The Hawk Can Soar

Which sentence part supports that the author is optimistic?

• turn and climb back into the driver’s seat and point my car south, toward home.

• the man and the hawk are gone

• and yet so familiar by now that I feel every turn

• In my ever hopeful bones.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which two sentences suggest ways in which the writer compares herself to the hawk in paragraph 16?

• She knows she can't soar.

  She is restrained.

• She has limited vision. 

  She likes hunting in the rain.

• She is restrained. 

  She dreams of independence.

• She knows she can soar. 

  She likes hunting in the rain. 

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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

In paragraph 9, the author uses personification to describe her —

• career 

• concern

• disability

• future

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

This story can be best described as

• biography

• autobiography, or memoir

• Science Fiction

• True Crime

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The main character can't walk very well because

• She got in a car crash

• she is very old

• she has a genetic disease that is slowly taking away her mobility

• she has suffered a heart attck

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The story opens up

• At the very beginning, where she first knows she is sick

• at the present day, where she is struggling to walk

• with a horrific accident

• with a hawk flying

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The ending of the story is hopeful and upbeat.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The story is set

• in the present day

• in the 1950's

• in the 1920's

• in 1855

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopeia

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When a story moves backward in time, it is called a

• flashback

• time warp

• personification

• flash forward

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5