ENGLISH 10 FOUNDATIONS OF LITERATURE ANC
Which quote from "Letter to a Young Refugee from another" shows Lam's message that you must be fierce to survive?
"arm yourself, if you can, with a knife or a stone, and guard your family
Which quote best foreshadows what happens at the end of To Build a Fire?
"the old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law no man must travel alone in the klondike after fifty below".
Choose the best paraphrase for lines 345-346 of "The Pit and the Pendulum."
the bindings wrap my entire body tightly, except where the pendulm would swing
In "Letter to a Young Refugee from Another," Andrew Lam is addressing
a young albanian child
In Harrison Bergeron, based on the number of handicaps Harrison wears, you can conclude he is
above average in many ways
Reread lines 9-10 of "My Papa's Waltz." What idea does the imagery suggest?
the father does physical work
The main conflict in this example of narrative nonfiction is between
the firefighters and the fire
What moved the author to write "Letter to a Young Refugee from Another"?
an imagine on television
A mandate is referred to as
an offical order or commission to do something
In "Letter to a Young Refugee from Another," the author is speaking to
another refugee
The explosion on the Apollo 13 service module occurred on what date?
april 13, 1970
The narrator in "Song of P'eng-ya" finds a safe place to stay
at a friend's home
Many events in the selection are narrated from the point of view of
brad haugh
Which character played the most important role at Storm King Mountain?
brad haugh
In the lyric poem "I Ask My Mother to Sing," the speaker thinks that the singing
brings images to life
Neutralizing an effect means
canceling it out
At the time of the Apollo 13 accident, ___________ was the former flight director who was brought back to help advise the teams on the ground.
chris kraft
Why is it unusual that the speaker in Poe's poem seems to have taken solace in the lake?
the lake was a lonely, wild, an eerie place
Which of the following was NOT shut off in the Aquarius module in order to conserve as much power as possible for the return trajectory to Earth?
communications
If you confound people, you
confuse them
Which of the following conclusions does Junger draw about the blowup and the deaths of the firefighters?
the lessons of the battlement mesa fire had not been learned
Which action helps you to predict a major event in To Build a Fire?
the man get his feet wet
Trajectory is defined as
the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces
Although Ken Mattingly was grounded for the Apollo 13 mission, his expertise was essential on the ground in figuring out ____________.
the revised power-up procedure for the odyssey module prior to re-entry
What does cower mean?
crouch in fear
The speaker in "My Papa's Waltz" conveys the impression that
dancing with his father feelis out of control
In "The Lake," what does the speaker claim to have felt when darkness came to the lake?
delight
Which feeling is conveyed in "Song of P'eng-ya" by the image of "A whole family endlessly trudging"?
despair
Both of Poe's selections create a sense of horror through descriptions of
eveloping darkness
In order to equalize the temperature on all sides of the spacecraft, and prevent one side from freezing and the other side from overheating, ground control ordered the crew to ___________.
execute ptc. (aka:a "barbeque roll")
The passenger pigeon, the dodo, and the whooping crane in "Elegy for the Giant Tortoises" are
extinct or danger
What does draconian mean?
extremely harsh
The narrator in "Song of P'eng-ya" is traveling with
family
The poems "My Papa's Waltz," "I Ask My Mother to Sing," and "Grape Sherbet" are about
family
The poems "My Papa's Waltz," "I Ask My Mother to Sing," and "Grape Sherbet" describe
family memories
The narrator in "The Pit and the Pendulum" examines his surroundings by
feeling his way around the wall
What do the words "swirled snow, gelled light" describe in line 4 of "Grape Sherbet"?
the sherbet
What aspect of Poe's style helps you understand the narrator's feelings in the sentence on lines 179-182 of "The Pit and the Pendulum"?
first-person point of view
To wince means to
flinch involuntarily
In To Build a Fire which of the following best describes the man in the story?
foolish
The intended lunar landing site for Apollo 13 was
fra mauro
The theme of "Song of P'eng-ya" is
friendship and love ease hardship
A contingent of people is a
gathering
In "I Ask My Mother to Sing," the picnickers run so that they can
get away from the rain
What is voracity?
greed for food
The Apollo 13 lunar module, Aquarius, was designed and built by
grumman aerospace
What had the National Weather Service predicted less than 24 hours before the blowup?
gusty winds and a cold front
In "Letter to a Young Refugee from Another," what is the author's message in lines 54-55?
have hope
Reread lines 13-14 of "My Papa's Waltz." What inference can you make about the speaker's father?
he probably works with his hand
Both the short story and the poem create a sense of
horror
What does insuperable mean?
impossible to overcome
Peremptorily means
in a commanding way
To live in apprehension means to live
in fear
An innovative person is known for
introducing new ideas and being original and creative in thinking
In Harrison Bergeron, you can conclude that Harrison most likely decides to escape from jail because he
is angry about the handicaps imposed by the government
Why did the Bureau of Land Management wait three days before sending firefighters to Storm King Mountain?
it was one of many small fire started by lightning that day
The first person to notice and remark that a problem had occurred on the spacecraft was
jack swigert
The dangerous buildup of Carbon Dioxide in the LEM cabin was due to a shortage of _____________, the chemical needed to reduce the CO2 level to safe breathing levels.
lithium hydroxide
What does the speaker in "Grape Sherbet" mean by the statement "each dollop of sherbet, later, is a miracle, like salt on a melon that makes it sweeter" in lines 12-15?
the sherbet has made an enjoyable day even better
According to the author, which of the following made the fire at Storm King Mountain unusual?
the spead of which the fire spread
The women in "I Ask My Mother to Sing" are singing about
their native country
Which is Tu Fu's message about refugees in "Song of P'eng-ya"?
they face an uncertain future
Which is the most reasonable purpose for reading both selections?
to find each author's message
What does deflect mean?
to turn aside
Pervading means
spreading throughout
What does rigorous mean?
strict
Which of the following best describes rigorous training?
strict
Reread lines 18-21 of "Grape Sherbet." The imagery of the grandmother suggests that she is
strong-willed
In Harrison Bergeron which word best describes the mood of the Bergeron household?
subdued
Both selections have the same
subject
In To Build a Fire, one conflict the setting causes is the need to
survive the cold
The speaker in "Grape Sherbet" says "I've been trying to remember the taste, but it doesn't exist" in lines 25-27. Why might the speaker have a difficult time remembering the taste of the sherbet?
taste is a difficult memory to recreate
What is the author's final piece of advice in "Letter to a Young Refugee from Another"?
tell people what happen
Which quote helps you infer the speaker's age during the events recalled in "Grape Sherbet"?
that morning we galloped through the grass-over mounds and name each stone
A reasonable purpose for reading "Letter to a Young Refugee from Another" is to
understanding ana experience
Pertinacity is
unyielding persistence
An imperative appeal is
urgent
Which reason was most responsible for changing a manageable fire into a deadly one?
a cold front moved in and the wind picked up suddenly
What event is described in "Grape Sherbet"?
a family holiday gathering
In Junger's narrative, which of the following happened first?
a lightning strike ignited the soyth canyon fire
Reread lines 10-12 of "I Ask My Mother to Sing." What idea does the imagery evoke?
a sense of balance exits in nature
A respite is
a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant
An example of a conflagration is
a wildfire
A lucid person is
mantally sound
Choose the best paraphrase for the sentence that begins on line 3 of "The Pit and the Pendulum."
my death sentence was the last thing i heard clearly
Indeterminate means
not precisely known
The name of the Command Module on Apollo 13 was
odyssey
Why did the Apollo 13 crew not jettison the crippled Odyssey command module when they moved into the Aquarius lunar module as a lifeboat?
odyssey was the only module the crew use to survive re-entry into earth's atmosphere
One of the two __________ tanks located in Apollo 13's service module ruptured, causing the life-or-death crisis.
oxygen
What is the message in the following sentence from "Letter to a Young Refugee from Another"? "The food line is always long and no matter how early you are there, there will always be a line."
people never have enough to eat
What does conceivably mean?
possibly
What does collaborative mean?
produced or conducted by two or more parties working together
The narrators in both selections are
refugees
How does Poe's style help you understand the meaning of the sentence that begins on line 277 of "The Pit and the Pendulum"?
repeated words add to the narrator's sence of desperation
To reiterate an idea is to
restate it
In "The Pit and the Pendulum," why do the torturers put out food and water when the narrator first succumbs to fatigue?
ro prolong the torture
Lines 5-6 of "Elegy for the Giant Tortoises" describe "giant tortoises withering finally on a remote island." How does this diction make you feel?
sad
Conspire means to plan
secretly
These works are similar because they
share a message about overcoming hardship
Lethargy means
sluggishness
