Ex-Basketball Player Poetry Quiz

Ex-Basketball Player Poetry Quiz

10th Grade

29 Qs

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Ex-Basketball Player Poetry Quiz

Ex-Basketball Player Poetry Quiz

Assessment

Quiz

English

10th Grade

Medium

TEK2.8B, TEK2.8D, TEK2.8F

+10

Standards-aligned

Created by

Debra Mims

Used 14+ times

FREE Resource

29 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Ex-Basketball Player" serves as an example of a narrative poem because it

reflects on death or other solemn, serious issues

tells a story in verse

celebrates or honors a person, object, or idea

expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker

Tags

TEK2.7

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The poem has which rhyme scheme?

abab cdcd efef gg

aabb ccdd eeff gg

abab cdcd efef gh

no rhyme scheme

Tags

TEK2.7B

3.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 3 pts

The narrator, or speaker, refers to himself as 'I'.

What point of view is the poem written in?

Tags

TEK2.8a

4.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

What inference can you make about the basketball player from the title of the poem?

Tags

TEK2.4F

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Trolley tracks" serves as an example of alliteration because it

sounds like what it does

has the same sound at the beginning of each word

has a repetition of vowel sounds

rhymes with words from other lines in the stanza

Tags

TEK2.8B

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The description of Pearl Avenue as "cut off/before it has a chance" could be a symbolic presentation of which of the following?

Flick being cut by equipment at work.

Failed opportunities to play ball.

How Flick gave up on his dreams.

Flick's dead-end future.

Tags

TEK2.8D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The garage "is on the corner facing west."

Facing the direction west has symbolic meaning. Which does West not symbolize?

hope. possibility, opportunity

new frontiers, adventure, exploration

the pursuit of seemingly impossible dreams

hopelessness, impossibility, failed opportunity

Tags

TEK2.8D

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