The Grouchy Grammarian by Thomas Parrish ISBN: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington ISBN:

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1 James Griffin AP English Language and Composition The Grouchy Grammarian by Thomas Parrish ISBN: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington ISBN: THE GROUCHY GRAMMARIAN QUESTIONS All summer reading is to improve vocabulary and comprehension. Please type the answers to the following questions. All the answers must be from the book and not just common knowledge. Please use a complete MLA heading on your answers and staple if you have multiple pages. You do not need to type the question; just type the answer and they do not have to be complete sentences. I think you will really enjoy this book. It is a review of grammar rules in humorous fashion and we will drill all the facts before we have a test, so just look for the answers and enjoy the book. AP Language is all about proper grammar usage. This book will be very valuable. Chapter i 1. When did the narrator stop to see his friend? 2. Of what was the first grammar problem the grouch spoke? 3. What is the correct way to go through mail? 4. What is the correct way to have a souvenir? Chapter ii 1. What is the narrator s name? 2. What did the grouch normally do in response to errors in the newspaper? 3. What group of people did Parrish think would not listen to the grouch? 4. What did the grouch say should be the purpose for which Parrish wrote a work about grammar? 5. What are the six audiences the grouch suggests Parrish address? 6. What poem by Browning did the grouch flag? Chapter iii 1. What was the grouch s special view of the sentence? 2. If a person doesn t understand the working of a sentence, what does he have no chance of doing? Chapter 1 1. What would a boss or teacher think is not good enough?

2 2. Why do we not use people with population? 3. What should one do who doesn t know the many of words? 4. What is speed in regard to the car crash? 5. What word should be used with Depression? 6. What verb regarding Clinton requires an object? 7. Where would one likely find historic figures? 8. What word shouldn t be used with a tornado warning? 9. What are the three quadrants of New York? 10. What quote by George Orwell did the grouch emphasize? Chapter 2 1. What things have to agree in a sentence? 2. What does appositive mean? 3. What is concord according to the grouch? 4. To what fallacy does the grouch warn us to beware? Chapter 3 1. When did subject verb agreement become firmly set? Chapter 4 1. What rule applies to the word each? Chapter 5 1. What was Vitale s prophetic statement? 2. What word is never a subject? Chapter 6 1. Who was the only person to hold a certain title mentioned in the chapter? 2. What should former be used to describe? Chapter 7 1. What is the difference between compliment and complement? Chapter 8 1. What does having a the reason is because construction do to the language? Chapter 9 1. What is the past tense of may? 2. What do we use to express doubt about a possibility? Chapter What should be deleted in front of yet? Chapter What is the grouch s name for dangling modifiers? Chapter What does the military do to specify a night event that took place at 2:00 a.m.? Chapter What celebrity used a subjunctive in her sentence? Chapter What are the three problems with the apostrophe? 2. What should never be split to add an apostrophe?

3 3. What is used to make an ordinary word plural? 4. What is one of the few American spots that retains the apostrophe in its name? 5. Why do ticks not flourish? 6. What four names normally drop the apostrophe? Chapter What did Paul Sawyer s students invent? 2. What should the noun before a gerund be? 3. What two situations should use an apostrophe? 4. What is a completely wrong form and should not be used in writing? Chapter What is the root of whom problems? Chapter What is never a which? 2. What kind of a clause does the word that introduce? Chapter What should not be used to mean coincidentally? 2. What does a repeated bungle show? Chapter What group is often blamed for adding of to sentences? Chapter In whose presence are many speakers awkwardly self-conscious? 2. What shows an audience a speaker is foreign? 3. Who was Jackson Pollock? 4. What is one of Shakespeare s most famous lines? 5. What does compare mean? Chapter Why did Donovan have to say goodbye to a player? Chapter What are the three adjectival levels? 2. What two major authors had used the superlative for the comparative? 3. What should be used instead of most well-known? Chapter How many seasons did Mark McGwire s record stand? 2. What type of a pronoun must be used after with or for? Chapter What is missing from the following sentence? He has served longer than anyone in the House. Chapter Why was Clinton s error so bad? 2. Which verb takes an object?

4 Chapter What does lead that is a verb rhyme with? Chapter What phrase is redundant? 2. What two Presidents died on the same day? 3. What verb does the grouch remind us to do? 4. What is a streak by definition? 5. What does unanimous mean? Chapter Why does the sentence involving theyellowjackets need three verbs? 2. Why do we pursue these points of grammar? 3. Why is wielding used incorrectly in the sentence? Chapter What does fil mean? 2. What language should be used with a dictionary handy? Chapter What is the etymology of none? Chapter What is the past tense of drag? 2. What is the storage above the stage called? Chapter What is or according to grammarian? 2. What do either/or and neither/nor tell the reader? Chapter What is a popular terms for results? 2. What should not replace original thought? 3. What are the possible meanings for oversight? Chapter What type of verb does much need when it is used as a noun? 2. When is a singular verb needed? 3. How long is a long time to wait for an answer to a proposal of marriage? Chapter What word is heavily overworked nowadays? 2. Why is alleged victims upsetting to the grouch? Chapter Who wrote Howard s End? 2. What is used to show a word s role in a sentence? 3. What does Fowler call people Who clap a straight waistcoat upon their mother tongue? 4. What is the characteristic way of saying things? 5. What group of people did John Bremner say needed freedom? Chapter 37

5 1. What is the rule the grouch established regarding riffle and rifle? 2. What is the difference between wangle and wrangle? 3. What is the difference between invoke and evoke? 4. What does affect as a noun mean? 5. What does eminent mean? 6. What does flair mean? 7. Who was avenged by Julius Caesar s death? 8. When will a historic event be discussed? 9. What does flouting mean? Chapter What does among mean? Chapter What should the colleague have said about McCain? 2. Why is tea called iced? 3. What two things do old sayings add to language? Chapter What happened to MaMahon s and Ebersol s football league? 2. What is the grouch s reminder at the end of the chapter? Chapter What is the shorthand guide for than and as? Chapter What did Mrs. Malaprop think illiterate meant? 2. Of the eight government malapropisms, list your favorite. 3. What should writers imagine with a figure of speech? Chapter What have their limits? Chapter What did the newspaper writer mean when he used divulge? 2. What two words could end up replacing anniversary? 3. What is an impact? Chapter What should like never be used as? Chapter Who was given the wrong first name? 2. What is not a difficult task? 3. What is parole? Chapter What does the health food store not use correctly? THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS QUESTIONS

6 ! This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that shows a town and a prominent family going through significant changes at the turn of the 20th century. A truly great work, I think you will really fall in love with these characters and sometimes even be inclined to throw the book across the room in frustration because these characters you ve grown to love are going to do things you don t want them to. But such is life, right? Please have these questions typed and printed out for the first day of class, along with the Grouchy Grammarian questions. Chapter 1 1. In what ways does the narrator distinguish the earlier days from the later days? What kinds of things are focused on? 2. The narrator makes a paradoxical statement about time. What is it? 3. What was the name of the main street in the Amberson Addition? Chapter 2 1. Two men tried to win Isabel s heart. Who won? Who lost? Why did he lose? 2. After Young George gets in a fight, what does he tell the preacher to do? 3. What does Isabel s reaction to the fight and what George said tell us about their relationship? 4. Who likes using the word Riffraff? 5. Who do the townspeople hope gets his comeuppance? Chapter 3 1. What does F.O.T.A mean?

7 2. Who does George kick out of the president s position? 3. What nickname does George have at school? Chapter 4 1. At the beginning of the chapter, how are we told George s behavior changes? 2. What shocking does George make about his mother at the ball? 3. In the final sentences of the chapter, what belief does George firmly have? Chapter 5 1. Who does George become infatuated with at the ball? 2. What profession does George plan on having when he s older? Chapter 6 1. Who is the queer-looking duck? 2. Complete this quote: When times are gone, they re not old 3. How does George react upon seeing his father at the ball? CHAPTER 7

8 1. To whom do the children shout Git a hoss! and why? 2. What has happened to the statue of Minerva? What does this symbolize? 3. What happens to George and Lucy at the end of this chapter? CHAPTER 8 1. Who is Pendennis? 2. Who is George angry at Lucy for dancing with? 3. Why is Aunt Fanny upset with George in this chapter? CHAPTER 9 1. What is Uncle George s profession? 2. Why is George sullen towards Lucy? 3. According to the novel, to whom do the holidays belong? CHAPTER What is the article Aunt Fanny sends to George about?

9 2. Who describes George as the Duke from Twelfth Night? 3. Where does most of Isabel and George s money come from? CHAPTER How long does Lucy and George s estrangement last? 2. What is the only thing that makes Eugene not regret losing out on Isabel the first time around? 3. Explain Isabel s metaphor of the chimney smoke. 4. Who lost a lot of money investing in rolling-mills? CHAPTER What rumor has Aunt Fanny claimed to have heard? How does George react? 2. Why does George claim he deserves better treatment from Lucy? 3. Why does Lucy decline George s proposal? CHAPTER What do Uncle Sydney and Aunt Amelia want Uncle George to set up for them? 2. George overhears Aunt Amelia say something cruel about Aunt Fanny. What is it?

10 3. What primarily is George concerned about when he overhears the discussion of his mother? 4. What transformations are taking place in the neighborhood? CHAPTER Who dies in this chapter? How does George react? 2. What does parvenu mean? How does it apply to how George feels about the new section of the cemetery? CHAPTER Who has a sorrowful holiday? 2. Whom is he referring to when Eugene says only one person he knows won t ever have to wear lines? 3. When Lucy forces George to explain what he means when he says he would rather be things than do things, what does he finally admit he wants to be? How does Lucy respond? CHAPTER What change is taking place in George s front yard? 2. Why does Uncle George tell Major Amberson that his heart is made of gold?

11 CHAPTER What profession does Major Amberson suggest George go into? How does George respond? 2. Describe how Eugene s business is doing. 3. What reason does Lucy give for refusing George s proposals? CHAPTER Towards the beginning of the chapter, we are told what has been causing all the bicyclists in the neighborhood to scatter? 2. What neighbor has been spying with opera glasses? 3. How long has it been since Wilbur died? CHAPTER How does George challenge Eugene at dinner? How does Eugene respond? 2. Who is pleased with George s confrontation of Eugene? CHAPTER What are we told is one of the main things George can t put up with? 2. Who does he spot at the end of the chapter that makes him angry? CHAPTER 21

12 1. What has George done for the first time in his life? 2. Why does Fanny get upset in this chapter? 3. George becomes upset/agitated in this chapter because of something Fanny says. What is it? Why is he upset? CHAPTER In what condition are the fountains? What does this continue to signify? 2. Who does George confront in this chapter? How does he/she respond? CHAPTER When George tells Uncle George about the confrontation, what is his reaction? How does he justify this reaction? CHAPTER Whose picture does George get a frame for and why? 2. Who arrives at the Amberson house, who turns him/her away, and why? CHAPTER 25

13 1. Who tells Isabel about what George has done? 2. Who, do we learn, is battling some health trouble in this chapter? CHAPTER Summarize Eugene s letter. 2. How does George react to this letter? How angry does his reaction make you? CHAPTER Does Lucy love George? Prove it. 2. Lucy has tried to hold it together when talking to George about his imminent departure. How does she really feel? How do we know this at the end of the chapter? CHAPTER The city changes quite a bit in this chapter. Describe some of the ways it is changing using the text. 2. How is Isabel s health? Prove it.

14 CHAPTER Who began to look old at last? 2. What are Isabel s final words? To whom is she referring? CHAPTER What is Fanny s argument against George s fear of gossip? 2. Why did Fanny and Uncle George s investment in the headlight fail? 3. Who dies at the end of this chapter? CHAPTER How much inheritance is George left with? 2. Finish Uncle George s statement: Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks and explain what it means. 3. Where does George spend his final night in the Amberson mansion? What does he say while in there? CHAPTER Who does George live with? 2. Why doesn t George become a lawyer? 3. What kind of job does he intend to get?

15 CHAPTER Describe George and Fanny s life together. 2. What is significant about Tenth Street? 3. What does George discover when reading Biographies of the 500 Most Prominent Citizens and Families in the History of the City? CHAPTER Who is Lucy actually describing when telling the story of Vendonah? 2. What is George s new profession? 3. How, ironically, is George severely injured? CHAPTER Who does Eugene visit? Why? 2. What advice does the person he visits give him? Does he seem to have heeded it?

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