Part B: Which quotation from the selection best supports the answer to Part A?

Because now, so many years later, you can barely remember your victories (although there were some).

Humiliation and hilarity are closely linked, my little friend.

You spin on your backs. You windmill. In fact, you're not even that bad!

What if you hit it big at that contest? Would you be a professional break-dancer now?

Which detail most clearly shows that, as a teen, the author of "You Are the Electric Boogaloo" wanted to be famous?

You imagined the roaring crowd lifting you onto their shoulders

I love your silver butterfly pants (with forty-six zippers) ... Beautiful

... [W]hen security comes to escort you out, you scream, "Dancing is not a crime!"

Would success have gone to your head? Or would you be a rich banker? Or a lawyer?

Part B: Which quotation from the selection best supports the answer to Part A?

... [Y]ou joined every school club you could ... not to mention the numerous after-school activities you're involved in.

...[W]e need to talk. Don't worry about the "no talking in the library" rule. I'm sure we'll be fine. Librarians aren't as bad as they seem.

Judging from your hair and braces I'd have to guess you're in your junior year. Yes? Thought so.

We don't all have one single rock-star talent, and honestly, I think those of us who don't are the lucky ones.

Which comment from the author of "Just Be Yourself!" most clearly shows that the author enjoys work as an adult?

You'll eventually find something you're good at, I promise.

Don't recognize me without that awful perm, do you?

I'm still having nightmares about the fifth position!

Let me ask you, how's it all working out? Not very well, am I right?

The word mischief means "playful but annoying behavior." If someone suggests a mischievous idea, which of the following must be true? Base your answer on your knowledge of the word mischief and the Latin suffix -ous.

The idea is about an activity that sounds like fun but is going to cause trouble.

The idea is about participating in something that seems risky but is really safe.

The idea is about an activity that will be hard to do but enjoyable at the end.

The idea is about creating something that will surprise but please people.

Which sentence includes a verb in the indicative mood?

Break-dancing dates back to the 1970s.

Who is the most famous break-dancer of all time?

If you would like your dancing to improve, practice.

Please ask Mr. Rinaldo for a list of dance teachers in town.

Which sentence includes a verb in the interrogative mood?

Do you know where the library is located?

The Latin Club will meet at noon in the library.

If you want to join, you should come.

Which sentence includes a verb in the imperative mood?

Trust yourself to make the right decision.

We often face difficult choices in life.

To whom can a person turn for guidance?

If you make a bad choice, you'll know it!

In "Translating Grandfather's House," what has the speaker most likely been asked to do?

draw a picture of a relative's home

draw a picture of a made-up house

draw a picture of a favorite movie

draw a picture of a city building

Why does the speaker in "Translating Grandfather's House" draw a second picture?

The teacher thinks that he didn't follow the directions.

The first picture makes him homesick.

He can't think of a title for the first picture.

He decides that the first picture has incorrect details.

If you watch the sun set on the horizon, which of the following must be true? Base your answer on the meaning of horizon.

You are seeing the sun at the boundary between the earth and sky.

You are observing the sun setting over a body of water.

The sun is setting exactly when you thought it would.

The sunset is so bright that you cannot look at it for long.

Part B: Which quotation from the poem best supports the answer to Part A?

There is nothing I want to do / and too much / that has to be done

the boy I cannot live without / still sucks his thumb / in secret

I have to learn how to dance / in time for the next party

I should have been on the Math Team / my marks were better than his

The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Part A: In "Translating Grandfather's House," where is the house in the speaker's first picture?

in a beautiful place with rich soil

in a distant place with imaginary people

Part B: Which quotation from the poem best supports the answer to Part A?

Rows of lemon & mango / Trees frame the courtyard

The shadow of a palomino / Gallops on the lip / Of the horizon

"She was born there-- / Right there on the second floor!"

Classmates finish drawings of New York City / Housing Projects on Navy Street.

Which detail from "Translating Grandfather's House" most clearly shows that the speaker's memories are real?

The roof Oscar Jartin / Tumbled from one hot Tuesday ...

Memories once certain as rivets / Become confused

... [W]ith wildgrass / rising from sidewalk cracks like widows

Beaming, the teacher scrawls / an A+ in the corner....

Which statement presents a main way in which "Hanging Fire" and "Translating Grandfather's House" are similar in theme?

Both poems focus on the frustrations of a teenager's life.

Both poems focus on the absence of a caring mother.

Both poems focus on the fears that people have about the future.

Both poems focus on the difference between imagination and reality.

The speaker of "Hanging Fire" begins by saying, "I am fourteen / and my skin has betrayed me." What does the choice of the word betrayed most likely indicate about the personality of the speaker?

She feels that life wants to trouble her.

She cannot understand why she has problems.

She wishes that she were something other than human.

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