The End and the Beginning (Selection Quiz))
Authored by Majida Halaby
English
9th Grade
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This quiz assesses 9th grade students' understanding of poetic analysis through close reading of "The End and the Beginning," focusing on literary devices, tone, and thematic interpretation. Students must demonstrate mastery of several key concepts including identifying the purpose and effect of literary techniques such as repetition, figurative language, and imagery. The questions require students to analyze how specific word choices create tone, interpret symbolic meaning, and understand how poets develop central themes through various structural and stylistic elements. Students need strong skills in making inferences about authorial intent, recognizing shifts in tone and mood, and synthesizing textual evidence to support interpretations about the poem's central message regarding war's aftermath and how collective memory fades over time. Created by Majida Halaby, an English teacher in Lebanon who teaches grade 9. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for formative assessment following close reading instruction on war poetry and can be effectively used as a review activity before summative assessments on literary analysis. Teachers can implement this quiz as a guided practice session to help students develop their analytical writing skills or assign it as homework to reinforce classroom discussions about poetic devices and thematic development. The quiz works particularly well as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before exploring additional war literature or as a checkpoint to gauge student understanding of complex literary concepts. This assessment aligns with standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1 for citing textual evidence, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 for determining word meaning and tone, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2 for analyzing theme development, making it an invaluable resource for building critical reading skills essential for high school English success.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What is the purpose of the following lines:
"Photogenic it’s not,
and takes years.
All the cameras have left
for another war."
describe how photographers find beauty in war
emphasize that there are always other wars
clarify that wars can go on for many years
explain the importance of photographic records of war
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which tone does the phrase unsevered head in line 29 create?
hopeful
formal
ironic
angry
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What is the most likely reason the poet repeats the word little in the following lines:
"those who know little.
And less than little.
And finally as little as nothing."
to show that the war is not very serious
to demonstrate how the memory of the war stays with all generations
to convey the reduced memories of war
place the burden of remembering on the reader
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the last stanza, who must be stretched out / blade of grass in his mouth / gazing at the clouds?
A soldier who has fought in the war
Someone who is exhausted from rebuilding
A person who has forgotten about the war
The child of someone who has died
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following excerpts is an example of figurative language?
After every war / someone has to clean up.
Someone, broom in hand, / still recalls the way it was.
someone still unearths / rusted-out arguments
someone must be stretched out
blade of grass in his mouth
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which line signifies the shift in tone in the poem?
Someone has to glaze a window,
rehang a door.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
But already there are those nearby
starting to mill about who will find it dull.
All the cameras have left
for another war.
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the purpose of the repetition of the phrase "someone has to"?
to show that people are happy to work together
to minimize the effects of the war
to show that people are moving on
to emphasize the repetitive nature of the work that has to be done
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
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