Boarded Window

If you are hearing someone tell a story about a story they heard, do you 100% trust their version of that story?

• Yes because everyone always tells the truth and never exaggerates or leaves out details

• No, it's secondhand information and I need to witness it firsthand to 100% believe the story

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the setting of the story (paragraph 1)?

• A few miles south of Soledad, California

• Salem, Massachusetts

• near Cincinnatti, Ohio

• London, England

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How does the narrator say Murlock supported himself in paragraph 1?

• by farming

• by making clothing

• by trading animal skins

• he was the local coroner

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How did the narrator know Murlock?

• he was told the story of Murlock's boarded window by his grandfather

• he knew him personally many years ago

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How did Murlock die?

• a panther killed him

• he drowned in the river

• he got trapped behind the boarded window

• natural causes

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Given his lack of success at farming, burying his wife, and saving her from a panther attack, which of the words below best characterizes Murlock?

• successful

• charming

• pugnacious

• failure

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How did Murlock's wife die?

• a fever and mysterious illness

• a panther attacked her

• natural causes

• he killed her in a rage

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Paragraphs 7 and 8 talk primarily about Murlock experiencing _______ after his wife died.

• happiness

• grief

• love

• disgust

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

"Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead..."

This passage from the story is an example of:

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• assonance

• personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

At the end of the story, the reader finds out Murlock's wife must have been alive when the panther attacked her, instead of having died from illness like Murlock thought. This is an example of:

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4