"That Day" by David Kherdian

What does the father do on his way home from work?

• Stopped to get an ice cream

• had a car accident

• joined the softball game and played

• got disappointed because he could not play the game.

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What does the father do on his way home from work?

• Stopped to get an ice cream

• had a car accident

• joined the softball game and played

• got disappointed because he could not play the game.

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What do the italicized words in "our game" and 'his country" tell you?

• The players only expect only sons, not fathers, to join in the game.

• The players only expect fathers, not sons, to join in the game.

• The players expect fathers and sons to join the game.

• The players expect the whole family to join the game.

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In what ways is the father a fool or a clown?

• He dresses as a clown to join the game.

• He does not know how to play baseball very well.

• He can't stop laughing when playing the game.

• He does not know what a home run is.

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What does the father's action reveal to the speaker?

• The father's generation is weak.

• The father's generation is stronger than the speaker's.

• The father's generation is fragile.

• The father's generation is unique.

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Based on the poem’s first stanza (lines 1-8), which of the following selections is most likely true?

• A. The speaker’s father was not born in America.

• B. The speaker and his friends play a type of softball that is unfamiliar to most people.

• C. The speaker’s father would become a better softball player over time.

• D. The speaker and his friends invented the game of softball.

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From the first stanza (lines 1-8) we can also infer that __________ .

• A. this is happening in the early evening

• B. the speaker and his family live on the street where the game is taking place

• C. both A and B

• D. neither A nor B

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Which inference about the speaker’s father is best supported by the second stanza (lines 9-18)?

• A. He became frustrated when he could not learn how to play the game.

• B. His attempt to play softball was funny to the kids.

• C. He did not know his son very well.

• D. He always tried to be tough and show little emotion.

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Which lines from the poem most strongly support the answer to Question 3?

• A. “Just once / and the day stands out forever / in my memory”

• B. “as a father’s living gesture / to his son,”

• C. “that in playing even the fool / or the clown, he would reveal”

• D. “the lines of their lives / were sewn from a tougher fabric / than the son had previously known.”

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Who is the speaker in the poem?

• The dad

• The mom

• The frien

• The son

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