from All the Light We Cannot See Fiction Review

Which sentence from the story uses imagery to show the impact music had on Werner?

• Werner is eight years old and ferreting about the in the refuse behind a storage shed when he discovers what looks like a large spool of thread. [paragraph 1]

• But Werner carries the receiver up to his attic dormer and studies it for hours. He disconnects everything that will disconnect; he lays its parts on the floor and holds them one by one to the light. [paragraph 6]

• He blinks; he has to swallow back tears. The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. A needle point of Frau Elena's snowy Alsatian village above the sink. Yet now there is music. [paragraph 16]

• Slowly, meticulously, he unwraps the coil, carries the entire looped mess downstairs, and calls Jutta inside to hold the pieces for him while he splices the breaks. Then he rewraps it. [paragraph 7]

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which sentence from the passage suggests that Werner will resolve the issue with the broken radio?

• Until now he has seen radios only in glimpses: a big cabinet wireless through the lace curtains of an official's house; a portable unit in a miners' dormitory; another in the curch refectory. [paragraph 4]

• He and Jutta smuggle the device back to Viktoriastrasse and appraise it beneath an electric lamp. [paragraph 5]

• Other children come and stand over them and marvel, then gradually lose interest and conclude it is hopeless. [paragraph 6]

• Slowly, meticuluosly, he unwraps the coil, carries the entire looped mess downstairs, and calls Jutta inside to hold the pieces for him while he splices the breaks. Then he rewraps it. [paragraph 7]

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Select the best three options to make up the summary for from All the Light We Cannot See.

• Werner and Jutta find a broken radio while they were playing outside

• Other children show some interest in the broken radio and then lose interest.

• Werner spends three weeks working tirelessly on the radio to fix it.

• He finally figures out what the problem is, and successfully fixes the radio.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

In paragraph 1, the word frayed means

• Unraveled

• Scorched

• Detached

• Tangled

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read this sentence from paragraph 6:

"He disconnects everything that will disconnect; he lays its parts out on the floor and holds them one by one to the light."

Based on this sentence the reader can conclude...

• Werner is destructive.

• Werner doesn't really care about the radio, other than to destroy it.

• Werner is mechanically inclined.

• Werner is confused about the strange contraption.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Read these sentences from paragraph 14:

"A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind."

The author uses personification in these sentences to illustrate - -

• how awe-struck Werner was to hear music for the first time from the radio.

• how unclimatic fixing the radio was for Werner.

• how depressing it was to hear the music for the first time through the radio.

• how perplexed Werner was that the radio was playing music.

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which event initiates the rising action of the excerpt?

• When Werner finally fixes the radio.

• When Werner and Jutta take the broken radio home.

• When Werner starts putting the radio back together.

• When Werner and Jutta hear the music for the first time.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The author builds tension in the middle of the excerpt --

• with the line, "static, static" as he turns the tuning pin.

• with Werner taking the radio apart and studying it.

• with Werner finally fixing the radio.

• with Jutta finally getting to hear the music.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1