Narrative Test: Where the Crawdads Sing

Which description regarding the North Carolina marsh setting best helps to identify the mood & atmosphere of the story?

• "The morning burned so August-hot, the marsh's moist breath hung the oaks and pines with fog."

• "“The marsh did not confine them but defined them and, like any sacred ground, kept their secrets deep. No one cared that they held the land because nobody else wanted it. After all, it was wasteland bog.”

• "Miles of blade-grass so tough it grew in salt water, interrupted only by trees so bent they wore the shape of the wind. Oak forests bunched around the other sides of the shack and sheltered the closest lagoon, its surface so rich in life it churned.”

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What can the reader infer about Kya from the following passage?

"Kya, only six at the time, heard the screen door slap. Standing on the stool, she stopped scrubbing grits from the pot and lowered it into the basin of worn out suds."

• She liked to help around the house.

• She had a lot of chores to do that day and she was not happy.

• She is very independent and self sufficient for a 6 year old.

• She is not treated well by her parents.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

This excerpt from the story describing Pa is an example of __________ characterization.

"Ma didn't come back that day. No one spoke of it. Least of all Pa. Stinking of fish and drum likker, he clanked pot lids. "Whar's supper?"

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the following excerpt tell us about the relationship between Kya's Mom & Dad?

"Ma had been quiet; her smile lost, her eyes red. She'd tied a white scarf pirate style, low across her forehead, but the purple and yellow edges of a bruise spilled out."

• It was abusive and Ma was scared & embarrassed.

• Ma was sick, and this depressed Pa, so he wouldn't talk about it.

• They were going through a hard time financially & Pa was taking it out on Ma.

• Pa was mean to Ma when he was drunk.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What can we infer about Pa from the description below?

"Then, the hustle of getting everybody up and fed. Pa not there. He had two settings: silence and shouting. So it was just fine when he slept through, or didn't come home at all."

• He was abusive to his family & rarely present

• He worked a lot to provide for his kids

• He suffered from depression

• He didn't like Kya and often picked on her

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Based on the except that you read from, Where the Crawdads Sing, what is the main theme of the story?

• Struggles of the Great Depression

• Children learn from the examples of their parents

• The lasting damage of abandonment

• Imagination is often an escape

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What was different about Ma when she left this time that made Kya think she was not coming back?

• She didn't say good-bye when she left in the middle of the night

• She didn't look back to wave where the foot lane met the road

• She took the blue case into the woods

• Pa was angry and wouldn't come to dinner that night

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What literary devices are being used here?

"She sank onto his mattress, watching the last of that day slide down the wall."

• Personification & Imagery

• Imagery

• Personification & Simile

• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What conclusion can you draw about why Kya's Ma & her siblings left?

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CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Support your answer to #9 by supporting it with a line from the text.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3