The Hawk Can Soar Quiz
Authored by Rodrick Thomas
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10th Grade
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This quiz focuses on literary analysis of a memoir, specifically examining how an author uses various literary techniques and narrative strategies to convey her experience with disability. The questions assess 10th-grade reading comprehension and analytical skills, requiring students to analyze author's purpose, narrative structure, figurative language, mood, diction, and literary devices such as personification, allusion, and symbolism. Students must demonstrate understanding of advanced vocabulary in context, interpret the significance of literary allusions to Greek mythology and Don Quixote, analyze purposeful sentence fragments, and examine how metaphorical comparisons between the narrator and a hawk develop the memoir's central themes. The core concepts students need include recognizing how authors manipulate chronological structure for effect, understanding how personal narrative techniques create emotional impact, and analyzing how symbolic imagery reinforces thematic content about identity, loss, and resilience. Created by Rodrick Thomas, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 10. This quiz serves as an excellent assessment tool for students studying memoir as a literary genre and developing advanced textual analysis skills. Teachers can utilize this quiz for formative assessment after students have read and discussed the complete memoir, or as a summative evaluation of students' ability to analyze complex literary techniques. The quiz works effectively as homework following class discussions about disability narratives, author's craft, or literary symbolism, and can also function as review material before unit tests on memoir analysis. The questions align with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4, as students must cite textual evidence, determine themes, analyze character development, and interpret figurative language and literary devices within this complex personal narrative.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
The author most likely narrates her essay out of chronological order to help convey her —
memories and thoughts about her disease
anger about her disease and its history
medical condition and its treatment
career history and hopes for the future
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.6
CCSS.RI.8.9
CCSS.RL.8.6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
In paragraph 3, the author most likely includes information about her family's history to —
explain the time it takes to recognize the disease
give the reader more information about her personality
offer a scientific medical diagnosis
help readers understand how lucky she has been
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.6
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
CCSS.RI.8.6
3.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
Impossible to disprove; unquestionable.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
The term chimera in paragraph 7 alludes to a monster in Greek mythology composed of parts from multiple animals, commonly a lion, goat, and snake. By describing her thoughts as a chimera, the author most likely intends to —
describe the range of different thoughts she has
emphasize the implausibility of her thoughts
prove how monstrous her thoughts feel
show which way her thoughts are pulling her
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
The phrase 'tilting at windmills' alludes to an event in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes where the protagonist imagines he is fighting giants when he is actually fighting windmills. What does the phrase 'tilting at windmills' likely mean in paragraph 7?
Fighting in battle
Fighting to spite others
Fighting for a better reality
Fighting in vain
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
6.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
Spreading harmfully in a subtle way.
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
7.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
Eventually, however, I am disabled. Disabled. Like this word is the sum total of my existence. That dragging leg. That dropping foot. That unbearable fatigue. A woman with a rollator moving slowly through the world. These things signal my difference whenever I move. They are obvious. Unrestrained.
Which two sentences from paragraph 8 are purposeful fragments?
Eventually, however, I am disabled.
That dragging leg.
A woman with a rollator moving slowly through the world.
These things signal my difference whenever I move.
They are obvious.
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RI.8.8
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.9-10.1
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