"Through the Tunnel" after reading F.A.

"Through the Tunnel" after reading Formative Assessment

minor quiz - INDEPENDENT WORK

Multiple Choice

In “Through the Tunnel,” which choice best describes Jerry’s feelings when he first encounters the boys diving from the rocks?

• He seeks their friendship at first but then grows tired of their foolish

  antics.

• He is suspicious of their actions until he realizes they are swimming

  through a tunnel.

• He is excited to meet them but then grows angry when they forbid him from joining him.

• He is eager for them to acknowledge him but then feels ashamed when he fails to impress them.

Multiple Choice

In “Through the Tunnel,” what does Jerry’s mother think when he first asks to go down to the rocks?

• She tells herself that he will be safe without her.

• She worries that he will hurt himself on the rocks.

• She thinks to herself that he is growing up too fast.

• She wonders what the boys are doing on the rocks.

Multiple Choice

In “Through the Tunnel,” how does Jerry get to the entrance of the tunnel?

• He holds onto a heavy rock to push himself down.

• He dives down from the highest point on the rocks.

• He pulls his way down by gripping a rock wall above the tunnel.

• He swims to a point just above the tunnel entrance and dives down.

Multiple Choice

In “Through the Tunnel,” what happens when Jerry is swimming through

the tunnel?

• His feet get tangled in the weeds.

• His body gets stuck at a narrow point in the tunnel.

• He feels the slime on the rock and mistakes it for an octopus.

• He mistakenly thinks he is at the end when he sees sunlight through a

  crack.

Multiple Choice

Which is the best example of someone who is beseeching?

• a manager asking a prospective employee to fill out an application

• a professor assigning students homework questions about a poem

• a child begging for a game he has wanted for a long time

• a man giving directions to a stranger on the street

Multiple Choice

Which of the following situations could best be used to illustrate the

meaning of pestered?

• Martha kept searching for the answer until she finally found a book with

  the solution.

• Every week, Tom asked his neighbors over for dinner until they finally

  agreed to a visit.

• The company president demanded to know why the company policies

  had not been followed.

• The lawyer asked a number of pointed questions, but the defendant

  protested his innocence.

Multiple Choice

If someone performs an act of supplication, which of these must be true?

• The person confidently states a request.

• The person loudly makes a demand.

• The person darkly suggests a threat.

• The person humbly begs a favor.

Multiple Choice

In “Through the Tunnel,” what is the most important effect of the author’s description of Jerry’s panic when the boys do not quickly come up from underwater?

• It emphasizes the superior swimming ability of the boys.

• It emphasizes the danger involved in swimming through the tunnel.

• It shows how quickly Jerry jumps to conclusions and panics.

• It shows the difficulty of getting help if something goes wrong.

Multiple Choice

Read this passage from “Through the Tunnel.”

"They looked down gravely, frowning. He knew the frown. At moments of failure, when he clowned to claim his mother’s attention, it was just this grave, embarrassed inspection that she rewarded him. Through his hot shame, feeling the pleading grin on his face like a scar that he could never remove..."

• He wants to find out what is inside the tunnel, stealing the boys’ secrets.

• He wants to prove himself to himself, conquering his feeling of shame.

• He wants to be seen as funny to the boys, easing his feeling of seriousness.

• He wants to prove himself to his mother, gaining her admiration.

Multiple Choice

What does the boy’s conversation with his mother at the end of “Through the Tunnel” most clearly show about their relationship?

• The mother’s thoughtful attention to the boy emphasizes how close they have grown.

• The boy’s cooperation and understanding emphasizes how close they have grown.

• The boy’s silence about his adventure emphasizes the distance

  between them.

• The mother’s steady anxiety emphasizes her inability to understand

  her son.

Multiple Choice

Which excerpt from the text best supports the answer to your previous answer?

• “Have a nice morning?” she asked, laying her hand on his warm brown

  shoulder a moment.

  
  

  “Oh, yes, thank you,” he said.

• He was strained; his eyes were glazed looking. She was worried. And then she said to herself, Oh, don’t fuss! Nothing can happen.

• “Mummy,” he said, “I can stay underwater for two minutes—three

  minutes, at least.” It came bursting out of him.

• She was ready for a battle of wills, but he gave in at once. It was no longer of the least importance to go to the bay.