Unit 4 Review

An author's central argument in their writing is the _____.

• claim

• evidence

• supporting details

• reasons

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CCSS.RI.4.2

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“Valia” is a 1907 short story by Leonid Andreyev. In the story, the author emphasizes that the setting where the character Valia is reading is nearly silent: ______

Which quotation from “Valia” most effectively illustrates the claim?

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  “The hand in which he carried his book was getting stiff with cold, but he would not ask his mother to take the book from him.”

• “Valia was reading a huge, very huge book, almost half as large as himself.”

• “Valia approached the window and examined the toys.”

• Everything in the room was quiet, so quiet that the only thing to be heard was the rustling of the pages he turned.”

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CCSS.RI.8.1

“The Mountain” is a 1914 poem by Robert Frost. In the poem, the speaker visits a town next to a mountain. The speaker claims to feel protected by the mountain, saying ______

Which quotation from “The Mountain” most effectively illustrates the claim?

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  “A dry ravine emerged under boughs / Into the pasture.”

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  “The mountain stood there to be pointed at.”

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  “I felt it like a wall / Behind which I was sheltered from a wind.”

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  “I crossed the river and swung round the mountain.”

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather. In the novel, Cather portrays Alexandra Bergson as having a deep emotional connection to her natural surroundings: ______

Which quotation from O Pioneers! most effectively illustrates the claim?

• “She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring.”

• “Alexandra talked to the men about their crops and to the women about their poultry. She spent a whole day with one young farmer who had been away at school, and who was experimenting with a new kind of clover hay. She learned a great deal.”

• “Alexandra drove off alone. The rattle of her wagon was lost in the howling of the wind, but her lantern, held firmly between her feet, made a moving point of light along the highway, going deeper and deeper into the dark country.”

• “It was Alexandra who read the papers and followed the markets, and who learned by the mistakes of their neighbors. It was Alexandra who could always tell about what it had cost to fatten each steer, and who could guess the weight of a hog before it went on the scales closer than John Bergson [her father] himself.”

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

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CCSS.RI.1.1

“Poetry” is a 1919 poem by Marianne Moore. The poem highlights an ambivalence toward poetry as the speaker acknowledges its merits while also expressing a sense of displeasure, writing ______

Which quotation from “Poetry” most effectively illustrates the claim?

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  “nor is it valid / to discriminate against ‘business documents and / school-books’; all these phenomena are important.”

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  “One must make a distinction / however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not / poetry”

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  "when [poems] become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the / same thing may be said for all of us—that we / do not admire what / we cannot understand.”

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  “Reading [poetry], however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in / it after all, a place for the genuine.”

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The following text is from Beatrice Harraden’s 1894 novel Ships that Pass in the Night.

In an old second-hand bookshop in London, an old man sat reading Gibbon’s History of Rome. He did not put down his book when the postman brought him a letter. He just glanced indifferently at the letter, and impatiently at the postman. Zerviah Holme did not like to be interrupted when he was reading Gibbon; and as he was always reading Gibbon, an interruption was always regarded by him as an insult.

Based on the text, how did Zerviah Holme most likely feel when the letter was delivered?

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  He felt relieved because he had been expecting an important letter.

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  He felt excited because the letter was from a good friend.

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  He felt sad because the postman did not stop to talk with him before leaving.

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  He felt annoyed because he was interrupted while reading his favorite author.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray . Dorian Gray is taking his first look at a portrait that Hallward has painted of him.

Dorian passed listlessly in front of his picture and turned towards it. When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure. A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognized himself for the first time. He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before.

According to the text, what is true about Dorian?

• He wants to know Hallward’s opinion of the portrait.

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  He is delighted by what he sees in the portrait.

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  He prefers portraits to other types of paintings.

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  He is uncertain of Hallward’s talent as an artist.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

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CCSS.RI.8.1

The following text is adapted from María Cristina Mena’s 1914 short story “The Vine-Leaf.”

It is a saying in the capital of Mexico that Dr. Malsufrido carries more family secrets under his hat than any archbishop. The doctor’s hat is, appropriately enough, uncommonly capacious, rising very high, and sinking so low that it seems to be supported by his ears and eyebrows, and it has a furry look, as if it had been brushed the wrong way, which is perhaps what happens to it if it is ever brushed at all. When the doctor takes it off, the family secrets do not fly out like a flock of parrots, but remain nicely bottled up beneath a dome of old and highly polished ivory.

Based on the text, how do people in the capital of Mexico most likely regard Dr. Malsufrido?

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  Many have come to tolerate him despite his disheveled appearance.

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  Few feel concerned that he will divulge their confidences.

• Some dislike how freely he discusses his own family.

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  Most would be unimpressed by him were it not for his professional expertise.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.8.1

The following text is from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, first performed in 1611. Miranda has lived on an island with her father, Prospero, since she was three years old. Prospero has stated that Miranda likely does not remember anything other than her life on the island.

MIRANDA: ’Tis far off,

And rather like a dream than an assurance

That my remembrance warrants. Had I not

Four or five women once that tended me?

PROSPERO: Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it

That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

If thou remember’st ought ere thou camest here,

How thou camest here thou mayst.

In the text, which point does Prospero most directly make about Miranda and her memories?

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  Miranda’s reminiscences about her early childhood have a melancholy quality that betrays her discontented view of her current circumstances.

• Miranda’s doubts about the accuracy of one recollection of a place other than the island are clouding her judgment and seem to be making her reluctant to explore her recollection of traveling to the island.

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  Miranda’s ability to summon details of an experience she had before arriving on the island suggests that she may also be able to summon details of her arrival on the island.

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  Miranda’s impression of a scene is vague because she is remembering a scenario she had daydreamed about as a child rather than a scenario that had occurred in reality.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

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The following text is from Holly Goldberg Sloan’s 2017 novel Short .

More than two years ago my parents bought a piano from some people who were moving to Utah. Mom and Dad gave it to my brothers and me for Christmas. I had to act really happy because it was such a big present, but I pretty much hated the thing from the second it was carried into the hallway upstairs, which is right next to my bedroom. The pianoglared at me. It was like a songbird in a cage. It wanted to be set free.

©2017 by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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  It explains why the narrator always wanted a piano close to her bedroom.

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  It establishes how the narrator feels about the piano.

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  It suggests that the narrator’s brothers are talented piano players.

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  It describes the event that led the narrator’s parents to buy a piano.

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CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

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