The Hitchhiker Review

What is the setting of the story?

• California and Brooklyn, New York

• 1940 Ford V8

• on the highway, early 1940s

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.7.3

Why does Adams state facts about himself at the beginning of the play?

• to show that he is sane

• to plead for help

• to understand what is happening

• all of these

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CCSS.RL.7.2

What point of view is "The Hitchhiker" told in?

• 1st person

• 3rd person objective

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

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CCSS.RL.7.6

What story device is shown in the text when it says, "Six days ago I left Brooklyn to drive to California"?

• foreshadowing

• cliffhanger

• flashback

• suspense

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CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of story device is shown in the following, "Promise me you'll be extra careful. Don't fall asleep or drive fast or pick up any strangers on the road."?

• flashback

• cliffhanger

• foreshadowing

• suspense

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of story device is shown in the following, "I was in excellent spirits -- drive ahead, even the loneliness seemed like a lark. But I reckoned without him."?

• flashback

• cliffhanger

• foreshadowing

• suspense

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

Where does Adams see the hitchhiker?

• on the Brooklyn Bridge

• standing beside a barbed-wire fence

• outside the Navajo reservation

• all of the above

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Why is this plot event significant, "Adams sees the hitchhiker on the Brooklyn Bridge."?

• the hitchhiker is introduced

• the setting is established

• the climax of the story

• it puts the reader in suspense

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

Identify the climax of the story.

• the train almost runs Ronald Adams's car over

• the hithchiker first appears

• Ronald Adams finds out that his mother has had a breakdown grieving the loss of her oldest son.

• the part where it says that Ronald Adams is going to drive from Brooklyn, New York to California

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

What story device is found in the quote, "The train was coming closer. I could hear its bell, its cry its whistle crying!"?

• flashback

• cliffhanger

• foreshadowing

• suspense

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CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4