"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" QUIZ ELA 7

How would you best describe Harry in the beginning of the story?

• Paranoid

• Loud

• Quiet

• Demanding

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Harry feels Mars will someday steal away his soul. Which of the following is evidence to that?

• "The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum."

• "The children looked up at him, as people look to the sun to tell what time of their life it is."

• "The wind blew as if to flake away their identities. At any moment the Martian air might draw his soul from him, as marrow comes from a white bone."

• "They saw the old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children's delicate bones among the blowing lakes of grass."

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Harry feared that he would lose his true self. Which sentence from the text is evidence to that?

• "They built a small, white cottage and ate good breakfasts there, but the fear was never gone."

• "I feel like a salt crystal," he said, "in a mountain stream, being washed away. We don't belong here. We're Earth people. This is Mars."

• "A river of wind submerged the house. When the windows ceased rattling Mr. Bittering swallowed and looked at the children."

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CCSS.RL.7.1

What is Harry's main emotion in the first half of the story?

• curious about the fate of the Martians

• Angry at his wife for wanting to stay on Mars

• Fear of being changed by the Martian environment

• Annoyed by the other Earth people on Mars

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Something made him check everything each morning-- warm hearth, potted blood-geraniums-- precisely as if he expected something to be amiss." What is a synonym for amiss?

• humorous

• wrong

• delightful

• painful

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

How many family members make up the Bitterings family?

• 3

• 6

• 4

• 5

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CCSS.RL.7.1

When Harry suggests returning to Earth, Cora indicates that she

• is too afraid of atomic bombs to go back.

• likes Mars much better than Earth.

• wishes they had never left Earth.

• doesn't care whether they stay or leave.

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CCSS.RL.7.6

What event prevents the family's return to Earth?

• the family is happy living on Mars

• The return ticket costs too much money

• Harry's rocket doesn't work

• An atomic war breaks out on Earth

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.W.7.9A

What sort of mood is created by words like trembling, throat, heart and sweating?

• Anxious

• Peaceful

• Exciting

• Depressed

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The first thing that Mr. Bittering noticed had changed was __________.

• peach blossoms

• onions

• carrots

• grass

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CCSS.RL.7.1