Selecting Text Evidence to Support Inferences

Read these sentences from the story. "These things might be theirs no longer. Those shafts and pools of light, the tree, the graceful iron, might soon be viewed possessively by different eyes."

• A. They show that the family regrets that others will enjoy these things instead of them.

• B. They create a gloomy atmosphere that expresses the family's sadness.

• C. They give the impression that the garden is too lovely for anyone to own.

• D. They warn that other people have tried unsuccessfully to purchase the home.

When mama talks about moving into a nice apartment somewhere, she is really just trying to make Helen and Maude Martha feel better about moving. Which sentence from the passage best supports this assertion?

• A. "These things might soon be theirs no longer."

• B. "Somewhere on South Park, or Michigan, or in Washington Park Court."

• C. "Those flats, as the girls and mama knew well, were burden on wages twice the size of Papa's."

• D. "And I have other friends that wouldn't come down this far for anything, unless they were in a taxi."

Maud Martha does not believe at all that moving might be a good thing, as Helen and Mama suggest. Which sentence from the passage best supports this inference?

• A. "We'll be moving into a nice flat somewhere, said Mama."

• B. "I have friends I'd just not bring here."

• C. "She merely gazed at a little hopping robin in the tree, her tree, and tried to keep the font of her eyes dry."

• D. "She knew from the way they looked at here that this had been a mistake."

The house represents the following to the characters in the story...

• A. Comfort

• B. Togetherness

• C. Money

• D. A & B

The formula for inferring includes the following...

• A. My opinion

• B. Facts

• C. Clues from the text and my prior knowledge

• D. Central Idea