Reading Exam

Which statement best describes Rikki-tikki character?

Brave and loyal

The birds and frogs rejoice and sing, Ding-dong-tock! Nag is dead! In what part of the plot does this even take place?

Durning the falling action

At the beginning of "The Third Wish", what is the only thing that troubles Mr Peters?

He is lonely

What do the details in this passage tell you about the authors purpose? It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water.

He wishes to create a mood

What do the details in this passage tell you about Bradburys purpose? And this was the way life was forever on the planet venus and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization ans live out their lives.

He wishes to inform

What happens in "MK" just after the narrators mother learns that he Brittish school in Wuhan has closed?

Her mother enrolls her in he Shanghi American School

How can you tell his statement from" All Together now" is a fact? The voting right act of 1965 ensured that everyone in our counry could vote.

It can be proven true

How can you tell that this statement from "All Together now" is an opinion? I must be willing to accept people who dont look as i do and dont talk as i do

It cannot be proved true

Mr Peters uses his second wish to urn Leita back into a swan. how dos this action resolve the conflict in the story?

Leita is with her sister and no longer unhappy

Who is Nagaina?

Nags wife

Which detail in the Letters from Rifka helps you predict that guards will come to the railroad station?

Nathan ask Rifka whether she can distract the guards

Which detail in Letters from Rifka helps you predict that guards will come to the railroad station?

Nathan asked Rifka whether she can distract the guards.

What predition can you make based on your prior knowledge and this quoation from Rikki-tikki-tavi? Teddys safer with that little beast than if he had a bloodhound to watch him. If a snake came into the nursery now__

Rikki-tikki will protect Teddy from a snake attack

When Rikki-tikki first comes to the garden, a conflict is introduced. Whom is the conflict between?

Rikki-tikki- and Nag

What does the narrator of "MK" realize when she first enters the grounds of the Shanghai American School?

She does not feel any more like an American than she did in Wuhan

Why does Margot refuse o shower or let water touch her head?

She is being driven crazy by the rain

After Mr Peters turns Leita back into a swan, what inference can you make when she rests her head aganist his hand before flying away?

She is thanking him for transforming her

How does Barbara Jordan appeal to authority in "all together now?

She mentions Martin Luther King, and former president Lydon Johnson

In The Third Wish, what inference ca you make about why Leita is unhappy living with Mr Peters?

She misses her life as a swan

When she is living in Wuhan, the narrator of "MK" suggests that she does not identify with China or its people. Which statement expresses hat suggestion?

The fighting chinese warloards have nothing to do with her

In "MK", what is the narrators major disappointment in her new school in America?

The other students are ignorant

When Mr Peters takes Leita home and shows her all his treasures, what pleases her the most?

The river

In "all summers in a day", what does Margot mean when she says, but this is the day, he scientists predict, hey say, they know the sun".

The sun appears at predictable times on Venus

What can you predict about Rifkas family from this quotation They bring him back and kill him in front of his regiment as a warning to others. Those who have helped him, they also die.

The whole family is in danger

What are the children doing as "all summer in a day" opens?

They are peering out the window

How do the children show their disrespect for Margot?

They lock her in a closet

In Letters from Rifka, why does the family decide to leave their home?

They want to save Nathans life and keep Saul out of the Army

In "all summers in a day", why do the children say 'YES"! when their teachers ask, are we all here?

They were afraid to tell what they did

What does this passage from "all summer in a day" suggest about the setting? A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet venus.

Venus had rain most of the time

In Rikki-tikki-tavi, a flood takes Rikki-Tikki from his home to care of an English family. In what part of the plot does the flood take place?

durning the exposition

What kind of animal is Rikki-tilli-tavi?

mongoose

According to" All Together Now", who does Barbara Jordan think should work on race relations?

parents

Nathan asks Rifka to distract the guards because

they are not likely to suspect her

According to "All together Now", what might happen if we do not pay attention to civil rights?

we might end up like Bosnia