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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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

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