Monkey's Paw Test for English II/Honors Eng II

1. W.W. JACOBS

2.  You will do 6 vocabulary, 8 short answers, and
2 short essays.
 Vocab slides will change every 2 minutes.
 Short answer slides will change every 4
minutes.
 The short essay slides will pop up every 10
minutes. Write your answer to the question
and back it up for each short essay.
 THINK! No blank answers! THINK!

13. Answer briefly but thoroughly and
accurately. Keep your answers around
a sentence or two.

14. Where did the paw
originally come from and
what curse was placed
upon it? What was this
curse supposed to teach
mankind?

15.  Who brought the
monkey’s paw into the
world of the old couple
and their son?

16. At one point, Herbert alone looks into the
fire and sees faces in the dancing flames.
Jacobs uses the phrase, “so horrible and so
simian” in the description of this. What
ordinary words could he have used
instead, and how does the connotation of
the words he did use add an element of
eeriness to what is being described?

17. How did young Herbert
die?

18. Herbert’s mother
awoke in the night
with a wonderful idea.
What was this idea?

19. Why did Herbert’s father not want to open the
door when he and his wife heard knocks in the
middle of the night? In fact, he was so adamant
that his wife not open the door that he screamed,
“Don’t let IT in!” Why? Why “it”?

20.  How was Herbert’s
death foreshadowed?

21. Keep your answers to around a paragraph
or two. MOST questions have more than
one part. BE SURE TO ANSWER ALL
PARTS OF THE QUESTION.