Selection Test: By Any Other Name

Prior to the sisters’ arrival at the Anglo-Indian school in “By Any Other Name,” who taught Premila and Santha?

• their ayah

• their father

• their mother

• an Indian tutor

When the teacher in “By Any Other Name” asks the narrator to tell the class her name, why does the narrator respond that she doesn’t know?

• She does not want to say her Indian name.

• She is shy and afraid of the other children.

• She wants to rebel against the teacher’s authority.

• She is unsure whether to say her real name or her English name.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In “By Any Other Name,” why are the Indian children separated during the test in Premila’s class?

• Their scores will be figured in a different way.

• The teacher thinks that otherwise they will cheat.

• The Indian children are not expected to take the test.

• Their test is different from the one for the English children.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of intimidated in this sentence?

My sister was always less easily intimidated than I was, and while she kept a stubborn silence, I said, “Thank you,” in a very tiny voice.

• muted

• provoked

• ill-mannered

• filled with fear

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of tepid in this sentence?

We quarreled in our usual way, waded in the tepid water under the lime trees, and waited for the night to bring out the smell of the jasmine.

• bottomless

• lukewarm

• deep-sea

• polar

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the context suggest is the most likely meaning of palpitating in this sentence?

Occasionally it would shoot out its long yellow tongue for a fly, and then it would rest, with its eyes closed and its belly palpitating, as though it were swallowing several times quickly.

• rigid

• pulsing

• growling

• horizontal

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Santha and Cynthia are

• sisters.

• mother and daughter.

• best friends.

• the same person.

How does Santha feel about “Cynthia’?

• Competitive, envious

• Detached, uninterested

• Loving, affectionate

• Friendly, casual

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the author most clearly reveal by including the story in which the headmistress changes the girls’ names?

• the eagerness of children to learn and change

• the difficult characteristics of Indian proper names

• the desire of the English to convert the world around them

• the school’s attempt to make Indian children feel welcome

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

To the narrator, the word apple is

• unfamiliar.

• silly.

• significant.

• babyish.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4