A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long

Instead of watching a lot of television, the speaker and her family---

• read more books

• talked to one another more

• went to church more

• were even more bored

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What does "black coffee" in line 15 refer to?

• books
• beverage
• Black authors
• music

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Hardback books

• remind the speaker of visiting the bookstore

• take the speaker to faraway places

• remind the speaker of black coffee

• remind the speaker of her grandmother

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"And Mrs. Long opened that wardrobe but no lions or witches scared me" is an example of

• Stanza
• Idiom
• Allusion
• Repetion

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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Form is the organization or structure of a work of writing. The form of this poem creates

• an informal feel

• a formal tone

• poetry

• its figurative language

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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CCSS.RL.7.10

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Tone expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject.  What word best describes the poem's tone?

• angry
• sad
• humorous
• affectionate

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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How many stanzas are in this poem?

• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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Which stylistic element does Giovanni use the least?

• punctuation/capitalization
• stanzas/line lengths
• figurative language
• sound devices

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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What was one effect of having “no tv before 3:00 P.M. / And on Sunday none until 5:00”?

• People read more books from the library

• People sat on their porches and talked

• People went to church more

• People were bored

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Which lines of the poem contain an allusion to another literary work?

• lines 10–14

• lines 23–27

• lines 28–31

• lines 47–51

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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