Hearts and Hands

How does the story's setting influence its plot?

• The close quarters of the train car create a sense of danger since Mr. Easton is near enough to Miss Fairchild to pose a risk to her safety.

• Being on a moving train ensures that Mr. Easton cannot escape the glum-faced marshal until the train stops in the next town at the earliest.

• The eastbound train from Denver makes it believable that Miss Fairchild would be travelling to Washington, D.C. and Mr. Easton to Leavenworth, Kansas.

• The crowded train causes Mr. Easton and Miss Fairchild to interact, forcing Easton into the uncomfortable situation of seeing an acquaintance.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read the following sentence from paragraph 9:

Money has a way of taking wings unto itself (growing wings), and you know it takes money to keep step (keep up) with our crowd (friends) in Washington.

The author uses figurative language in this sentence most likely to

• emphasize that money can quickly disappear

• explain that money can fly out of the moving train

• demonstrate that money is important

• suggest that money is lightweight

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The Latin prefix counter-, meaning "duplicate" and the Latin root feit, meaning "to make" help the reader understand that the word counterfeiting in paragraph 7 means

• destroying a copy

• creating a fake

• producing an original

• preventing an imitation

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which sentence foreshadows Mr. Easton's true identity?

Hint: Look up the word foreshadow

• Among the newcomers were two young men, one of handsome presence with a bold, frank countenance and manner; the other a ruffled, glum-faced person, heavily built and roughly dressed.

• The younger man roused himself sharply at the sound of her voice, seemed to struggle with a slight embarrassment which he threw off instantly, and then clasped her fingers with his left hand.

• The glum-faced man had been watching the girl's countenance with veiled glances from his keen, shrewd eyes.

• The bound travelers rose to their feet, Easton with the same slow smile on his face.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which sentence suggests that Miss Fairchild admires Mr. Easton?

• "Well, Mr. Easton, if you will make me speak first, I suppose I must."

• Her lips parted in a vague, relaxing distress.

• "And so now you are one of these dashing Western heroes, and you ride and shoot and go into all kinds of dangers."

• The girl's eyes, fascinated, went back, widening a little, to rest upon the glittering handcuffs.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The details in paragraphs 21 through 23 help the reader infer that

HINT: Go back and re-read paragraphs 21-23

• Mr. Easton treats criminals with respect

• the glum-faced man is the marshal

• Mr. Easton has intimidated the other passengers

• the glum-faced man is younger than Mr. Easton

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which sentence best summarizes the plot of the story?

• Friends unexpectedly meet again while travelling east on a train.

• A marshal is reunited with a friend from his past while transporting a criminal to prison.

• Passengers on a train praise the kindness a marshal shows his prisoner.

• A marshal spares his prisoner embarrassment when a young lady greets the prisoner.

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CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Which quotation from the selection best helps to create suspense in the story?

HINT: look up the word suspense

• At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. express train.

• The young woman's glance fell upon them with a distant, swift disinterest.

• He slightly raised his right hand, bound at the wrist by the shining "bracelet" to the left one of his companion.

• "I could live and be happy in the West."

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4