7th-3.03-3.04-2nd Semester

I suppose that the high-water mark of my youth in Columbus, Ohio, was the night the bed fell on my father. It makes a better recitation (unless, as some friends of mine have said, one has heard it five or six times) than it does a piece of writing, for it is almost necessary to throw furniture around, shake doors, and bark like a dog, to lend the proper atmosphere and verisimilitude to what is admittedly a somewhat incredible tale. Still, it did take place (Thurber). The tone of this passage is . . .

• Serious

• Humorous

• Calm

• Sad

"The racket, however, instantly awakened my mother, in the next room, who came to the immediate conclusion that her worst dread was realized: the big wooden bed upstairs had fallen on father" (Thurber). The narrator's mother __.

• worries excessively.

• does not worry excessively.

The situation was finally put together like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. Father caught a cold from prowling around in his bare feet but there were no other bad results. “I’m glad,” said mother, who always looked on the bright side of things, “that your grandfather wasn’t here" (Thurber). The tone of this passage is . . .

• Funny

• Serious

• Relieved

• Exciting

A personal narrative story is a personal experience story about yourself.

• True

• False

A spoken presentation

• recitation

• ominous

• allay

To ease; to calm

• ominous

• allay

• recitation

Threatening; signaling danger

• recitation

• allay

• ominous

The author of the story "The Night the Bed Fell."

• James Tree

• John Thort

• James Thurber

• Johnny Thurber

Disaster; catastrophe

• calamity

• pungent

Have a sharp, stinging smell

• calamity

• pungent