American Lit Review

The lasting ambition of the narrator in Life on the Mississippi is to:

• become a clown

• join in minstrel show

• be a steamboat men

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

The boy from Hannibal who gets a job on a steamboat:

• marries the prettiest girl in town

• is envied and disliked by all the other boys

• leaves the steamboat business to join the navy

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

If there were two birds sitting on a fence, Jim Smiley would:

• try to shoot one of them

• bet which one would fly away

• try to tame them for pets

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CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

The only race Jim Smiley’s frog ever lost was the one when:

• the frog had the chicken pox

• a stranger filled the frog with lead shots

• Smiley’s enemy cut off the hind legs of the frog

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CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

1. The Jazz Age in America was a period of:

• financial restraint

• Conservative women's fashion

• new wealthy, prosperity, and reckless spending

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Dr. T.J. Eckleburg is:

• a man whose eyes are picture in an advertisement

• Gatsby's teacher at Oxford

• A West Egg physician

Has an affair with Tom Buchanan

• Myrtle Wilson

• Daisy

• Jordan

What word best describes Gatsby?

• plain

• unambitious

• idealistic

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Gatsby gives lavish parties because he:

• hopes Daisy will attend

  
  

• likes to spend money

• likes to entertain

1. What important virtue does Nick claim for himself?

• Modesty

• Honesty

• Loyalty