topic questions
Beginning in the thirteenth paragraph ("It was . . . trees"), what impact does the shift in setting have on the narrative?
It develops Mrs. Chandler's psychological character.
How does the start of hunting season, mentioned at the beginning of the thirteenth paragraph ("It was . . . trees"), affect Mrs. Chandler?
It disturbs her serenity.
The change in the weather in the fifth paragraph ("Look . . . started") has which effect on Mrs. Chandler?
She slips into a memory of a happy time.
Which of the following best describes how the structure of the passage affects its pacing?
The narrator relates events chronologically but briefly interrupts the narrative with a digression.
The primary effect of the dialogue at the end of the passage is to
heighten the dramatic impact of a memory
Why do the speaker and his companion seem "foolish" (line 1) when going out into the city?
The city's residents have gone indoors to escape the heat.
In relation to the passage as a whole, the narrator's comments about "Nature" in the second paragraph ("Oh, who . . . centuries") portray
an attraction to imagining life among Nature inaccurately
The narrator's description of the room where his mother had worked suggests that as a child, he had found visits to the room to be
an emotional experience
In the poem as a whole, the heat symbolically represents
an environment of hardship surrounding the squirrel's song
In the passage as a whole, the forest traversed by the family functions as a symbol of
an unpredictable future
The first-person narration in the middle of the fifth paragraph ("I pulled . . . image") includes reflections that primarily create the effect of
juxtaposing naïve and intellectually sophisticated views of the same experience
In the second paragraph ("Oh, who . . . centuries"), which of the following methods does the narrator use to shape the pace of the passage?
Suspending the exposition of the narrative to expand on an idealized vision of pioneer life
The flashback in the sixth paragraph ("It seemed . . . trip") interrupts the pacing of the initial narrative primarily by shifting from
mundane description to evocative reflection
The narrator's statement in the first sentence of the final paragraph ("The tangled . . . happiness") implies that the family's experience in the forest
proves that they are determined to persevere
The sentence fragment that concludes the passage can best be understood to
reveal a source of emotional pain