Roots/Fever 1793

The meaning of the root FAC is?

• Stars/heaven/space

• To hear

• Make/Do

• Life

The meaning of the root ASTRO is?

• Life

• Good/Well

• Time

• Stars/Heaven/Space

The Meaning of the root BENE is?

• Good/Well

• Life

• To hear

• Time

The meaning of the root CHRON is?

• Life

• Time

• To Hear

• good/Well

The meaning of the root AUD is?

• life

• good/well

• time

• To hear

The meaning of the root AUTO is ?

• Life

• Self

• Good/Well

• Heaven/Stars/Space

Thje meaning of the root BIO is?

• Self

• To hear

• Life

• Time

Which passage from the excerpt best supports the idea that Mrs. Bowles is trustworthy?

• “I sat on the hardest plank in the back next to a woman named Mrs. Bowles. Two boys huddled together for comfort.”

• Mrs. Bowles was a straight-backed woman dressed in Quaker gray.”

• “She was older than Mother, with kind eyes and laughter lines that curled around the sides of her mouth.”

  
  

• “Her neck was dirty and her dress was torn. I wanted to speak to her but couldn’t think of what to say.”

The passage below (paragraph 28) adds to the development of the text mainly by?

It was night in the middle of the day. Heat from the brick houses filled the street like a bake oven. Clouds shielded the sun, colors were overshot with gray. No one was about; businesses were closed and houses shuttered. I could hear a woman weeping. Some houses were barred against intruders. Yellow rags fluttered from railings and door knockers—pus yellow, fear yellow—to mark the homes of the sick and the dying. I caught sight of a few men walking, but they fled down alleys at the sound of the wagon.

• suggesting to the reader that it is winter

• showing how the city has become a grim and frightening place

• explaining why a yellow rag in front of a house is a sign for infection

  
  

• pointing out that the city is experiencing hot temperatures

This excerpt from Fever 1793 is told in the fill in the blank__________ tense, from a fill in the blank__________ point of view.

• past; first-person

• past; third-person

• present; first-person

• present; third-person