"The Collector of Treasures"
Authored by Verity Olliff
English
10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why was Bessie Head, the author, rejected socially?
She was ugly.
She was born a crime.
She was not "African" enough for acceptance in the colored family.
She was "insufficiently white" for the Afrikaner family.
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CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What jobs did Bessie Head have?
She was a school teacher, journalist, and a farmer.
She was a school teacher, mother, and a politician.
She was an unemployed mother.
She was an inmate of a mental institution.
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CCSS.RL.11-12.6
CCSS.RI. 9-10.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.6
CCSS.RI.8.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.6
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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Head's fiction is particularly sensitive to ...
racial stereotypes
women's oppression
family issues
dystopic science fiction
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the statement "always found gold amidst the ash" (58) mean?
She found love as treasure despite destruction in her life.
She worked in the mines of South Africa.
She would search crematoriums to find gold.
Her life was all destruction and she son was her only treasure.
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CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Dikeledi Mokopi is in prison because she ...
killed her family.
killed her husband.
attacked a police officer.
attacked her husband's girlfriend.
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CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"The torchlight struck the side of her face like an agonizing blow" (54) is an example of ...
personification.
a simile.
onomatopoeia.
an allegory.
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CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the contrast between Dikeledi and Kebonye?
Both are husband killers.
Dikeledi looked more like a skeleton than a human being and Kebonye looked like a full, plump figure.
Both have experienced horrible terrors.
Dikeledi killed her husband with a knife and so did Kebonye.
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CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
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