EOC Review: Multiple Choice Day

Why can’t the boys go explore he haunted house?

• 1. They are tired.

• 1. It’s Friday, and Huck had a bad dream

• 1. They cannot find the tools that they will need.

• 1. It’s too late in the day to start on the journey.

What inference can you draw from the passage?

• 1. The boys are concerned only with very practical matters.

• 1. The scene takes place on a

     dreary and dark day.

• 1. The people of this culture have

     an ancient belief that rats are

     sacred

• 1. The boys share their beliefs in

     popular and common

     superstitions.

The boys share their beliefs in

popular and common superstitions.

Which quote from the passage BEST supports the above inference about Tom and Huck?

• 1. There’s some lucky days,

     maybe, but Friday ain’t.”

• 1. “Looky here, Tom, do you know

     what day it is?”

• 1. “We’ll drop this thing for today,

     and play.”

• 1. “Blame it, a body can’t be too

     careful, Huck.”

Which statement would the author MOST agree with?

• 1. Poe taught French writers how to

     exactly duplicate his style of story writing

• 1. Poe worked very hard to become one

     the greatest American poets of all

     time.

• 1. Poe invented and mastered the modern

     and popular art of horror genre.

• 1. Poe was an untalented, unremarkable,

     American poet who become insane.

Which inference can you make about Poe?

• 1. He influenced writers worldwide, past

     and present, by his style of writing.

• 1. He was an unfortunate, unhappy man

     who did not achieve success in his

     lifetime.

• 1. He was not as talented as fellow poets

     Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell and

     Holmes.

• 1. He was talented, but he never made

     any money from writing poems or short stories.

Throughout the text, the author describes the air as thick and stifling. What BEST describes what the stifling air symbolizes?

• 1. the crowds, which the narrator does

     not like

• 1. the town, which is also stifling

• 1. the smoke from the pipes, which

     makes it hard to breathe

• 1. the window, which will not open