SB ELA Grade 8 Unit 1 Quiz 1.7-1.11

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey by Homer: Soon we came to the cave, and found him [the Cyclops] absent; he was grazing his well-fed flocks in the fields. So we went inside and marveled at its contents. There were baskets full of cheeses, and pens crowded with lambs and kids, each flock with its firstlings, later ones, and newborn separated. The pails and bowls for milking, all solidly made, were swimming with whey. At first my men begged me to take some cheeses and go, then to drive the lambs and kids from the pens down to the swift ship and set sail. But I would not listen, though it would have been best, wishing to see the giant himself, and test his hospitality. When he did appear he proved no joy to my men.
Which is the best summary of this excerpt?

• Odysseus and his crew waited for the Cyclops to return to his cave. However, Odysseus’s crew was not happy to meet the Cyclops when he finally appeared at the mouth of the cave.
• Odysseus wanted to meet the Cyclops. His men wanted to take the cheeses and animals back to the ship before the Cyclops returned to the cave, but Odysseus ignored them.
• The Cyclops was tending to his flocks in the field when Odysseus and his crew explored his cave. Odysseus and his crew were amazed by all of the items that they found inside.
• The Cyclops was an unfamiliar giant to Odysseus and his crew. They were surprised to discover that he made his own cheese using the animals that he kept in the cave.

Choose the sentence from The Odyssey that best shows that Odysseus is in the initiation stage of the hero’s journey.

• “I filled a large goatskin with the wine, and took it along, with some food in a bag, since my instincts told me the giant would come at us quickly, a savage being with huge strength, knowing nothing of right or law.”
• “So we lit a fire and made an offering, and helped ourselves to the cheese, and sat in the cave eating, waiting for him to return, shepherding his flocks.”
• “Then he lifted the huge door stone and set it in place, and sat down to milk the ewes and bleating goats in order, putting her young to each.”
• “We took the red-hot stake and twisted it round and round like that in his eye, and the blood poured out despite the heat.”

Read the excerpt from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle:
 As she saw him it was again as though she had been punched in the stomach, for she had to realize afresh that she was seeing Charles, and yet it was not Charles at all. Where was Charles Wallace, her own beloved Charles Wallace? What is it I have got that IT hasn’t got? “You have nothing that IT hasn’t got,” Charles Wallace said coldly. “How nice to have you back, dear sister. We have been waiting for you. We knew that Mrs Whatsit would send you. She is our friend, you know.” For an appalling moment Meg believed, and in that moment she felt her brain being gathered up into IT. “No!” she screamed at the top of her lungs. “No! You lie!” For a moment she was free from IT's clutches again. As long as I can stay angry enough IT can’t get me. Which is the best summary of this excerpt?

• Meg sees Charles and immediately notices that he is under IT’s control. She realizes that she must prevent herself from falling under IT’s control as well.
• Charles Wallace almost tricked Meg into believing everything he was saying. Meg soon understood that he and IT were telling her lies.
• Meg has to quickly determine what she has that IT does not have. Charles is discouraging Meg from figuring this out because he is not acting like himself.
• Charles Wallace and IT have been waiting for Meg to return. They knew that Mrs Whatsit would send Meg because they are friends.

Which excerpt from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle best illustrates the return stage of the hero’s journey?

• “She felt numb, beyond rage or disappointment or even fear. She put one foot ahead of the other with precise regularity, not allowing her pace to lag.”
• “But she, in all her weakness and foolishness and baseness and nothingness, was incapable of loving IT. Perhaps it was not too much to ask of her, but she could not do it.”
• “Meg began to laugh, too, at the same time that she was trying to hug her father, to hug Calvin, and not to let go of Charles Wallace for one second.”
• “Through the darkness to save her came a sense of Mrs Whatsit’s presence, so that she knew it could not be IT who now had her in its clutches.”
  

"Rudolph, with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" At what stage is Rudolph in the Hero's Journey when he is asked to lead Santa's sleigh? 

• Departure
• Initiation
• Return