WorksheetsShe Unnamed Them Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What can we infer about the setting of the story?
It is set in the future
It is set in Michigan City
It is set under the sea
It is set in the Garden of Eden
How did most of the animals feel about being unnamed?
they did not mind at all
most fought against the idea
they never had names to begin with
What genre is this story?
western
fantasy
science fiction
nonfiction
Which of the following is an allusion?
But as soon as they understood that the issue was precisely one of individual choice...was perfectly free to do so
The insects parted with their names in vast clouds and swarms of ephemeral syllables buzzing and stinging
Unlike the ubiquitous creatures such as rats and fleas, who had been called by hundreds or thousands of different names since Babel
and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin
What Point of View is the firs half of the story told?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
What is the point of view of the second half of the story?
1st
2nd
3rd
What evidence is given to show the point of view of the second half of the story?
.As for the fish of the sea, their names dispersed from them in silence
These verbally talented individuals insisted that their names were important
One of my reasons for doing what I did was that talk was getting us nowhere
MOST of them accepted namelessness with the perfect indifference
Why did the narrator give Adam her name back?
It was his name first
the animals all agreed to give their names back, so she did too
Adam wanted it back because he wanted to give it to someone else
The name was evil
The following words are an example of __________. "But thanks very much! It's really been very useful."
point of view
allusion
setting
verbal irony
The reader can infer that the narrator is going _______________ when she tell Adam "I'm going now. With the… " I hesitated, and finally said, "With them, you know," and went on out. "
to live with the animals
meet another man
live in a volcano
talk to God
