Collections 6 Review

The setting of the Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry excerpt is:

• a city family's Sunday dinner
• a house with the sights and smells of Christmas
• a shantytown near Shreveport
• a young girl's bedroom

From what point of view is the novel excerpt narrated?

• third person, limited to Cassie
• third person, limited to Mr. Morrison
• third person omniscient
• first person

What is the point of view of this paragraph?:
The day before Christmas Cassie awoke to the soft murmuring of quiet voices gathered in the midnight blackness of morning. Her father was talking to Mama in the other room. He was glad to be home.

• first person
• third person, limited to Cassie
• third person, limited to Mr. Morrison
• third person omniscient

All of the characters in this excerpt are:

• family or close friends
• family or new friends
• family members
• family or neighbors

What is the theme of paragraphs 1-11?

• Fathers love their families.
• Children like hearing true stories.
• Christmas is a wonderful time of year.
• Memories often make entertaining stories.

How does the narrator's point of view help to emphasize the central ideas of the excerpt?

• The narrator's excitement about Christmas suggests that children are easily distracted.
• The narrator's perspective emphasizes how frightening the adults' stories are for the children.
• The narrator's love for her family makes the adults' stories more personal and gives them more emotional impact.
• The narrator's age makes her too young to appreciate the adults' stories, creating confusion.

What is the theme of the story Mr. Morrison tells in paragraphs 12-22?

• Both humorous and tragic stories can be part of a family's history.
• People often want to go back to an earlier way of life.
• African Americans in the South suffered great injustices after the Civil War.
• Children can be greatly upset by hearing about cruelty and injustice.

What classifies the excerpt as historical fiction?

• It is set in the distant past.
• It tells the life story of a real person from the past.
• It is a novel written before the twentieth century.
• It combines real historical events and imaginary characters or events.

How do they use dialogue in this story?

• To quote primary sources
• To cite a title of a book
• To express conversation and convey a message
• To quote experts as a secondary source

What is dramatic irony?

• reader knows something before a character
• something unexpected happening
• believing one thing and having another happen