My Antonia

Part A

What is the main theme of the passage?

• A People had to learn to live with the endless prairie.

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• B Connecting with the environment was a pathway to peace.

• C The grass had a kind of power that shaped everything else.

• D Life on the Nebraska prairie was hard and sometimes dangerous

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Which sentence from the passage best supports the theme in Part A?

• A “As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the

  water is the sea.” (paragraph 3)

• B “And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed,

  somehow, to be running.” (paragraph 3)

• C “. . . I kept looking up at the hawks that were doing what I might so easily do.” (paragraph 7)

• D “I was left alone with this new feeling of lightness and

  content.” (paragraph 12)

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Read this beginning for a summary of the passage.

Summary

Ten-year-old Jim gives his first impressions of the landscape

surrounding his grandparents’ home.

Choose the two sentences that best complete the summary.

• A Having just endured a very long train ride affects his reactions to

  what he observes.

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• B At his request, his grandmother leaves him alone in the garden and

  returns to the house.

• C Going outside early on his first morning, he is amazed by the grass, which seems to go on forever.

• D He notes the different unfamiliar features that make up his

  grandparents’ farm, such as a windmill and corncribs.

• E After walking to the family garden, he has overwhelming feelings of being where the earth and sky touch

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Read the sentences from paragraph 1.

The road from the post-office came directly by our door,

crossed the farmyard, and curved round this little pond,

beyond which it began to climb the gentle swell of unbroken

prairie to the west. There, along the western sky-line it

skirted a great cornfield, much larger than any field I had

ever seen .

Which meaning of skirted is used in the sentence?

• A missed by a narrow margin

• B went around rather than across

• C bordered or formed the edge of

• D avoided because of unpleasantness

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The flat grasslands found in Nebraska and the Midwest

• Familiar

• Prairie

• Wonder

• Dusky

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a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.

• Dusky

• Cranky

• Wonder

• Earnest

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to annoy or bother

• Prairie

• Familiar

• Wonder

• Disturb

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something you know or recognize

• Dusky

• Cranky

• Familiar

• Wonder

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shadowy, dark

• Dusky

• Cranky

• Earnest

• Upholstered

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serious, solemn, intense

• Wonder

• Familiar

• Earnest

• Dusky

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