U4 My Antonia Quiz

What is most likely the author’s reason for including the following passage?

Much as I liked Ántonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me. She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner. Before the autumn was over, she began to treat me more like an equal and to defer to me in other things than reading lessons. This change came about from an adventure we had together.

• In the storytelling traditions of the Eastern European immigrants of the novel, every story begins by telling its end.

• The the author wants to inspire the reader to seek power.

• To be as vague as possible.

• He includes this passage so that the reader can see how the initial power dynamic between the two characters’ changes.

The excerpt from My Antonia is written in ​​ (a)   tense, from a ​​ (b)   point of view.

• past
• first person
• present
• third person

What is most closely the meaning of defer as it appears in the following excerpt?

Before the autumn was over, she began to treat me more like an equal and to defer to me in other things than reading lessons. This change came about from an adventure we had together.

• verb | suspend

• verb | delay

• verb | submit

• noun | poison

Which of the following selections best summarizes the characters and setting of the novel?

• It is about two young grifters raised in an orphanage who come to work on a farm in the upper Midwest of the late mid-1800s.

• It is about two skateboarders living in a farm town in Middle America in the 1980s.

• It is about two children who grow up on the Russian steppes in the years before the Revolution.

• It is about two young people growing up on the American prairie not long after it was settled by immigrants to farm.

What is most closely a theme of the following passage?

The dog-town was spread out over perhaps ten acres. The grass had been nibbled short and even, so this stretch was not shaggy and red like the surrounding country, but grey and velvety. The holes were several yards apart, and were disposed with a good deal of regularity, almost as if the town had been laid out in streets and avenues. One always felt that an orderly and very sociable kind of life was going on there. I picketed Dude down in a draw, and we went wandering about, looking for a hole that would be easy to dig. The dogs were out, as usual, dozens of them, sitting up on their hind legs over the doors of their houses. As we approached, they barked, shook their tails at us, and scurried underground. Before the mouths of the holes were little patches of sand and gravel, scratched up, we supposed, from a long way below the surface. Here and there, in the town, we came on larger gravel patches, several yards away from any hole. If the dogs had scratched the sand up in excavating, how had they carried it so far?

• The prairie dog-town is an eerie place that makes you wonder about the strange habits of the animals.

• The prairie-dogs have a unique and specific social order that is expressed in the layout of their ‘town’.

• Prairie dog-towns are striking in their resemblance to human cities.

• You’d better not let the sun go down on you in Prairie Dog-Town.

Which of these inferences is best supported by the following passage?

That snake hung on our corral fence for several days; some of the neighbors came to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts. This was enough for Ántonia. She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a supercilious air with me again. I had killed a big snake—I was now a big fellow.

• Jim is getting a too-high opinion of himself after killing the snake.

• The neighbors who think this is a big snake haven’t travelled far or seen much.

• Jim knows he was more lucky than brave but is willing to take the credit, especially from Ántonia.

• Ántonia’s guilt for having uselessly cried out in “bohunk” makes her give Jim more credit than he deserves.

What is the main idea of the description of the dog-town?

• The dogs in the town are very aggressive towards each other.

• The town is chaotic and disorganized.

• The town is described as sociable and orderly.

• The town is inhabited by cats instead of dogs.

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Main ideas and supporting details

How does the narrator describe the snake in the text?

• As thin as a stick

• As thick as the narrator's leg

• As long as a rope

• As short as a pencil

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How is the snake described in the passage?

• Graceful and elegant

• Small and harmless

• Monstrous and muscular

• Colorful and vibrant

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What does the passage describe about the setting of the dog-town and the behavior of the dogs?

• Sense of chaos and hostility in the town

• Sense of order and sociability in the town

• Sense of isolation and fear in the town

• Sense of unpredictability and danger in the town

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