of Education,” fill in the blanks with the correct word, “The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no ________.”
  6. 9. This real life historical figure was included in the story as inspiration for the Main Character to overcome racism.
  7. 10. “The central lesson or idea that is revealed through the events in a story” is a good definition for what literary term?
  8. 11. This character provided oppositional racism, as he/she was the only character to be blatantly prejudiced against white people.
  9. 12. “A word choice and how it changes the sound of the writing” is a good definition for what literary term?
  10. 14. “How words are arranged in a sentence” is a good definition for what literary term?
  11. 17. “The vibe of a story- how does it make YOU feel” is a good definition for what literary term?