CVUSD IS - English 2 (2nd Sem) - Unit 4

For what crime was the main character arrested before the beginning of the story?

• Publishing an underground newspaper

• Serving food to revolutionaries

• Fleeing his restaurant after it had caught fire

• Stealing a man's briefcase

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

In lines 43–44, the professors papers are described as "a thousand doves flailing against the walls of the alley.," What literary device is the author using?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In order to look more like the professor, the Chef

• Gains weight

• Shaves his head

• Studies physics

• Grows a beard

After taking the professor's briefcase, the Chef primarily supports himself by

• Playing violin on the street and asking for money

• Publishing papers disapproving common principles of physics

• Writing to the professors friends asking for help

• Cooking for the widow who owns his apartment

Throughout the story, the chef works on proving that the sun moves around the earth. Why does he want to do this?

• Taking on the identity of the professor has reawakened his interest in math and science, which his mother discouraged.

• To avoid being recognized, he must keep his skills as a chef hidden, and the proof gives him something to do each day.

• He needs to believe the truth is open to debate so that he can live with his own lies in pretending to be the professor.

• If he can pass the exam he found in the briefcase, he thinks he may be able to teach the professor's physics class

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In his opening paragraph, king says that he rarely pauses to answer criticisms, but he is replying to the clergyman because

• Their actions were unwise and and untimely

• The letter shows them to be extremists

• He believes them to be sincere and good

• He wants his letter to bring about change

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

What is the basis for king's argument against the idea that he is an outsider who came to Birmingham?

• He was born in Birmingham

• He has organizational ties in Birmingham

• He has many relatives in Birmingham

• He went to college in Birmingham

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

King compares himself to early Christian prophets because they

• Died fighting for the cause

• Did not submit to unjust laws

• Believe in civil disobedience

• Did not negotiate with enemies

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

What does King mean in lines 37–38 when he says, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?

• All citizens are equally threatened by justice

• Discrimination does not exist in rural areas

• All laws are unfair and should be ignored

• Everyone is affected when one person is hurt

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

According to King, the purpose of direct nonviolent action is to

• End the bombings of homes and churches

• Create tension so that people have to confront an issue

• Halt the activities of both merchants and consumers

• Draw the sympathy of the religious community in moderate whites

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.9