What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? - Selection Test

What is Yonatan’s primary motivation for creating the documentary?

• To document the dreams people have been able to realize

• To create footage that can be used as social commentary

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What does the word foreseeable mean as used in paragraph 5?

• A) Observed

• B) Anticipated

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The author includes the information in paragraph 7 to show that —

• Yoni does not approve of the divisions and conflicts in his country

• Yoni has goals that extend beyond making money and becoming famous

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Based on the description of Sergei’s past, readers can conclude that —

• his experiences in Russia made him fearful and paranoid

• his experiences in Israel made him feel lonely and worried

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What does the characterization of Sergei reveal that he values?

• Reliable companionship

• Complete isolation

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Which quote from the selection best identifies the tone (tono) of the story as informal (tono informal)?

• B) Yonatan could hardly imagine what people were dreaming of in the development towns and the collectives along the northern border, in the West Bank settlements and Arab villages, the immigrant absorption centers full of broken trailers and tired people left to broil out in the desert sun. (paragraph 6)

• C) But the kid is slippery, and somehow between saying no and pushing the door closed, Sergei finds that the kid is in his house. (paragraph 12)

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In the last three paragraphs, the author uses a flash-forward to —

• A) make the rising action a surprise

• B) show how the conflict was resolved

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Which quotation from the story best shows how the plot supports a theme of there being good in the world?

• Yonatan knew that if the project was going to have any weight, he’d have to get to everyone, to the unemployed, to the ultrareligious, to the Arabs and Ethiopians and American expats. (paragraph 7)

• That first wish, Sergei used up when they discovered a cancer in his sister. A lung cancer, the kind you don’t get better from. The fish undid it in an instant—the words barely out of Sergei’s mouth. (paragraph 29)

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In paragraphs 22–24, the author uses sarcasm most likely to —

• emphasize how Sergei’s poor language skills contribute to his misunderstanding

• show how dependent Sergei is on the goldfish for friendship

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Which quotation from the selection best illustrates how the author built the story around irony (ironia)?

• C. But the kid is slippery, and somehow between saying no and pushing the door closed, Sergei finds that the kid is in his house. (paragraph 12)

• D. The one that looked straight into the camera and said, if he ever found a talking goldfish he wouldn’t ask of it a single thing. He’d just stick it on a shelf in a big glass jar and talk to him all day, it didn’t matter about what. (paragraph 41)

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