Chapter 6 Answers
1.He dies
2.He doesn’t coward them
3.He was looking out for her.
4.She want to do the plan but when it happens she backs out
Questions
CHAPTER SIX
1.What little things go wrong with the kidnapping? With David’s alibi? With Betsy’s alibi?
2.In what way does Mr. Griffin earn the respect of his kidnappers?
3.Why is Susan especially upset about her part in the kidnapping
4.Why does Betsy say the following to Susan? “Honestly, I don’t understand you.”
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Chapter 7 Answers
1.They are the only ones Betsy cant persuade with her cuteness.
2.Kick out because he cheated and he kidnapped mr. griffin because he wanted him to beg.
3.Big wig
4.She wants mark attention
5.Shows how vindictive and cruel Betsy is.
6.Betsy and along the path
7.In place.
8.They are five years old
9.About his ring
10.Dave, because he got outvoted
Questions
CHAPTER SEVEN
1.What do Mr. Griffin and Mark have in common?
2.Find a flashback in this chapter. What important facts about Mark do we learn?
3.What mistake(s) does Betsy make with the police officer?
4.Why do you think Betsy participates in the kidnapping?
5.Why do you suppose the incident with Shauna Berman is included?
6.Who finds the container of pills? Where?
7.How does Mr. Griffin’s tie appear here?
8.What does Mr. Griffin think of his kidnappers?
9.What question does David ask him?
10.Who wants to let Mr. Griffin go? Why don’t they?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 8 Answers
1.She is a good person.
2.They are going to get hamburgers.
3.His eyes were open.
4. How he died.
Questions
CHAPTER EIGHT
1.Explain, with examples from the story, how David begins to see Susan as a real person.
2.Why does David doubt that Mark and Jeff are going to release Mr. Griffin after the game?3.How does David know Mr. Griffin is dead?
4.What is the implied but never stated cause of Mr. Griffin’s death?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters 9 Answers
1.Susans family is a closer family than betsy's.
2.Hide the body and keep up alibi's.
3.No one would believe that they were playing so they would go to jail.
4.He is burned alive in a house fire.
5.His father just dissappeared without a trace so the same could happen to Mr. Griffin.
6.So that she doesnt crack up and turn them all in.
Questions
CHAPTER NINE
1.Betsy and Susan both have fathers to turn to for help. Why do you suppose Susan wants
to go to her father for help, but Betsy doesn’t suggest going to her father?
2.What two things does Mark say that they need to do to be safe?
3.How does Mark convince Susan they need to bury the body?
4.How does Mark’s father die?
5.What does David’s father have to do with his decision to go along with Mark’s plan to bury the body?
6.Why does Mark comfort Susan?
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
150 Word Response #2
If someone drop 5 dollars in front of me i wouldve gave it back because if i was that person then i wouldnt want anybody to do me like that. If i wouldve took it something bad couldve of happen to me that day because what goes around come back around. When i gave it back something wonderful couldve happen god is always wating you. So why would you even steal when you know its not right. You could do others how you would want to be treated. Would you want someone to steal from you, I know you wouldnt so why would you do it to someone eles. When you are going to do something bad then put youyrself in a position like is it all that serious to get in trouble about.
Killing Mr. Griffin Chapters 1-5
Chapter 1 Answers
1.Craig 12 yrs old,Twins 7 yrs old,Susan, Mom, Dad.
2.Her fantasy of another life
3.President of the senior class; she like him.
4.David, Jeff, Mark, Betsy & Susan
5.She isn't real talkative and she moves to the other side of the room
6.Griffin and Dolly. Griffin is strict and stern; Dolly Loon is airheaded and wants to be students friends.
7.No, Its good to have rules but it can have a neggative effect if you take it to far.
8.Hamlet. Songs of Ophelia
9.Drowing in pretty.
10.It's beak and crumbled against the glass
11.She didn't take it serious because he's only a kid and kids are not always serious
12.The pills.
Questions
CHAPTER ONE
1.Briefly identify the children in the McConnell family.
2.What does Susan mean by “someday”?
3.Who is David Ruggles? How does Susan feel about him?
4.Several other students of Room 117 are introduced. Briefly identify them.
5.In the classroom scene, what emphasizes Susan’s feelings of being an outsider?
6.Two teachers are introduced. Briefly identify them.
7.Mr. Griffin is very strict and stern with the students. Do you think these qualities make him a good teacher? Briefly explain your answer.
8.An allusion is when a writer refers to a person, place, poem, book, or movie that the reader, is expected to recognize. Find an example of allusion in this chapter.
9.In what ways does Susan think she and the dying female in Hamlet are similar?
10.A metaphor is a comparison of two things that are basically unlike, in order to create a sharp picture. In this first chapter find the metaphor involving a bird that helps the author define how Susan is feeling about her life.
11.Jeff says, “That Griffin’s the sort of guy you’d like to kill.” Why doesn’t Susan think he is serious?
12. Frequently, objects which seem inconsequential when first mentioned become an
important part of the plot later. In the last six paragraphs do you notice any object that might be foreshadowed?
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Chapter 2 Answers
1.They all need the credits to graduate.
2.Mr. Griffin made him repeat the class
3.Crazy looks & something bad.
4.They think it isn’t very serious.
5.Because he has nothing to lose & likes a challange.
6.she likes dave
7.killing the cat & what he knows about people.
8.He is a psychopath.
Questions
CHAPTER TWO
1.Why does Mark say the following? “Jeff’s done a neat job of lining us up for a mass flunkout.”
2.Explain Mark’s special dislike of Mr. Griffin.
3.“Jeff had seen that look before, and it always meant something.” What look does Jeff see? What does Jeff think it means?
4.Why do Jeff and Betsy go along with Mark’s plan to kidnap Mr. Griffin?
5.Why does Mark believe Dave will go along with the plan?
6.What does Mark know about Susan that makes him think she will be their decoy?
7.A flashback is a scene that interrupts the ongoing action to show an event that happens earlier. Briefly describe the flashback in this chapter. Explain why the author chooses to include it.
8.What is implied, but never stated, about Mark’s “transformation”?
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Chapter 3 Answers
1.Mom(hard working)Grandma(is lazy and loves green jello)Father(left family when David was young & goes to Stanford).
2.He has to support his family
3.Livingroom dark & lonely
4.David wanted to make a better life for his family.
Questins
CHAPTER THREE
1.The members of David’s family are introduced. Briefly identify them.
2.Why does David think he needs a good education?
3.Find the metaphor in this chapter that helps illustrate the emptiness of David’s life.
4.Support or refute the following statement:
David goes along with Mark because he dislikes Mr. Griffin and needs a better English
grade to get into law school.
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Chapter 4 Answer
1.No one wakes her up so she doesnt have to be around her family.
2.That suddenly and easily she felt like she was one of them.
3.Mark’s old girlfriend
4.She is frightend of him
5.Symbolize reality and clarity
6.Thats the happiest she will ever be.
Questions
CHAPTER FOUR
1.Why are Saturday’s special for Susan?
2. Find a quotation in the chapter that illustrates the idea that Susan feels a part of the picnic
group.
3.Who is Lana?
4.How does Susan feel about Mark before the picnic?
5.A symbol is an object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself. How may the eyeglasses be a symbol in this chapter?
6.Foreshadowing is also used to create interest and build suspense. Since this is a mystery story, there are many examples of foreshadowing. Find an example of foreshadowing in this chapter that lets the reader know Susan is going to have problems.
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Chapter 5 Answers
1.That there is nothing that says since your pregnant you can not cook.
2.College freshman had a hard time writing.
3.He likes her but think she is a little lazy
4.It reminds her of herself and she takes it in offense
5.He tells her he loves her and she is real.
6.Kids do not just need criticism they need compliments as well.
7.She begs him to stay
8.To emphasize the need for the pills and the tie is a symbol for his dignity.
9.Maybe he wants to be that critical
Questions
CHAPTER FIVE
1.How does the author illustrate Kathy Griffin’s stubborn personality?
2.Briefly explain Mr. Griffin’s reason for leaving Stanford to teach high school.
3.What does Mr. Griffin think about Susan?
4.Why is Kathy Griffin upset by her husband’s description of Dolly?
5.How does her husband make her feel better?
6.Why does Mrs. Griffin want Brian to compliment Susan on her writing?
7.Find an example of foreshadowing in this chapter.
8.Why do you suppose the pills are mentioned again? Why does the author bother
mentioning his tie?
9.We learn that Mrs. Griffin is pregnant. How does she hope having a child will change her husband? Why might the author have added the pregnancy into the story.
1.Craig 12 yrs old,Twins 7 yrs old,Susan, Mom, Dad.
2.Her fantasy of another life
3.President of the senior class; she like him.
4.David, Jeff, Mark, Betsy & Susan
5.She isn't real talkative and she moves to the other side of the room
6.Griffin and Dolly. Griffin is strict and stern; Dolly Loon is airheaded and wants to be students friends.
7.No, Its good to have rules but it can have a neggative effect if you take it to far.
8.Hamlet. Songs of Ophelia
9.Drowing in pretty.
10.It's beak and crumbled against the glass
11.She didn't take it serious because he's only a kid and kids are not always serious
12.The pills.
Questions
CHAPTER ONE
1.Briefly identify the children in the McConnell family.
2.What does Susan mean by “someday”?
3.Who is David Ruggles? How does Susan feel about him?
4.Several other students of Room 117 are introduced. Briefly identify them.
5.In the classroom scene, what emphasizes Susan’s feelings of being an outsider?
6.Two teachers are introduced. Briefly identify them.
7.Mr. Griffin is very strict and stern with the students. Do you think these qualities make him a good teacher? Briefly explain your answer.
8.An allusion is when a writer refers to a person, place, poem, book, or movie that the reader, is expected to recognize. Find an example of allusion in this chapter.
9.In what ways does Susan think she and the dying female in Hamlet are similar?
10.A metaphor is a comparison of two things that are basically unlike, in order to create a sharp picture. In this first chapter find the metaphor involving a bird that helps the author define how Susan is feeling about her life.
11.Jeff says, “That Griffin’s the sort of guy you’d like to kill.” Why doesn’t Susan think he is serious?
12. Frequently, objects which seem inconsequential when first mentioned become an
important part of the plot later. In the last six paragraphs do you notice any object that might be foreshadowed?
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Chapter 2 Answers
1.They all need the credits to graduate.
2.Mr. Griffin made him repeat the class
3.Crazy looks & something bad.
4.They think it isn’t very serious.
5.Because he has nothing to lose & likes a challange.
6.she likes dave
7.killing the cat & what he knows about people.
8.He is a psychopath.
Questions
CHAPTER TWO
1.Why does Mark say the following? “Jeff’s done a neat job of lining us up for a mass flunkout.”
2.Explain Mark’s special dislike of Mr. Griffin.
3.“Jeff had seen that look before, and it always meant something.” What look does Jeff see? What does Jeff think it means?
4.Why do Jeff and Betsy go along with Mark’s plan to kidnap Mr. Griffin?
5.Why does Mark believe Dave will go along with the plan?
6.What does Mark know about Susan that makes him think she will be their decoy?
7.A flashback is a scene that interrupts the ongoing action to show an event that happens earlier. Briefly describe the flashback in this chapter. Explain why the author chooses to include it.
8.What is implied, but never stated, about Mark’s “transformation”?
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Chapter 3 Answers
1.Mom(hard working)Grandma(is lazy and loves green jello)Father(left family when David was young & goes to Stanford).
2.He has to support his family
3.Livingroom dark & lonely
4.David wanted to make a better life for his family.
Questins
CHAPTER THREE
1.The members of David’s family are introduced. Briefly identify them.
2.Why does David think he needs a good education?
3.Find the metaphor in this chapter that helps illustrate the emptiness of David’s life.
4.Support or refute the following statement:
David goes along with Mark because he dislikes Mr. Griffin and needs a better English
grade to get into law school.
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Chapter 4 Answer
1.No one wakes her up so she doesnt have to be around her family.
2.That suddenly and easily she felt like she was one of them.
3.Mark’s old girlfriend
4.She is frightend of him
5.Symbolize reality and clarity
6.Thats the happiest she will ever be.
Questions
CHAPTER FOUR
1.Why are Saturday’s special for Susan?
2. Find a quotation in the chapter that illustrates the idea that Susan feels a part of the picnic
group.
3.Who is Lana?
4.How does Susan feel about Mark before the picnic?
5.A symbol is an object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself. How may the eyeglasses be a symbol in this chapter?
6.Foreshadowing is also used to create interest and build suspense. Since this is a mystery story, there are many examples of foreshadowing. Find an example of foreshadowing in this chapter that lets the reader know Susan is going to have problems.
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Chapter 5 Answers
1.That there is nothing that says since your pregnant you can not cook.
2.College freshman had a hard time writing.
3.He likes her but think she is a little lazy
4.It reminds her of herself and she takes it in offense
5.He tells her he loves her and she is real.
6.Kids do not just need criticism they need compliments as well.
7.She begs him to stay
8.To emphasize the need for the pills and the tie is a symbol for his dignity.
9.Maybe he wants to be that critical
Questions
CHAPTER FIVE
1.How does the author illustrate Kathy Griffin’s stubborn personality?
2.Briefly explain Mr. Griffin’s reason for leaving Stanford to teach high school.
3.What does Mr. Griffin think about Susan?
4.Why is Kathy Griffin upset by her husband’s description of Dolly?
5.How does her husband make her feel better?
6.Why does Mrs. Griffin want Brian to compliment Susan on her writing?
7.Find an example of foreshadowing in this chapter.
8.Why do you suppose the pills are mentioned again? Why does the author bother
mentioning his tie?
9.We learn that Mrs. Griffin is pregnant. How does she hope having a child will change her husband? Why might the author have added the pregnancy into the story.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Black Cat D.Q.'s
1. Discuss the significance: There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of man.”
answer: Showing emotions to something and not to others
2. How does the description of the cat as “sagacious” contribute to the meaning of the story?
answer: It helps to explain how much the cat loved him
3. What is the significance of the cat’s name, Pluto?
answer:Pluto is god of the underworld and like, the other cat's were sent from him.
4. What is the significance of the narrator’s change of disposition from docile and tender to “…more moody, more irritable and regardless of the feelings of others”?
answer:He became mad at the cat
5. Why did the narrator initially restrain himself from maltreating the cat while maltreating the other animals?
answer: because he loved him and had a special bond with him.
6. Why does he eventually mistreat the cat?
answer:because he wasn't shoving him the love he had at first, so he didn't like that and started mistreating him.
7. Describe the narrator’s feelings after abusing the cat. What is the significance?
answer:Because he had remorse but seen pear evil
8. How does the narrator define “perverseness? Do you agree with his definition? Do you agree that it is human nature?
answer:I do not think it is human nature it is common scence, because he know what he is doing.
9. Significance: [I] hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason for offence; because I knew that in doing so I was committing a sin.”
answer:That he really didn't care.
10. Discuss the significance of the fire. How does the narrator explain the phenomenon he discovers after the fire? What does the phenomenon symbolize?
answer: It symbolizes total destruction it was rage and emotion that the fire was creating.
11. What is significant about the new cat and his markings? What does the cat symbolize?
answer:It reminded him of Pluto except for the whhite patch under it's body.
12. Discuss: “And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity. And a brute beast to work out for me – whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed – a brute beast to work out for me – for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God – so much of insufferable woe!”
answer: He feels powerful after what hes done. He now thinks that he is evil and as far away from God as possible.
13. Why is it significant that this cat will not leave the narrator alone?
answer: Its testing him to see if he will act the same way he did to the other cat.
14. How does the fact that the narrator kills his wife instead of the cat add to the meaning of the story?
answer:He doesn’t care what he kills anymore, now he does it without a reason.
15. What is significant about the narrator’s method of disposing of the body?
answer:He puts her body in an old cellar , Chimney.
16. Discuss the significance, “I made no doubt that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole thing up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious.
answer:He was going to undo the wall and place the body there so knowone would ever find the body of his dead wife.
17. Why is the narrator able to sleep well after he conceals the body?
answer:Because the cat that had been bothering him so bad had seemed to of disappeared.
18. Significance: “Once again I breathed as a free man.”
answer: He feels free now that he doesn't have that cat torturing him all the time.
19. Why does the narrator feel triumphant when the police arrive?
answer:Thinks his work is so good no one will find out the body of his wife was in his wall
20. Discuss the syntax and punctuation in the following: “No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into a one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman – a howl a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the dammed in their agony and of the demons that exult in damnation!”
answer:The exclmation mark dose belong because he is yelling it out in to the open.
21. How do you explain the ending? Discuss the symbolism.
answer:You can never hide everything you've done.
answer: Showing emotions to something and not to others
2. How does the description of the cat as “sagacious” contribute to the meaning of the story?
answer: It helps to explain how much the cat loved him
3. What is the significance of the cat’s name, Pluto?
answer:Pluto is god of the underworld and like, the other cat's were sent from him.
4. What is the significance of the narrator’s change of disposition from docile and tender to “…more moody, more irritable and regardless of the feelings of others”?
answer:He became mad at the cat
5. Why did the narrator initially restrain himself from maltreating the cat while maltreating the other animals?
answer: because he loved him and had a special bond with him.
6. Why does he eventually mistreat the cat?
answer:because he wasn't shoving him the love he had at first, so he didn't like that and started mistreating him.
7. Describe the narrator’s feelings after abusing the cat. What is the significance?
answer:Because he had remorse but seen pear evil
8. How does the narrator define “perverseness? Do you agree with his definition? Do you agree that it is human nature?
answer:I do not think it is human nature it is common scence, because he know what he is doing.
9. Significance: [I] hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason for offence; because I knew that in doing so I was committing a sin.”
answer:That he really didn't care.
10. Discuss the significance of the fire. How does the narrator explain the phenomenon he discovers after the fire? What does the phenomenon symbolize?
answer: It symbolizes total destruction it was rage and emotion that the fire was creating.
11. What is significant about the new cat and his markings? What does the cat symbolize?
answer:It reminded him of Pluto except for the whhite patch under it's body.
12. Discuss: “And now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity. And a brute beast to work out for me – whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed – a brute beast to work out for me – for me a man, fashioned in the image of the High God – so much of insufferable woe!”
answer: He feels powerful after what hes done. He now thinks that he is evil and as far away from God as possible.
13. Why is it significant that this cat will not leave the narrator alone?
answer: Its testing him to see if he will act the same way he did to the other cat.
14. How does the fact that the narrator kills his wife instead of the cat add to the meaning of the story?
answer:He doesn’t care what he kills anymore, now he does it without a reason.
15. What is significant about the narrator’s method of disposing of the body?
answer:He puts her body in an old cellar , Chimney.
16. Discuss the significance, “I made no doubt that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole thing up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious.
answer:He was going to undo the wall and place the body there so knowone would ever find the body of his dead wife.
17. Why is the narrator able to sleep well after he conceals the body?
answer:Because the cat that had been bothering him so bad had seemed to of disappeared.
18. Significance: “Once again I breathed as a free man.”
answer: He feels free now that he doesn't have that cat torturing him all the time.
19. Why does the narrator feel triumphant when the police arrive?
answer:Thinks his work is so good no one will find out the body of his wife was in his wall
20. Discuss the syntax and punctuation in the following: “No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into a one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman – a howl a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the dammed in their agony and of the demons that exult in damnation!”
answer:The exclmation mark dose belong because he is yelling it out in to the open.
21. How do you explain the ending? Discuss the symbolism.
answer:You can never hide everything you've done.
The Black Cat Vocabulary
1. Solicit: (V) -to seek for (something) by earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.
Synonym:canvass
Antonym: refuse to accept
2. Mad: (Adj) -mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
3. Succinct: (Adj) -expressed in few words; concise; terse.
4. Phantasm: (N) -an illusory likeness of something.
5. Docile: (Adj) -easily managed or handled.
6. Disposition: (N) -the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude.
7. Sagacious: (Adj) -having or showing keen discernment, and sound judgment.
8. Paltry: (Adj) -lacking in importance or worth; trivial.
9. Gossamer: (N) -something delicate, light, or flimsy.
10. Fidelity: (N) -faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
11. Procure: (V) -to get by special effort; obtain or acquire.
12. Allusion: (N) -the act of alluding; indirect reference:
13. Intemperance: (N) -excessive use of alcoholic beverages.
14. Maltreat: (V) -to treat in a rough or cruel way; abuse.
15. Scruple: (N) -a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
16. Malevolence: (N) -ill will; malice; hatred.
17. Atrocity: (N) -the quality of being extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal.
18. Debauch: (N) -a period of wanton self-indulgence, an excessive party which includes consumption of alcohol.
19. Sentiment: (N) -a mental feeling; emotion.
20. Remorse: (N) -deep and painful regret for wrongdoing.
150 Word Response #1
Are people made or born evil and what evil is to?
In some situations i guess it is possible for someone to be born evil. If a child has any genes of someone in their family that is crazy mentally, the child could possibly be born with the same traits.Overall i think that a individual has his/her own decision to be good or evil. Depending on the actions one decides to follow throught life will determine how they turn out when they are adults. Even though family actions and how you are raised does depend on how you turn out as an adult, there are always ways such as counseling and other resources to fix personal problems such as being evil. You are in control of your ownself no one eles can control you. You are your own person.
In some situations i guess it is possible for someone to be born evil. If a child has any genes of someone in their family that is crazy mentally, the child could possibly be born with the same traits.Overall i think that a individual has his/her own decision to be good or evil. Depending on the actions one decides to follow throught life will determine how they turn out when they are adults. Even though family actions and how you are raised does depend on how you turn out as an adult, there are always ways such as counseling and other resources to fix personal problems such as being evil. You are in control of your ownself no one eles can control you. You are your own person.
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