Unit Review 10/14

What is the original meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt?

"Sticks and stones don't break bones,"

• A) People should not criticize others if they have similar problems.

• B) Sometimes, it is difficult for a person to make a decision.

• C) Words cannot actually hurt a person like sticks and stones can.

• D) A person who keeps moving has no responsibilities and no cares.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

How do Laura’s interactions with her husband reveal the conflict she experiences?

"She did not come straight out and disagree with her husband's plans. Instead, she fussed with him about reading the papers in bed..."

• A) She becomes an independent nobody and decides to reject her role as a high-class housewife and mother.

• B) She reads the newspapers with her husband to keep up on Dominican politics and plans a return to their homeland.

• C) Instead of getting used to her new life in America, she secretly hopes that her husband will return the family to the Dominican Republic.

• D) Instead of openly disagreeing with her husband’s desire to return to the Dominican Republic, she criticizes the foreign papers he reads.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

How do authors present and develop characters? Choose four answers.

• the way characters are described

• the situations in which the characters interact

• the number of characters in each chapter

• dialogue between characters

• conflicts within and between characters

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A(n) (a)   cannot be taken literally and must be understood as a whole.

• metaphor

• idiom
• literal

• expression

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Its long, graceful neck jerked twice into an S, then straightened out, and the bird was still. Even death did not mar its grace, and we stood around it, awed by its exotic beauty."

Based on this passage, the scarlet ibis is a symbol of both

• fragility and loveliness.

• sadness and disgrace.

• desperation and defeat.

• rarity and hopefulness.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Finally I went back and found him huddled beneath a red nightshade bush beside the road. He was sitting on the ground, his face buried in his arms, which were resting on his drawn-up knees. “Let’s go, Doodle,” I said."

In this excerpt, the imagery appeals primarily to which sense to help place the reader in the scene?

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What do Doodle’s repeated pleas of “Don’t leave me” foreshadow?

• Once the narrator returns to school, he leaves Doodle at home and forgets all of his plans to help him.

• After Doodle refuses to touch the casket, the narrator refuses to help Doodle and leaves him alone in the loft.

• Later in the story, the narrator races ahead and leaves Doodle to struggle behind during a terrible storm.

• When Doodle struggles to learn to walk, the narrator leaves and Doodle is left sitting alone in Old Woman Swamp.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"And from that time on, initiations didn't bother Millicent at all.... So many people were shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them. And really, you didn't have to belong to a club to feel related to other human beings."

Based on the indirect characterization, which is the most logical inference?

• Millicent is beginning to become unhinged from the initiations.

• Millicent is beginning to question her decision to join the sorority.

• Millicent is learning valuable information from the people she talks to.

• Millicent is learning how to manipulate people to get what she wants.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In 'Initiation,' one example of a character vs. self conflict is when Millicent

• worries about how her actions affect Tracy.

• feels pressure to go along with the initiation.

• worries about what orders Bev will give next.

• feels pressure to accept the sorority’s invitation.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Some sections of “Initiation” imply that Millicent will decline the sorority’s invitation. 

The rising action contributes to this implied resolution by showing:

• her feeling pride in becoming a candidate for the group.

• her beginning to question the way the group runs its operations.

• her completing the final challenges in the initiation.

• her waiting for her moment to confront the members of the sorority.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3