LS# 6 (8th)

Using the poem "Dusting", what inference can you make about how the speaker feels about the everyday task of dusting?

• The speaker scrawls her signature on chairs.

• The speaker does this routine every morning.

• People usually use rags or feather dusters when dusting.

• The speaker fins a way to make a boring task interesting by being creative.

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What does the word scrawled mean as it is used in line 3 of "Dusting"?

• to write carelessly

• to lay out on the floor

• to crawl across the floor

• to write in long script

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Using the text "Dusting", which sentence is the strongest piece of evidence that the speaker wants to make her mark on the world?

• The speaker helps her mother dust every morning.

• The speaker scribbles her name in the dust every day.

• The speaker’s name and fingerprints are erased each day.

• The speaker states that she refuses to be “anonymous.”

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In the text "A Smart Cookie", what two pieces of evidence support the inference that the mother is still able to do all the things she loves?

• "Today while cooking oatmeal she is Madame Butterfly until she sighs and points the wooden spoon at me."

• "She used to draw when she had time. Now she draws with a needle and thread..."

• "Someday she would like to go to the ballet."

• I could’ve been somebody, you know?

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Using the text "A Smart Cookie", what evidence supports the idea that in spite of her bad choices, the mother is still intelligent?

• She can speak two languages. She can sing an opera. She knows how to fix a TV.

• But she doesn’t know which subway train to take to get downtown.

• She used to draw when she had time.

• She borrows opera records from the public library and sings with velvety lungs powerful as morning glories.

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Read the following inference about the mother in “Smart Cookie.”

The mother doesn’t want her daughter to turn out like she did.

Which piece of evidence best supports this inference?

• The mother used to draw, but now draws with a needle

  and thread.

• The mother tells her daughter to go to school and study hard.

• The mother sings along to music from borrowed opera records.

• The mother admits that she used to be ashamed of her clothes.

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Using the story "Smart Cookie", which of the following sentences best supports the inference that the mother is trapped in her situation?

• She dreams of going to the ballet and a play someday.

• She sings while she cooks oatmeal for her daughter.

• She doesn’t know which train to take to get downtown.

• She can speak two languages and knows how to fix a TV.

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Read these sentences from the story "Maud Martha".

These things might be theirs no longer. Those shafts and pools of light, the tree, the graceful iron, might soon be viewed possessively by different eyes.

How do these details support the idea that the family wants to keep their home?

• They show that the family regrets that others will enjoy these things instead of them.

• They create a gloomy atmosphere that expresses the family’s sadness.

• They give the impression that the garden is too lovely for anyone to own.

• They warn that other people have tried unsuccessfully to purchase the home.

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Using the text "Maud Martha", how does Mama really feel about moving to the new apartment?

• She thinks it will be a good move for her entire family.

• She believes that her husband will be much happier there.

• She does not think they will be able to afford living there.

• She predicts that no one will visit them if they move there.

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What is the setting of the text "Maud Martha"?

• The front porch of the family's home.

• The back porch of the family's home.

• The office of the Home Owner's Loan.

• Chicago in the 1940s

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