Forgiveness Project/What's the Point of Forgiveness Test

What major life experience does the author explore in “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax”?

• His experience as a prisoner of war in Thailand.

•  His unique friendship with a Japanese railroad worker.

• His life as a soldier in the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939.

• His experiences with his wife after coming home from World War II.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What does the author first dream of doing to his interrogator in “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax”?

• forgiving him for his crimes

• talking to him to release his feelings

• demanding money from him as retribution

• torturing the man as the man had tortured him

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax,” how does the author learn about what happened to Nagase Takashi?

• The author receives a letter from him.

• The author’s wife hears about his life.

• The author searches for information about him.

• The author learns about him through a medical foundation.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

What does the author realize after talking with Nagase Takashi in “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax”?

• Forgiveness can never happen without an apology.

• Forgiveness does not help the victim forget the past.

• Forgiveness is possible when people have a lot in common.

• Forgiveness is always possible when someone is ready for it.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

What is the meaning of impregnable in the following sentence from “The Forgiveness Project”? 

The privacy of the torture victim is more impregnable than any island fortress.

• quiet and peaceful

• defeated and overcome

• impossible to break through

• destroyed beyond recognition

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Which word from the sentence best provides a context clue to the meaning of the word impregnable in this sentence:

The privacy of the torture victim is more impregnable than any island fortress.

• privacy

• torture

• victim

• fortress

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Based on its context, which meaning of the word notion does the author use in the following quotation from “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax”?

I was skeptical. I couldn’t believe in the notion of Japanese repentance.

• desire

• knowledge

• small item

• idea or concept

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which of the following ideas about forgiveness does the author convey in “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax”?

• Forgiveness grows easier with the passage of time.

• Forgiveness can help victims move on from trauma.

• Forgiveness should only be given after a sincere apology.

• Forgiveness should be offered to all those who commit crimes.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

According to “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax,” what effect did the author’s negative feelings toward his torturer have on the author?

• They filled him with unhappiness that he could not escape.

• They protected him from worse feelings about himself.

• They enabled him to move on with his life.

• They made him able to forgive his torturer.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

Which quotation from “The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax” best supports what effect the author’s negative feelings toward his torturer have on the author?

• I also had intense hatred for the Japanese, and was always looking for ways and means to do them down.

• I strongly suspected that if I were to meet him I’d put my hands round his neck and do him in.

• For the first time I was able to unload the hate that had become my prison.

• The letter he wrote back was full of compassion, and I think at that moment I lost whatever hard armor I had wrapped around me and began to think the unthinkable.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3