Riverwood 10th World Lit Final Study Guide 23

How do the themes of "Beyond the Dumpster" and "Excerpt

from a College Brochure" relate to one another?

• The narrative is about the financial value behind

  going to college while the excerpt is not.

• Unlike the narrative, the excerpt focuses on the personal reasons why one should attend college.

• They both focus on the value of obtaining a college education.

• Unlike the excerpt, the narrative illustrates life's possibilities and excitement.

In "Beyond the Dumpster" how does the author's use of time help develop the ideas expressed by the narrator?

• The text takes place in the past to explain the narrator's life as a high school student as he plans for his future career.

• The text uses a flashback to illustrate the narrator's unhappiness for having made the wrong decision in life.

• The text begins in the past and ends in the present to show how the narrator ended up where he is now.

• The text takes place during the present to show the narrator's concern about his future and his success.

Which sentence from the text best demonstrates the fact that the author regrets his decision to not go to college and pursue a career where he could apply his artistic skills?

• Within the next ten minutes, the thought that I would have to give up six or seven years of my youth being in colleges squelched my vision, and I concluded that I was not going to be in a financial struggle as a student during the best years of my life.

• At the end of my senior year of high school, I looked through hundreds of job postings and finally found what I needed.

• I did not get a supervisor job, but I was told that if I started at the bottom, I could work my way up to that position within a few years.

• My lust for creativity is bottled up inside of me, ready to explode.

What is the author's main purpose for writing this passage?

• to explain the reasons why people in our society fail to obtain their dreams

• to entertain the readers through the use of comical language and events

• to describe the common events that mold a successful and profitable future

• to show the inner thoughts and perceptions of the narrator to develop the theme

How do paragraphs 4 and 5 contribute to the development of the plot?

• by creating a sense of anticipation about a formative experience that is about to take place

• by speeding up the events in the story in order to lead to a surprisingly dramatic conclusion

• by introducing a new character who will become closely connected to the narrator in the future

• by explaining the physical changes that contribute to the author’s new positive outlook

Which action of Rob's serves as the turning point in the text?

• drawing a scene from A

  Metamorphosis

• entering the comic book store

• looking through the book the man wrote

• asking how the man makes his books

How is the theme that growing up is challenging developed in the text?

• by showing how Rob struggles with finding an outlet for his creativity

• by describing that Rob now finds his old interests boring

• by suggesting that Rob is no longer close with his friends

• by explaining that Rob has difficulty speaking with adults

Which theme of the text does paragraph 6 help to develop?

• The narrator has outgrown comic books and art, and now he wants to write novels instead.

• The narrator believes that serious subjects should never be expressed in a comic book.

• The narrator prefers exciting stories about superheroes to stories about regular people.

• The narrator needs to find a new model of what's possible in order to push his art to a new level.

Which sentence from the text suggests that the narrator is not very confident about the quality of his own work?

• Before I could put my analysis of, say, Kafka's

  Metamorphosis into words, I had to work out my thoughts from the book in pictures: Gregor Samsa's shadowy bedroom, the crooked legs of the insect he had become.

• In my adolescent restlessness, I didn't have the patience for sketching sneakers, flowers, the tree in the school courtyard.

• Rob," I blurted, and while I was casting around for some coherent way to ask this man what I wanted to ask, he somehow beat me to it.

• "These are very fine," he said, and I must have looked like I didn't believe him, because he said it again, emphatically."

What tone does the author convey through the fi gurative language demonstrated in the following sentences from the passage?

Night falls like a black velvet cloak over a sunset–stained sky. A shower of silver dust streaks across the inky cloak and somewhere below someone makes a wish.

• enchanting

• appreciative

• brash

• comical