From My Antonia—STAAR READY

Why does the author choose to tell this story from a first person point of view?

• To help the reader understand what it was like to be 10 years old in the nineteenth century

• To show how immigrant families coming to Nebraska coped with their inability to speak English

• To help the reader know what sorts of people lived in Nebraska in the nineteenth century

• To show how children respond to being on their own for the first time in their lives

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What is Jimmy’s main conflict in thei story?

• Being taken care of by Jake

• Fear of a meeting with Jesse James

• Fighting off homesickness

• Traveling to an unknown place

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Paragraph 9: I had the feeling that world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man’s jurisdiction.

The setting suggests that people who live in Nebraska in this time and place generally share the value of -

• Self-reliance

• Listening to others

• Intellectual improvement

• Charity toward others

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Which sentence form the story best illustrated the idea that Jimmy’s grandparents live in a part of the country that had not yet been fully settled?

• We went all the way in day coaches, becoming more sticky and grimy with each stage of the journey

• He wore a sombrero hat, with a wide leather band and a bright buckle and the ends of his moist ache were twisted up stiffly like little horns

• There was nothing but land not a country at all by the material out of which countries are made

• I had never before looked up at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it

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Which words help the reader understand the meaning of the word undulating in paragraph 9?

• Peered, slipped

• Material, ground

• Ridge, dome

• Down, up

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Paragraph 7: The woman wore a fringed shawl tied over her head, and she carried a little tin trunk in her arms, hugging it as if it were a baby.

The author uses a simile to indicate that the woman-

• Fears her trunk will be stolen

• Believes the trunk is a baby

• Feels the trunk is precious

• Values things more than children

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Which of the following represents a subplot that is secondary to the main plot of the story?

• The departure from Virginia

• The arrival of the immigrant family

• The death of Jimmy’s parents

• The introduction of Otto Fuchs

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Which detail from the story best supports the idea that Jimmy has a vivid imagination?

• He compares the immigrant girl to a bright, new dollar

• He daydreamsabout Egyptian symbols such as hieroglyphics

• He imagines seeing a ridge of mountains and a dome in Nebraska

• He thinks Otto Fuchs might be a desperado

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Paragraph 2: Beyond Chicago we were under the protection of a friendly passenger conductor, who knew all about the country to which we were going and gave us a great deal of advice in exchange for out confidence.

What is the best paraphrase of this sentence?

• After we passed Chicago, a conductor gave us advice about where we were going.

• After we passed Chicago, a conductor asked for money in exchange for information about our destination

• Before we arrived in Chicago, a conductor helped us understand how to travel safely by rail

• Before we arrived in Chicago, a conductor protected us from other passengers

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Based on the information in the story, what can the reader conclude about train travel in the nineteenth century?

• Soot and ash from the engine made people grimy

• Immigrants were separated from other passengers

• The brakes would grind and the wheels would shake

• Sleeping was a jolting and sometimes painful experience

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