Woodsong Quiz

Which of the following inferences best explains the author’s feelings in the first two paragraphs of the excerpt?

I lived in innocence for a long time. I believed in the fairy-tale version of the forest until I was close to forty years old.

Gulled by Disney and others, I believed Bambi always got out of the fire. Nothing ever really got hurt. Though I hunted and killed it was always somehow clean and removed from reality. I killed yet thought that every story had a happy ending.

• The author believes hunting is unjust.

• The author’s mother forced him to hunt.

• The author once believed in a version of the forest that was removed from reality.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

The author’s inclusion of the Navajo prayer in the following passage (paragraphs 6-8) most likely suggests that...

Part of the chant of an ancient Navajo prayer rolled through my mind:

Beauty above me

Beauty below me

Beauty before me...

That is how I felt then and frequently still feel when I am running dogs. I was in and of beauty and at that precise moment a doe, a white-tailed deer, exploded out of some willows on the left side of the team, heading down the bank toward the lake.

• he feels a spiritual connection with nature

• his ancestors were Navajo

• he is afraid and is seeking the help of a higher power

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does following passage most likely suggest about the author (paragraphs 13-15)?

Wolves.

They bounded over the trail after the doe even as I watched. These were not the large timber wolves but the smaller northern brush wolves, perhaps weighing forty or fifty pounds each, about as large as most of my team. I think they are called northern coyotes.

Except that they act as wolves. They pack and have pack social structures like timber wolves, and hunt in packs like timber wolves.

• That he is knowledgeable about the animals he’s describing

• That he is afraid that the wolves will attack him and his dogs

• That he is proud of his team of dogs

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which of the following selections best expresses the central idea the passage below (paragraph 26)?

In all my time in the woods, in the wondrous dance of it, I have many times seen predators fail. As a matter of fact, they usually fail. I once saw a beaver come out of a hole on the ice near his lodge in the middle of winter and stand off four wolves. He sustained one small bite on his tail and inflicted terrible damage with his teeth on the wolves, killing one and wounding the other three. I have seen rabbits outwit foxes and watched red squirrels tease martens and get away with it, but this time it was not to be.

• Smaller animals cannot outrun their predators for very long.

• Animals do not typically venture outside of their own habitats.

• Animals in the forest frequently escape a violent death, but there are never any guarantees.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

Which sentence from the passage best expresses the central idea identified in Question 4?

• “In all my time in the woods, in the wondrous dance of it, I have many times seen predators fail.”

• “I have seen rabbits outwit foxes and watched red squirrels tease martens and get away with it, but this time it was not to be.”

• “I once saw a beaver come out of a hole on the ice near his lodge in the middle of winter and stand off four wolves.”

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

"Gulled by Disney and others, I believed Bambi always got out of the fire. Nothing ever really got hurt."

What is a synonym for the underlined word?

• harmed

• climbed

• fooled

• galloped

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"He sustained one small bite on his tail and inflicted terrible damage with his teeth on the wolves, killing one and wounding the other three."

What is a synonym for the underlined word?

• suffered

• climbed

• fooled

• galloped

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"He sustained one small bite on his tail and inflicted terrible damage with his teeth on the wolves, killing one and wounding the other three."

What is the definition of the underlined word?

• showing determination or focused attention

• to cause harm or damage

• clearly defined and accurate

• to run at steady, easy pace; gallop slowly

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

"That is how I felt then and frequently still feel when I am running dogs. I was in and of beauty and at that precise moment a doe, a white-tailed deer, exploded out of some willows."

What is the definition of the underlined word?

• showing determination or focused attention

• to cause harm or damage

• clearly defined and accurate

• to run at steady, easy pace; gallop slowly

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"There were seven of them and not one looked down the trail to see me as they jumped across the sled tracks after the deer. They were so intent on her, and the smell of her, that I might as well not have existed."

What is the definition of the underlined word?

• showing determination or focused attention

• to cause harm or damage

• clearly defined and accurate

• to run at steady, easy pace; gallop slowly

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4