Ball Hawk Test

PART A: What is the point of view of the short story Ball Hawk?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Omniscient

PART B: What explanation best supports your answer to Part A?

• The narrator is part of the story and is experiencing what is being told from his perspective.

  
  

• The narrator is describing what he sees happening and is sharing the feelings and thoughts of one character.

  
  

• The narrator is describing what he sees happening and sharing the feelings and thoughts of many characters.

  
  

• The narrator is telling the story to the audience as if they are the character in the story.

  
  

• The narrator is describing what he sees happening without sharing the feelings and thoughts of any characters.

  
  

Read the following sentence from paragraph 6: "True, I’d always been good at other sports like

football and wrestling, but baseball had me buffaloed. "

Based on the sentence, what is the meaning of buffaloed?

• confused and overwhelmed

• excited and surprised

• upset and angered

• interested and intrigued?

"I looked over toward the stands. My mom was smiling and nodding at me, even though she had both fits clenched around her soda can so hard that it looked like an hour glass."

What does the excerpt reveal about the narrator?

• The narrator probably feels angry that his mother is making him play baseball.

• The narrator probably feels pressure to do well so he can make his mother proud.

• The narrator probably feels sad because he knows that he won't be able to hit the ball.

• The narrator probably feels excited because he knows that he will make his mother proud.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

Which internal struggles does the narrator face in the story?

• The narrator struggles with missing his dad.

• The narrator is made fun of by the opposing team and their pitcher.

• The narrator has to decide whether to quit the baseball team or not.

• The narrator feels guilt for not being a very good baseball player.

• The narrator's ball is taken by a hawk during the game.

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CCSS.RL.7.2

Directions: Using the text to the right, identify which part of the plot is described.

c

Falling Action

Climax - defining moment

Exposition - beginning of story

Rising action - events that lead to clim

Resolution - how conflict is resolved.

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CCSS.RL.7.3

Directions: Using the text to the right, identify which part of the plot is described.

a

Rising action - events that lead to clim

Climax - defining moment

Falling Action

Resolution - how conflict is resolved.

Exposition - beginning of story

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CCSS.RL.7.3

Directions: Using the text to the right, identify which part of the plot is described.

d

Falling Action

Resolution - how conflict is resolved.

Rising action - events that lead to clim

Exposition - beginning of story

Climax - defining moment

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

Directions: Using the text to the right, identify which part of the plot is described.

e

Climax - defining moment

Rising action - events that lead to clim

Falling Action

Exposition - beginning of story

Resolution - how conflict is resolved.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

Directions: Using the text to the right, identify which part of the plot is described.

e

Rising action - events that lead to clim

Exposition - beginning of story

Climax - defining moment

Resolution - how conflict is resolved.

Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3