CORRECTIONS STAAR Passage #5 - A New Life in New Amsterdam

The author of the story used the action scene in paragraph 1 to-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/809846c44b84c1a382fc1882

• establish the time period
• establish the time of day
• hook the reader
• describe Anna

Judging from the elements of the first selection, the reader can conclude that it is an example of-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/90ae5bdd30aa73d01dcd50ea

• science fiction
• historical fiction
• literary nonfiction
• folktale

Read this sentence from paragraph 7. "Our journey is a sour apple." The author uses this sentence to-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/386dc8ba4b68ead2548111b8

• emphasize how all of the fruit Anna is selling has gone bad
• emphasize how sad Claes and Jannetie feel about their loss
• emphasize how disappointed and hopeless Jannetie feels about the robbery
• compare Claes and Jannetie's trip to rot

Anna's mother was upset in paragraph 21 because-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/7dd3afb814ad66598f8a43b2

• Anna did not buy the right vegetables at the market.
• Anna did not buy enough vegetables at the market.
• Anna did not sell enough vegetables at the market.
• Anna gave away vegetables for a locket at the market.

Anna almost doesn't recognize Claes and Jannetie in paragraph 32 because-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/60a3a2f82fcb0fea05570d89

• it has been a full year since she last saw them
• she doesn't know them very well to begin with
• she can barely see them in the crowd on the docks
• they are wearing much fancier clothes than when they last met

In paragraph 38, the word perplexed means-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/dcc1c08d68f90aebc4c5a3df

• happy
• complicated
• excited
• confused

To repay the Cortlandts for their generosity, Jannetie and Claes-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/9547bd4184732b0d8c9ddf1f

• give them the two carrots and radishes they owed them
• finally pay them the money for the vegetables
• give them a home to live in and jobs on their farm
• pay for the vegetables with the locket

What theme do both the selection and the poem share? https://talkandcomment.com/p/d72f1580350aa347ec0bcf9e

• One good turn deserves another.
• Always pay your debts.
• Always look on the bright side.
• No act of kindness is ever wasted.

The mood of the poem is best described as-- https://talkandcomment.com/p/60d454808e79b92e79f89706

• chastising
• melancholy
• optimistic
• antagonistic

Read these lines from stanza 4. "Our thoughts are broadcasts or the soul, Not secrets of the brain. Kind ones bring us happiness, Petty ones, untold pain." What does the speaker mean by this? https://talkandcomment.com/p/d4bc3ab6f307f034eb0c7dc4

• that everyone can read your thoughts, and good thoughts make others happy and bad thoughts make others sad.
• that our thoughts affect our whole being, and kind thoughts make us happy and unkind thoughts make us sad.
• that you cannot hide from bad thoughts, so think only good ones
• that nice people bring us happiness, and mean people bring us pain