Week 22, Day 2 ELA

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of the passage?

• Struggling to be the best is exhausting.

• There is peace and contentment in accepting oneself.

• It is dangerous to compare oneself to others.

• Success provides an opportunity for reflection.

Multiple Choice

Which quotation supports the theme selected in Part A?

• “I thought—‘These are my elder sisters. One day I shall grow like them.’ Thus, my own daily life seemed empty and shadowy to me, because of the strong yearning that possessed me to be great like them.” (paragraph 5)

• “‘Now I am to be something.’ But with all my efforts I never could grow to be anything but a little fern!” (paragraphs 5-6)

• “I had blended my being with a little seed, and in the spring, green tufts of life burst out from my shriveled heart. I grew, and spread, and drank in rain and sunshine, until at length I waved and expanded in the summer breeze—a little fern!” (paragraph 11)

• “…I had not been an imperfect likeness and a vague promise of something else, but myself, in my little degree, pleasant and serviceable; exactly the best thing it was possible for me to be, filling up my tiny measure of service in the world.… How happy I am to know it now!” (paragraph 12)

Multiple Choice

Which event provokes the fern to feel restless and strive for greatness?

• watching the gigantic, dangerous animals tread through the forest

• observing the larger, more impressive ferns in the forest

• recognizing that the sun had not changed in years

• being swept into an ash heap and tossed outside