The Long Way Home

Which of the following situations best illustrates the word quest?

• Alex has trouble understanding the author’s ideas.

• Bonita will ride her horse in the annual competition.

• Caroline always raises her hand during the presentations.

• Damon has been looking for the perfect winter hike for years now.

If you do a thorough cleaning of your room, which of the following is most likely to be true? Base your answer on the meaning of thorough.

• You determine where the dirt is and focus on cleaning that part.

• You divide your room into quadrants and clean a bit of each.

• You are careful to dust and vacuum every inch of the room.

• You use cleaning products that mask any unpleasant odors.

If a runner relentlessly trains for a race, which of the following is most likely to be true? Base your answer on the meaning of relentlessly.

• She does not accept help from a trainer.

• She runs faster each day that she trains.

• She acts harshly toward fellow runners.

• She exercises intensely and constantly.

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what does the narrator remember about his original hometown? Choose two options.

• the language spoken there

• the name of the state

• the railway station

• the mountains

• the ocean

In the selection from A Long Way Home, how does the narrator use Google Earth to search for his original home?

• He focuses on every train station in India to find the one he remembers.

• He starts at Kolkata and searches the train lines working outward.

• He scans the entire map of India to find landmarks he recalls.

• He traces the rivers of India from the sea inland.

In the selection from A Long Way Home, why does the narrator’s girlfriend sometimes close his laptop and put it away?

• She wants him to give up his search

• She believes that he is becoming too absorbed

• She wants him to participate in the conversation.

• She fears that he will never succeed in finding his home.

In the selection from A Long Way Home, what are the narrator’s reasons for looking for his long-lost home? Choose two options.

• to question his elders

• to understand his past

• to reclaim his inheritance

• to speak his native tongue

• to reconnect with his family

What is the first landmark found by the narrator of the selection from A Long Way Home that makes him believe that he may have found his destination?

• a school

• a windmill

• an alleyway

• a water tower

What is the meaning of the suffix -ive in the underlined word?

• able to be

• tending to

• resembling

• process of making

Read the following excerpt from the selection from A Long Way Home.

Could it be—perhaps it was the ring road I used to be able to see from the platform! Was it possible? I closed my eyes and went back twenty four years in time to when I would walk to the station’s exit and see the ring road with an island in the middle. I thought to myself, This is unique; I haven’t seen this before.

• calm

• fear

• excitement

• confusion