Speak: 2nd Marking Period Study Guide

Speak: 2nd Marking Period Study Guide

By Emily Walton

Multiple Choice

In paragraph 3, the narrator uses which of the following literary devices to describe Melinda?

• Simlie

• Personification

• Tactile Imagery

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

In paragraph 2, the narrator muses over the notion that:

• the librarian thinks about her enough to give her a poster of Maya Angelou.

• Maya Angelou must have been a great writer since the school board banned one of her writings

• she doesn't want to look at her reflection, so she covers the mirror first.

• she wants to connect to her childhood by building a fort in the closet.

Multiple Choice

As it is used in the last paragraph, the word "dump" most nearly means:

• get rid of

• unpack

• discard

• finally share

Multiple Choice

Based on the passage, it can be assumed that the narrator feels all of the following EXCEPT:

• trapped

• accepted

• guilty

• frozen

Multiple Choice

The passage as a whole can primarily be characterized as the narrator's:

• way of escaping her reality, specifically escaping IT and the memories associated with him.

• argument where she is both obeying her parents' wishes and also ignoring her responsibilities.

• explanation of why she feels like she can't tell anyone about what happened that night at the party.

• description of the physical and mental limitations that come from her anxiety of not talking about the events that happened at the party.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following events referred to in the passage occurred first chronologically?

• Melinda's mother arrived home at 2:00 am.

• Melinda showered until the hot water was gone.

• Melinda's father arrived home just before sunrise.

• Melinda crawled into bed but didn't fall asleep.

Multiple Choice

What effect does the realization that her parents noticed something about her have on Melinda?

• It makes her feel like she can almost open up to her parents about what happened to her.

• It strengthens her trust in her parents.

• It reassures her that her parents care about her.

• It fills her with emotion and love for her parents.

Multiple Choice

In the passage, Melinda's flashback to the events of the party during the summer was triggered by:

• watching Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer at Christmas.

• the gift of a sketch pad and charcoal pencils.

• her parents saying they noticed her drawing.

• spending time with her parents on Christmas day.

Multiple Choice

The questions posed by the narrator at the end of the third paragraph most strongly indicate that she is:

• doubtful of her parent's ability to believe her regarding what happened at the party.

• disappointed in her parents for lying to her about their relationship.

• confused that her parents were sneaking around and coming home at separate hours in the night.

• worried about where her parents had been and why they had come home so late.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements accurately summarizes the central emotional shift that takes place in this passage?

• A teenage girl's parents finally begin to notice the interests of their daughter.

• A teenage girl almost makes a breakthrough and strongly desires to tell her parents about the event that completely changed her.

• A teenage girl notices that her parents are keeping secrets from her.

• A teenage girl realizes that her parents do care about her, but she can't bring herself to tell them the secret that's been haunting her.

Multiple Choice

It can reasonable inferred from the passage that the frog lab takes an emotional toll on Melinda because:

• the smell from the lab reminded her of the hospital.

• she hated seeing dead animals.

• it triggered the memory of what happened to her at the party.

• she didn't want to cause anyone or anything pain.

Multiple Choice

The narrator makes use of imagery in which of the following lines?

• "I put out my hand to steady myself against the table."

• "I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, leaves in my hair."

• "I don't remember passing out."

• "I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head

Multiple Choice

The questions posed by the narrator in the second paragraph most strongly indicate all of the following EXCEPT:

• that she wishes to silence the memory of that night.

• that she desires to tell someone about what happened to her that night.

• that she is ready to finally tell someone about that night.

• that she desperately needs help processing her thoughts and emotions since that night.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following events referred to in the passage occurred last chronologically?

• Melinda contemplates brain surgery to remove the memory of that night.

• Melinda stands over the frog with her knife.

• David says Melinda hit her head on the edge of the table on her way down.

• Melinda is triggered by the frog lab and passes out.

Multiple Choice

The point of view from which the passage is told is best described as that of:

• a doctor trying to help her patient after a fall.

• a teenage boy whose lab partner collapses during a frog dissection.

• a teenage girl who just wants to forget what happened to her over the summer but can't.

• an unreliable narrator whose emotions are all over the place.