BM1 Comprehensive Study Guide: My Antonia

Read the sentence from paragraph 2. Beyond Chicago, we were under the protection of an amiable passenger conductor, who knew all about the country to which we were going and gave us a great deal of advice in exchange for our confidence. Which two words define amiable as it is used in the sentence?

• cooperative

• friendly

• passive

• sociable

• worrisome

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read the sentences below from paragraph 9.

He might have stepped directly out of the pages of my Life of Jesse James. He wore a sombrero hat, with a wide leather band and a bright buckle, and the ends of his moustache were twisted up stiffly. . . . He looked lively and ferocious. . . . A long scar ran across one cheek and drew the corner of his mouth up into a sinister curl; the top of his left ear was gone, and his skin was brown. Surely this was the face of a desperado.

Which statement describes the author’s use of figurative language in this paragraph?

• The author uses simile to express the likelihood of the hired hand being an outlaw.

• The author uses hyperbole to make the setting and characters that Jim meets seem more sinister.

• The author uses alliteration to emphasize the accepted attire of cowboys in the West and how Jim appeared out of place in comparison.

• The author uses allusion to make a comparison between the rough appearance of the hired man and the characters from his book about Jesse James.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read paragraph 6 below. What can be inferred about how the narrator feels in this paragraph?

• He hates Nebraska.

• He is weary from travelling.

• He is bored of the landscape.

• He has an unreliable memory.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Based on the interaction between Jimmy and the passenger conductor in paragraphs 3-5, what can be inferred about Jimmy’s reaction?

• Jimmy is not interested in the girl.

• Jimmy thinks the passenger conductor is rude.

• Jimmy prefers to read than interact with the passenger conductor.

• Jimmy becomes shy from the passenger conductor’s comment on the girl.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Select two paragraphs that support the inference that the family members the passenger conductor mentioned are immigrants.

• paragraph 1

• paragraph 2

• paragraph 4

• paragraph 6

• paragraph 7

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which statement best explains the central idea of paragraph 2?

• Travel can offer the opportunity to learn about fraternal orders.

• Travel can be a time to learn about the work of newsboys.

• Travel can offer the best opportunity for leisurely reading.

• Travel can be uncomfortable as well as interesting.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Select the two sentences from paragraphs 2-3 that best support the idea that Jake and the narrator trusted the passenger conductor.

• Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch charm, and for me, a Life of Jesse James, which I remember as one of the most satisfactory books I have ever read.

• Beyond Chicago, we were under the protection of an amiable passenger conductor, who knew all about the country to which we were going and gave us a great deal of advice in exchange for our confidence.

• He seemed to us an experienced and worldly man who had been almost everywhere; in his conversation he threw out lightly the names of distant states and cities.

• He wore the rings and pins and badges of different fraternal orders to which he belonged; even his cuff buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.

• Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in the immigrant car ahead, there was a family from 'across the water,' whose destination was identical to ours.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Read this sentence from paragraph 6. Probably by that time I had crossed so many rivers that I was dull to them. Which two words define dull as it is used in the sentence?

• accustomed

• indecisive

• energized

• indifferent

• thrilled

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which word best describes the narrator's point of view toward the immigrant girl?

• confident

• sheepish

• arrogant

• envious

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Read the sentence below from paragraph 2. He wore the rings and pins and badges of different fraternal orders to which he belonged; even his cuff buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk. Which statement describes the author's use of figurative language in the sentence?

• The author uses personification to make the cuff buttons seem lifelike.

• The author uses a metaphor to explain the reason for the conductor's jewelry.

• The author uses hyperbole to make comparisons to an Egyptian statue.

• The author uses a simile to express the darkness of the inscriptions on the uniform.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5