My Perspectives Unit 2 Poetry Collection

Read this final section from “Sonnet, With Bird.” Then, answer the question that follows.

14. A gathering of quail is called a bevy. A gathering of Indians is called a tribe. When quails speak, they call it a song. When Indians sing, the air is heavy with grief. When quails grieve, they lie down next to their dead. When Indians die, the quail speaks.

What do the details in this passage suggest are the reasons that the speaker associates quails with Indians? Choose two options.

• Both sing tuneless songs.

• Both live together in groups.

• Both grieve when comrades die.

• Both wear feathered headdresses.

• Both have very small populations.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What is the meaning of the root word log? (choose two answers)

• to speak

• study or theory of

• wood

• an idea

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

"You dug your hands into my pale, melting fur."

To which senses does this image most appeal? Choose two options.

• sight

• taste

• smell

• touch

• sound

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Which word goes with the definition: extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

• Contempt

• Spitefully

• Distress

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Which of these sentences has correct parallel structure?

• Lil Wayne is in art class; he prefers sketching and color.

• When Drake goes to the beach, he enjoys surfing and swimming.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

Which of the following characteristics is true of a traditional sonnet?

• It has a first-person point of view.

• It is at least fourteen lines in length.

• It is structured as three quatrains and a couplet.

• It expresses love or some other powerful emotion.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

Which word throws off the parallel structure of the sentence and should be changed? Kodak Black likes to read, rap, and cooking.

• Cooking

• Read

• Rap

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which of the following has the most negative connotation?

• Cluttered

• Disorganized

• Nasty

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme for the following lines:

The sun is shining bright

This is a lovely sight.

You are like a day of May

And I as worthless as hay.

• ABAB

• AAAB

• ABBA

• AABB

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Part B Which of these quotations from “Sonnet, With Bird” best supports the answer to Part A?

• (Part B) … on the second plane flight of my life, I traveled to London to promote my first internationally published book.

• (Part B) I miss the intensity of a conversation measured by a dwindling stack of quarters.

• (Part B) I kept thinking, “I am the only Indian in this country right now. I’m the only Indian within a five-thousand-mile circle.”

• (Part B) In my strange little hotel near the Tate, I had to wear my suit coat to eat breakfast in the lobby restaurant.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10