Test over Realism English III H
Who wrote "To Build a Fire"?
Jack London
Their Eyes Were Watching God-dialogue maybe
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William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Katherine Anne Porter
Flowering Judas
Who wrote My true South: Why I decided to return home
Jefferson Ward
Ambrose Bierce
Owl Creek Bridge
My true south- The narrator's views on the future of Mississippi can best be characterized as
optimistic
Zora Neale Hurston
Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is mainly told in _______tense, from a(n)______ point of view
past tense, from a third person point of view
Who wrote Barracoon
Zora Neal Hurston
the negro speaks of rivers- Which of the following provides the best description of the bolded phrase in line 5 of the poem? I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
a long time ago
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- Which passage from the text best supports the answer to the previous question?...Farquhar was most likely captured as a result of ________
"An hour later, after nightfall, he reposed the plantation, going northward in the direction from which he had come. He was a federal scout."
My true south- Which lines from the text most closely support the correct answer to Question 5?- Which of these statements best describes the historic racial power structure of Mississippi?
"Black pain, Native pain, women's pain; if this was necessary in order to reap their lot, to build their wealth, to earn their leisure, so be it."
Flowering Judas- Which of the following sentences from the text best explains Laura's feelings about Braggioni's guitar playing and singing?
"Braggioni curves his swollen fingers around the throat of the guitar and softly smothers the music out of it"
Their Eyes Were Watching God-Which selection from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to Question 5?-According to the text, which of the following best describes how the townspeople change after they've left work?
"But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human."
My true south- Which line from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7?-The narrator's views on the future of Mississippi can best be characterized as
"Even as the SOuth remains troubled by its past, there are people here who are fighting so it can find its way to a healthier future, never forgetting the lessons of its long, brutal history, ever-present, ever instructive
Flowering Judas- Which sentence from paragraph 38 best supports the correct answer to Question 5?
"His wife leans her head on his arm and says, "forgive me!" and this time he is refreshed by the solemn, endless rain of her tears."
Barracoon- Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7?--Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraphs 6-8)?
"I found Cudjo Lewis full of gleaming, good will."
the negro speaks of rivers-Which line from the poem most closely supports the correct answer to Question 3?
"I looked upon the nile and raised the pyramids above it"
awkward conversation- Which of these passages most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 7? Answer choices for the above question
"In place of 'racist,' descriptive, albeit unwieldy, expressions might be used, such as 'incidents that negatively affect black people, which, although possibly complicated by class and other factors, would not have occurred if the affected people were not black.' "
the great Gatsby-Which sentence from the excerpt most strongly supports the answer to question 7?
"Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions."
Flowering Judas- Which sentence from the last paragraph best supports the correct answer to Question 7?
"Murderer!" said Eugenio, and Cannibal! This is mu body and my blood."
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-Which of the following lines best supports your answer to Question 7? What is the most closely a central idea of this speech
"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled' the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed, and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced."
to build a fire- what quotations develops the symbol of fire as survival
"There was the fire, snapping and crackling and promising life with every dancing flame."
colored me- Which sentence from the essay best supports the correct answer to Question 7?
"at certain times I have no race, I am me"
cabin-Which line from the poem best supports the correct answer to Question 3?
"but above dose sounds de laughingstocks
a farewell to arms- Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the answer to Question 7?
"defeat is worse"
a farewell to arms- What happened at the very beginning of the story, when the army refused to make an attack?
"every tenth man" was shot for refusing to fight
To build a fire- What best demonstrates that the man does not seriously consider the potential dangers of nature
"he was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significance"
As I lay Dying- Which passage from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 7?-Which of the following statements is best supported by the test A. Jewel believes that Cash selfishly wants recognition and praise for making the coffin. B. Cash is making the mother's coffin because he is the favorite child. C. Cora thinks that her siblings are neglecting and mistreating their mother during her illness. D. All of the above.
"it's because he stays out there, right under the window, hammering and sawing on that ******* box. Where she's got to see him."
the great Gatsby -Which sentence from the excerpt most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 5?
"some times before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care."
these wild young people-Which of these passages most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 7?
"the oldsters stand dramatically with fingers and toes and noses pressed against the bursting dykes. "
a farewell to arms- Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to question 5?
"when people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy"
Their Eyes Were Watching God-Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to Question 7?-Which of the following inferences about Pheoby is best supported by the text?
"you mean, you mad 'cause she didn't stop and tell us all her business; Anyhow, what you ever know her to do so bad ya; make out? The worst thing Ah knowed her to do was taking a few years offa her age and data ain't never harmed nobody. yall makes me tired
Katherine Anne Porter
(1890-1980) wrote fiction, essays, and journalism. She is best known for her short stories and her best-selling novel Ship of Fools; she was also a teacher and political activist. Born and raised in Texas, and later splitting her time between New York City and Mexico, _____ went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for her collected short stories.
Zora Neale Hurston
(1891-1960) was an African American author and anthropologist and major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. She published a collection of African American Folklore.
William Faulkner
(1897-1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer from Oxford, Mississippi, whose works are a cornerstone of American Southern literature.
Jesmyn Ward
(b. 1977) is a highly acclaimed contemporary writer and professor. She followed her successful 2008 debut novel Where the Line Bleeds with 2011's Salvage the Bones and 2017's Sing, Unburied, Sing, both of which won a National Book Award for Fiction. In 2017, ____ was awarded a highly prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. Much of her work centers on themes of race and identity, which feature prominently in this short autobiographical piece.
As I lay Dying- dialogue maybe
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Order of Barracoon
1) Hurston arrives at Cudjo's home 2) Cudjo and Hurston make small talk 3) Hurston asks Cudjo about Africa 4) Cudjo tells Hurston about his family
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- order of An occurrence at owl bridge
1) Standing on a railroad bridge, the protagonist's wrists are bound behind his back with a noose around his neck. 2) A gray-clad soldier seeks a drink of water from Farquhar and his wife, revealing that the Northern troops have reached the Owl Creek bridge. 3) The men fire from the bridge as Farquhar attempts to come back up for air, anticipating that the men will continue firing. 4) Silence and darkness swallows up Farquhar, revealing his body swinging from the side of the Owl Creek bridge.
order of What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
1) The founders of the nation who authored the Declaration of Independence are praised for their greatness. 2) Black Americans are deprived of the same rights that are being celebrated by White Americans on the Fourth of July. 3) Black people are punished for crimes that, for white people, are considered non-criminal. 4) The fact that Black people serve in every capacity in private and public life is proof they are no different from other human beings.
order of My true south
1) The narrator drives home on I-40, passing through Texas. 2) Mississippi boasts the largest number of millionaires in the country in the early 1800s. 3) White neighbors demand a strip of forest to separate themselves from a black neighborhood. 4) A local bookseller arranges a birthday dinner for the narrator's sister. 5) The narrator longs for kind neighbors who will return her runaway bulldog.
As I lay Dying- Which of the following statements is best supported by the test A. Jewel believes that Cash selfishly wants recognition and praise for making the coffin. B. Cash is making the mother's coffin because he is the favorite child. C. Cora thinks that her siblings are neglecting and mistreating their mother during her illness. D. All of the above.
A. Jewel believes that Cash selfishly wants recognition for making the coffin.
My true south- What is most closely the meaning of the word slight as it appears in the passage below? This can be that place. The aggression is sometimes slight and interpersonal, as simple as me walking through a department store with my children, an obvious shopper, when an older white woman with perfectly coiffed hair and small hands walks up to ask me if a shirt or a pair of shoes is on sale. Answer choices for the above question
Ajedtive/ small in degree, inconsiderable
As I lay Dying- Which selection from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to Question 5?-Which of the following inferences about Cora is best supported by the text?
All of the above A. "But the eternal and the everlasting salvation and grace is not upon her."Incorrect. This is not the only quote that shows Cora's religious nature. B. "Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart."Incorrect. This is not the only quote that reflects Cora's devotion to religion. C. "If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree."Incorrect. This selection demonstrates Cora's religious nature, but it is not the only answer. D. All of the aboveCorrect. All of the quotes reflect that Cora is very religious.
Who wrote An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
Ambrose Bierce
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-Which of these inferences is best supported by this speech?
America has no right to criticize other nations for their best violence against humanity.
Frederick Douglass
Born into slavery, _______(1818-1895) escaped to freedom in 1838 and went on to become a leading abolitionist and social reformer. Acclaimed for his brilliant oratory skills and incisive writing, ______ was invited by leading citizens of Rochester, New York, to speak at an Independence Day celebration in 1852. With his characteristic eloquence and even-handed logic, _______ answers the question posed in the title of his speech.
Flowering Judas question five- What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 38)? Braggioni enters his own house where for a month his wife has spent many hours every night weeping and tangling her hair upon her pillow. She is weeping now, and she weeps more at the sight of him, the cause of all her sorrows. He looks about the room. Nothing is changed, the smells are good and familiar, he is well acquainted with the woman who comes toward him with no reproach except grief on her face. He says to her tenderly: "You are so good, please don't cry anymore, you dear good creature." She says, "Are you tired, my angel? Sit here and I will wash your feet." She brings a bowl of water, and kneeling, unlaces his shoes, and when from her knees she raises her sad eyes under her blackened lids, he is sorry for everything, and bursts into tears. "Ah, yes, I am hungry, I am tired, let us eat something together," he says, between sobs. His wife leans her head on his arm and says, "Forgive me!" and this time he is refreshed by the solemn, endless rain of her tears.
Braggioni's wife is extremely devoted to him and will go to great lengths to express this.
colored me- How mainly does Hurston's description of dancing to jazz add to the development of the essay's themes?
By showing how certain situations make Hurston feel more colored than others
As I lay Dying- Which of the following inferences about Cora is best supported by the text?
Cora is very religious and uses her moral superiority to judge others
As I lay Dying- Which of these inferences about Darl is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 1)? When I reach the top he has quit sawing. Standing in a litter of chips, he is fitting two of the boards together. Between the shadow spaces they are yellow as gold, like soft gold, bearing on their flanks in smooth undulations the marks of the adze blade: a good carpenter, Cash is. He holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted along the edges in a quarter of the finished box. He kneels and squints along the edge of them, then he lowers them and takes up the adze. A good carpenter. Addie Bundren could not want a better one, a better box to lie in. It will give her confidence and comfort. I go on to the house, followed by theChuck. Chuck. Chuck.of the adze.
Darl is practical in his thinking, but also thoughtful towards others.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- Which of the following statements about Farquhar is best supported by the story? A. Farquhar was a soldier who deserted the Union army to fight for the South.There is no evidence in the text to support this answer. B. Farquhar was a Confederate soldier who fought at the battle of Corinth. The narrator states that he did not fight in this campaign. C. Farquhar was not a soldier but a sympathizer to the Confederate cause. In spite of not serving in the Confederate army, Peyton Farquhar was "ardently devoted" to the cause. D. Farquhar's wife was a spy for the Union who knew the scout. Farquhar is visited by a Federal scout in disguise, but there's no evidence his wife is in on it.
Farquhar was not a solider but a sympathizer to the confederate cause.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- Which of these inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 37)? Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.
Farquhar's escape was a figment of his imagination
Frederick Douglass
Fourth of July
Who wrote What to a slave is the Fourth of July
Frederick Douglas
the great Gatsby -How do the following lines most likely add to the development of Gatsby's character (chapter 3, paragraph 16)? He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
Gatsby is charismatic and mysterious which draws nick and many others to him
Ambrose Bierce
Hailed as one of the best short stories by American author _______ (1842-ca. 1914)—and certainly his most widely anthologized
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-What is most likely the speaker's reason for a series of questions? Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? How should I look to-day, in the presence of Americans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? Speaking of it relatively and positively, negatively and affirmatively. To do so, would be to make myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding. There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
He insists that arguing the wrongfulness of slavery ridicules the person arguing and insults the listener.
Barracoon-What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraphs 23-25)? "My father's father, you unnerstand me, he a officer of de king. He don't live in de compound wid us. Wherever de king go, he go, you unnerstand me. De king give him plenty land, and got plenty cows and goats and sheep. Now, dass right. Maybe after while he be a little chief, I doan know. But he die when I was a lil boy. Whut he gointer be later on, dat doan reachee me."My grandpa, he a great man. I tellee how he go."I was afraid that Cudjo might go off on a tangent, so I cut in with, "But Kossula, I want to hear about you and how you lived in Africa."
Hurston is trying to stay in control of Cudjo's story
Barracoon- The following passage (paragraphs 13-14) mainly shows that . "But didn't you have a God back in Africa?" I asked him.His head dropped between his hands and the tears sprung fresh. Seeing the anguish in his face, I regretted that I had come to worry this captive in a strange land. He read my face and said "Excusee me I cry. I can't help it when I hear de name call. Oh, Lor'. I no see Afficky soil no mo'!"
Hurston's mentioning of Africa makes Cudjo very emotional
Barracoon- How does the use of vernacular help the author better convey Cudjo's story?
Hurston's use of vernacular allows the reader to better imagine Cudjo's life and experience, making the reader more invested in what he has to say.
colored me- What mainly can the reader infer about the state of race relations during Zora's time in Florida (Paragraph 5)? I left Eatonville, the town of the oleanders, a Zora. When I disembarked from the river-boat at Jacksonville, she was no more. It seemed that I had suffered a sea change. I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl. I found it out in certain ways. In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a fast brown-warranted not to rub nor run.
In the state's cities, people of color were treated in very specific ways.
To build a fire- Which of the following best describes a central theme of the text?
In the struggle of man against nature, nature always wins.
As I lay Dying- The following passage (paragraphs 2-5) mainly adds to the development of the text by ---- [Cora:]... So I baked yesterday, more careful than ever I baked in my life, and the cakes turned out right well. But when we got to town this morning Miss Lawington told me the lady had changed her mind and was not going to have the party after all."She ought to taken those cakes anyway," Kate says."Well," I say, "I reckon she never had no use for them now.""She ought to taken them," Kate says. "But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant."
Indicating that the main characters in the excerpt are not wealthy
awkward conversation- Which of these statements about the term "racist" is best supported by the text?
It no longer works and should be substituted for more specific phrases that acknowledge the complexities of racism and its harsh realities
a farewell to arms-What can the reader mainly infer from the following passage (paragraph _)? "It is true. They lined them up afterward and took every tenth man. Carabinieri shot them.""Carabinieri," said Passini and spat on the floor. "But those grenadiers; all over six feet. They wouldn't attack.""If everybody would not attack the war would be over," Manera said."It wasn't that way with the granatieri. They were afraid. The officers all came from such good families.""Some of the officers went alone.""A sergeant shot two officers who would not get out."
Italian soldiers who refuse to fight are brutally punished
Who wrote Flowering Judas
Katherine Ann Porter
Flowering Judas question 7 - Which inference about the last paragraph in the text is best supported by the passage below? The tolling of the midnight bell is a signal, but what does it mean? Get up, Laura, and follow me: come out of your sleep, out of your bed, out of this strange house. What are you doing in this house? Without a word, without fear she rose and reached for Eugenio's hand, but he eluded her with a sharp, sly smile and drifted away. This is not all, you shall see—Murderer, he said, follow me, I will show you a new country, but it is far away and we must hurry. No, said Laura, not unless you take my hand, no; and she clung first to the stair rail, and then to the topmost branch of the Judas tree that bent down slowly and set her upon the earth, and then to the rocky ledge of a cliff, and then to the jagged wave of a sea that was not water but a desert of crumbling stone. Where are you taking me, she asked in wonder but without fear. To death, and it is a long way off, and we must hurry, said Eugenio. No, said Laura, not unless you take my hand. Then eat these flowers, poor prisoner, said Eugenio in a voice of pity, take and eat: and from the Judas tree he stripped the warm bleeding flowers, and held them to her lips. She saw that his hand was fleshless, a cluster of small white petrified branches, and his eye sockets were without light, but she ate the flowers greedily for they satisfied both hunger and thirst. Murderer! said Eugenio, and Cannibal! This is my body and my blood. Laura cried No! and at the sound of her own voice, she awoke trembling, and was afraid to sleep again.
Laura feels responsible for Eugenio's death.
Their Eyes Were Watching God-Which of the following best describes the difference between men and women, according to the text?
Men are passive toward their dreams, whereas women work to make their dreams real.
Jesmyn Ward
My True South
My true south- The attitude of teachers toward their black students in free preschool programs could best be described as .
Negligent
the great Gatsby- What can the reader most likely infer from the following passage (paragraph 2)? "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
Nick most likely comes from a wealthy background
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- Which passage from the text best supports the answer to the previous question? ---Which of the following statements about Farquhar is best supported by the story?
No service was too humble. for him to preform in the aid of the south, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a solider.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-To what does the word stripes most closely refer in the following passage from the speech? The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that has brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me.
Noun/ marks indicating a prisoner's uniform
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- The following passage (paragraph 2) adds to the development of the story mainly by ... Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
Pointing out the solemnity and seriousness of a military execution
colored me- What does the following passage from the text mainly reveal about the narrator (Paragraph 8)? The position of my white neighbor is much more difficult. No brown specter pulls up a chair beside me when I sit down to eat. No dark ghost thrusts its leg against mine in bed. The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
She believes white people are haunted by the past.
Barracoon- How does the author mainly show her closeness with Cudjo?
She calls Cudjo by his birth name, Kossula.
My true south- Which inference about the narrator is best supported by the following passage? "When I crossed the Louisiana-Texas state line, I exhaled. And I exhaled again when I crossed the Mississippi state line over the swampy expanse of Pearl River. When I turned right on Kiln DeLisle Road, driving past my grandmother's house, my grandaunt's house, my uncles' houses and my sister's house, where my uncles were fixing the roof on the pump shed and my aunt waved from her porch, another exhalation."
She gets progressively more comfortable as she approaches her childhood home.
Their Eyes Were Watching God-Which of the following inferences about Pheoby is best supported by the text?
She is a loyal friend to Janie
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-What is most closely a central idea of this speech?
The speaker believes the fourth of July offers nothing to slaves and wants America to wake up to her conscience.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-Which of the following inferences is best supported by the fourth paragraph? But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.
The speaker says his people have no reason to celebrate the fourth of july
to build a fire- how does the narrator's point of view of the story help developed the short story's tone.
The story is told through an omniscient, third-person narrator, and through this point of view, the tone becomes informative and indifferent, providing the reader with sufficient details but few emotions.
these wild young people- The following passage (paragraph 4) mainly shows that . A friend of mine has an uncle who, in his youth, was a wild, fast, extravagant young blood. His clothes were the amazement of even his fastest friends. He drank, he swore, he gambled, bringing his misdeeds to a climax by eloping with an heiress, a beautiful Philadelphian seraph, fascinated by this glittering Lucifer. Her family disowned her, and they fled to a distant and wild country. He was, in effect, a brilliant, worthless, attractive, and romantic person. Now he is the sedate deacon of a Boston Presbyterian church, very strong on morality in every shape, a terror to the young, with an impeccable business career, and a very dull family circle. Mrs. Gerould must know of similar cases; so why multiply instances? Just think how moral and unentertaining our generation will be when we have emerged from the 'roaring forties'!—and rejoice.
There's no reason to panic because the younger generation will probably lose their wildness as they age
Jack London
To Build a Fire
colored me -What is most likely the author's reason for referring to her young self as "Zora of Orange County" and "Zora of Eatonville'?
To delineate the years of her life before she left Eatonville, when she had a simpler understanding of racial matters
My true south- Which of these statements best describes the historic racial power structure of Mississippi?
Whites built their wealth by oppressing other groups of people
Who wrote As I lay dying
William Faulkner
Who write Their eyes were watching God
Zora Neal Hurston
Flowering Judas- What is most closely the meaning of marvelously as it is used in paragraph 7 of the text?
an astonishing sight
Barracoon- Which of these inferences about Cudjo's family is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 21)? "My people, you unnerstand me, dey ain' got no ivory by de door. When it ivory from de elephant stand by de door, den dat a king, a ruler, you unnerstand me. My father neither his father don't rule nobody. De ole folks dat live two hud'ed year befo' I born don't tell me de father (remote ancestor) rule nobody."
cudjo's family was not of high social standing
Barracoon- Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraphs 6-8)? "Yeah, I got to have somebody stay wid me. I been sick in de bed de five month. I needa somebody hand me some water. So I take dis man and he sleep here and take keer of Cudjo. But I gitee well now."In spite of the recent illness and the fact that his well had fallen in, I found Cudjo Lewis full of gleaming, good will. His garden was planted. There was deep shade under his China-berry tree and all was well.He wanted to know a few things about New York and when I had answered him, he sat silently smoking. Finally, I told him I had come to talk with him. He removed his pipe from his mouth and smiled.
despite Cudjo's hardships, he lives in seemingly satisfying life.
cabin-What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (stanza 4)? I kin see de light a-shinin'Thoo de chinks atween de logs,I kin hyeah de way-off bayin'Of my mastah's huntin' dogs,An' de neighin' of de hossesStampin' on de ol' bahn flo',But above dese soun's de laughin'At my deah ol' cabin do'.
despite it all, joy was felt and laughter could be heard
the great Gatsby- Which of the following words best describes the scene at Gatsby's party in paragraph one of chapter three? By midnight the hilarity had increased. A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz, and between the numbers people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky. A pair of stage twins, who turned out to be the girls in yellow, did a baby act in costume, and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger-bowls. The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn
extravagant
the negro speaks of rivers
figurative
a farewell to arms -Which of these inferences about the narrator is best supported by the excerpt?
he has seen too many casualties to speak of war in romantic terms
a farewell to arms-Which of the following is a theme about Passini that is best supported by the text in the excerpt?
he thinks that war is fundamentally unjust
the great Gatsby- Which of these inferences about Gatsby is best supported by the text?
his wealthy air and charming manners seems to be a well crafted persona or act
Their Eyes Were Watching God-The following passage (paragraph 3) adds to the development of the text mainly by . So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment.
introducing Janie and suggesting that she has just endured a hardship
Their Eyes Were Watching God-What does the following passage most closely suggest about Janie (paragraphs 5-6)? Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive, Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song."What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on? -- Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in? -- Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her? -- What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin' wid her hair swingin' down her back lak some young gal? Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid? -- Thought she was going to marry? -- Where he left her? -- What he done wid all her money? -- Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain't even got no hairs -- why she don't stay in her class?"
janie does not do what society expects.
As I lay Dying- What information does the following passage (paragraph 19) mainly reveal about Jewel? [Jewel:] And now them others sitting there, like buzzards. Waiting, fanning themselves. Because I said If you wouldn't keep on sawing and nailing at it until a man cant sleep even and her hands laying on the quilt like two of them roots dug up and tried to wash and you couldn't get them clean. I can see the fan and Dewey Dell's arm. I said if you'd just let her alone. Sawing and knocking, and keeping the air always moving so fast on her face that when you're tired you cant breathe it, and that ******* adze going One lick less. One lick less. One lick less until everybody that passes in the road will have to stop and see it and say what a fine carpenter he is.
jewel is very protective of his mother and fears her death.
the great gatsby-Which of these statements most closely reflects a central idea from Chapter 1?
nick is more judgmental than he tends to be , despite trying to be tolerant
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- What is most closely the meaning of report as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 30)?... "They will not do that again," he thought; "the next time they will use a charge of grape. I must keep my eye upon the gun; the smoke will apprise me—the report arrives too late; it lags behind the missile. That is a good gun."
noun/ a loud noise, like an explosion
colored me- Which meaning of veneer most closely matches its meaning in the following passage (Paragraph 11)? I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something-give pain, give death to what, I do not know. But the pie ends. The men of the orchestra wipe their lips and rest their fingers. I creep back slowly to the veneer we call civilization with the last tone and fine the white friend sitting motionless in his seat, smoking calmly."Good music they have here," he remarks, drumming the table with his fingertips.
noun/ a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, display, or effect
Flowering Judas- "Flowering Judas" is told in the __________ tense, from a ________ point of view.
present: third-person
colored me -What is most closely a theme of "How It Feels to be Colored Me"?
race may inform identity, but if does not solely define who you are
the negro speaks or rivers- Which of these inferences is best supported by lines 2-3 of the poem? I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in human veins.
rivers have been around since the beginning of time
awkward conversation- Which of these inferences about the writer is best supported by the following passage (paragraph 2)?
she didn't want to be black in America, where race meant a lack of power
colored me- Which of these inferences about the narrator's relationship with other races is bestsupported by the essay?
she is not scared of or enthralled by white people in power
Flowering Judas- The mention of Laura's Catholicism adds to the development of her character mainly by __________
showing that, in despite what Barggioni feels about religion. Laura is determined to practice her faith
a farewell to arms- What can the reader infer from the following passage about the conversation between Passini and Manera (paragraphs __ )? "There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realize anything and never can. That is why we have this war." "Also they make money out of it." "Most of them don't," said Passini. "They are too stupid. They do it for nothing. For stupidity." "We must shut up," said Manera. "We talk too much even for the Tenente." "He likes it," said Passini. "We will convert him." "But now we will shut up," Manera saiid.
the conversation ended because mantra thought it best to remain quiet , most likely because he did not want tenets to over hear their plans
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge- Farquhar was most likely captured as a result of ________
the disguised scout who visited him and learned his plans
these wild young people- Which of these inferences is most strongly supported by the following passage (paragraph 1)? For some months past the pages of our more conservative magazines have been crowded with pessimistic descriptions of the younger generation, as seen by their elders and, no doubt, their betters. Hardly a week goes by that I do not read some indignant treatise depicting our extravagance, the corruption of our manners, the futility of our existence, poured out in stiff, scared, shocked sentences before a sympathetic and horrified audience of fathers, mothers, and maiden aunts—but particularly maiden aunts.
the elders believed they were superior to the younger generation
a farewell to arms- What does the following passage (paragraph 11) reveal about the fate of the families whose sons were killed? "One of those shot by the carabinieri is from my town," Passini said. "He was a big smart tall boy to be in the granatieri. Always in Rome. Always with the girls. Always with the carabinieri." He laughed. "Now they have a guard outside his house with a bayonet and nobody can come to see his mother and father and sisters and his father loses his civil rights and cannot even vote. They are all without law to protect them. Anybody can take their property."
the fathers of the soldiers who were killed were stripped of all of their rights and they homes were put under constant surveillance
to build a fire- what best describe how the narrator describes nature, especially the cold
the narrator describes the cold as a pervasive, almost personified force.
My true south-Which sentence best summarizes the following passage? There are moments that would break me if they could, moments when I am all too aware of how we have been robbed of opportunities to create intergenerational wealth, when our schools fail us, when we are shuttled into the service sector, when we scrabble for demeaning job after demeaning job. Days when I see one of my cousins, struggling with addiction and untreated mental illness, walking the streets shirtless and shoeless, drowning in his life, and my heart breaks. It is on days like this when a white person will interview me and ask me how to make black people want more for themselves, and I've had enough.
the narrator feels deeply by historical injustices that continue to opress black Americans.
these wild young people- Which of these statements is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 9)? Now my generation is disillusionized, and, I think, to a certain extent, brutalized, by the cataclysm which their complacent folly engendered. The acceleration of life for us has been so great that into the last few years have been crowded the experiences and the ideas of a normal lifetime. We have in our unregenerate youth learned the practicality and the cynicism that is safe only in unregenerate old age. We have been forced to become realists overnight, instead of idealists, as was our birthright.
the previous generation's mistake caused the writers generation to become realists
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-What is most likely the speaker's intent by including the following? And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! We wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth."
the speaker cautions America not to become like Babylon, a slave nation that fell into ruins.
cabin- Which of these inferences is best supported by stanza 3, lines 1-2 of the text? Talk about yo' go'geous mansionsAn' yo' big house great an' gran'
the speaker is ironic as he describe his cabin, but his feelings toward their home are positive because it is filled with family and friends
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?-What is most likely the speaker's reason for listing all of the jobs and professions held by Black people?
the speaker proves the argument that Black people are intelligent human beings.
awkward conversation- The following passage mainly shows that (paragraph 1). I was annoyed the first time an African American man called me "sister." It was in a Brooklyn store, and I had recently arrived from Nigeria, a country where, thanks to the mosquitoes that kept British colonizers from settling, my skin color did not determine my identity, did not limit my dreams or my confidence. And so, although I grew up reading books about the baffling places where black people were treated badly for being black, race remained an exotic abstraction: It was Kunta Kinte
the writer experiences little racial prejudice before she moves to America
awkward conversation -Which of these inferences about "Deniers" is best supported by the text?
their belief that race is simply about color of one's skin and not social identity , is faulty
Their Eyes Were Watching God-According to the text, which of the following best describes how the townspeople change after they've left work?
they feel like themselves again, and freely converse with each other
these wild young people-Which of these statements about the efforts of the previous generation is best supported by the text?
they were desperately trying to fix what they saw as a failing generation
these wild young people-Which of these statements about the characteristics of the older generation is bestsupported by the text?
they were not as principled when they were young as they now claim to have been
awkward conversation- Which of these statements about "Diminishers" is most strongly supported by the following passage (paragraphs 5-6)? "That kid's mother is so ignorant," one friend said. "Ignorant" suggested that an affluent, educated American living in a Philadelphia suburb in 1999 did not realize that black people are human beings. "It was just a kid being a kid. It wasn't racist," another said. "Racist" suggested it was no big deal, since neither the child nor his mother had burned a cross in my yard. I called the first friend a Diminisher and the second a Denier and came to discover that both represented how mainstream America talks about blackness.Diminishers have a subtle intellectual superiority and depend on the word "ignorant." They believe that black people still encounter unpleasantness related to blackness but in benign forms and from unhappy people or crazy people or people with good intentions that are bungled in execution. Diminishers think that people can be "ignorant" but not "racist" because these people have black friends, supported the civil rights movements or had abolitionist forebears.
they wrongly see racist incident as almost never being about race
these wild young people-What is most likely the author's purpose for including the following passage (paragraph 11)? In one way or another, often unconsciously, the great burden put upon us is being borne, and borne gallantly, by that immodest, unchivalrous set of ne'er-do-wells, so delightfully portrayed by Mr. Grundy and the amazing young Fitzgerald. A keen interest in political and social problems, and a determination to face the facts of life, ugly or beautiful, characterizes us, as it certainly did not characterize our fathers.
to emphasize the fact that the writer's generation is, in fact more content and determined than the older generation
the great Gatsby- What is most likely the author's intent by having Nick tell the reader that he is "inclined to reserve all judgments"?
to make the reader feel that he is a credible narrator
cabin-What is most likely the author's purpose when he states (stanza 6, lines 4-7): An' hit hu'ts me w'en I membahsDat I'll nevah see no mo'Dem faces gethered smilin'Roun' dat po' ol' cabin do'.
to suggest that while some survived slavery, many people were either killed or separated from their family and friends
As I lay Dying- Which meaning of gutter most closely matches its meaning in the following passage (paragraph 11)? Her face is wasted away so that the bones draw just under the skin in white lines. Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candle-sticks. But the eternal and the everlasting salvation and grace is not upon her.
verb/ to flicker as if go out
awkward conversation- What is most closely the meaning of the word manifests as it appears in the passage below? Deniers use "racist" as one would use "dinosaur," to refer to a phenomenon that no longer exists.Although the way that blackness manifests itself in America has changed since 1965, the way that it is talked about has not. I have a great and complicated affection for this country — America is like my distant uncle who does not always remember my name but occasionally gives me pocket money — and what I admire most is its ability to create enduring myths.
verb/ to show or present a quality or feeling