from A Long Way Home Review Quizizz

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what does the narrator remember about his original hometown? Choose two options.

• the language spoken there

• the name of the state

• the railway station

• the mountains

In the selection from A Long Way Home, how does the narrator use Google Earth to search for his original home?

• he focuses on every train station in India to find the one he remembers

• he starts at Kolkata and searches the train lines working outward

• he scans the entire map of India to find landmarks he recalls

• he traces the rivers of India from the sea inland

In the selection from A Long Way Home, why does the narrator's girlfriend sometimes close his laptop and put it away?

• she wants him to give up on his search

• she believes that he is becoming too absorbed

• she wants him to participate in the conversation

• she fears that he will never succeed in finding his home

In the selection from A Long Way Home what are the narrator's reasons for looking for his long-lost home? Choose two options.

• to question his elders

• to understand his past

• to reclaim his inheritance

• to reconnect with his family

What is the first landmark found by the narrator of the selection from A Long Way Home that makes him believe that he may have found his destination?

• a school

• a windmill

• an alleyway

• a water tower

Which of the following situations best illustrates the word quest?

• Alex has trouble understanding the author's ideas.

• Bonita will ride her horse in the annual competition.

• Carolina always raises her hand during the presentations.

• Damon has been looking for the perfect winter hike for years now.

If you do a thorough cleaning of your room, which of the following is most likely to be true? Base your answer on the meaning of thorough.

• You determine where the dirt is and focus on cleaning that part.

• You divide your room into quadrants and clean a bit of each.

• You are careful to dust and vacuum every inch of the room.

• You use cleaning products that mask any unpleasant odors.

If a runner relentlessly trains for a race, which of the following is most likely to be true? Base your answer on the meaning of relentlessly.

• She does not accept help from a trainer.

• She runs faster each day that she trains.

• She acts harshly toward fellow runners.

• She exercises intensely and constantly.

Read the following paragraph from the selection from A Long Way Home.

Still, even with the possibility of some winding, irregular paths out of Howrah. there was also a limit to how far I could have been transported in the time frame. I'd spent, I thought, a long time on the train-somewhere between 12-15 hours. If I made some calculations, I could narrow the search field, ruling out places too far away.

Why can the narrator now "narrow the search field?"

• he recognizes one of the irregular paths out of Howrah Station

• he feels confident that faraway places do not connect to Howrah Station

• he guesses that his home was less than 15 hours from Howrah Station

• he realizes that the winding paths from Howrah Station do not extend very far

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what is especially difficult about the narrator's search?

• the search covers a huge area

• the search is in a foreign country

• the narrator no longer speaks Hindi

• the narrator remembers no landmarks