CFA

Read the following two excerpts and answer the questions that follow:

If there were any belated birds in heaven, they saw the island like a large white patch, and the bridges like slim white spars on the black ground of the river. High up overhead the snow settled among the tracery of the cathedral towers. Many a niche was drifted full; many a statue wore a long white bonnet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping toward the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side.

--from “A Lodging for the Night” by Robert Louis Stevenson

The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations.

--from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

1. Which statement best expresses a theme common to excerpts from “A Lodging for the Night” and Ethan Frome? (RL.KID.1)

• snow can make a nice place very dangerous

• a town looks intriguing when covered in snow

• birds cannot see the ground during snowstorms

• snowdrifts are quite common after a lot of snow

From “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton

How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger! But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady! How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman, with her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of triumph; when she had seen him lead her forth, his whole frame kindled with the joy of recovered life; when she had heard the glad shouts from the multitude, and the wild ringing of the happy bells; when she had seen the priest, with his joyous followers, advance to the couple, and make them man and wife before her very eyes; and when she had seen them walk away together upon their path of flowers, followed by the tremendous shouts of the hilarious multitude, in which her one despairing shriek was lost and drowned!

Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?

And yet, that awful tiger, those shrieks, that blood!

Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation. She had known she would be asked; she had decided what she would answer, and, without the slightest hesitation, she had moved her hand to the right.

What do these lines suggest about the woman about whom it is written? (RL.KID.3)

• She is indifferent to the events about to transpire.

• The fact that either choice she makes will mean the loss of her lover has her in turmoil.

• She is happy with her decision and raises her right hand happily.

• She has a “whatever will be, will be” attitude towards the situation and sits back comfortably with her decision.

Read the following passage and answer the following questions.

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man.

(Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man)

By introducing the narrator’s situation and internal conflict, what role does this play in developing the plot of the story? (RL.CS5)

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

The moving, questing people were migrants now. Those families which had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, had now the whole West to rove in. And they scampered about, looking for work; and the highways were streams of people, and the ditch banks were lines of people. Behind them more were coming. The great highways streamed with moving people. There in the Middle- and Southwest had lived a simple agrarian folk who had not changed with industry, who had not formed with machines or known the power and danger of machines in private hands. They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life. And then suddenly the machines pushed them out and they swarmed on the highways. The movement changed them; the highways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger itself, changed them. The children without dinner changed them. They were migrants. And the hostility changed them, welded them, united them.

(John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath)

Based on the above excerpt, the writer, was influenced by the effect of (RL.KID.1)

• the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.

• World War I on homeless refugees.

• the Civil Rights Movement on protesters.

• the Industrial Revolution.

With her books The Sea Around Us (1941) and The Silent Spring (1951), Rachel L. Carson solidified her reputation as a talented ecologist, biologist, and someone who writes with great talent, being that she was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 top scientists and thinkers of the twentieth century.

Which is the best way to write the underlined passage? (W.TIP.2)

• as a talented ecologist, biologist, and someone who writes with great talent, being that she was named by

• as a talented ecologist, biologist, and writer, and was named by

• as both a talented ecologist, biologist, and writer with great talent, who was named by

• as a talented ecologist, biologist, and writer; she was named by

• as a talented ecologist, biologist, and writer, who named