TTH Sections 3-4

What is the central idea of “Good Form” by Tim O’Brien?

• Story-truth considers how one feels when something happens, so authors should write about story-truths.

• Story-truth is often truer than what actually happened, happening-truth.

• What actually happened is most true, and so it is important for writers to document the happening-truth.

• Writers use story-truths whenever they feel guilty about what actually happened.

What quotation from the text best supports the answer to the previous question?

• “It’s time to be blunt. I’m forty-three years old, true, and I’m a writer now, and a long time ago I walked through Quang Ngai Province as a foot soldier.”

• “Here is the happening truth. I was once a soldier. There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look.”

• “What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.”

• “I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why the story-truth is sometimes truer than the happening truth.”

What is the meaning of "form" as it is used in the excerpt?

• configuration

• shape

• version

• arrangement

In “A Million Little Pieces Revisited” by Daniel Honan, which statement best describes a claim that James Frey makes about the nature of truth?

• Frey believes that the truth will set you free and should be boldly shared.

• Frey believes that fact and truth are one and the same and that writers are responsible for writing factual truth.

• Frey believes that truth is subjective and that truth and fact are not always the same.

• Frey believes that the definition of truth that others live by is wrong.

What quotation from the text best supports the answer to the previous question?

• “The truth will set me free . . .”

• “I don’t care much about truth, or I don’t care about the definition of truth that most people live by.”

• “I don’t care for the definition of truth that most people live by.”

• “I think the truth is an incredibly subjective individual thing.”

What is the meaning of "radical" as it is used in the excerpt?

• excellent

• fundamental

• unconventional

• comprehensive

What does it mean to "draw scrutiny" according to the title of the New York Times article?

• to sketch your ideas

• to gather information

• to attract critical examination

• to review a problem

Which sentence best summarizes “The Ransom of Red Chief”?

• A father allows his son to be kidnapped because the son is ill behaved.

• A father convinces two kidnappers to return his son because he is missed by the neighbors.

• Two kidnappers take a child from a small town and have trouble with the child until they return the child at night.

• Two kidnappers develop a scheme to take money from a small-town family but end up paying money to the father.

Which set of words and phrases best reveals the character of the kidnappers?

• “scheme,” “desperate,” “spirit was broken”

• “celebrated,” “collaborated,” “ought to commend itself to professional kidnappers”

• “demanding,” “never lost my nerve,” “willing to take a chance”

• “got him down in the bottom of the buggy,” “troubled,” “posted my letter surreptitiously”

How does Red Chief’s active imagination affect other characters in “The Ransom of Red Chief”?

• Red Chief plays with his kidnappers and they appreciate the company.

• Red Chief’s refusal to go home increases the kidnappers’ excitement for ransom.

• Red Chief’s unpredictable actions frighten Bill, one of the kidnappers.

• Red Chief spends his time waiting to be entertained, which frustrates the kidnappers.